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This plugin hasn’t been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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hideShowPassword

By Barry Ceelen
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Description

Lets you easily show or hide the contents of the password field on the WordPress login screen. Uses the excellent hideShowPassword jQuery plugin by the equally excellent Cloud Four.

Suggested reading: “a compendium of why and how to show passwords and what’s coming next” by Luke Wroblewski.

Options

A settings section is added to the ‘General Settings’ page. You can select between toggling password visibility via an icon in the password field (default) or via a checkbox below the password field.

Translations

The default setting of toggling the password via an icon in the password field does not require translation as no text will be visible to the user. If you select the option of toggling the password via a checkbox, the following translations are included:

  • Dutch
  • German

Github

Fork me on Github.

Screenshots

  • Adds an icon to the password field on the login screen.
  • Show your password by clicking the icon.
  • Alternatively, toggle the password via a checkbox labeled "Show Password".

Installation

  1. Install hideShowPassword either via the Plugins Add New Screen, or by uploading the files to your server
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

FAQ

Installation Instructions
  1. Install hideShowPassword either via the Plugins Add New Screen, or by uploading the files to your server
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Reviews

Woocommerce Admin Only?

flyingkites Feb 3, 2022
Seems to only work on the admin login. Does not work on the site login for Woocommerce.

Password protected pages

josanto48 Jan 9, 2020
Is there any way to use it on password protected pages?

Indispensable

lhberg Aug 5, 2019
is it possible to motivate you to update the plugin for WP 5.x compatibility by sending you some bucks for the coffee you'll need? If yes, please provide a donation link on the plugin page! Thanks, Lukas

It Works!

the masked cat Apr 11, 2018
I am using WP 4.9.5 and this old buddy still works.

Contributors & Developers

“hideShowPassword” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors
  • Barry Ceelen

“hideShowPassword” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

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Change log

2.0.1

  • For WordPress version 4.3 and up, Dashicons is used for the toggle icon.

2.0.0

  • Adds the option of toggling password visibility via a checkbox below the password field
  • Update hideShowPassword.js to version 2.0.4

1.0.4

  • Update hideShowPassword.js to version 2.0.3, fixes #11, #13

1.0.3

  • Update hideShowPassword.js to version 2.0.1, fixes #10

1.0.2

  • Update hideShowPassword.js to version 1.0.3, set touchSupport to true

1.0.1

  • Hide default Internet Explorer 10 control for toggling password visibility

1.0.0

  • Initial version

Meta

  • Version: 2.0.1
  • Last updated: 5 years ago
  • Active installations: 900+
  • WordPress Version: 3.5.1 or higher
  • Tested up to WordPress Version: 4.9.22
  • Languages:

    English (US) and Swedish.

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