Daniel Westermann-Clark

The HTTP Authentication plugin allows you to use existing means of authenticating people to WordPress. This includes Apache’s basic HTTP authentication module, <a href="http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/" rel="nofollow ugc">Shibboleth</a>, and many others.
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https://danieltwc.com/
For help with this version, visit:
https://danieltwc.com/2011/http-authentication-4-0/

HTTP Authentication

Use an external authentication source in WordPress.

r-a-y

Beau Lebens

andykillen

Use your email address instead of a username to log into your WordPress.
Since email addresses are required to be unique within WordPress anyway, they also make good identifiers for logging in. For slightly better security, set your username to something random and then just forget it and use your email address instead.
Special thanks to:
<ul>
<li>r-a-y for compatibility with older versions of WPMU and XML-RPC</li>
<li>andykillen for introducing translatable strings and the Dutch translation</li>
</ul>
Translations included for:
<ul>
<li>Bengali</li>
<li>Czech</li>
<li>Dutch</li>
<li>Farsi</li>
<li>Finnish</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>German</li>
<li>Greek</li>
<li>Hungarian</li>
<li>Italian</li>
<li>Lithuanian</li>
<li>Persian</li>
<li>Polish</li>
<li>Portuguese (Brazil)</li>
<li>Russian</li>
<li>Serbian</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
<li>Swedish</li>
<li>Turkish</li>
</ul>

Email Login

Thanks for a slick little plugin! Works just like it should. You're awesome!



Does what it does out of the box.

The plugin does not remove the login field from the registration form, so users still need to enter a login name.

Does not actually remove the login field

Use your email address instead of a username to log into your WordPress.

HTTP Authentication vs Email Login