Easily Customize your WordPress Login Page

2 July, 2010 - 07:00 AM - 22 Comments

I had been wondering how to customize wordpress login page so that I could brand it for guest bloggers who contributed to my blog and I have to thank Austin Passy for developing one of the best plug-ins for wordpress which allows you to customize your wordpress sign on page. I had tried several other plug-ins including the BM Custom Login plug-in which basically just allows you to replace the wordpress login with an image that sits under the form. The Custom Login plug-in for wordpress however allows you full control over every aspect of your login page with the plug-in and this includes changing the HTML, CSS and even the elements of the form fields themselves from the same plug-in.

Currently, I customized my WordPress Admin page to look like this now:

Kind of stands out from the drab wordpress default login doesn’t it? You aren’t going to forget whose sign on page you are on when seeing that little screen.

Once you download and install the Custom Login plug-in for WordPress, you click on the Custom Login link under your Settings side menu in your WordPress Dashboard.

From there you will have to enable the Custom CSS checkbox:

Following that you have a vast array of options at your disposal and I suggest you click on the ? mark at the end of every single setting, the author provides exact file size you should use for the form background image, how to customize the various fields and more.

Customizing your WordPress Sign On page is a good idea if you run a blog with contributors, as most guest bloggers will often blog on many sites and I know it helps to see a customized login page of the site I am on. It was FamousBloggers Login Page that prompted me to customize my own, so I thank Hesham for inspiring me to go and find out how to customize my own login page after leaving it default for two years.

One good thing about using a plug-in to customize the WordPress Login page is that it will stay intact even after performing wordpress upgrades and is mostly theme proof unless the Theme has a customized login page then it may not work with some really specialized themes (like classified sites themes and such).

-Dragon Blogger

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Gines@Blogging IntelliGently

I've been meaning to do this on my own but, since there's a plugin already, might as well use that. Easier for me.

Thanks for sharing DB. Have a good one.

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dragonblogger

Thanks for dropping by and taking the time to leave a comment Gines. This plugin is so easy to use and causes no overhead to your blog performance.

Harsh Agrawal @Blogging Tips

This plugin seems to be really useful..Earlier I used to hack Wordpress file but after every Wordpress upgrade I have to redo the step. This is going to be really helpful. Nice find :)

Luqman @ Domain name registration

Nice plugin for bloggers login page, it will make the login page different and unique. Thanks for sharing and telling us how to customize the plugin.

The Frosty

Thanks for the write up! I hope you all like the plugin.

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The plug-in is fantastic and is the best login page customization plug-ins I have found, thanks Austin.

Kimi

Awesome!! This is very useful for multiuser logins i guess.

To me, the only person who need to login is myself lol, so no need to change login layout.

Dave Doolin

I really want to do this, but Bluehost is hitting me with CPU throttling pretty hard. I'm going to have to figure that out first. I know what they're going to say: "too many plugins." The usual cop out, but what can I do?

I haven't seen any overhead from this login customization plug-in at all.

Steve@GreaseHalloweenCostume

Great plug-in. I do a lot of sites based around some very visual themes and being able to use this plugin for some of my sites that offer membership logins. The screenshot that you show for this post is great for your blog.

Branding is all about creating a relationship and leaving your mark in people's minds. This login adds another layer to helping in brand building efforts.

I'll be looking into this one and may use it soon on some new sites I plan on launching. Excellent plugin to share with the rest of us. Thanks a lot.

John Sullivan

Something I need to do for BloggerLUV I think I will let this plugin do the work as I see the options are awesome
Thanks

Glad you found this plugin review helpful John.

Hesham

Awesome! This is one nice WordPress login page you have there Justin!

Well done buddy!

Thanks Hesham, it was FamousBloggers login page that inspired me to finally do it.

Thomas@Madento Developers

Sweet post! Great idea of another thing to help make blogs unique and more fun to use.

BlazingMinds

I've been meaning to get round to customizing my login for quite a while, now you've really made me decided that it has to be done, not so much for my benefit, but for those that guest post on my blog ;)

Right, I have no intention of customizing the login page for my poetry or personal blogs as they have no contributors, why do it just for myself?

element321

Justin,

Thanks for sharing. I have been thinking about redesigning my login for a while, but just hadn't pulled up the code and figure out what I need to recode to make it my own.

This plugin makes it look easy. I will have to try it out.