Create a WordPress login form and add it to your post, page or sidebar
As of April 2026, WP Login Form is a WordPress form plugin with 7.0K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 13 reviews. It has been downloaded 107K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress.
WP Login Form allows you to create a simple login form for use anywhere on the front end of your WordPress site. You can add it to a post, page or your sidebar with a shortcode.
In order to create a login form or custom login page for WordPress with the default options, all you need to do is use this shortcode:
[wp_login_form]
However, there are other parameters that you can pass in the shortcode to customize it.
redirect
An absolute URL to which the user will be redirected after a successful login. For example,
[wp_login_form redirect="https://example.com/mypage/"]
The default is to redirect back to the URL where the form was submitted.
form_id
Your own custom ID for the login form. For…
Básico y funcional
There is no error trapping if login fails, it defaults to the standard login screen instead of looping back to retry.
This seems to be an ongoing requests for a number of years.
Also there is a formatting error for lost password label and the logout is text and not a button as per the login button.
If these were fixed I would happily give the plugin a 5 star.
Facilite à utiliser et fonctionne très bien. 👍🏻
The user experience is not so good
This plugin is rock solid, it just works out of the box without any requirements of paying for a premium version (most others plugins require premium for having some extra features).
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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