Background of the issue:
I am developing a site and want to change "/wp-login.php" to "/login". I also want the URL translation for German to be "/de/einloggen/". Additionally, I need the password reset functionality to work and a language filter to be included.
Symptoms:
I can't find the right documentation to achieve the URL changes and ensure the password reset works with a language filter.
Questions:
How can I change "/wp-login.php" to "/login" in the best way for using with WPML?
How do I set up URL translation for German as "/de/einloggen/"?
How can I ensure the password reset functionality works with these changes?
How do I add a language filter below the login page (I enabled it in the WPML settings but it doen't shows)?
Hi,
Thanks, unfortunately the security plugins don't help here Wordfence/RSP, they can make a redirect /wp-login.php to /login, but not for translations. The link to the other ticket gives me also no further info which I needed.
Enabling your setting gives /wp-login.php to /de/wp-login.php and so on, but I need the translated names like /de/einloggen.
So hopefully you have an advice how to handle this here.
Thanks, kind regards
Eric
Thanks for your explanation. I may still need some clarification to fully understand the setup.
In general, the plugins that hide or rename the login URL allow the user to set the slug of the new login in the admin options. And if you set "login" as the slug of the new login page, translating the option is enough to have it working in /lang/option-slug-translation.
Hi,
Thanks, my problem starts with this:
After having all in place with fluentform as a login form I saw, that the loading time is too long, that is all too complex. The login itself must be quickly loaded, the first good impression for the user. So I saw, that the /wp-login.php alone have a very good loading time.
And the standard login form can be easily be secured by security plugins, for example Really Simple Privacy, with brute force and 2FA functionality, very good. So having said this now we come to the topic multilanguage, as everytime not so easy.
I tested your inbuild function and that is what I need, quick loading login form with the language in the url like /de/wp-login.php and at the bottom the language switcher, the links show also the right language version of the legal docs.
But /wp-login.php is sad.
So here I tried to work with some custom code but come quickly to redirects errors.
What I need is:
WPML inbuild function with /login (EN-standard), /de/einloggen and so on and with the standard wordpress login form with security.
Is there a way? What do you mean?
Thanks, kind regards
Eric
If it's not an option, although custom code is outside the scope of our support policy, I'd like to take a look to see if I can spot why it's not working.
To do so, I created a fresh WP site with WPML already installed and configured.
You can access it by following this link: hidden link
Once logged in you can add your custom code in the function.php file of the theme here: hidden link
Please let me know when it's done and I'll take a look.
If instead of custom code you rather use a plugin and it's not working as you need, feel free to install it and set it up and I can take a look there to see what's happening.
Hi,
Ok, thanks, I tried to add custom code to the sandbox and activated / deactivated the function of WPML "Login and registration pages: X Allow translating the login and registration pages, X Show Language Switcher on login and registration pages" and have no result with various solutions, so I deleted them at the end.
With this sandbox and the enclosed screenshots it can be shown, what I need, and I think, many customers (!).
/wp-login.php
Englisch: translated name - translated URL
login - /login
German: translated name - translated URL
einloggen - /de/einloggen
and so on for other second languages.
Please see the attached screenshots.
It would be an impovement of your inbuild function and would solve a long existing problem.
If you still prefer the custom code solution, please add it to the sandbox site and don't delete it so I can look. As I said, I can't promise a solution as custom code is outside our support policies, but maybe I can spot something 🙂
Over the past two days, I’ve delved deeper into this topic and also explored the latest technologies for login security. I decided to change the system and added the security plugin SolidWP (which I found on your compatibility page).
I also learned that hiding /wp-login.php can have some negative effects on certain WordPress functions (as per SolidWP’s statement). I’ve accepted this now—only half satisfied—but the login features they offer are really top-notch. They include a security token against bots, which works seamlessly with your built-in translation for login and registration. So far, so good.
However, I’m now facing an issue: I have no idea how to translate the two buttons in the BuddyBoss template. All relevant translation strings appear to be correctly translated, but the buttons still display only in English.
Would you be able to check this on a staging site of mine first?
Thanks in advance!
Kind regards,
Eric
New threads created by Otto and linked to this one are listed below:
And I have at the standard registration a wrong link, here I needed a solution to have the button with link in the current language, can you check this then also?
Thanks, kind regards
Eric
