Question

I’m WordPress newbie.

I’m creating a plugin that redirect to custom login page each unregistered user access a website, let say the custom login page : custom_login.php.

I am able to create a code to redirect it but it seems no wordpress functions work in custom_login.php. So, I think I have to load something through the file. I guess wp-load.php.

Then I add some codes below at the top of the page :

<?php
require( 'd:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-load.php' );
?>

But then I got this error :
Warning: Cannot modify header information…..

I changed to require_once but still get similar error.

Some solutions of this forum threads advice to delete any whitespace. Frankly, I don’t know what does it mean but I tried to delete all whitespace anyway so that the code become :

<?php require('d:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-load.php');?>

But it does not solve anything. The error is still exist.

Please help me, the expert ones.
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Try inserting a system path relative to localhost, like this:

require( '/wp-load.php' ); // or just
require( 'wp-load.php' ); // 

All depends on the location you are trying to include wp-load.php from.

On the other hand, you don’t have to include wp-load.php if you place the file custom_login.php. in the stylesheet directory as a template or as a custom page. The way to do it is:

.1 Rename the file to page-custom-login.php

.2 Move the file to the stylesheet directory (The theme directory)

.3 Go to admin and create a new page with the title “custom login”

That’s all. Now WP will treat that file as a single custom page.