Description
This plugin provides a shortcode to include a HTML5 login form on a page on your website and will natively link to this form throughout your site. You can configure the plugin to select whether you prefer to use email addresses or user names for your users to login.
On activation a page with the shortcode [lh_login_page_form] will be created o0n your site, and it will become your front end login page.
To change the login url to a page where you have the front end form navigate to Wp Admin->Settings->LH Login Page and paste the page id into the field.
Check out our documentation for more information.
All tickets for the project are being tracked on GitHub.
Features:
- Front end login form inserted via shortcode
- Option to login using an email address rather than username
- Multiple instances possible: Place login form shortcode multiple pages or in sidebars and widgets
- Ability to specify a custom url to which users will be redirected on logon
- If configured will override the WordPress login url so that login links point to to your front end login page (extra security)
Installation
- Upload the entire
lh-login-formfolder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Navigate to Settings->LH Login Page if you wish to change or delete the page id and set the option of whether you prefer to use email addresses or user names to login.
FAQ
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How do I redirect to a specific url on login?
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Add the attribute redirect_to with a valid url value to the [lh_login_page_form] shortcode.
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How do set this plugin up?
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- Upload the entire
lh-login-formfolder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Navigate to Settings->LH Login Page if you wish to change or delete the page id and set the option of whether you prefer to use email addresses or user names to login
- Upload the entire
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How do I link to the login page I have created?
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If you have specified the page id of your login page in settings you can use the [lh_login_page_link] shortcode. It will output html linking to the login page you specified/ The shortcode It has one attribute ‘redirect’, by default is is false and the logged in user will be redirected to the homepage on login. If it is a valid url the logged in user will be redirected to that url on login. If it is set to a value of ‘self’ the user will be redirected to the page the page the link is on.
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Contributors & Developers
“LH Login Page” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.00 July 13, 2015
Initial release.1.1 July 17, 2015
Settings link.1.21 August 20, 2015
Improved menu.
1.3 August 25, 2015
Added filters
1.4 August 31, 2015
Automatically create page
1.5 September 05, 2015
Use email addresses or user names
1.51 September 05, 2015
Fixed redirect bug
1.52 September 05, 2015
Fixed row meta
1.60 October 27, 2015
Removes title on login page and styles form
1.62 October 27, 2015
Bug fix
1.7 October 27, 2015
Added login_form hook
1.80 November 18, 2015
Allow redirects to be blocked
1.81 November 18, 2015
Minor Fix
1.90 November 18, 2015
Support SSL
1.92 November 18, 2015
redirect fix
1.92 November 31, 2015
fixed logout
1.94 December 07, 2015
Add pages across network
1.96 December 17, 2015
Error fix
1.96 Aril 12, 2016
Better multisite support
1.98 September 30, 2016
Better redirects
1.99 December 02, 2016
Support redirect attribute
2.01 March 20, 2017
Input focus
2.02 March 24, 2017
use isset
2.04 April 10, 2017
Add login link shortcode
2.05 April 20, 2017
Added woocommerce support
2.07 May 10, 2017
Improved settings screen, bumped to force update weird
2.08 June 08, 2017
Web credentials support
2.09 June 10, 2017
Better option settings
2.10 October 25, 2017
Latest web credential standards
2.11 November 02, 2017
Translatable strings
2.12 June 06, 2018
filemtime and much more
2.13 May 08, 2019
direct access check
2.14 May 24, 2019
bug fix