Standardize actions on Community Event login forms

[Frederick]

In the-events-calendar-community-events/src/Tribe/Main.php, there’s a function, login_form, that CE uses to generate the standard WP Login form when users aren’t logged in and that option is toggled. We use two-factor authentication that requires using the default WP Login interface.

It would be nice for CE to default to just redirecting people to wp-login.php, though I understand that may not be preferable for all use cases. An action would be perfectly fine, but unfortunately actions are not uniformly called when login_form() is.

doVenueForm() and doOrganizerForm do not call any actions, while doMyEvents() calls tribe_ce_event_list_login_form and doEventForm() calls tribe_ce_event_submission_login_form.

Can you just drop a singular unifying action in login_form() so that I can run a redirect whenever the login form is called? This solves the main problem (an action that needs to be taken whenever the login form is called) while maintaining backward compatibility for those who specifically wanted to target either the list or event submission forms.

Apologies if this should have been a feature request, but I didn’t think it really met those standards, which seemed to be more aimed at front-end or functionality changes.

Thanks.

[George]

Hi Frederick,

The login_form() method within Community Events itself calls the core WordPress function wp_login_form().

This function within WordPress core has its own set of filters.

Now, it’s true that the function has filters, not actions. But since you exit or die upon a call of wp_redirect() anyways, this shouldn’t matter.

So you can use one of WordPress core’s built-in filters here like as follows:


add_filter( 'login_form_top', 'tribe_ce_force_redirect_to_login_page' );

function tribe_ce_force_redirect_to_login_page() {
wp_safe_redirect( wp_login_url() );
exit;
}

☝️ Add that to your theme’s functions.php file, and any time someone arrives at the Community Events submission page while not being logged in, they will be redirected to wp-login.php

Cheers,
George

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
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