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Wordpress: Custom Login Page Styling

Style your WordPress login page with custom themes that reflect your brand, using this easy-to-follow snippet.

Customizing the login page of your WordPress site can significantly enhance brand identity and improve user experience. This snippet allows you to add custom styles to the WordPress login page, making it align with your brand's aesthetics.

The login_enqueue_scripts hook is perfect for safely adding custom stylesheets or inline styles to the login page. This method ensures that the styles are applied only on the login page without affecting other admin pages.

This example demonstrates how to enqueue a custom CSS file that changes the logo, background color, and form styling on the login page. It also includes how to properly path the stylesheet using get_template_directory_uri().

For inline styles, the snippet shows how to use the wp_add_inline_style() function to add additional CSS directly from within your functions file, providing flexibility for quick style adjustments.

Lastly, the snippet discusses best practices for maintaining these customizations across updates and ensuring that they do not conflict with plugins that may also modify the login page.

Snippet Code

Version Compatibility

This code snippet is compatible with WordPress 3.3 and above, which introduced the login_enqueue_scripts hook for safer login page customization.

Required PHP Version

PHP 5.5 or higher

Wordpress Core Functions Used

Use Cases

  • branding
  • custom admin pages
  • user experience