This script replaces the default WP login scheme with my own customized for BuddyPress. Now if users enter the wrong username or password they won’t get sent to the non-buddypress wp-login.php page. Only lightly tested, but work ok.

`
// replacement for regular login – gets rif of wp-login.php page
function bp_authenticate_username_password($user, $username, $password) {
if ( is_a($user, ‘WP_User’) ) { return $user; }

if ( empty($username) || empty($password) ) {
bp_core_add_message( __(‘ERROR: Empty Username field or empty Password field. See the sidebar for log in support.’, ‘scg’) , ‘error’ );
wp_redirect(get_option(‘siteurl’));
return false;
}

$userdata = get_userdatabylogin($username);

if ( !$userdata ) {
bp_core_add_message( __(‘ERROR: Incorrect Username. See the sidebar for log in support.’, ‘scg’) , ‘error’ );
wp_redirect(get_option(‘siteurl’));
return false;
}

$userdata = apply_filters(‘wp_authenticate_user’, $userdata, $password);

if ( is_wp_error($userdata) ) {
bp_core_add_message( __(‘ERROR: Invalid username or incorrect password.. See the sidebar for log in support.’, ‘scg’) , ‘error’ );
wp_redirect(get_option(‘siteurl’));
return false;
}

if ( !wp_check_password($password, $userdata->user_pass, $userdata->ID) ) {
bp_core_add_message( __(‘ERROR: Incorrect Password. See the sidebar for log in support.’, ‘scg’) , ‘error’ );
wp_redirect(get_option(‘siteurl’));
return false;
}

$user = new WP_User($userdata->ID);
return $user;
}

add_filter(‘authenticate’, ‘bp_authenticate_username_password’, 10, 3);
remove_filter(‘authenticate’, ‘wp_authenticate_username_password’, 20, 3);
`

[@tiagom Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

Excellent work! I’m quite pleased with the results on my own site. Works fine!

[@vee_bee Participant 14 years, 2 months ago]

Hiya @dwenaus
Do you know if this creates an issue with authentication keys??
I have this in my bp-custom, and when an activation key is sent, the user does not require it, as a username and password will still work.
V

[@gerbilo Participant 14 years, 1 month ago]

For me redirects works fine, but not bp_core_add_message …

[@hmarshall Member 13 years, 9 months ago]

Hi @dwenaus

Please could you tell me which file I have to insert this in as I’m very new to BP? I have a child theme based on the default theme.
Thanks

[@edinchez Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

hmarshall, just make a new blank file called bp-custom.php, paste the code in that file and upload it to wp-custom/plugins.

[@nit3watch Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

The script it over 10 months old, whilst it probably would still work, there is a plug-in that achieves the same thing: Login with AJAX

[@hmarshall Member 13 years, 9 months ago]

@nit3watch that’s useful thanks. But my normal login still shows up above, and my facebook login too. Is there a way to remove the normal buddypress login and have the facebook login bar below the ajax login?

[@nit3watch Participant 13 years, 8 months ago]

You have to edit sidebar.php and remove the log-in/log out stuff, as for the facebook log-in – I will get back to you.

[@ibnnadir Member 13 years, 7 months ago]

@Dwenaus, there’s no message appear when login failed. How to get that message appear?

[@ankurm Member 13 years, 3 months ago]

@Dwenaus , i have the same problem which @ibn.nadir had..
there are no error messages appearing after the redirection. How to get that message appear?

thanks

[@ankurm Member 13 years, 3 months ago]

btw @Dwenaus the code worked perfectly fine otherwise…
Thanks..