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By: Still Designing » Blog Archive » WordPress Custom Themed Login Gets An Update

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 06:42:15 +0000

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By: stealth dave

stealth dave — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:42:06 +0000

bambi and StrangeAttractor, here are some simple instructions to get this working. Please keep in mind that this was developed for WordPress 2.5.2, and may or may not work with later versions.

First, the sample.login.php is just that; a sample. For most themes, you should be able to just rename it to login.php and it will include your header, navs, etc., but you may need to modify it to fit your theme.

For the diff file, you need to apply this patch to wp-login.php. On *NIX-based systems, you can do this fairly simply from the command-line. In the same folder as wp-login.php, run the following command:

patch -p0 < wp-login.php.diff

For information on how to use patch on Windows, check out this link. I’m told that this patch applies cleanly to 2.6 (thanks for testing that, Glitch), but again, no guarantees.

- Dave

By: bambi

bambi — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:42:55 +0000

Hi David,
I love your login/register – on your site though, I could not make it on mine
I downloaded the 2 files and placed them in the respective directories, but I could not make it work.
Can you send me the 2 files? and a short cookbook of how to do this? Will you make a plugin out of this?

By: StrangeAttractor

StrangeAttractor — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 02:38:10 +0000

How do you install a patch?

I’m kind of grieving over the loss of James Kelly’s Themed Login & Registration — it was perfect and did exactly what I wanted — to embed the login form in the theme.

But it hasn’t been updated in a long time, and his site appears to be no longer maintained.

So, your solution here seems very close to what I want… but I don’t understand how to install a patch…

By: Glitch

Glitch — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:02:02 +0000

Just tested it on a WP2.6 test installation and it seems to work just fine for as far as I tested it. The code of wp-login.php has changed only slightly I think.

Hopefully themed login/registration and maybe even profile will become standard from 2.7.

By: stealth dave

stealth dave — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:27:15 +0000

The next release for this patch will either come when I get around to updating my own blog to 2.6 or when I take the time to rework the patch to something that they will commit to the main branch (see the UPDATE in the post). Have you tried applying the patch as-is to 2.6? I don’t know how much they’ve changed the login code, but if it hasn’t gone through too many updates, it might still apply.

- Dave

By: Glitch

Glitch — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:01:31 +0000

Hello David,

When will you come up with the patch for Wordpress 2.6. I really need this to make my site a little bit more professional. I cant believe Wordpress still hasnt got themed login, registration and profile pages.

Greetz,

Glitch

By: The Naked Green » Themed Login Page Built-In

The Naked Green » Themed Login Page Built-In — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:52:50 +0000

[...] David Still (Viper007Bond) has come up with a solution and opened up a Trac entry on wordpress.org to add hooks to wp-login.php! As of right now, it’s scheduled to officially be added to the wordpress core files in version 2.6! I can’t wait to start testing it and here I am blogging about it already. I’m excited by strange things ’tis true! [...]