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@swansonphotos : Do you need to allow users to register and then be able to login?

I guess this is how all the websites work. We first allow people to register and then they should be able to login.

When i try to access my wordpress dashboard I was prompted to authenticate using wp-login.php. I want login.php in there instead of wp-login.php.

@swansonphotos : I see a lot of user registrations with strange email id’s and i came to know that that the spammers use wp-login.php?action=register. Since i have my own registration page and a login page, i do not want any one to use the wp-login.php for any registration or login purposes.

Coming back to the main problem, I don’t want to use wp-login.php to get into my dashboard. I would expect my login.php should do exactly the same function of logging in the user and thereby provide access to Dashboard. I just want to understand is this the way that wordpress works ? I mean to access Dashboard we have to authenticate using wp-login.php. Or am i missing something in my login.php that wp-login.php does to enable me access to dashboard ?