[wp-hackers] Newbie

[Viper007Bond]

Hmm, seems like a lotta work when you coulda just copied the login 
form's HTML into a WP Page and had it post to wp-login.php. No core 
modifying needed and it'd look exactly the same...

And the register and login links can even be pointed at your Pages via a 
plugin and 2 filters.

-Viper

James Kelly wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Well, I'm not really a newbie...really.  I'm just a newbie on
> wp-hackers.  I've been watching this plethora of information dribble
> into my inbox (and at times flood it), and I am really anxious to help
> out if I can.
> 
> I've been developing plugins for quite some time now, although none
> have ever been released to the public...until today.  I've created a
> plugin that allows me to customize the display of the login,
> registration, and reset password forms on my site.
> 
> I pretty much copied the core logic from wp-login.php and
> wp-register.php into the plugin and I've now made it available.
> Interestingly enough, there was a discussion just last night about
> this which is what prompted me to clean it up and release it.
> 
> I've also downloaded, installed, and am familiarizing myself with
> Subversion so that I can hopefully contribute in some small way to
> WordPress itself.  Two areas I am deeply interested in pursuing
> further:
> 
> 1)  The discussion about hooking into the WP login/reg process (in
> hopes to make my brand new shiny plugin obsolete)
> 2)  The discussion about categories.  One thing that seems like it
> should definitely be included in the core is the ability to sort
> categories.
> 
> Thanks for the amazing tool and system.  If anyone is interested in
> looking at the plugin, they can see it here:  <http://www.jameskelly.org/wordpress-plugins/custom-login-and-registration-forms-plugin/>
> 
> Please let me know if any of you have any comments regarding the
> plugin or otherwise.
> 
> --
> James
> 
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