wp_login_url()
Retrieves the login URL.
Used By: wp_loginout()
Hooks from the function
Return
String
. The login URL. Not HTML-encoded.
Usage
wp_login_url( $redirect, $force_reauth );
- $redirect(string)
- Path to redirect to on log in.
Default: '' - $force_reauth(true|false)
- Whether to force reauthorization, even if a cookie is present.
Default: false
Examples
#1 Basic usage
echo wp_login_url(); // https://wp-kama.com/wp-login.php
<a href="<?= wp_login_url() ?>" title="Login">Log in</a>
#2 Authorize and Redirect to Current Page
<a href="<?= wp_login_url( get_permalink() ); ?>">Login</a>
Note that if the request is a 404, get_permalink() will return false, so you may want to grab the actual URL instead.
A scenario where it could be useful to still redirect to your current URL even if it was a 404, would be if the current URL was a private post, and your user was not yet logged-in – hence ended up on a 404.
In that case, if you show them a login link, they should be redirected back to the current URL (i.e. the private post), so that they finally can access it.
<?php $current_url = home_url( $GLOBALS['wp']->request ); ?> <a href="<?= esc_url( wp_login_url( $current_url ) ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Log in' ) ?></a>
#3 Authorize and go to the home page:
<a href="<?= wp_login_url( home_url() ) ?>" title="Login">Log in</a>
Changelog
Since 2.7.0 | Introduced. |