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Using a WordPress Function to Create Custom Login Form

December 22, 2016
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In WordPress, you can access the default login page by redirecting to site_url/wp-admin OR site_url/wp-login.php. Additionally, WordPress allows you to create a custom login form at the front-end (either in a widget, pop-up or sidebar, etc.) of your website. This article will help you to create a custom login form by using a wp() function.

To achieve this functionality, WordPress provides you a wp_signon( $credentials, $secure_cookie ) function. This function uses the username, password and remember me as parameters. Using these credentials, this function will create a user session on the website.

If the given credentials are invalid, then it will return an error object holding the produced error or else it will return the user object on success.

$creds = array();  
$creds['user_login'] = 'example';
$creds['user_password'] = 'plaintextpw';
$creds['remember'] = true;

$user = wp_signon( $creds, false );

if ( is_wp_error($user) )
{
   echo $user->get_error_message();
}