Title: Remove filter default WP authentication question
Last modified: August 21, 2016

---

# Remove filter default WP authentication question

 *  Resolved [halben](https://wordpress.org/support/users/halben/)
 * (@halben)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-default-wp-authentication-question/)
 * Upon using this,
 *     ```
       // Remove default WP authentication
       remove_filter('authenticate', 'wp_authenticate_username_password', 20, 3);
       ```
   
 * ,
 * Does it also remove the WP validation?

Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)

 *  Thread Starter [halben](https://wordpress.org/support/users/halben/)
 * (@halben)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-default-wp-authentication-question/#post-4401954)
 * Figured it out.

Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)

The topic ‘Remove filter default WP authentication question’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

 * [authentication](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/authentication/)
 * [filter](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/filter/)
 * [remove](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/remove/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
 * 1 participant
 * Last reply from: [halben](https://wordpress.org/support/users/halben/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-default-wp-authentication-question/#post-4401954)
 * Status: resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics