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To add social login to WordPress, install LoginPress Pro, activate the Social Login add-on, create an app with each platform (such as Google or Facebook) to get its keys, and paste those keys into the add-on’s settings. Your login and registration forms then show “Log in with Google”-style buttons.

In this guide, I set up Facebook, X (Twitter), Google and LinkedIn login step by step. The add-on supports 15 platforms in total, including Microsoft, Apple and GitHub.

You can customize the WordPress login page without code by installing LoginPress and changing the logo, background, colors and form styles in the WordPress Customizer, with a live preview as you go. A custom login page makes your site look professional and keeps your branding consistent from the first click.

This guide walks through each LoginPress setting to check first, step by step.

Your WordPress login URL is usually yoursite.com/wp-admin or yoursite.com/wp-login.php. If WordPress is installed in a subfolder, add the folder name (for example, yoursite.com/blog/wp-login.php). If someone changed the login URL with a security plugin, you’ll find the new address in that plugin’s settings.

In this guide, I cover every way to find your login URL, plus how to fix the most common problems that stop people at the login page.

You can change the WordPress login logo in two ways: with the free LoginPress plugin, where you upload your logo in the Customizer and see it live, or with a short code snippet in your theme’s functions.php file. The plugin method takes about two minutes and needs no code.

This post shows both methods step by step, plus how to change where the logo links to.

To change your WordPress password, use the Lost Password link on the login page, or go to Users > Profile in the dashboard and set a new password. If you are locked out, use phpMyAdmin, an SQL statement, WP-CLI or FTP.

This guide shows you all six ways, plus tips for creating a strong password.

You redirect users after a successful login in WordPress with the LoginPress Login Redirects add-on, which sets a destination per user or per role. WordPress sends everyone to the dashboard by default, which suits admins but not customers or members.

The best WordPress login plugin for most sites is LoginPress, because it lets you customize the whole login page without code and adds security features like CAPTCHA and limited login attempts. Other plugins on this list solve one specific job, such as hiding the login URL (WPS Hide Login), social login (Nextend) or front-end login forms (Theme My Login).

This post compares the best WordPress login plugins, including where another plugin fits a job better than LoginPress.

To limit login attempts in WordPress, use the LoginPress Limit Login Attempts add-on: set how many failed tries are allowed (for example, 4), how long a locked-out user must wait, and which IP addresses are whitelisted or blacklisted. WordPress itself allows unlimited tries, so this one setting blocks most brute force attacks.

In this guide, I set it up step by step and show you the attempts report.

WordPress.com adds a custom page that adds some custom scripts. The custom form asks the user to either log in with a conventional login by using their email/username and password or by using a WordPress.com account.

Are you looking for a way to use Vanta.Js as background for your default WordPress login page? If yes, you’ve landed on the right page!

LoginPress is one of the best WordPress login page customizer plugins that let you customize the default login page of WordPress. It predominantly focuses on rebranding your login page with just a few clicks without touching a single line of code.