James Kelly

It’s somewhat amazing to me that very little customization of the login, registration, and reset password forms is possible.  I decided to create a little plugin that would give me that ability, and have made the plugin available here for anyone else who would like this ability.

I’ve created many plugins, but this is the first that I’ve ever released to the general public.  With that in mind, there might be a few bugs (thus the 0.9 version), but I’m confident that there aren’t that many.  Most of the code was copied directly from the wp-login.php and wp-register.php pages.  If you find this plugin useful, let me know (of course feel free to post any comments you might have in the normal fashion as well).

I just discovered that I seem to not be the only one that is experiencing this desire.  A small movement has started on the wp-hackers list as of last night which indicates many others would like to see this behavior.  As such, hopefully I or other developers can sneak some kind of theme based system into the core login and registration pages making this plugin obsolete.

But until then, maybe this plugin can help someone else out.  You can see a sample of the end result by clicking on the login link on my site.  I should probably style it a little better, but for now it works great.