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Checkout WP Login – Our Latest WordPress Plugin
Posted by Eric Stolz in WordPress Tips
They say that necessity is the mother of invention and that is exactly the case with our latest plugin, the WP Login WordPress Plugin.
It seemed that almost every project we worked on we needed to modify the login form for WordPress. One project it was simply changing the logo from the default WordPress logo to a custom one. The next it was changing the colors to match the theme we developed for the customer. And the most recent projects we had to place the login form inside of the theme layout. By the second project, we decided to stop re-inventing the wheel and create a plugin.
The WP Login plugin, or the WordPress login plugin, allows you to insert the login form into your active theme. It also extracts out the login form and allows you to customize it through a simple file editor. If you’d prefer to keep the stand-a-lone login page but simply edit the style and change the logo, the plugin can do that as well.
This plugin was meant to handle any possible WordPress login form customization, and we hope that you will give it a try and send us any feedback you may have.
October 19, 2011I activated the WP Login plug-in, but when I tried to configure it, I get a “you don’t have permission to view this page”. I’m logged in as an admin and can do everything else.
October 20, 2011Every time I try to save or make changes to it, it says:
You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.
I’m the admin so what’s going on?
October 20, 2011These errors have been fixed and uploaded to WordPress.org.
October 28, 2011I just installed WP Login and it works like a charm. I designated a “Members” page and up pops the login. However, I would like the “landing page” to be something other than the ‘Profile’ page. How do I edit this?
Where is the documentation found for WP Login?
Thank you very much.
Cheers!…John Fauquier
November 21, 2011John, I am not sure I follow exactly what is going on. Can you clarify? Or possibly give me a demonstration?
November 7, 2011Smooth, streamlined plugin. Integrates and drops in well.
Curious about additional functionality.
Would like to provide additional user information and options to the designated Login Page so as to provide a more robust Account Management experience versus just a simple login box that currently doesn’t detect logged in state and adjust itself accordingly, providing a Logout function.
I see and appreciate the inclusion of theme editing. I presume that is where one would begin in creating the features I describe above?
Some functionality thoughts:
- Detect logged in state; adjust based upon. e.g. If logged in, display “Log out” instead.
- If logged in, present “You are logged in as JB.”
- If not logged in, promote “Register” option.
- Change password.
- Option to allow user to choose password upon registration versus receiving random copy and paste requirement via email.
- Track referring post/page/link to login/account page to be positioned to bounce back to referring link. And or choose landing page after Registration, for example.
Curious your thoughts of such lofty goals/development?
November 21, 2011Jaybe, great suggestions. I will note these and put them on the list for future releases. You’re more then welcome to implement these changes yourself and I will integrate it into the plugin. However, it will be a few weeks to months before I get time to implement these changes. Thank you for your suggestions though.
November 13, 2011Hi, I really like this plugin. I have it on the sidebar, but when I login I want the logout to appear and maybe have the login disappear, is this possible?
November 21, 2011Ted, yes it is possible. You’ll have to make template edits in the sidebar. Let me know if you have any questions.
November 16, 2011The register & lost password links from the created login page does not work properly.
Lost password link is as follows:
http://www.mysite.com/?page_id=5?action=lostpassword
Click on the link will only show the login page, not register or lost password page.
Can it be fixed?
November 21, 2011Robert, in the next version I will fix this problem with the double question mark in the URL. It should be live in the next few weeks.
November 18, 2011I get “your settings could not be saved. Please try again later” continually. Any ideas?
November 21, 2011Robin, what version of WordPress are you running?
November 21, 2011Is there a way to change the link of the logo, not to go to WordPress but back to the home page? I have been trough the code but it is in PHP and I haven’t learned that yet.
November 21, 2011There is a way to do that. I will make that an option in the next version I release.
December 10, 2011Just noticed there is no return button option on the popup keyboard when using search boxes on my wordpress site. Would this be a Andriod phone issue ( Samsung ) or a plugin issue ?
Thanks
December 14, 2011This is most likely due to a missing attribute on the search box. Does a return button appear with the WP Login disabled?
February 8, 2012http://www.mysite.com/myblog/ is how my WordPress site is setup.
This plugin seems to assume that my WordPress site is in the top level root of the site.. It doesn’t look in the blog folder for my blog and therefore not only does the login page preview not work, neither does my themed login page.
The login page preview directs me to http://www.mysite.com/wp-login.php instead of http://www.mysite.com/myblog/wp-login.php
What gives??
February 8, 2012I should note that I’ve used this on other sites where the WordPress is installed in the site root with no issue, but it seems to not work on sites which are in a sub-directory off the root.
February 8, 2012Grrr… Well this blog strips out my corrections.. My partial fix (for those interested) is posted here:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-login-plugin-doesnt-appear-to-work-if-your-blog-is-in-a-folder?replies=2
Now if I can get some insight as to why the theme isn’t being applied after fixing this, this would make my day..
February 8, 2012I swear I am not trying to spam this post.. Let me post my fix one more time to see if it finally shows correctly..
I fixed part of the issue..
Changed line 137 of wp-login/wp-login.php as follows:
Changed line 586 of wp-login/wp-login.php as follows:
This now correctly calls the blog homepage regardless of whether or not WordPress is installed in the site root or in a subfolder in the root.
However, the login page still does not apply my theme correctly.. There has to be one more place in this file that is not correctly calling the blog homepage and defaulting to the site root instead..
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr…..