Custom Login
NOTE: in Custom Login 4.4, PHP 8.1 or greater was required, but in version 5.x, PHP requirements were dropped back to 7.4 or greater. Enjoy the update. Custom Login 3.0 was 200% faster than version 2.0, and version 4.0 and 5.0 is now even better! For more information visit the official Custom Login page. Support Austin and the Frosty Media team will always try our best to support the Custom Login plugin on the WordPress.org forum, but please note that we can not guarantee a response in a timely manner. If you have an issue we would appreciate you using GitHub or purchasing priority support on our site. Any extensions purchased on Frosty Media (not hosted on WordPress.org) will not be supported on the WordPress.org forum. You can always browse our small but growing documentation for further assistance. You need a valid license key to make support submissions on our site. We thank you in advance. Bug Reports Bug reports for Custom Login are welcomed on GitHub. Video Extensions There are currently seven premium extensions available, with more coming (suggestions welcome – and will be offered for free to said user). Extensions available now Stealth Login – obscure your login URL. Page Template – add a login form to any WordPress page. Login Redirects – Manage login redirects. No Password – allow users to login without a password. Style Pack #1 – four pre-designed login styles. Style Pack #2 – four pre-designed fun login styles. Style Pack #3 – four pre-designed holiday login styles. Extensions in development/extension ideas Email Logins for usernames. 2-step Authentication. “Super User” only access for client sites. Added in core as of version 3.0 Remove default WordPress login CSS. Submit button styles! Added as of version 3.2 Custom Login pre-made settings templates AKA Style Packs. More info Activate the plugin and customize your WordPress login screen. It’s as easy as modifying a few settings, there is no need to understand CSS at all. Custom Login even has a HTML, CSS & jQuery textarea for more advanced customizations. Read more about Custom Login 5.0 Read more about Custom Login 4.1 Read more about Custom Login 4.0 Read more about Custom Login 3.1 For those looking to show off your login screen, check out the Flickr group! Share you designs with the community! links Additional Plugins: https://frosty.media/plugins Austins Blog: https:/austin.passy.co/ Austin on Twitter: @TheFrosty Frosty Media on Twitter: @Frosty_Media Development welcomed on GitHub
Global Meta Box Order
Intuitively harmonize meta box positions and screen column layout for all backend users of your WordPress installation. Quick Overview Install and activate the plugin Switch to a post, a page, a custom post type, or the dashboard Change the order and position of a meta box (or all of them) Change the column layout Switch to a different user (maybe with the help of the User Switching plugin) See your changes applied Installation Download and unpack, then move the folder ‘global-meta-box-order’ into your ‘plugins’ folder. Head over to your WordPress installation and activate the plugin in the admin area. Rollback The plugin doesn’t write anything to the database, it just reads. So it never touches any user settings, but instead filters them on a per request basis. Though all applied changes appear to be permanent from a user’s perspective, they are not. Just deactivate the plugin and see all changes disappear. Activate it again, and they will all be reapplied. How It Works The plugin operates on a blueprint user whose screen settings for meta boxes (visibility, position and ordering), and column layout are cloned for all other backend users on the fly. By default, this blueprint user is the first admin user found, so you’ll need to be logged in as that user to globally change screen settings. For how to change the default blueprint user as well as other settings, please refer to the Configuration section below. Where It Works By default, the plugin kicks in when a user: edits a post edits a page edits a custom post type hits the dashboard What It Changes It will always change the meta boxes visibility, ordering, and column positions the column layout When told so, it will also remove the screen options box immobilize all boxes, so they can’t be moved around by your users anymore Usage Log in as your blueprint user. By default, the is the first admin user found in your system. Select an editing screen (post, page, custom post type) or the dashboard, move the meta boxes around, change their screen settings and the screen’s column layout. Switch to some user to review your settings, switch back to adjust them. When done, you might want to lock your views down by removing the screen options box and by locking the boxes’ sort order. Your blueprint user, of course, wil not be affected by this. Configuration The backend integration is kept to a minimum. No navigation entry, no options page, no entry in the database. Instead, the place to go to configure the plugin is your theme’s functions.php. By the way: You don’t need to configure the plugin. As long as it finds an admin user, it will work just fine. Preparation Fire up an editor, load your functions.php, and copy and paste the following code into it. The idea is to have some sort of container to do the configuration in, but do it any way you like. For brevity, we’ll assume the plugin is loaded and active, so we won’t check for that (see this nice write-up on QueryLoop on some ways to do it, though). if (is_admin()) { // The path to the configuation is rather long, so let's // make us a shorthand. class_alias('\GlobalMetaBoxOrder\Config', 'MetaBoxConfig'); // Add MetaBoxConfig below this line ... } Now we are ready to add some of the configuration settings below to adjust the plugin’s default behaviour. You might also want to have a look at the example configuration near the end of this document. Please keep in mind that you need to be logged in as any user but your blueprint user to see a setting applied. Again, the User Switching plugin might come in handy. Screens To Operate On By default, the plugin operates on the post, page, and custom post type editing screens, and the dashboard. You can change this as follows: // Operate on post and page screens only, leave the dashboard alone. // This will still include custom post types. MetaBoxConfig::$filter = array('post', 'page'); // Exclude custom post types MetaBoxConfig::$include_cpts = false; // Allow custom post types... MetaBoxConfig::$include_cpts = true; // ...but not all of them MetaBoxConfig::$exclude = array('acme_product'); MetaBoxConfig in the example above is assumed to be an alias to \GlobalMetaBoxOrder\Config as shown in the preparation section above. Changing the Blueprint User Register a function that returns a user id, like so: MetaBoxConfig::$getBlueprintUserId = function () { return 1; }; Or, more involved: MetaBoxConfig::$getBlueprintUserId = function () { $user = get_user_by('slug', 'jane'); return $user ? $user->ID : false; }; MetaBoxConfig in the example above is assumed to be an alias to \GlobalMetaBoxOrder\Config as shown in the preparation section above. Locking Views By default, all users will be able to interact with the screen options box, and to move around the meta boxes themselves. There is a rationale behind it, but to cut things short, this is how you might want to change it: // No screen options MetaBoxConfig::$remove_screen_options = true; // Meta boxes can't be moved anymore MetaBoxConfig::$lock_meta_box_order = true; MetaBoxConfig in the example above is assumed to be an alias to \GlobalMetaBoxOrder\Config as shown in the preparation section above. Example Configuration if (is_admin()) { // Make sure plugin is active if (class_exists('\GlobalMetaBoxOrder\Config')) { // Make a long name short. class_alias('\GlobalMetaBoxOrder\Config', 'MetaBoxConfig'); // Settings MetaBoxConfig::$filter = array('post', 'page', 'dashboard'); // default MetaBoxConfig::$include_cpts = true; // default MetaBoxConfig::$getBlueprintUserId = function () { return 1; }; MetaBoxConfig::$exclude = array('acme_product'); MetaBoxConfig::$remove_screen_options = true; MetaBoxConfig::$lock_meta_box_order = true; } } On Moving the WYSIWYG Editor The position of WordPress’ WYSIWYG editor is fixed, and can’t be changed out of the box (mostly because it lacks a box around it). There are reasons for this, but if you want to have a positionable editor anyway, you might want to have a look at our very own Movable Editor plugin. If, on the other hand, if you want to place one specific box above the editor, you might want to check out this answer on stackexchange.
