user_pass_ok( string $user_login, string $user_pass ): bool

Parameters

$user_loginstring

User name.

$user_passstring

User password.

Return

bool

False if does not authenticate, true if username and password authenticates.

Uses · 3

• _deprecated_function()Marks a function as deprecated and inform when it has been used.
• wp_authenticate()Authenticates a user, confirming the login credentials are valid.
• is_wp_error()Checks whether the given variable is a WordPress Error.

Source

View on Trac ↗View on GitHub ↗

3299function user_pass_ok($user_login, $user_pass) {3300	_deprecated_function( __FUNCTION__, '3.5.0', 'wp_authenticate()' );3301	$user = wp_authenticate( $user_login, $user_pass );3302	if ( is_wp_error( $user ) )3303		return false;3304 3305	return true;3306}

History

Introduced in 0.71. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.

1. 6.7.7
2. 6.8.8
3. 6.9.7
4. 7.0.4
5. 7.1.0

Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.

About this page

Parsed data

Generated from the wordpress-develop 6.8.8 tag, from src/wp-includes/deprecated.php, and regenerated for each WordPress release so it tracks the code rather than a snapshot of it.

Corrections

Something wrong on this page? Report it and it gets fixed in the next regeneration.