Hello Brajesh,

The updated plugin and the filter worked successfully, thank you so very much.

Tosin

Hello Brajesh,

I am using two methods to achieve (1) through the ithemes security plugin (2) through custom code in my functions.php file

1. Using the ithemes security plugin by navigating to settings the wordpress tweaks

2. Below is the custom code applied to my functions.php file

 /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- *
 * Remove WordPress default authentication function
/* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
remove_filter('authenticate', 'wp_authenticate_username_password', 20);

/* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- *
 * Add custom authentication function
/* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
add_filter('authenticate', function($user, $email, $password){

    //Check for empty fields
    if(empty($email) || empty ($password)){        
        //create new error object and add errors to it.
        $error = new WP_Error();

        if(empty($email)){ //No email
            $error->add('empty_username', __('<strong>ERROR</strong>: Email field is empty.'));
        }
        else if(!filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)){ //Invalid Email
            $error->add('invalid_username', __('<strong>ERROR</strong>: Email is invalid.'));
        }

        if(empty($password)){ //No password
            $error->add('empty_password', __('<strong>ERROR</strong>: Password field is empty.'));
        }

        return $error;
    }

    //Check if user exists in WordPress database
    $user = get_user_by('email', $email);

    //bad email
    if(!$user){
        $error = new WP_Error();
        $error->add('invalid', __('<strong>ERROR</strong>: Either the email or password you entered is invalid.'));
        return $error;
    }
    else{ //check password
        if(!wp_check_password($password, $user->user_pass, $user->ID)){ //bad password
            $error = new WP_Error();
            $error->add('invalid', __('<strong>ERROR</strong>: Either the email or password you entered is invalid.'));
            return $error;
        }else{
            return $user; //passed
        }
    }
}, 20, 3); 

Thank you

Hello Brajesh,

I just updated the plugin now and it works perfectly. Just to let you know, I am using this plugin with the buddyboss wall plugin but I only enabled the stream on the site wide activity page and not the profile page, I don’t think there is any form of conflict. If possible I can send you a copy of the buddyboss wall plugin to check it out for compatibility issues.

Thank you so much
Tosin

Hello Brajesh,

Thank you so very much i’m very grateful. You even took the plugin a step further.

The code worked successfully thank you very much Brajesh, God bless.