WordPress Quick Tip: Custom wp-login.php Logo & Url without hacks

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Hi All,
today we want to share another quick tutorial on how to change the WordPress logo and url to wordpress.org on the wp-login.php page, without having to change any line of the original code. In this way you will be able to retain the changes without losing them with any update of WordPress.

The wp-login.php Login Form

Original Login Form

Custom Login Logo

In order to change the default WordPress logo you have to add some css styling to the wp-login.php head tag. To do this open the functions.php of your theme of choice and add this new function and its hook.

function my_custom_login_logo() {
    echo '<style type="text/css">
        h1 a { background-image:url('.get_bloginfo('template_url').'/images/logo.png) !important; }
    </style>';
}
add_action('login_head', 'my_custom_login_logo');

You have to upload your image (in this case logo.png) in your theme’s images directory. You can further personalize the wp-login.php page adding more css styling in the functions but don’t go too far! Keep it simple, baby.

Note: if you are using a child theme, you cannot use the template_url information keyword, because it will return the parent theme’s directory. Instead you will need to use stylesheet_directory as keyword for .get_bloginfo().

Custom Login Url

With the previous code you have changed the logo but there’s still a problem: clicking on your new logo still direct you to the wordpress.org address. You can change this adding a second function to the functions.php file.

function my_custom_login_url() {
  return site_url();
}
add_filter( 'login_headerurl', 'my_custom_login_url', 10, 4 );

In this case I only added the site_url function that will return the full path of your WordPress blog, but you can customize it with whatever url you want.

Conclusions

With these two simple functions you have the choice to personalize your login form of your WordPress blog without having to change any line of the default code. In this way no further WordPress updates will break your code.

Thanks for your attention and we hope you’ll find this helpful.

L

Appcelerator Titanium Quick Tip: Enable “Move to SD Card” in Android Applications

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Hi all and welcome to our site.

We will introduce ourselves soon, in the meantime I want to share with you a small tip I learned in these days after being stuck for some time on this problem.

Are you developing an Android application with Appcelerator Titanium?
Do you want to enable the Android Move to SD Card Feature?

Well, you can’t do it directly editing the manifest file (build/android/AndroidManifest.xml) but you have to add the following lines to the tiapp.xml file in the root directory of the project. Remember to add these lines inside the tags.

<android xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <tool-api-level>8</tool-api-level>
    <manifest android:installLocation="auto">
       <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="7" />
    </manifest>
</android>

Now when you install your Android Titanium App on your device, you will be prompted by apps like App 2 SD to move your app to the SD card, freeing the internal memory.

I hope this should be helpful for you, in the following days we will add a lot of features and tutorials to our site.

Stay tuned.

L