Disable registration but enable login

  • Hello.

    I’m working with a base installation (so far) of wordpress and I am trying to figure out how to get members the option to login but not register.

    All members are manually registered via the admin interface by us admins. No other types of registrations will be allowed at any point in the future. However, if we turn off ‘anyone can register’ it seems the login is gone. A bit confusing. How are our members going to login if there is no login due to external registration being turned off?

    Maybe it is a simple setting somewhere, I fail to find it. Thank you for any help.

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic
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  • Topher

    (@topher1kenobe)

    They should still be able to get to /wp-login.php, and if you want there are some nice plugins that create prettier interfaces.

    However, if we turn off ‘anyone can register’ it seems the login is gone. A bit confusing. How are our members going to login if there is no login due to external registration being turned off?

    This is not the default WordPress behaviour.

    If you turn off “Anyone can register”, the standard WordPress login page at /wp-login.php should still be available for existing users — or the sole admin user, if there are no other users at all — to login.

    If you have a login form on the front-end of your website (instead of the default login form at /wp-login.php), this is something provided by your theme or a plugin active on your site. And that’s where the problem or “confusion” might be coming from.

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