If you are just wanting a simple “login” you could use htpasswd and htaccess. WordPress sites already have the htaccess in the main directory. Add an .htpasswd file at the same level as your root HTML folder. Example: . ├── public_html | └── wordpress | └── .htaccess └── .htpasswd Use a tool like htpasswd generator … Read more
The answer to this question was simply that the built-in password protection does not apply if you are using a custom template that doesn’t include the_loop(). Lesson learnt.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/ Looks like a good option, I trust his plugins. There are a variety of other plugins available if you search for members, private, access, or a combination of those terms
This is the line you’re looking for: $userdata = get_user_by(‘login’, $username); The get_user_by function calls WP_User::get_data_by and that function eventually executes this SQL: SELECT * FROM $wpdb->users WHERE user_login = $username The hashed password will be contained in the results of that query. Eventually, the wp_check_password function will be called to compare the hashes.
Figured it out! The new version of WordPress (3.4) changed the way the password protected pages worked. This should work for you now: <?php if ( post_password_required() ) { ?> <form method=”post” action=”/wp-login.php?action=postpass”> <p>This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:</p> <input type=”password” style=”margin:10px 0;” size=”20″ id=”pwbox-<?php the_ID(); ?>” name=”post_password”/></label><br/> … Read more
I haven’t looked into it, but any hook on the page that processes the new user registration will have access to the $_POST data and as such you could get it from there. I agree with the other comments above, you should be able to use use the WordPress hash and check the password on … Read more
Maybe this is not the answer you look for but giving one of below a try could maybe help you out?! Ofcourse you have FTP or SSL access. If you don’t have one of them, don’t bother to read any further! The good old make a backup from in this case functions.php before you start … Read more
I’ve managed to find why I couldn’t change the error message. For some reason, our old dev has put a login_error_override() in Theme’s Function (function.php from theme). After commented the function call, my custom error worked perfectly, as well the original error messages from theme, wordpress and plugins. //add_filter(‘login_errors’, ‘login_error_override’);
I had this problem and it took me all week to figure it out. I know OP has probably solved it by now, but for the others like me who surfed here looking for answers: Open the wp-config.php file and use this website ( https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/ ) to replace the lines of code that start with: … Read more
I still wouldn’t recommend this because it is probably exploitable somehow… Technically assuming all the right hooks and functions are called, a user should not be able to login if supplying a blank password even if the user_pass field in the database is empty. Why…? When you try to login using the form as seen … Read more