Custom Login and Registration URLs

[danielpataki]

For bigger websites it would be beneficial to allow custom registrations by being able to change the login and registration urls. You can change the login url in a haphazard way now like this, but this is not very good.

function bsb_login_url($redirect_to) {
	$redirect_to = str_replace(get_bloginfo("url").'/wp-login.php', '', $redirect_to);
	$link = get_bloginfo("url")."/login/".$redirect_to;
	return $link;
}   
add_filter( 'login_url', 'bsb_login_url' );

Looking at wp-login.php, the registration link is output like this:

<a href="<?php echo site_url('wp-login.php?action=register', 'login') ?>"><?php _e('Register') ?></a>

If, by using a filter, hook, or even a definition in the config file, you could change the url output here that would be nice.

Just want to add quickly, that this can also be accomplished in another bad way like this:

add_action("init", "bsb_register_redirect") ;

function bsb_register_redirect() {
	
	if(get_current_url(true) == get_bloginfo('url')."/wp-login.php?action=register");
	header("Location: http://bitesizebio.com/register/");
} 

There are plugins for that. ​Theme My Login is one for example.

Replying to SergeyBiryukov:

There are plugins for that. ​Theme My Login is one for example.

I think he's on about having site.com/login/ and site.com/register/ instead of the site.com/wp-login.php and site.com/wp-login.php?action=register we currently have, although this will more than likely be plugin material, as it can be achieved through either functions.php or a plugin!

Theme My Login can do that. Sorry for the wrong link, fixed.

Replying to SergeyBiryukov:

Theme My Login can do that. Sorry for the wrong link, fixed.

Oh, I never noticed I was looking at the wrong plugin!

It's not the fact that it can not be done which is the problem, I just think that this should be something the core could support. For larger websites, having a more elaborate registration, lost password and login process is a must, and it would be easier to achieve with built in support.

There exists a ​wp_login_form function to address this (at least, part of it).

Ozh has a ​plugin that does /login instead of /wp-login.php. I don't think it would be too hard for it to also handle /register if someone asked/sent him a patch.

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There's nothing haphazard about using the 'login_url' filter; it's the standard way of extending WordPress.

What's missing is a matching wp_register_url() and is_login_url() functions, which are addressed in #19898