Website takes users to WordPress Login.

JadeDade
(@jawwad-daud)

9 years, 12 months ago

Hello

I am a newbie trying to build my first website. While testing the live version, I discovered that a ‘Login’ link appears on my menu that I never added. When I clicked it (from a different computer but on the same Wi-Fi connection), I was taken to wp-login page. Whereas I was hoping this was the registration page for the users.

My guess is that the root cause can be the WordPress Address (URL) and Website Address (URL) that can be found at Settings > General. In my case, it is the same: my domain.

When I installed WordPress, (I think) it didn’t ask me where to install it.

Currently WordPress and my theme share the same directory on my C-Panel: www.

Please help me solve this problem.

Thanks.

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2ninerniner2
(@2ninerniner2)

9 years, 12 months ago

The login in link is part of the Meta widget, which is installed by default.

Go to Appearance > Widgets and simply drag the Meta widget to the Inactive widgets area.

Thread Starter JadeDade
(@jawwad-daud)

9 years, 12 months ago

Thank you for your response, 2ninerniner2.

The Meta widget was not active: it was just in the Available Widgets area.

I still clicked on it and changed the properties to Inactive Widgets. Then I checked by logging out of my account but the Log In link still appears.

Should I delete the Meta Widget? Or is there a way that to manually remove it?

Thread Starter JadeDade
(@jawwad-daud)

9 years, 12 months ago

I have just discovered that when I make it inactive, a copy of it goes to the Inactive Widgets are but the original remains the same.

Moderator Jan Dembowski
(@jdembowski)

Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

9 years, 12 months ago

John? Please do not cross post your topic into other people’s threads.

esmi
(@esmi)

9 years, 12 months ago

Have you tried just adding an empty Text widget to your menu?

Thread Starter JadeDade
(@jawwad-daud)

9 years, 12 months ago

I’m sorry, John. Won’t happen again. But I am going out of mind here trying to figure out a way so I can make my site live. Please help.

Thread Starter JadeDade
(@jawwad-daud)

9 years, 12 months ago

Esmi I Have not added any widget (at least consciously) and it has been like this ever since I installed wordpress (even on my computer when I was customizing locally on Server Press). I can’t figure out what caused this and how do I get rid of this.

esmi
(@esmi)

9 years, 12 months ago

Try adding an empty Text widget.

Thread Starter JadeDade
(@jawwad-daud)

9 years, 12 months ago

I added an empty widget and all everything from my primary menu disappeared.

Thread Starter JadeDade
(@jawwad-daud)

9 years, 12 months ago

I moved that text widget to inactive widgets and everything is still missing. The bar size has tripled in size too.

esmi
(@esmi)

9 years, 12 months ago

Well – that actually helps. It means that the login link is part of your theme’s default menu content. If you add your own widgets to the menu, you can now build up your own menu system – with no login link.

Thread Starter JadeDade
(@jawwad-daud)

9 years, 12 months ago

I am newbie who has absolutely no knowledge on css or coding. I barely managed to crawled this far. Until two hours ago I thought widgets were supposed to appear on the website and not on WP. Now what do I do?

Thread Starter JadeDade
(@jawwad-daud)

9 years, 12 months ago

Which widgets do I add and where?

esmi
(@esmi)

9 years, 12 months ago

First you need to decide what you want to display on your menu. Pages? Categories? Something else?

Thread Starter JadeDade
(@jawwad-daud)

9 years, 12 months ago

Categories. Links. Whatever the menu allows.