Plugin to patch WP Core

  • As I have a number of users who keep forgetting their passwords, I wanted to add the ability to email users their password when they change it. My website is small, and I’m not ultra concerned with password security. I couldn’t find a plugin that would do this, but patching the code directly seems easy enough, even for someone like me who doesn’t know PHP. Problem is I don’t want to have to do it every time there’s an update. Is there a plugin that would let me semi-autonomously patch or modify the code of core files?

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  • Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    Is there a plugin that would let me semi-autonomously patch or modify the code of core files?

    Hopefully not! Modifying core files is flat out a bad idea.

    Why can’t your users just use the lost password link on your WordPress login form?

    Thread Starter RChadwick

    (@rchadwick)

    I haven’t figured out how to get the lost password link to actually email users their passwords.

    Thread Starter RChadwick

    (@rchadwick)

    Well, does anyone know of an ‘autopatcher’ utility? Perhaps something that runs in Windows, grabs the PHP file by FTP, modifies it, and uploads it back?

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