Comments on: Customizing the WordPress Login Screen

By: Jessica Bosari

Jessica Bosari — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:46:28 +0000

Great post, fixing some registration problems and came here thinking I might as well make my register screen pretty too!

I believe our friend’s problem is in the cache, no? Happens to me all the time. I use W3 cash and keep a button on my bookmarks bar to navigate there to clear the cache. It might also be the browser’s cache.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 29 May 2010 18:42:18 +0000

Thanks for the tips! The only thing I’m not really digging is that I have a scroll bar on the login page. Not necessary, but I can’t figure out how to get rid of it.

http://www.itsmygallery.com/blog/wp-login.php

Mike

By: Trevor

Trevor — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:02:21 +0000

Whew! That was a challenge. Here is how mine turned out, what do yall think?

http://todaysgoal.com/wp-login.php?loggedout=true

By: Will Rhea

Will Rhea — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:01:34 +0000

The white space I get is actually grey tan, but it’s still there.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:51:44 +0000

I’ve added both of these and I still get the big white bar.

By: Matt Belliston

Matt Belliston — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:26:35 +0000

Yes. Also add
min-height:100%;
to the body{
}
section. That worked for me!

By: kilo

kilo — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:14:57 +0000

adding

html {
height:100%;
}

didn’t get rid of the bottom white space.

i’m assuming i add this into login.css

any ideas?

By: Doug Cone

Doug Cone — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:16:25 +0000

Indeed one of the greatest things about using a system like WordPress is the ability to override and filter the core functions. You do have to keep on top of them because they do change from time to time but it makes it an incredibelly powerful tool. And keeps it secure at the same time! I have seen way too many wordpress installs where someone hacked the core and then the owner didn’t want to upgrade to the newer, faster and more secure latest version because of it.

I’d encourage anyone that can’t find a override hook or filter to figure out how to submit what the need into the core, instead of just hacking the core

By: Addicott Web

Addicott Web — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:09:21 +0000

Thanks for your suggestions Doug! When I wrote this article I hadn’t anticipated the problem of when you upgrade. I’ll definitely update the article with some of the information that you posted, along with a link to a plugin that I’ve been using that lets you customize the logo, at the very least. Using a plugin ensures against what happens when you upgrade versions of WordPress!

By: Doug Cone

Doug Cone — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:51:00 +0000

Yikes! As soon as you update wordpress you have to go hack this back in. This article shows how you should do it properly

http://wpengineer.com/create-your-own-wordpress-login-design/

or start here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/login_head

Use hooks and css to overwrite the defaults, then you might have to tweak your theme once in awhile when hooks change but it will be a lot easier to stay on the latest version of wordpress…and that will keep you from getting hacked! (you should never edit a core wordpress file, override it with a hook or filter instead)

To the Author, may I recommend that you point to the link above or update your post? The post ranks well in Google but it is showing people the wrong way to do it!