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

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

FAQ

Installation Instructions

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

Reviews

flyingkites February 3, 2022

Seems to only work on the admin login. Does not work on the site login for Woocommerce.

josanto48 January 9, 2020

Is there any way to use it on password protected pages?

lhberg August 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

the masked cat April 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.

Barry Ceelen

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

Translate “hideShowPassword” into your language.

Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

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

Woocommerce Admin Only?

Password protected pages

Indispensable

It Works!