How to Login to WordPress using Email Address

How to Login to WordPress using Email Address. WordPress allows users to login with their username only, which is not recommended in all cases. So as an alternative, using email address to login to your WordPress account is the best solution.

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Login to WordPress using Email Address

Here are two solid methods that helps to login to WordPress using email address, do check them.

1. Using a Code Snippet

You will really like this piece of code written by Bavotsan, which works like a charm. Just follow the instructions and rest of the job will be done by this code.

Open your themes functions.php file and add this code in it.

function email_address_login($username) {
$user = get_user_by_email($username);
if(!empty($user->user_login))
$username = $user->user_login;
return $username;
}
add_action('wp_authenticate','email_address_login');

Now, here is another tweak which can be implemented at your own risk. As login page of every WordPress blog displays just “Username” its difficult for your blog authors to know whether they can use their email address or not. So we need to edit wp-login.php file which is located at www.yourblog.com/wp-login.php and follow these instructions.

Search for this code :

<p>
<label for="user_login"><?php _e('Username') ?><br />
<input type="text" name="log" id="user_login" class="input" value="<?php echo esc_attr($user_login); ?>" size="20" tabindex="10" /></label>
</p>

Now Replace it with :

<p>
<label for="user_login"><?php _e('Username or Email Address') ?><br />
<input type="text" name="log" id="user_login" class="input" value="<?php echo esc_attr($user_login); ?>" size="20" tabindex="10" /></label>
</p>

Voila, you are done with the editing part and now its time to test it. Also, remember that this code will be automatically replaced when you update your WordPress version. Hence, its recommended to bookmark this post for future reference. This part of code is via wpmods.

2. using WP Email Login plugin

If you don’t want to mess up with coding and don’t like to edit your theme files then here is the solution. Using a plugin is damn simple thing, just download and install WP Email Login plugin. Now, you can login to WordPress using your email address.

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