2 easy ways to customize WordPress login page

Let us face it: WordPress’s default login page is bland and unappealing!

The good news is that you can use plugins to build a brand-new page for users to log into your website.

In this post, I will go through two useful plugins for customizing your website login page and form.

If you would like to change the login page link as well as form fields from wp-admin to any custom text, check out this guide.

I will recommend you use the Ultimate dashboard plugin out of the 2 options.

1. Ultimate Dashboard: Choose this plugin if you want a lot of control over the design of your login page. Also, you can redirect users after logging in.
2. Theme My Login: Choose this if you want a simple login form with added features like integrations for Mailchimp signups and the use of reCAPTCHA (Integrations are paid features)

1. Using Ultimate Dashboard Plugin

1. Look for the Ultimate Dashboard plugin in the WordPress plugin directory.

Install and activate the plugin

2. Hover over the Ultimate dashboard menu on the sidebar to expose the sub-menu items, and click on Login Customizer.

3. Here, you can customize each part of the login page – Layout (only one available in the free plan), Logo, Background, Login Form, Input Fields, Labels, Login button, and Footer.

4. Logo setting

5. Background setting

6. Login Form setting

7. Input Fields setting

8. Label setting

9. Login button setting

10. Footer setting.

2. Using Theme My Login Plugin

1. Look for the Theme My Login plugin on the WordPress plugin directory.

Install and activate the plugin.

2. Navigate to the plugin settings page

3. Make changes as necessary

4. You can make use of the custom slugs or create a new page (and slug) for your login page and any other needed page.

5. That’s all! You can now navigate to your new login page to access the changes.

In this demo, that would be the /login page.

Note-

1. You can use shortcodes for this plugin, find out more here.
2. You can use any of the following shortcodes
   • For login page: [theme-my-login]
   • For registration page: [theme-my-login action=”register”]
   • For the lost password page: [theme-my-login action=”lostpassword”]
   • For reset password page: [theme-my-login action=”resetpass”]
3. You can purchase extensions to access more features like email subscriptions of users upon registration, etc.

Conclusion

With any of these plugins, you can customize your website login page and change the link(s).

If you require added integrations for email subscriptions, choose the Theme My Login however, if you want more control over the design of the login page, choose the Ultimate dashboard plugin.

If you would like to change the login page link as well from wp-admin to any custom text, check out this guide.