Do you want to create a custom login page for your WordPress site? Well keep
watching, in this video I'll show you two methods you can use to create custom
login pages in WordPress. Getting a custom login page is usually for people
who are creating a membership site without using a membership plugin so if
you're ready let's get started. First let's head over to our WordPress
dashboard and from there we're going to head over to our plugins area, add new
because we want to look for a plugin called theme my login. Theme my login is
pretty powerful it allows you to create custom registration and custom profile
pages you can also do custom emails and set up custom redirects. So this is the
one we're looking for, let's go ahead and install now. Once it's installed you'll
also want to make sure that you click activate so we'll do that next. Now you
see it's activated here with the blue area that tells us it's activated
and from here we have a new tab over in our admin area so let's just click on the
theme my login to customize it. From here you want to make sure that the
stylesheet is enabled here, the login type you can choose to do user name only,
email only, or to make it easier just do user name or email, and down here you
want to select the modules you want to enable for the custom login. When you
click on each new module and click Save Changes we'll now have an area under
our theme my login settings like you see here. Once you have that here you can
customize it as you need. Now a lot of times people want to redirect someone
who logs in say to a particular page maybe you're doing a course and you want
to redirect them to that course page. Turn on the redirection module here and
then you can go through and set it up. You can do this for all the different
groups on your site, you can do that for your editors you want to scroll down
because you're likely going to be doing that for your subscribers and say when
they log in you can send them to either the page that they were on before they
logged in or send them to a custom page on your site. So that's how you do that
with theme my login. The second method we'll use is using
another plugin called WPForms. If you've recently signed up for a hosting
account you probably already have WPForms light on your website and this
will be using the premium version which allows you to create custom WordPress
login and registration forms. Head over to WPForms to get the premium version.
Once you download the plugin head back over to our plugins area, Add New, and
instead of searching for it this time we will upload the plugin from here. You
can either choose file or you can drag the zip file to it.
Once you have it uploaded click install now and again you'll want to click
activate plugin to get started. Once it's installed
you'll see this landing page and we can head over to WPForms, go to settings,
you'll need to make sure that you enter your license key and verify and now
we're all set to go. Once we have this setup we need to go to our addons area
because we need to install the addon for the user registration and while
we're scrolling through I'll just say that WPForms, the premium version, is so
much more than a contact form. With it you can accept forms of payment, you can
do form abandonment, if someone starts a form but they don't finish you can find
ways to still engage with them. So scrolling down the user registration is
what we're wanting so let's click install addon and like with plugins we
need to activate it as well. Alright now we're all set so let's go over to add
new so we can create our custom login. Under the form name we'll just create a
title and scrolling down you can either do a blank form that you can start from
scratch or you can go through their templates that they have and find one
that matches what you need. Scrolling down it's the user login form
that we want so let's create the login form. This is the basic form that we will
want and we also want to go into settings we want to set the confirmation
that's what to do once the user successfully logs in. You can create a
message, show a particular page, or redirect them to a specific URL.
Alright now that we've created that we're going to save this and now we just
have to do one final thing we need to create the page where we want this form
to go. So I'm going to go to my pages area and click add new. From here we can
give it a title and from here you can either add your logo or add an image
that you want to show on the login page you can even add some text here thanking
them for logging in and what we want to do is there's a new button up here, add
form and we want to click on that. From the drop down we want to click custom
login, that's the form we want, and click Add Form and it'll bring in the short
code for the WPForms. So now let's click publish and it'll be ready to show and
now when we go to log in you see this custom page. You can also create a custom
widget for your site so we'll go back to our dashboard, let's head over to
Appearance, Widgets, and if you want a login on your sidebar then we just go
down, get the WPForms grab it, drag it up to our sidebar area, select the form that
we want to show, give it a title, and save. Now somebody comes to your site and
they're not logged in they have an easy way to log in from here. Now those are
two simple and easy ways to create custom login pages without writing any
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