Jonradio private site with A5 custom login

Yes, some plugins that create custom login pages use URLs that are different than the standard WordPress login-associated ones, so jonradio Private Site blocks them like it would any other URL for non-logged-in users.

It currently supports Theme My Login and BuddyPress, but I will try and get it working for A5 Custom Login before the end of the day today. And report back here.

I wrote the above post before I actually saw the A5 Custom Login plugin. Now that I have painstakingly gone through every setting it offers, I don’t see any that would cause it not to work with jonradio Private Site. And, yes, I did try it with one setting changed, and could not make it fail.

I’m afraid that you are going to have to be more specific about what is not working.

Hi,

Sorry for any confusion but i have deactivated A5 Custom login…What i wanted to do was simply have the login page background match that of my site. So i input url for background picture into current visible url entries as follows

https://trevorleacock.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Music-Djs-900×1600.jpg

But the screen just comes up with login box and plain background. Am i misunderstanding something?

wordpress 3.8
Theme syntac 2.22

Many thanks

Great, now I know exactly what to test.

I’ll respond here in about 2 hours.

I have now successfully re-created your problem. I’ll report back here on my progress in resolving it.

Thank you for your patience.

thanks very much for your prompt replies…it’s very much appreciated!
Look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks

There is no easy solution to this problem from my side. Adding a “hook” to the A5 Custom Login plugin to intervene on wp_redirect is probably the “correct” solution. But I also ran into some other issues even with my plugin deactivated (e.g. – no error message, yet all but the smallest pictures did not work)

May I suggest you look at the much more popular Theme My Login plugin and see if you can get it to satisfy your needs?

Let me know how that goes, and we can go from there.

Thanks jonradio,

Yes Theme My Login is a much more popular but I’m having trouble understanding how to customize it to my satisfaction. Granted it uses my css stylesheet to create the templates but the default template is the blog page which has unnecessary info. This is beyond the scope of my knowlegde even though lots of reviews say its so simple i completely disagree!

To reiterate, I am completely happy with jonradio Private Site but not so with theme my login.

Sorry, a little frustrated at the mo’

Regards

I made one attempt at finding a solution from my plugin’s perspective, even looking at how the A5 plugin works, but exhausted all the possibilities.

All I can do is wish you the best of luck in finding a solution.

Thanks again.

Hey guys,

thanks a lot for working around problems with my plugin. I finally have now time again and will make some changes in that plugin as well. But I couldn’t really follow you suggestion with hooking into wp_redirect… I’m a little out since I didn’t deal with coding for about a year.

Regards

Even 3 weeks feels like a long time these days…. So, the following is my best recollection. Please take it as a suggestion only. I may have missed something important.

I was suggesting that the A5 Custom Login plugin add an add_filter function for the wp_redirect Filter. The function specified in the add_filter would be supplied by the Filter with the URL being redirected to, which could then be checked to see if it is the Login URL. If so, your plugin would want to intervene.

I use custom redirects to a virtual CSS file, which seems to be sometimes a problem.

The next version of the plugin will have an option to choose whether or not to write the styles inline.

If you choose inline styles instead of using a dynamical file.

That solved the problem on other sites, so I guess that’s the solution here.

Is there a solution to getting these to work together? It’s strange because I was using both on a localhost site and they worked both perfect. Today, I uploaded the same site to a godaddy hosting account and I can’t get A5 Custom Login Page to work.

I’ll take a closer look tomorrow, as I wasn’t able to come up with a decent test case this evening. I don’t believe the next version of A5 mentioned above is available yet, but I’ll know more tomorrow.

True to his word, tepelstreel has updated the A5 Custom Login Page plugin to allow inline styles through a new Setting in the latest version. Without it selected, I could not get a custom background to work, with or without jonradio Private Site activated.

For my own future sanity, and to document this for anyone else reading this thread, here is what works for me on my test systems:

1. A5 – Debug tab – checkmark in “Check, to write styles inline instead of to a virtual CSS file.” and click on Save Changes button
2. A5 – Body tabe – scroll down to Body section – put URL of picture in Background Picture field (https://trevorleacock.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Music-Djs-900×1600.jpg in original poster’s case above) and click on Save Changes button
3. This worked for me with both jonradio Private Site activated and enabled, and deactivated
4. If you see error messages, be sure WP_DEBUG is set to FALSE in wp-config.php