Use Your Own Login, Sign-up or Reset Page

How to send BuddyNext's Log in, Sign up and Forgot password links to a page you choose: a membership plugin's login page, a custom page, or WordPress's own wp-login.php. Three filters, no setting. BuddyNext's own screens keep working on every site, so nothing breaks for a visitor who reaches them another way.

Overview / Contract#

What you can rely on:

• Return the bare page. BuddyNext adds redirect_to (the page the visitor was on) after buddynext_login_url and buddynext_signup_url run, URL-encoded, the same parameter WordPress and most login plugins read. $destination is passed so you can build a different parameter if your page needs one; it is '' when there is no return page.
• No filter, no change. Without these filters every link is exactly what earlier versions printed.
• Core's links follow too. On the front end BuddyNext answers WordPress's wp_login_url(), wp_registration_url() and wp_lostpassword_url() with these same addresses, so a theme or plugin that calls core gets your page as well. wp-admin and wp-login.php keep core's addresses. To stop BuddyNext answering core at all, return false from buddynext_owns_core_auth_links.
• BuddyNext-only screens stay on BuddyNext. The set-new-password step in the reset email (?key=...&login=...), email verification, two-factor, social login and connecting the mobile app always use the BuddyNext screens, because only they read those tokens. The REST /auth routes are unchanged.
• Returning WordPress's address is safe. A callback may return wp_login_url(), wp_registration_url() or wp_lostpassword_url(); while the filter runs, BuddyNext stands aside so the call gives WordPress's address instead of looping. Returning '' from buddynext_login_url does the same.

Examples#

Send every Log in link to your own page#

add_filter(
	'buddynext_login_url',
	static function () {
		return home_url( '/member-login/' );
	}
);

A guest who opens a members-only page is sent to /member-login/?redirect_to=... and returns there after logging in, if your page honours redirect_to.

Paid Memberships Pro: login and sign-up on its pages#

add_filter(
	'buddynext_login_url',
	static function ( $url ) {
		return function_exists( 'pmpro_login_url' ) ? pmpro_login_url() : $url;
	}
);

add_filter(
	'buddynext_signup_url',
	static function ( $url ) {
		return function_exists( 'pmpro_url' ) ? pmpro_url( 'levels' ) : $url;
	}
);

Forgot password on another page#

add_filter(
	'buddynext_reset_url',
	static function () {
		return wp_lostpassword_url(); // WordPress's own form; WooCommerce's when it is active.
	}
);

Notes and gotchas#

• Another domain needs allowed_redirect_hosts. Guest gates redirect with wp_safe_redirect(), which refuses an unknown host. Add the host to WordPress's allowed_redirect_hosts filter, or the gate falls back to the dashboard login.
• Your page must not be behind the private-community gate. It is not, as long as it is an ordinary WordPress page: that gate covers BuddyNext's own pages only.
• Themes may re-point core's links themselves. BuddyX and Reign send wp_login_url() and friends to the BuddyNext screens on their own, so on those themes "return WordPress's address" gives the BuddyNext screen. Return the page you want directly instead.
• Where members land after logging in is a separate choice: Settings > Registration & Login, or the buddynext_redirect_url filter (see Hooks: Moderation, Trust, and Authentication).