Masking URL Login Causing Registration Problem

Hi @dougar

I hope you’re well today and thank you for reporting it.

I checked on my end and I can replicate this issue so I’ve already reported it to our Defender Team. Developers will look into it to address it with one of future releases (though at this point I’m not able to provide ETA).

As for now, you can use this code on site as a temporary workaround:

<?php 
add_filter( 'registration_redirect', 'redirect_masked_registration', 11, 1 );
function redirect_masked_registration( $registration_redirect ) {
	return home_url().'/slug/';
}

You’d need to add it as MU plugin to the site:

– create an empty file with a .php extension (e.g. “masked-registration-redirect.php”) in the “/wp-content/mu-plugins” folder of your site’s WordPress installation on server

– copy and paste above code into it

– replace the /slug/ part in the code with your actual masked login slug

– and save the code.

It should work out of the box and redirect after registration to the masked login URL.

Best regards,
Adam

Hi Adam. Thanks for replying so quickly, and with a solution!

I upgraded the clone area to Defender 4.5.1 (nice that a new release just came out today!) And I followed your instructions above. During my testing, I realized it does exactly what I asked for… after registration, it redirects the user to the masked login page. But now I realize that isn’t what I want. I want it to work like it does in Defender 4.0.2, which is to redirect the user to the page with this “success” message:

Registration complete. Please check your email, then visit the login page.

In other words, instead of redirecting to here:
https://example.com/clone123/wp-login.php?checkemail=registered (the original problem)
and instead of redirecting here:
https://example.com/clone123/maskingslug/ (what I asked for above)
I actually want it to redirect to:
https://example.com/clone123/maskingslug?checkemail=registered

So I took the liberty of changing the last part of your code slightly, 
from:
   return home_url().'/slug/';
}
to:
   return home_url().'/slug?checkemail=registered';
}

The entire piece of code is:

<?php 
add_filter( 'registration_redirect', 'redirect_masked_registration', 11, 1 );
function redirect_masked_registration( $registration_redirect ) {
	return home_url().'/slug?checkemail=registered';
}

It seems to work great. ??
I realize it is not elegant… I have hardcoded the part from the question mark onward, assuming the registration will be successful. But for my website’s purpose, this should be fine.

Thanks again. I’ll be upgrading to Defender 4.5.1 in production with the new MU code.
Have a great day.
Doug

Hi @dougar

Thank you for updated and sharing your solution!

I’m also glad I could help ??

Since this seems to be solving the issue for now I’m marking this topic as resolved.

I’m not sure if the full/proper fix will come in upcoming release or a bit later – it still requires to be checked by developers, coded, implemented and confirmed by QA team – but this workaround should work anyway. Please keep an eye on plugin’s changelog and when any fix related to this is included – it will be listed there.

Best regards,
Adam