How can I check a user's password within code?

  • Hello,

    I am trying to put together a form allowing people to submit information to multiple sources.. one of which is their wordpress blog. I would like to check and make sure that they know the password of the author they are trying to submit as.

    I have found the wp_check_password( $password, $hash, $user_id ) function but need to be able to pull the actual encrypted password to be able to check the two against each other.

    Anyone know how to do this?

    Thank you!

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  • get_currentuserinfo will dump a bunch of info about the currently logged in user (including their hashed password) into a global variable. You can then use wp_check_password to compare the hash to the plaintext value the user provided.

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