How to setup 2-Factor Authentication (2FA/MFA) for Theme My Login form?
Theme My Login helps you to bypass the WordPress login page that is the default page. You can use this if you feel that the default WordPress login page doesn’t match thematically with the rest of your site. With this, your users will be sent to your custom login, registration, and password recovery pages. The 2FA plugin provides TOTP/OTP based verification, Email or phone verification methods after Theme My Login form. The purpose of this guide is to enable 2FA for WooCommerce login Form. To use it with 2FA, go to the forms page in the WordPress admin and change the default login form for WordPress 2-Factor Authentication(2FA) plugin.
You can download miniOrange 2-Factor Authentication(2FA) plugin using the following link:
This plugin can be configured for any TOTP-based/OTP Login 2fa methods like Duo/Microsoft/Google Authenticator. It supports OTP login based 2fa methods [24/7 SUPPORT]
Follow the steps given below to setup Two Factor Authentication(2FA) on WordPress Theme My Login login form.
1. Installation for 2-Factor Authentication(2FA) plugin.
- Open the WordPress dashboard, go to plugins and click on Add New.
- Search for the Google Authenticator plugin in the search bar and install the plugin by clicking on Install Now.
- Now, Click on Activate.
- Go to the WordPress dashboard and Click on the miniOrange 2-Factor plugin from the left side menu.
- Now, Click on the Settings tab.
- You can scroll down and navigate to select user roles to enable 2-Factor.
- Select any User Role and click on the Save Settings button.
- Now, go to your WordPress Theme My Login login page.
- Enter your WordPress login credentials and click on the Login button.
- miniOrange provides multiple 2-factor authentication(2FA) methods for WordPress as shown in the image below.
- You can select any 2fa method of your choice. We will be configuring Google Authenticator for the Theme My Login form.
- Select Google Authenticator from the list of two factor(2FA) methods.
- Now install Google Authenticator app on your phone and scan the QR code from the current page.
- Once this is done, the Google Authenticator Application will provide you with the security/Soft token or the six digits to verify your identity. Enter this security token in the field below and click on Verify and Save.
- Now open the incognito window in your browser and type your website’s URL.
- On trying to login into the WordPress account, the Theme My Login form will be prompted. Enter your account credentials and click on the Login button.
- After entering the credentials, the Google Authenticator method will be prompted as a second factor for Theme My Login form. Now enter the security token/six digits from the Google Authenticator app and click on Validate.
- You will now be logged in to the WordPress dashboard.
- We have Successfully configured the 2FA/MFA (Google authenticator) with Theme My Login form.
Follow the steps below to download 2-Factor Authentication(2FA) plugin on WordPress.
2. User Select the Specific Role for Authentication.
3. 2-Factor Authentication(2FA) Configuration with WordPress Theme My Login form.
4. 2-Factor Authentication(2FA) Invoke with Theme My Login form.
Additional Resources
- What is 2FA?
- Enable/reconfigure 2fa shortcode
- Role-Based 2FA
- WordPress Two-Factor Authentication?
- Comparison miniOrange 2FA VS WP 2FA ?
- Passwordless Login
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