Title: Custom Login Last modified: August 7, 2019 --- # Custom Login * Resolved [johnfields](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnfields/) * (@johnfields) * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-login-19/) * Hi, I’m developing a new project and needed a way to make a login with external user info. It seems your plugin is exactly what i’ve been looking for. I downloaded your plugin and activated it. Now i don’t want to use WordPress’ login form or customize it with another plugin. I want to make a custom form of my own and then when i submit the form it calls the login. So my question is, when i click on that form’s button which function do i need to call? One of your own or the wordpress’ login function? Kind regards, John Fields - This topic was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by [johnfields](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnfields/). - This topic was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by [johnfields](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnfields/). Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 19 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-login-19/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-login-19/page/2/?output_format=md) * Plugin Author [tbenyon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tbenyon/) * (@tbenyon) * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-login-19/#post-11811089) * Hey [@johnfields](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnfields/), * Great question! * You’ll want to use the default WordPress way of doing this. * I’ve tried to write the plugin to stick to the standard WordPress flow as much as possible. For this reason, using someone else’s plugin to customise the look or writing your own modification in the standard WordPress way, as you plan to do, should work just fine. 🙂 * For now I’ll close the ticket. If you have any issues feel free to get back to me. * If you get a chance to [write a review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/external-login/reviews/#new-post) I’d be very grateful. * Thanks John, * Tom 🙂 * Thread Starter [johnfields](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnfields/) * (@johnfields) * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-login-19/#post-11811744) * Hi Tom, * I have another question. For now i was trying to access directly WordPress login. php before customizing my own login. I tested the connection to DB in the settings and everything worked ok, but when i try to insert one of my other users it doesn’t let me, saying wrong username or password (only my admin user works). And when i activate the hash option to bcrypt even my admin user can’t be recognized. * Do you know what might be causing the error? * Thanks, John * Plugin Author [tbenyon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tbenyon/) * (@tbenyon) * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-login-19/#post-11811760) * It sounds like the correct hashing algorithm is not being selected. * Do you know for sure bcrypt is the type of hash being used for your passwords in the external database? * You may be sure but if not, this help question may guide you to interpret what type it is your external database is using: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/external-login/#what%20hashes%20are%20available%20and%20which%20does%20my%20external%20database%20use%3F](https://wordpress.org/plugins/external-login/#what%20hashes%20are%20available%20and%20which%20does%20my%20external%20database%20use%3F) * Let me know if you think you’ve ruled this out while I start thinking what the next thing to try is 🙂 * Thread Starter [johnfields](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnfields/) * (@johnfields) * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-login-19/#post-11811810) * I have 3 different scenarios that happen when i try to login: 1. I have another user in my DB and if the password is encrypted with bcrypt and i introduce the plain text password in the form it won’t recognize it. 2. If the password for that user is in plain text it will recognize and will do the login correctly. 3. If i activate the hash option for bcrypt it won’t recognize either my admin user or another one i have (both for password encrypted or in plain text) * Thanks, John * Thread Starter [johnfields](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnfields/) * (@johnfields) * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-login-19/#post-11811833) * Hi Tom, Yes i encrypted myself with bcrypt, and i checked the password and looks like the ones you presented. So, as I explained next, when i activate the bcrypt hash none of my users are recognized. And when i set the option to none, only the users with plain text passwords are recognized, this is second part is supposed to happen, right? Since the hash is not activated * Plugin Author [tbenyon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tbenyon/) * (@tbenyon) * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-login-19/#post-11811938) * Hey John, * > 1. I have another user in my DB and if the password is encrypted with bcrypt > and i introduce the plain text password in the form it won’t recognize it. * Understood. Why this is happening is something we’ll need to determine. If you could create a new user in your external database with the password `password` so and send me the created hash that’d be awesome. * > 2. If the password for that user is in plain text it will recognize and will > do the login correctly. * Some clarification needed here. Some of your users have passwords stored as a bcrypt hash and some of them have passwords stored in plain text? * > 3. If i activate the hash option for bcrypt it won’t recognize either my admin > user or another one i have (both for password encrypted or in plain text) * Understood. * As per my comment to your point one. Let’s start with you sending me an example bcrypt hash generated with your code and I can see if I can replicate this my end. I’ll assume you’re using the latest version of the plugin (1.7.3). * Thread Starter [johnfields](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnfields/) * (@johnfields) * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-login-19/#post-11811974) * Here it goes, * 1. I have a custom registration form that i use to create an user in DB with bcrypt hash. The one i created now with the password “password” generated this: $2y$10$0j6qdtq9YWKBwM5dEY10Y.xePVI04x77004QuxD2dFPntVynPBs96. * 2. Since i’m still testing i first created 2 users with bcrypt hash and activated the bcrypt hash setting but couldn’t login in the platform. Then i created another user without the hash (just a plain text password) and selected the hash setting to none and the login worked just fine. But in the future everything will have bcrypt hash, after this problem is solved 🙂 * And I’m using the latest version (1.7.3) * Plugin Author [tbenyon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tbenyon/) * (@tbenyon) * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-login-19/#post-11812002) * Hey John, * 1. Does the end of your hash in the db have a `.` on it or did you add that when you pasted here. * It should not have the dot. i.e. Good: $2y$10$0j6qdtq9YWKBwM5dEY10Y.xePVI04x77004QuxD2dFPntVynPBs96 * Bad: $2y$10$0j6qdtq9YWKBwM5dEY10Y.xePVI04x77004QuxD2dFPntVynPBs96. * 2. Thanks for the clarification 🙂 * Thread Starter [johnfields](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnfields/) * (@johnfields) * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-login-19/#post-11812042) * Oh sorry Tom, it doesn’t have it. So it’s all good. I just put it there to end a phrase, my mistake 🙂 * So it seems the problem is not the hashing generation. * Plugin Author [tbenyon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tbenyon/) * (@tbenyon) * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-login-19/#post-11812052) * Doesn’t appear to be. Could you send me screenshots of your settings? I really need to write a feature to make a nice output to make this easier. Apologies to have to ask this way 😛 * Plugin Author [tbenyon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tbenyon/) * (@tbenyon) * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-login-19/#post-11812056) * Obviously – obfuscate sensitive data!!! 🙂 * Thread Starter [johnfields](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnfields/) * (@johnfields) * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-login-19/#post-11812068) * No problem, i’ll send it right away. * Thread Starter [johnfields](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnfields/) * (@johnfields) * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-login-19/#post-11812105) * Well, can i ask you a question first? * While i was talking with you, I changed the redirect location to a subfolder, where i have my wordpress folder. Before it was redirecting to my domain main page. And since that change now I can login in wordpress with the users with bcrypt hash assigned. The other users with plain text passwords don’t work, as supposed to. * Has this change impacted anything with your plugin? Cause now it works just fine, the rest of the setting remained the same as before. * Thread Starter [johnfields](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnfields/) * (@johnfields) * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-login-19/#post-11812141) * Anyway, maybe i missed out something. But thanks for all the time and great support. And of course, for developing a great plugin. * I’ll write you a review, as I would do no matter what. You deserve it! * Thanks for everything, John * Plugin Author [tbenyon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tbenyon/) * (@tbenyon) * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-login-19/#post-11812148) * Hey [@johnfields](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnfields/), * Great find! * This is a relatively new feature so it is certainly possible this is not working. It has only been tested by me and I have not had anyone reported it working yet. * Could you give me an example of what worked and what didn’t work so that I can try to replicate? * Thanks, * Tom Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 19 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-login-19/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-login-19/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Custom Login’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/external-login_fbebd6.svg) * [External Login](https://wordpress.org/plugins/external-login/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/external-login/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/external-login/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/external-login/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/external-login/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/external-login/reviews/) * 19 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [tbenyon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tbenyon/) * Last activity: [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-login-19/page/2/#post-11812324) * Status: resolved