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My family blog requires a log-in, but certain elderly relatives don’t understand how to enter a username and password into the log-in page. So, instead I send them links like this: http:\/\/mysite.com\/l\/username\/password. When they click the links, it logs them in with “Remember Me” selected.<\/p>\n

I added the following line to my .htaccess file:<\/p>\n

\nRewriteRule ^l\/(.+)\/(.+)\/?$ \/auto-login.php?log=$1&pwd=$2 [QSA,L]\n<\/pre>\n
Then I created auto-login.php:<\/p>\n
\n<html>\n  <head>\n    <title>Family Notes<\/title>\n    <script language=\"javascript\">\n      function send() {\n        document.loginform.submit();\n      }\n    <\/script>\n  <\/head>\n  <body onload=\"send()\">\n    <form name=\"loginform\" id=\"loginform\" action=\"\/wp-login.php\" method=\"post\">\n      <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"log\" value=\"<?php echo $_GET[\"log\"]; ?>\"\/>\n      <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"pwd\" value=\"<?php echo $_GET[\"pwd\"]; ?>\"\/>\n      <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\"\/>\n      <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"wp-submit\" value=\"Log In\"\/>\n      <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/\"\/>\n      <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"testcookie\" value=\"1\"\/>\n      <noscript><input type=\"submit\" name=\"ignore\" value=\"Log in\"\/><\/noscript>\n    <\/form>\n  <\/body>\n<\/html>\n<\/pre>\n
(The form input names are copied from wp-login.php.  You may want to check yours as it can change between releases.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My family blog requires a log-in, but certain elderly relatives don’t understand how to enter a username and password into the log-in page. So, instead I send them links like this: http:\/\/mysite.com\/l\/username\/password. When they click the links, it logs them in with “Remember Me” selected. I added the following line to my .htaccess file: RewriteRule […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-html"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}