Wordpress tips and tricks - custom login page
July 25, 2007 | Web Design
I was actually inspired to write this post because of a 9rules note I started recently. David Airey beat me to the punch with his own version and credit should go to ayushsaran for starting the whole thing but here is mine at last.
This one isn’t so much a tip or trick as a nicety. It’s cool to have the wordpress login page branded up as your own. This is more significant for multi author blogs, or sites you have set up for clients.
The process is very simple. Create two images (login-bkg-tile.gif and login-bkg-bottom.gif) and then stick them in the wp-admin/images/ folder from your wordpress installation. With a bit of effort you can create something nice.
The problem with this is two fold, firstly how do you create the images? Secondly what happens when you upgrade?
How do you create the images?
This isn’t overly challenging. All you need to do is make a picture that is based on the default template. But wouldn’t it be nice if there was a template file you could base your image on? It would save so much time!
You’ll also need to create a new footer image… but I’ve solved that problem too.
What happens when you upgrade?
One of the things I have tried to do with my Wordpress tips and tricks is stick to things that don’t require changing core files. I don’t like the idea of having to change things every time I upgrade the software, and in this case the images will get overwritten when you install new versions of the software.
The Solution? Ben to the rescue!
Ok, so it’s not the most complicated of problems, or solutions for that matter, but I have an answer to both.
The image template was easy… I made one.
The upgrade issue was a little more challenging, and took me approximately 10 minutes longer to put into action. I give to you, my first Wordpress plugin (and how useful it is), the Binary Moon Custom Login plugin - as seen in action on the Binary Joy login screen.
The plugin itself sits in the plugins folder alongside the images - which you can change as required. The footer image has been changed to a gif with a transparent middle which means you can use any images you like for the main background and they will fit seamlessly.
Because this is a plugin and the images are kept separately from the admin folder upgrades are nice and easy. Just upgrade as normal. This is particularly handy for client sites where they may not be aware of what you have done to customise things.
- Click here to download the Binary Moon Custom Login Plugin now!
- View the bm-custom-login flickr group
Let me know what you think.
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July 25, 2007
Hi Ben,
Great work creating a plugin for the change! That’d most certainly help out when updating client sites.
I’m not sure you’ve worded article right. You mention how I set up a Flickr stream, but I didn’t. Have you done that?
Thanks very much for the mention, and sorry again to steal your thunder.
July 25, 2007
Hey David - thanks
I’m now using this on my own sites, that’s really the reason I created it in the first place.
Thanks for pointing out the flickr thing as well. I set one up (link above) and must have gotten confused when writing the post.
Don’t worry about stealing my thunder either - I’m a big boy - I can handle it
July 25, 2007
Awsome post Ben,
Ive been looking to make a plugin for the custom login for a while but never got around to it.
Ive got re-created wordpress login PSDs on my new blog
www.dedestruct.com(still under construction). But you can grab them and post them here if youd like for people.
July 25, 2007
In fact, I was wondering why no customized login is available when I installed it. You did it. Thanks a lot.
July 25, 2007
Ayush - There is actually a template psd file in with the plugin, although I didn’t recreate the wordpress login screen… maybe I should. BTW I like the design on your new domain
nbeyond - I guess for wordpress themselves it makes sense to not have branding options but for developers this sort of thing is nice to have I think.
July 25, 2007
I’ve styled the login page occasionally, but never considered a plugin solution to protect from future overwrites — great idea.
July 25, 2007
Nice idea. I was thinking modifying mine and didn’t know where to begin.
I just have a question. Is is normal when I want to download I end up on a 404 ?
July 25, 2007
Darren - thanks
Mary - not normal no. I’m surprised nobody else has mentioned that the download doesn’t actually work :S Thanks for pointing it out - all fixed now.
July 25, 2007
I just hacked the login screen for a client project and I’m certain that with the next upgrade I’ll overlook the image files in wp-admin.
Thanks for the fix, one last chance to look like a doofus in front of a client!
July 26, 2007
I thought when I read David’s post yesterday ‘I’ll wait for a plugin’.
Thanks for endorsing my laziness
July 26, 2007
lol Chris - happy to oblige
July 26, 2007
You are un genius. We’re using WP as a little CMS at work for a few sites … exactly what we needed
Thanks
Also … the TMNT stuff I won just arrived
Thanks mate
July 26, 2007
Wow - the TMNT stuff turned up - That’s really cool. I’d totally forgotten about that
Glad this helps you as well.
July 28, 2007
It’s a shame that a certain OpenID plug-in I use messages up my wp-login.php pages - take a look.
If anyone knows how to fix it btw email me at computerjoe [at] gmail [dot] com
July 28, 2007
@ Joe that sky blue box behind the “Wordpress User” and “OpenID Identity” is coming from
http://joeanderson.co.uk/blog/...
h2 {
>>> border-bottom: .5em solid #e5f3ff;
color: #333;
font: normal 32px/5px serif;
margin: 5px 10px;
}
get rid of that border declaration,
change the text color to something lighter
and remove the margin to align the text left or force align it center.
That should clean up your login page
July 28, 2007
A nice touch. A custom login page ha! I think the best thing to do is to just make it and when you have your clients then just don’t tell them unless they ask. It’s a nice way to customize your wordpress blog. or maybe your just board with the normal login page. in any case I do enjoy it and will use it. Thank you
July 30, 2007
Awesome job. Downloading…
July 31, 2007
I loved the idea of getting fresh whenever we login.
July 31, 2007
Thank you so much for this tutorial. Come and watch my custom login page and say what you’re thinking about it.
July 31, 2007
Hey, great posting, i never actually wanted to change the login page, but when someone offers a post like this …
thanks
btw - appreciate your “dofollow” - i think the same way.
August 8, 2007
Awesome plugin Ben! I’ve done this myself in past, but it was such a pain in the ass having to go back and manually change it after every update.
Thanks for including a stylesheet as well. I was easily able to add a few more selectors to style the “error” message, labels, input fields and links.
August 9, 2007
i’m with matt, i’ve done this in the past but i always dreaded upgrading and forgetting to reload the files or worse, back them up. great job!
August 12, 2007
Wow, this is a great plugin and I will certainly recommend it to my student. Thank you and good work!
August 12, 2007
Hello, I have the plugin installed and it works, but I would like to change the css for the text color.
How I could change this?
August 13, 2007
I agree with these folks. Great resource. Thanks.
August 14, 2007
~sergio~
http://homteriors.kerrywebster...
Download my css for this plugin for a few ideas.
You can see the login page I created with the changes I made to the plugin and the css mentioned above here: http://homteriors.kerrywebster...
August 14, 2007
By the way, awesome plugin. I took it one step further (if you are trying to mask wordpress from your client). I changed the login image url to the current sites URL and I changed the text to say ‘Powered by ‘ the name of the blog (see code below). This is done without change to the core applicaiton. The following code can be added to the bm-custom-login.php in the plugin folder. Don’t get me wrong here, I LOVE WORDPRESS but if you want to mask this one instance of a link to wordpress.org this is how I did it.
function change_wp_login_url() {
echo get_option('siteurl');
}
add_filter('login_headerurl', 'change_wp_login_url');
function change_wp_login_title() {
echo 'Powered by ' . get_option('blogname');
}
add_filter('login_headertitle', 'change_wp_login_title');
August 14, 2007
Thanks a lot Kerry
August 14, 2007
Great job Ben - thanks for the plugin.
Do you know if it works with Wordpress Mu?
Cheers
August 14, 2007
Wow - thanks to all the great comments above
Kerry - thanks for doing that - it’s given me some more ideas for the plugin, not sure how worthwhile they would be though.
pban - no idea, I can’t see why it wouldn’t though, I assume they use the same plugin system.
August 16, 2007
recently added it to my site as well, and spent _way_ too much time trying to make sure that the bottom curve was as perfect as possible. (rounded rectangle shape w/a 13px radius did the trick)
i was originally responding to say that i added some css to the included file, but noticed that kerry provided some nice examples in #26.
August 17, 2007
I just set up a new Blog, and funnily enough the very first modification, plug-in, customization etc that came to mind was Ben’s custom WP Log-in.
Thanks heaps for this Ben, i’ve created a themed log-in for my company and will apply it to all themes and installations i do.
On a completely unrelated note, your blue Firefox Toolbar button up top reminded me i havn’t reinstalled the Toolbar when i done Firefox… So i had better click it and get installing.
Carly,
August 19, 2007
I forgot to customize the login screen and now it is. Well, I didn’t use the plugin, but it’s done.
August 20, 2007
am a bit sad. it’s not working with my WP installation – WP 2.0.11 using PHP 4.3.8.
oh, well…
August 21, 2007
This is a great plugin. Thanks for sharing it.
August 24, 2007
Thx
September 6, 2007
Thanks Ben for your effort on this plugin. I am using it on my WP 2.2.2. Keep up the good work.
September 9, 2007
Ben,
Is there a any way to change the background color of the login page?
(I use black in my blog)
September 9, 2007
Ben,
Nevermind, I see the css file now! You rock!
“This is madness!”
Thanks a lot
September 13, 2007
Hi, would it be possible to add an option to this plugin so that it can re-direct to the blog’s index page instead of the admin area after somebody logged in?
The reason for this is that we run a WP blog as a portfolio and visitors can log in as guests to see all works (because some are hidden to non-guests). But in this situation it is confusing for the guest to be taken to the admin area.
September 16, 2007
Add the code below to the bm-custom-login.php
One drawback is every wp_redirect () call will go to your home page. If this is what you want it works quit well.
[code]
add_action(’wp_login’, ‘wp_redirect()’);
function wp_redirect() {
if ( $is_IIS ) {
header(”Refresh: 0;url=$location”);
} else {
header(”Location: $location”);
}
}
[/code]
September 16, 2007
Ooops!!! I left the $location assignment out of the first post.
[code]
add_action(’wp_login’, ‘wp_redirect()’);
function wp_redirect() {
$location = get_option(’siteurl’);
if ( $is_IIS ) {
header(”Refresh: 0;url=$location”);
} else {
header(”Location: $location”);
}
}
[/code]
September 17, 2007
Kerry thanks a lot! I will try that!
September 17, 2007
Hmm, WP keeps telling me ‘Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.’, even without the altered code in the php file.
September 17, 2007
Correction: I caught the wrong file. It only gives me the error with the modified code.
September 18, 2007
@sascha/hdrs
The code is working on my site now. If you want you can check my site. Create an account and then login to see the redirect go to the home page rather than the admin page. Be sure and get the code from post 42 (not 41), and make sure the [code] & [/code] are not copied. Let me know if this helps. If not I can e-mail my bm-custom-login.php if you would like to test it.
September 20, 2007
Hi,
pretty nice plugin…but one question.
Is there a way also to change the font color of text under the login “form” for
* Login
* Lost your password?
* Back to puttee
???
thanks
November 3, 2007
Nice one, im going to uses this now
November 4, 2007
Nice tip, we have a few wordpress blogs at my office and we were just talking about how boring our login is.
Thanks For the tip.
December 19, 2007
This is very cool. Exactly what I was looking for.
A couple of things about the mod to make the login redirect back to the site main page instead of the admin dashboard:
1) There’s a bug in the add_action line. It should read:
add_action(’wp_login’, ‘wp_redirect’);
In other words, remove the () after wp_redirect.
2) Here’s a fix to the problem of this code ALWAYS making wp_redirect() send you to the home page. Just wrap the wp_redirect() code in a conditional that checks the current script name. Here’s how I’ve implemented the code on my site:
if ($_SERVER[’SCRIPT_NAME’] == “/wp-login.php”) {
function wp_redirect() {
header(”Location: ” . get_option(’siteurl’));
}
add_action(’wp_login’, ‘wp_redirect’);
}
January 9, 2008
hello, i have uploaded your plugin but have no clue what it doeas. however if you simply overwrite the two images in you admin folder will do the sam effect….
January 9, 2008
faze one - you’ve missed the whole point of the plugin. Yes, you can just overwrite the images, but when you upgrade the images will be overwritten again. Using the plugin it will always stay the same.
January 10, 2008
Ah yes! if you require to re use the stock images…but good plug in none the less…
January 15, 2008
Thanks for this one … working great !!! 1 minute and i have my own login screen
February 20, 2008
This is a heck of an idea! I had honestly never even thought of customizing the wp login page. Brilliant find. Thanks!!
February 20, 2008
hi
the download link of the plug in is not working , any advice?
February 21, 2008
Hi Julian - thanks for pointing that out - looks like wordpress.org have changed the download locations around. That’s what I get for direct linking to something I can’t control I guess
February 21, 2008
it is working now Ben
thanks
February 25, 2008
Hi,
can you tell me how i can change the background-color (or fill with a background-image) behind the LOGIN?
Only white is a little boring.
thanks & cheers
denis
February 28, 2008
Ben, great blog and terrific tutorial! I love to see folks share their knowledge.
@Denis: Try editing the 2nd body tag in wp-admin/wp-admin.css (at line 127 in my file).
body {
background: #000000;
color: #000;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
I added the background and color parameters.
An image could be added by specifying the url for the background. You can see my login page by visiting http://timkissane.com and clicking login.
Of course, this will have to be added back after an upgrade. Ben, can this be added to the plugin?
Peace.
February 28, 2008
Tim - I am actually holding off on updating the plugin as Wordpress 2.5 will change everything anyway (what with the admin redesign).
March 18, 2008
Any chance the plugin will be updated for WordPress 2.5?
March 18, 2008
Not sure yet. The whole control panel has changed which will mean this is a bit on the awkward side. Will have to think about how it will work… :S
March 20, 2008
Great plugin you have there, it has made it a lot easier skinning the login page. Cheers.
And also thanks to Kerry for posting that PHP script.
March 22, 2008
room 34 (comment 50) needs some love for his update as well. Much cleaner redirect based on current page.
March 25, 2008
hey ben,
I’m using wordpress 2.5, and this does not work. I love this plugin, and want you to update it. If you do, can you email me?
March 25, 2008
William, and anyone else interested in a 2.5 version. I currently have no idea how the 2.5 version would work. The styles in 2.5 are totally different and currently no background image is used at all. It must be possible but it will be very different to what I had before, I need to think on this.
March 31, 2008
BRANDED LOGIN SCREEN
WordPress 2.5 compatibility.
http://www.kerrywebster.com/?p...
March 31, 2008
looks like the login busts with Wordpress 2.5 I haven’t had time to play around with it yet, but if you come up with a solution I’d love to know
April 1, 2008
Kerry - Thanks
Jonathon - There’s actually a new version released that works with WP 2.5 - I just haven’t written about it yet.
April 3, 2008
For Wordpress 2.5 I wrote about how to do this manually by editing the CSS over at my blog here:
http://justcreativedesign.com/...
I also linked back to here
April 7, 2008
great job guy ,
can you please tell me how i can resize the frame. lets say 390 x 900. how would i modify that input. ..
April 7, 2008
Mac - I am not sure what you want to do. Could you try to explain a bit more completely?
April 12, 2008
just built my login using your plugin and tips. thanks!
May 3, 2008
Hello,
thanks for this plugin!
If your WordPress install is located in a subdirectory at your domain (e.g. yourdomain.tld/yourwordpress) but your blog address is at just “yourdomain.tld”, you may want to modify line #41 in bm-custom-login.php, from:
` echo get_option( ’siteurl’ );`
to:
` echo bloginfo(’url’);`
If you don’t modify this line, clicking on your logo on your custom login page might trigger an error 404 (page not found).
May 15, 2008
Hi!
I use your plugin for a customized login at my page. In Firefox it works well, but in Internet Explorer 7 there´s no footer in the login form. Any ideas how to fix it?
May 16, 2008
Lionel - thanks for letting me know. I will modify the plugin accordingly
Michael - I didn’t realise there were issues with IE (I’m not surprised though :S ), I will take a look.
May 18, 2008
Yes Ben, Unfortunately I just upgraded Wordpress to version 2.5.1 and now my log-in screen using BM Custom Log-in in IE is now wack.
It works fine in Opera, Firefox and Netscape, but the login-bkg-bottom.gif doesn’t align properly anymore in IE. You can take a look at my web site at 117reunion.com to see the problem if you like.
I am wondering if it is a possible code change that needs to be made to the wp-login.php file?
Thanks!
May 20, 2008
Hi Ben -
I installed your plugin last night, and I am having the same issues with the background at the bottom that the last couple of posters are. It looked great in FF, Opera, etc., but it was shifted over in IE6.
I played around with it a bit, and finally fixed it in IE6, but the changes broke the layout in the rest of the browsers, so I had to undo them.
Have you had a chance to look into what is causing the shift in the footer area?
Other than that issue, I really love being able to customize my login screen. Thanks!
May 20, 2008
Hi Kim - I haven’t had a chance to look at it yet but it’s on my todo list. Hopefully I will get it working tomorrow. If you use wordpress 2.5 then you can use the automatic plugin update notifications to find out when I update the thing.
May 21, 2008
We love the plugin but it now breaks in 2.5.1, ecoflock 1.1.4. Seems similar to comments #78, #79.
again, we LOVE the plugin!
aloha
May 22, 2008
I’ve updated the plugin with support for wordpress 2.5.1 and a fix for Internet Explorer. Let me know if there’s any other problems.
Brent - I have no idea what ecoflock is?
May 22, 2008
will it work for WP 1.5? and how?
May 22, 2008
1.5? I doubt it but if it does you should just upload as you would a regular theme.
You really should upgrade though, the extra features and security fixes are more than worth the effort. FWIW I don’t support anything less than 2.3
May 22, 2008
Thanks for the update! Now it´s working fine in IE.
May 22, 2008
Brilliant job Ben. The upgrade was seamless except for it removing my own personal log-in image and replacing it wit the default one. Good thing I save a copy of it on my computer. Maybe in the future on automatic upgrades done through the Word Press you should have it so that it doesn’t remove the user’s own images.
May 22, 2008
Actually i just realized there is a small sliver missing now from the top of the log-in button in IE, but it is not an issue.
May 23, 2008
^^ I agree with Marc. I’m glad I read that post before automatically upgrading or I would have been a bit irritated.
May 23, 2008
This is an interesting conundrum, I am not sure what to do here. The problem is that the files I update will be downloaded by people when they first install the plugin, so they need something to show… maybe I should just rename the files and hope they realise what is happening.
May 23, 2008
To me the simple solution would seem to be that you create two sets of the plug-in for download.
The first one is available for download to new users and the second one is an upgrade version for either automatic or manual upgrade which does not replace the login-bkg-tile.jpg file in the imgs directory.
Two download links. Seems easy enough, but I don’t know.
May 23, 2008
I keep my custom images in another folder and just update the path in the css after upgrades. Maybe you can store that path in the Database and on a new install it will have the default images path, then once someone customizes they change the path. The upgrade should not overwrite the path in the database. You would have to create an admin screen to set the path and also some instruction on the page directing people to put custom images in the themes image folder. Maybe too much trouble…just some simple user training may be the answer.
May 26, 2008
Wrong instructions. ”Create two images (login-bkg-tile.gif and login-bkg-bottom.gif) and then stick them in the wp-admin/images/” This does not work. you have to place the images in the plugins image folder. However this does not delete the WP LOGO. The logo is still on top of the custom image. Where do I delete the WP LOGO ?
May 27, 2008
The redirect after login does not work for me!
I have the following code in bm-custom-login.php:
add_action(’login_head’, ‘bm_custom_login’);
add_filter(’login_headerurl’, ‘change_wp_login_url’);
add_filter(’login_headertitle’, ‘change_wp_login_title’);
if ($_SERVER[’SCRIPT_NAME’] == “/wp-login.php”) {
function wp_redirect() {
header(”Location: ” . get_option(’url’));
}
add_action(’wp_login’, ‘wp_redirect’);
}
Anything I did wrong here?
May 29, 2008
Image template and non- PhotoShoppers
Amazingly useful template, but the ‘.psd’ image template file excludes those without these programs. I noted that the image was 390 px by 700 px with 10 px rounded margins. I recreated this and loaded the ‘.jpg’ to my file and it worked great (except the hint of misaligned rounded border at bottom).
NOTE: I look forward to universal adoption of CSS rounded corners — that will make all our lives much easier.
May 29, 2008
Hellows - oops. I will fix that soon
Jinsoo - I will see if I can add something like this to the plugin by default also hopefully it will work in the future.
Mike - I realise the psd template excludes people without photoshop but like you say, it’s not hard to make your own. I am afraid I’m not going to start making new templates for other software but if you want to contribute one I’d be happy to include it and credit you.
And yes - consistent rounded corners in all browsers would be great
May 29, 2008
Love the plugin, have it running on our site - wp 2.5.1 - too easy to set up. It does however dissemble and overlay the top part of the new graphic with the original Wordpress logo when I use with wp-security-scan.
Will pass this along to other developer as well.
May 30, 2008
the issue with this plugin and security scan is because of line 24-36 version check.. if you are running full version of WP short is fix
replace
[code]
// check which version of wp is being used
$blog_version = $blog_version = substr(get_bloginfo(’version’), 0, 3);
// split style sheets based upon current wp version
If ($blog_version >= $versionCheck) {
$pluginUrl .= ‘/bm-custom-login-2.css’;
}else {
$pluginUrl .= ‘/bm-custom-login.css’;
}
[/code]
with
[code]
$pluginUrl .= ‘/bm-custom-login-2.css’;
[/code]
June 5, 2008
I made some changes to your plugin that allow for a javascript file to be included in addition to the CSS file. I was able to do a lot more customizing with this.
you can see it here. http://wordpress.justechn.com/...
// full plugin path
$pluginUrl = get_settings(’siteurl’) . $pluginPath . plugin_basename(dirname(__FILE__));
$scriptUrl = $pluginUrl;
// check which version of wp is being used
$blog_version = $blog_version = substr(get_bloginfo(’version’), 0, 3);
// split style sheets based upon current wp version
If ($blog_version >= $versionCheck) {
$pluginUrl .= ‘/bm-custom-login-2.css’;
$scriptUrl .= ‘/bm-custom-login-2.js’;
}else {
$pluginUrl .= ‘/bm-custom-login.css’;
$scriptUrl .= ‘/bm-custom-login.js’;
}
June 14, 2008
Can anyone tell me how to change the input box color, i mean like username box , pass box, etc..
Thanks
June 19, 2008
I can’t use it. Upload the gifs in the right place but nothing shows up. M running wp 2.5
June 19, 2008
Thanks for this nice plugin. It allows a bit of professionalism to the login screen.
June 30, 2008
Hi
1. How do you change the button colour on the screen. I changed your 2 screen files colour to purple yet the button is still wordpress blue. So is there a button template to change.
2. How do you change the button itself. The button you showed on all the examples is not the WP2.5.1 button that appears on my login form. It is the same button I had before.
Hope you can help. Thanks so much.
July 1, 2008
Thanks for the plugin, very useful.
You’ve also got a really nice site design.
July 6, 2008
Same here with the latsest version of WP…they don’t use the gif’s anymore that are in that folder. You can change manually by changing the css file in the admin/css/logincss folder
July 7, 2008
@Dave - the latest version works with Wordpress 2.5
July 9, 2008
Hey Ben,
Love the idea, but can’t seem to get it to work with WP 2.5. Do you know of any plugin conflicts? In other words, I have, say, Register Plus, which allows me to change the header image, but not alter the design in other ways (though if I disable this plugin, I still have the same issues). It seems like this version of WP has an entirely different login screen than prior versions which feature the rounded-corner look. Therefore, this BM plugin doesn’t seem to fit in the allotted space. Anyone else finding this to be a problem? @Ben: ideas?
July 14, 2008
I am still curious about the button. Why is there no button in your plugin. As I mentioned on 3 July - the button is the default blue button from worpress 2.5.1. Kerry Webster says I need to use a button from another plugin (branded) called fade-button.png. I’m not sure why and not really sure how to use it in your plugin. Hope you can help. Thanks.
July 15, 2008
Vanesa - I have no idea about the problem you’re seeing. There should be a button. The only suggestion I have is to make sure you’re using the latest version of the plugin and that no other plugins conflict with it (I would try disabling them one at a time until it shows)
July 15, 2008
Emily - I am no aware of any conflicts. The plugin is very simple. That said it wouldn’t surprise me if something went wrong somewhere.
July 16, 2008
Hi Ben, Yes there is a button the default wordpress 2.5.1 button not a button from your files. I have the latest version of your plugin bm-custom-login version 1.3. There is no button file in our files. I have deactivated my plugin. I downloaded your plugin again and installed it. Again there is no button from your plugin just the blue default button from wp 2.5.1. Maybe you could email me the button file as there definitely is not one in the plugin. Thanks so much.
July 21, 2008
Hi, the plugin works really great!!
However I also have a sidebar login widget installed and the white text was not showing on the front page with white background (it was fine on the login page because my background was orange). So I guess the sidebar widget was using the same css file, so how can I differentiate that?
July 22, 2008
Venesa - do you have a page I can look at to see the problem? There is no button file in the plugin - I don’t change the style of the buttons so you will use the default wordpress button style (this changed between wp2.3 and wp2.5)
Barbara - that’s another strange problem. I would never even have considered using the login box as a widget - and if I did I wouldn’t use the css from the login page. Do you have a url I can have a look at?
July 22, 2008
Hi Ben, thanks for the quick reply, please check my construction site www.jingyung.com it’s in Chinese. The login widget I added was called Minimeta plugin I downloaded from wordpress. Before I used your plugin the text was normal i.e. black but after your plugin the text becomes white which works OK if i inserted an orange background gif but wouldn’t if i just use a white background. I guess this widget somehow shares the CSS from your plugin so the text is white. I want my text on login page white but not on this login sidebar…
August 19, 2008
Great job! I had a client that wanted to allow users to login, but needed to integrate the login page with the site design. This is exactly what we were looking for.
August 20, 2008
I’ve been looking for this very thing! Found it at last!
August 26, 2008
I have a Big trouble….
I use register plus plugin (http://skullbit.com/wordpress-plugin/register-plus/) but when BM CUstom Login is enabled no “validation emails” are sent to new users… with BM Cus loguien is off everythings go by mail Fine..
How Can I solve this?
August 27, 2008
Hi Ben
Is BM Custom Login suitable for Wordpress 2.6.1. If not when will it be available. I am currently using it on WP 2.5.1 but don’t want to fall behind in the WP upgrades.
The button to sign on is still WP blue. Do I change this in Wordpress - color-fresh.css?
August 27, 2008
Hi Ben,
I think I’m having the same problem that Venesa was having. Did you ever figure out what the problem was and what the solution is? Thanks.
August 27, 2008
Mauricio - I would suggest not using the custom login plugin if it’s breaking something else. I have no idea what the issue could be but bm-custom-login doesn’t touch any of the emailing functionality. All it does is add a couple of style sheets to the administration page.
Everyone else - in my tests the plugin works fine with wordpress 2.6, I don’t know what problem you are talking about it looks as intended. If you mean customising the login button colour then that should go in one of the css files in the plugin. The whole point of the plugin is that you don’t edit core wordpress files (such as css-fresh.css) as these get overwritten when Wordpress is updated.
August 28, 2008
Maybe you are right.. Maybe the guilty would be phpmail or what is wordpress using for sending validation mails.
Thank you, I´m still looking for help
August 28, 2008
Hi Ben
I noticed your latest coment #119 says not to change the wp css files. Can you have a look at my login screen at http://catchronicles.net which is now online. I just don’t know how to change it unless I change the wp css file. Roland says he may be having the same problem. Is anyone else?
Also I am not sure what this means in your DoFollow if I add the website - “will now get some link juice from Google when you comment and supply your site url”.
Thanks so much for your help.
August 29, 2008
Mauricio - post again if you work out what the solution is. I can’t see how it could be my plugin but if it is then I’d like to get it fixed.
Venesa - if you want to customise the button then I would suggest changing one of the plugins css (wp-content/plugins/bm-custom-login/bm-custom-login-2.css) files instead of the wordpress fresh css file.
August 29, 2008
Yes, I THink that the plug in has not anything to do with my problem. I think that the problem is related to the function of the going out mails of phpmail(). Now I´m using SMTP plugin for wordpress to see if this helps.
September 1, 2008
Thanks ben! It helps me alot. I am making a memebership site to provide people our stock market tips and free stock pick. I am trying to looking at a custom look login page awhile. Fortunlatey, I find your plugin. Once again thank Ben!
September 6, 2008
sir, you are THE MAN! I am so thankful for this plugin!
September 10, 2008
Hi,
May I know what happens after you login? Do we still see the default wordpress dashboard? Can we customize that?
September 10, 2008
hs - it’s only for the login screen. Everything else remains the same I’m afraid.
September 10, 2008
I see. Thanks, Ben!
October 6, 2008
Great tip !
Like it ..
Thanks ..
October 13, 2008
I am using the wordpress 2.6.2 version. i was using the custome login before and it was working file.now when i upgraded the wordpress logo still appears inspite of the background image which i have uploaded.
please let me know what to do.
thanks.
October 18, 2008
i’m facing a big problem here..after installing this plugin i cant even login to my blog..evrytimes i login it will redirect me to the login page..plzz help me..plzzzz
October 19, 2008
If you’re having problems with the plugin then just login to your ftp and delete the files, but I really doubt the issue is this plugin as it doesn’t affect anything like that.
October 21, 2008
Hey Ben, thanks for the plugin. I changed some of the CSS as the text was getting broken and lost padding with german language settings. It should look exactly the same but work with a longer “Lost your password?” string.
#nav {
background:url( images/login-bkg-bottom.png ) no-repeat bottom left;
width:380px;
height:45px;
margin:0 0 0 -5px;
padding:0 0 0 28px;
}
I removed the text-indent and did the job with margin and padding.
cheers
October 23, 2008
For the life of me I cannot get this to work on WordPress MU. There are post that I’ve found where people say “modify a core file to make it default for all blogs, etc” but they never say what core file. As for “change the php file to point to the mu plugin DIR” … that’s already there.
I am so confused!
October 28, 2008
I’m having a problem with this plugin on Wordpress 2.6.2. Whenever I have the plugin installed, my custom login screen is broken and the wordpress logo is still displayed. It used to work great, but not anymore. What happened??
check out an example image of this problem here:
http://www.justinflood.com/pic...
October 29, 2008
Me too.
After upgrade to 2.6.3, i have problem with login css.
U can see it into http://www.portogaspar.com/wp-...
October 29, 2008
To Jason:
Place the Plugin in the plugins folder, not mu-plugins. Then get Plugin Commander and set the Custom Login plugin to auto-enable, and then hide the Custom Login plugin from the blog owners, all are settings in Plugin Commander. Don’t edit core files unless you have to, but you shouldn’t for this.
To Justin Flood:
Unfortunately, it seems that when you update to Wordpress 2.6.2 or higher, the Custom Login Plugin, loses it’s CSS priority, or maybe can’t find it. The CSS file from the updated Wordpress you installed takes over, but the plugin still tries to force the image in there, that is why the Wordpress logo is in there, with your login image and the padding is all screwed up. It might have something to do with hooks missing in the newer Wordpress. Hopefully an update will come.
October 30, 2008
Thanks for the tips Rich
It looks like i will have to look into the issue with WP 2.6 not liking the css files being included. I shall update everything as soon as I can
November 11, 2008
There is a formatting problem with mine… Is there a way to shift the login fields a bit down..?
Thanks.
November 13, 2008
What do you think, when will a new version be released?
November 26, 2008
Hi Ben!
I’m just posting to let you know that BM Custom Login uses some deprecated function calls, namely ‘get_settings’ which has been replaced by ‘get_option’.
A simple search-&-replace will sort it out for you, and avoid filling our deprecated call log.
Thanks for your time and effort!
December 1, 2008
@Gustavo
You seem to have it working at the URL you provided. What did you do to fix it?
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