WordPress Login Form Plugin

WP Login Form is a login form plugin for WordPress that allows you to add a simple login form to a post, page or the sidebar with a shortcode. This is very useful for websites that are managed by multiple WordPress users or run a membership/affiliate platform. With this WordPress login form, a user/member/affiliate can quickly login to WordPress and manage their account.

Table of Contents

• WP Login Form Installation
  • Option 1
  • Option 2
  • Option 3
• How to Create a Login Form/Custom Login Page for WordPress
  • redirect
  • form_id
  • label_username
  • label_password
  • label_remember
  • label_log_in
  • id_username
  • id_password
  • id_remember
  • id_submit
  • remember
  • value_username
  • value_remember
  • lost_password
  • label_lost_password
• WP Login Form Demo
• How to Enable Google reCAPTCHA
• WP Login Form Add-ons
  • Force Redirect
• Priority Support

WP Login Form Info

WP Login Form Installation

There are 3 ways to install the WP Login Form plugin in WordPress.

Option 1

• Login to your WordPress admin dashboard
• Go to Plugins->Add New
• Enter WP Login Form in the search box
• Find the right plugin developed by naa986
• Hit the install button

Option 2

• Download the zip version of the plugin
• Go to Plugins->Add New and Click Upload
• Select the zip file on your computer
• Upload and install it

Option 3

• Download the WP Login Form plugin and extract it on your computer
• Connect to your website via FTP (you can use a software like Filezilla to transfer files to your server) and browse to the “/wp-content/plugins” directory
• Select the folder containing the plugin files on your computer and upload it
• After all the plugin files have been uploaded to your web server, you can activate the plugin from the Plugins menu of your WordPress admin dashboard

How to Create a Login Form/Custom Login Page for WordPress

The easiest way to create a login form or a custom login page for WordPress is to add this shortcode to a post/page:

[wp_login_form]

If you wish to add it to the sidebar you can create a text widget and embed the shortcode into it.

The default should be fine for most sites. However, if you are an advanced user and wish to customize the login form, they are parameters that you can pass in the shortcode to customize it.

redirect

An absolute URL to which the user will be redirected after a successful login. For example,

[wp_login_form redirect="https://example.com/mypage/"]

The default is to redirect back to the URL where the form was submitted.

form_id

Your own custom ID for the login form. For example,

[wp_login_form form_id="myloginform"]

The default is “loginform”.

label_username

Your custom label for the username/email address field. For example,

[wp_login_form label_username="Login ID or Email"]

The default is “Username or Email Address”.

label_password

Your custom label for the password field. For example,

[wp_login_form label_password="Login Password"]

The default is “Password”.

label_remember

Your custom label for the remember field. For example,

[wp_login_form label_remember="Remember"]

The default is “Remember Me”.

label_log_in

Your custom label for the form submit button. For example,

[wp_login_form label_log_in="Submit"]

The default is “Log In”.

id_username

Your own custom ID for the username field. For example,

[wp_login_form id_username="wp_user_login"]

The default is “user_login”.

id_password

Your own custom ID for the password field. For example,

[wp_login_form id_password="wp_user_pass"]

The default is “user_pass”.

id_remember

Your own custom ID for the remember field. For example,

[wp_login_form id_remember="login_rememberme"]

The default is “rememberme”.

id_submit

Your own custom ID for the form submit button. For example,

[wp_login_form id_submit="login_form_submit"]

The default is “wp-submit”.

remember

Specify whether to display the “Remember Me” checkbox in the form. For example,

[wp_login_form remember="0"]

The default is “1” (true).

value_username

Your custom placeholder attribute for the username input field. For example,

[wp_login_form value_username="Your Username"]

The default is NULL.

value_remember

Specify whether the “Remember Me” checkbox in the form should be checked by default. For example,

[wp_login_form value_remember="1"]

The default is “0” (false).

lost_password

Specify whether to display the “Lost your password?” link in the form. For example,

[wp_login_form lost_password="0"]

The default is “1” (true).

label_lost_password

Your custom anchor text for the “Lost your password?” link. For example,

[wp_login_form label_lost_password="Reset Password"]

The default is “Lost your password?”.

WP Login Form Demo

Here is a screenshot of the WordPress login form,

How to Enable Google reCAPTCHA

You can optionally add Google reCAPTCHA v3 to protect your login form against spam and other types of automated abuse. To enable this feature, go to Settings > WP Login Form.

Enable Google reCAPTCHA v3 and enter your Site Key in the settings.

Click Save Changes to update your settings.

WP Login Form Add-ons

WP Login Form plugin comes with various add-ons that you can use to enhance its functionality on your website.

Force Redirect

Force Redirect add-on allows you to set up a force redirect URL on your website (Settings > WP Login Form > General).

When this add-on is active, all successful WordPress logins will automatically redirect to the force redirect URL.

Priority Support

If you are having an issue with the plugin, our support team can help investigate it by taking a closer look at your site.