Introduction to LoginPress – Custom Login Page Customizer

Are you hosting a WordPress website for your blog or business, and you are wondering how to polish your Login page?

You are at the right spot since a refined login page URL represents your brand and morale more effectively. To make it easy and achievable, we have LoginPress for those people who are curious to sweeten up their login pages of WordPress sites, without getting fussed into coding.

What is LoginPress? 

LoginPress is a WordPress plugin that is a login page customizer tool developed by WPBrigade to create a Custom Login Page for your WordPress according to your requirements.

Not limited to just rebranding your login page, LoginPress secures your customized login pages as well. It helps to modify the look and feel of your login page without writing codes or hiring developers. 

How Does LoginPress Work? 

The LoginPress plugin is built using the WordPress Customizer API, which is becoming popular for live-previewing changes to WordPress layouts.

With LoginPress, you can instantly preview your customizations to the login page. 

Besides, it saves time on loading and unloading minor or major changes repeatedly.

With that ease, LoginPress lets you customize every element on your Login page, from error messages to login fields.

And if you have a membership site or a site where people create profiles and log in/log out, this login management plugin rebrands the entire login URL using simple yet powerful features.

How to Use LoginPress? 

Since there is no involvement in writing complex code, LoginPress is very easy to use and handle.

Once it is installed and activated on your WordPress website, you will be able to track it in the left-hand menu of the WordPress admin dashboard.

You can download LoginPress free, and check the detailed documentation to set up and activate LoginPress

What Are the Features of LoginPress? 

LoginPress is very loaded when it comes to the features for the reason that it has Settings and Customizer options rich in exclusive features to be used in customizing the Login page. 

To learn more about each of them, we’ll be diving into the LoginPress features in two sections: Settings and Customizer. 

1. Settings

In the Settings section of LoginPress, we offer exciting options and fields for the login page. 

All of them are listed below with a functionality briefing:

1.1 Force Login (Premium)

Force users to log in before viewing your site's content. If you have enabled this option, a user will be redirected to the login page.

It is designed to give your WordPress site a membership feel, prompting users to log in to access the site. 

1.2 Enable reCAPTCHA (Premium)

reCAPTCHA is a free service from Google that helps protect websites from spam and abuse.

In LoginPress, it’ll help you to customize the reCAPTCHA on your login form in terms of Error Message and reCAPTCHA Size, providing security to your WordPress site against robotic invading actions. 

You can learn more about Enable reCAPTCHA to understand its works in LoginPress. 

1.3 Session Expire

By default behavior of WordPress, your login session cookie expires within 48 hours (if you don’t check the box), or 14 days if you check the “Remember Me” box by default.

With LoginPress, Session Expire fields allow you to customize the Expiration Time of the login session. 

You can check out our documentation on Session Expire to see how it works in LoginPress.

1.4 Auto Remember Me

Auto Remember Me option keeps you logged in for 48 hours, or 14 days if you check it.

It enables you to remember your website's login page, including your username/email and password, in your browser.

With this option, you can easily log in to your website without entering your username or password on the login page.

You can check the detailed article on How to keep the "Remember me" option checked with LoginPress.

1.5 Custom Password Fields 

It makes you create custom password fields on the registration form.

Moreover, it lets users create a password during registration on your WordPress website without confirming it via email. 

1.6 Login Order

Giving users the option to log in with their username and email address, or both at once.

LoginPress offers this customization, whereas WordPress only provides the username or email address fields for logging in by default. 

1.7 Password Strength Options

This feature lets you implement strong password policies for users to protect against password-guessing attacks.

1.8 Reset Default Settings 

You can reset the default settings of LoginPress.

1.9 Remove Settings on Uninstall 

You can remove all LoginPress settings upon uninstalling the plugin.

2. Customizer

LoginPress Customizer acts as a full-functioning editor, loaded with pre-built features and options to add to your login page.

From customizing branded logos to themes, there is so much more for rebranding your WordPress site’s login page, covering almost every element.

Let’s take a deep dive into LoginPress features available in the Customizer section.

2.1 Themes

Themes are a built-in feature of the LoginPress plugin that let you customize and change the overall look of your WordPress website’s login page, giving it a unique identity. 

It advances the look of your standard login page without writing a single line of code.

The free version comes with one theme called Default, whereas the Pro version carries dozens of luxurious pre-made templates/themes.

You can learn more about it in our detailed documentation on LoginPress Themes Premium

2.2 Google Fonts (Premium) 

To change the basic Google Fonts on the login page, LoginPress offers a premium feature that lets you access hundreds of Google Fonts to add an extra personal touch to your WordPress website’s login page. 

2.3 Logo 

The logo lets you customize your blog or business logo on your login form to stand out from the boring default WordPress logo.

It does not merely change or customize the logo but also adjusts the sizes, colors, and content of login logos to match your WordPress website’s branding.

You can check our detailed documentation here to know its usage. 

2.4 Background

Background enables you to change the background of your login page, in which you can upload any background image or set your favorite background color and even a video in the background of your login page according to your choice.

You can check the detailed documentation of the Background to know more about it. 

2.5 Customize Login Form 

It is concerned with customizing the actual login form according to your requirements in terms of transparency, image or color, width, height, radius, shadow opacity, padding, and border. 

You can know more about Customize Login Form for its maximum use. 

2.6 Customize Forget Form

It is to customize the forget form page's background color and image, which you can easily change according to your requirements.

You can learn more about Customize Forget Form here.

2.7 reCAPTCHA (Premium)

In LoginPress’s Settings, reCAPTCHA provides you the opportunity to customize its size and error messages.

You can learn more about reCAPTCHA to know its security and its features.

2.8 Beauty Button 

Beauty Button lets you customize the Log In, register, and password reset buttons on your login, registration, and password reset forms, including color and text.

You can learn more about Beauty Button to know its details. 

2.9 Error Messages 

Creating custom error messages in the LoginPress customizer is simply a few clicks away. That is all to change every error message that the user will get, depending on the outcome of login attempts, registration attempts, or forget attempts.

You can explore more in detail about Error Messages, click Error Messages article. 

2.10 Welcome Messages

It helps to set a customized welcome message on your website's login screen.

2.11 Footer Text 

The footer text in the login form is basically the copyright information of your business or brand, displayed on your website.

To customize it and give the brand its own identity, Footer Text in the LoginPress Customizer is quite helpful.  

You can know more details about the Footer Text.

2.12 Custom CSS/JS

Enabling you to play more with the customization options, LoginPress offers the Custom CSS and JS feature, following which you can use the LoginPress classes and can style them according to your choice.

You can know more about the work of Custom CSS/JS.

What are LoginPress Add-Ons? 

LoginPress comes with a slick collection of rich add-ons in both the free and pro versions, designed for maximum usability and security, not just for styling the login page.

Let’s dive into each of them. 

1. Login Logout Menu (Free)

Login Logout Menu is a handy plugin, integrated as an addon of LoginPress, which allows you to add login, logout, register, and profile menu items in your selected menu.

2. Social Login (Premium)

Social Login provides the facility for your users to log in and register via Facebook, Google, and Twitter. This add-on will eliminate Spam and Bot registrations. Additionally, the availability of third-party integration helps your users with hassle-free registrations/logins on your site.

3. Auto Login (Premium)

Auto Login allows you (The administrator)  to generate a unique URL for certain users for whom you don't want to provide a password to log in to your site.  Additionally, it gives you a list of all the users whom you have given auto-generated login links. Moreover, you can disable someone's access and delete certain users.

4. Login Widget (Premium)

Login Widget allows you to add a blog sidebar, and with a bit of HTML/CSS knowledge, you can style it according to your WordPress website's soul. It uses an Ajax way to log in via the sidebar.

5. Limit Login Attempts (Premium) 

Preventing brute force attacks to secure the security of login pages has become very easy now. By limiting the number of login attempts for each user and even setting the time between each login attempt.

6. Hide Login (Premium) 

Hide Login allows you to change the login page URL to anything you want. It will give a hard time to spammers who keep hitting your login page. It acts like a shield against Brute force attacks. One caution to using this add-on is you need to remember the custom login URL after you change it. We have an option to email your custom login URL so you remember it.

7. Login Redirects (Premium) 

Login Redirects enables redirecting the users based on their roles. It is very helpful if you have an editor and want to redirect him to his editor stats page. Restrict your subscribers, guests, or even customers to certain pages instead of wp-admin. This add-on has a cool UX/UI to manage all the login redirects you have created on your site.

So to have a professional and rebranded login page instead of the default WordPress login page, you can rely on LoginPress. It brings style, and functionality enhancement to customize the WordPress login page, and multiple powerful add-ons to level up the Security of your WordPress websites in a few clicks. Without writing a single code.

For more information on getting started with LoginPress, please visit our LoginPress getting started guide section 

If you have any doubts or questions related to this matter, please don’t hesitate to reach out to our support team.