Ah… gotcha.
Those plugins all completely customize the login page itself, and my login page is created by optimize mentor.
Nevertheless, chatGPT pumped out this plugin for me, and it works
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Custom Login Error Messages
Description: Customizes the login error messages with fun and engaging messages.
Version: 1.0
Author: TravvyTrav
*/
function custom_login_error_message($error) {
// Define your custom messages
$custom_messages = array(
'The provided password is an invalid application password.' => 'It looks like your password is incorrect! Either type with ninja accuracy, or reset it down below.',
'Invalid username' => 'That username apparently doesn’t exist. Maybe nothing exists, and reality isn’t real.',
'Username is required' => 'You didn\'t enter a username or email address... that\'s just not how this thing works.',
'Password is required' => 'You forgot to enter your password. Therefore, you shall not pass!',
'Invalid combination' => 'That\'s an invalid username / password combo!',
'Invalid email' => 'We couldn’t find that email in our records. Please double check it, or contact support!',
'This account has been flagged as a spammer' => 'Your account has been flagged as a "spammer". I don\'t know what that means, but spam is delicious. Contact support.',
'Account locked' => 'This account is temporarily locked. Please contact support!',
'Email confirmation' => 'Check your email for the confirmation link! And don’t forget to look in the spam folder...',
'Could not retrieve password' => 'Hmm, we couldn’t retrieve your password. Perhaps it has been stolen by gnomes.',
'Expired key' => 'This reset link has expired. Please request a new one at once!',
'Invalid email address' => 'That email address isn’t an email address at all. Please try again and make it more email-y.',
'Invalid username or email' => 'We couldn’t find that username or email. Please try again or contact support!',
'Password reset key is missing' => 'It looks like the "password reset key" is missing. Please try resetting your password again.',
'Invalid password reset key' => 'That password reset key doesn’t seem to work. Did you copy it correctly?',
'Expired password reset key' => 'The password reset key has expired. Please grab a fresh one!',
'Password is too weak' => 'Your password is too weak, like my puny calves. Try adding some numbers and symbols to make it stronger!',
);
// Loop through the errors and replace messages with custom ones
foreach ($custom_messages as $default_message => $custom_message) {
if (strpos($error, $default_message) !== false) {
return $custom_message;
}
}
return $error;
}
function custom_authenticate_user($user, $username, $password) {
if (is_wp_error($user)) {
$error_codes = $user->get_error_codes();
foreach ($error_codes as $code) {
$error_message = $user->get_error_message($code);
$custom_message = custom_login_error_message($error_message);
if ($custom_message !== $error_message) {
$user->remove($code);
$user->add($code, $custom_message);
}
}
}
return $user;
}
function custom_wp_login_failed($username) {
// Get the last error message from WordPress
$error = new WP_Error();
$custom_message = custom_login_error_message($error->get_error_message());
if ($custom_message !== $error->get_error_message()) {
$error->add('custom_error', $custom_message);
}
return $error;
}
add_filter('authenticate', 'custom_authenticate_user', 30, 3);
add_action('wp_login_failed', 'custom_wp_login_failed');
?>
