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Wordpress login where is the html?

by ronc0011
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I'm working on a making a membership site where membership is going to be the "Free" prize for signing up (getting on my mailing list). What I want to do is build a custom login / signup form / page. From what I'm seeing so far the most direst way of getting there is to customize my own login page I've been reading over the documentation on wordpress.org here. What i'm not seeing is where the actual login form is so I can style it .I want to use an external stylesheet. I'm using Socrates for a theme and s2member to build the membership aspects of the site.

Can someone tell me where the h html for the login/ signup page is?
#html #login #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author SteveJohnson
    It's in wp-login.php, at the root level of your WP install.

    It's usually easier, though, to just load the login page and look at the page source. Right-click in the window and choose 'View Source' or hit ctrl-U if you're on Firefox or Chrome.
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    • Profile picture of the author ronc0011
      I think that page is generated on the fly After doing some more Googling it appears the page I'm looking for is wp-login.php. I'm just trying to figure out where it is. It also seem or appears the may be more than one version of this page I'm not for certain.
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  • Profile picture of the author seopress
    Yes, wp-login.php is the file that generates the login page for your wordpress site. It is located at the root of your site, as Steve mentioned. You can surely customize that file and therefore change your login page. However, since this is a core WP file, it will be changed if you ever upgrade your WP version in the future. If you are very conversant in WP and PHP that's not a big deal, but for most folks, it is probably much simpler to install a login customization plugin.

    Here's a list of such plugins from wordpress.org.

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    Dave Seldon
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    • Profile picture of the author ronc0011
      Originally Posted by seopress View Post

      Yes, wp-login.php is the file that generates the login page for your wordpress site. It is located at the root of your site, as Steve mentioned. You can surely customize that file and therefore change your login page. However, since this is a core WP file, it will be changed if you ever upgrade your WP version in the future. If you are very conversant in WP and PHP that's not a big deal, but for most folks, it is probably much simpler to install a login customization plugin.

      Here's a list of such plugins from wordpress.org.

      Regards,
      Dave Seldon
      Yeah I've thought of that but so far I've not found a plugin that does what I want and frankly so far most of them promise more than they deliver.
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      • Profile picture of the author seopress
        Originally Posted by ronc0011 View Post

        Yeah I've thought of that but so far I've not found a plugin that does what I want and frankly so far most of them promise more than they deliver.
        Here's another possibility where you can modify the functions.php file (which eliminates the changed when upgraded problem, since it is specific to your theme files, not the WP core) - see the article titled 'Custom login form with full screen background' located at WordPress dashboard hacks for developers and freelancers | CatsWhoCode.com - which just happened to be published today.

        Regards,
        Dave Seldon
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  • Profile picture of the author dwbiz05
    are you trying to change the entire layout or just the css styling?

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