You should change the login url from default than it’ll hard for hackers to find the login page so it’ll be safe for you. Here is the code to change the url. // Add rewrite rule and flush on plugin activation register_activation_hook( __FILE__, ‘NLURL_activate’ ); function NLURL_activate() { NLURL_rewrite(); flush_rewrite_rules(); } // Flush on plugin … Read more
Functional code written using PHP 5.3+ Closures. Read the comments throughout to understand concept and flow. // Hook right before Themes kick in add_action(‘wp’, function(){ // Allow viewing of home/front_page if(is_home() or is_front_page()) return; // Maybe allow access to archives (non singulars) to? // (when you hide important content after <!–more–>) // if(is_archive()) return; // … Read more
From quick look at the login screen code (ouch): add_action(‘login_head’,’ref_access’); function ref_access() { global $error; if( !empty($_GET[‘ref’]) && ‘access’ == $_GET[‘ref’] ) $error=”Restricted area, please login to continue.”; }
You can use the Facebook Comments for WordPress plugin or the Disqus Comment System, which allows comment login using Google, Twitter, Facebook, or OpenID accounts, and is totally import/export compatible with WP comments.
On your dashboard, check Settings -> General -> Standard role for new users
You could just programmatically add a new user to the site. This is a snippet from a utility I use to gain access to WordPress sites when I don’t have the login info. Just upload it to a file in your wordpress root and navigate to it: require_once(‘wp-blog-header.php’); require_once(‘wp-includes/registration.php’); $user_id = wp_create_user( ‘newusername’, ‘newpassword’ ); … Read more
If you have a custom login page already, you may not want to introduce a whole new plugin. You can change ‘from’ name and email with these simple functions in your theme or plugin. To change the name add_filter( ‘wp_mail_from_name’, ‘custom_wpse_mail_from_name’ ); function custom_wpse_mail_from_name( $original_email_from ) { return ‘Yours Truly’; } To change the email … Read more
You can use this on any WordPress page / template. <?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) : ?> //Code for only logged in users <?php endif; ?> Checkout the docs for more info: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/is_user_logged_in/
Here’s a basic approach. First, you would need to pass something in the link to give some user info you can use to log the user in. To do this, you need to filter the email that goes to the user. (It would be possible to actually load a custom new user registration email, but … Read more
Option 1: Why create your own WordPress API (mini or not) when you already have one? Option 2: You should try to extend the WordPress REST API in order to register/authenticate. You can use, e.g. https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/json-api-user/ or just grab from it the code you need and modify it.