Grade C

Custom Login

Name: Custom Login
Rating: 3.7 (97 reviews)
Author: Austin

⤓ Download v5.1.2.2 on WordPress.org ↗

by Austinupdated 2025-11-29😴The Napper

Fast branding meets a frustrating wall of premium extensions.

DecliningPoor rating

52/100

Users enjoy quick rebranding but often struggle with paywalls and broken features.

Loved18/40

Trustworthy11/15

Fair & Honest10/15

Maintained9/18

Momentum4/12

✂️

You might not need this plugin. Its core job is small enough to live in your theme's functions.php.

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// Replace the login logo
add_filter( 'login_headerurl', fn() => home_url() );
add_filter( 'login_headertext', fn() => get_bloginfo( 'name' ) );

add_action( 'login_enqueue_scripts', function () {
    ?>
    <style>
        #login h1 a {
            background-image: url('<?php echo esc_url( get_theme_file_uri( 'images/custom-logo.png' ) ); ?>');
            background-size: contain;
            width: 100%;
            height: 80px;
        }
        body.login {
            background-color: #f0f0f0;
        }
    </style>
    <?php
} );

Keep in mind:The plugin offers a full settings UI with live preview, style packs, and premium extensions; the snippet only covers basic logo and colour changes.

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Active installs

~15,000

our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+

Rating

3.6★

97 ratings

Trend · vs a year ago

-11%

Declining

60 → 53 installs/day

What to watch out for

MINORverified rating is 3.68★
MINORnot updated in 6 months

Downloads over time

real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend

2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03

organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median

Declining · -11% in the last year

60/day a year ago→53/day today

Reviews

what people actually say

Custom Login is praised for quickly customizing the login page and working well for many users, but several reviewers report it often fails, forces paid upgrades, and can break after WordPress updates.

What people like

+Works reliably and saves time for users×2
+Provides a visual editor for customizing the login page
+Enables fast and easy rebranding of the login form

Common complaints

−Requires payment for functionality, perceived as greedy×2
−Plugin frequently does not work or never works×2
−Logo customization fails
−Settings changes are not applied after saving
−Considered unnecessary when a code hook can achieve the same result
−Breaks after WordPress 4.4.2 update, causing password email failures (since 4.4.2)

Review trustReviews look organic

3.68★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 3.60★
6%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members

Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower

Not enough review history.

All-time ratings · 97 total

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Latest reviews · 90 analyzed

2022-08-05★★★★★Crap wfcrafts
2022-07-26★★★★★once a lightweight and minimalist plugin moisture9063
2021-01-22★★★★★Full of payment surafelteferi
2019-10-29★★★★★It doesn't work mostafashenawy86
2018-07-17★★★★★I use this on all my sites Bruno Braga
2017-12-02★★★★★Not worked Habibillah
2017-07-30★★★★★Best custom login plugin mmt55
2017-06-24★★★★★Works great!damngood
2017-01-28★★★★★Do the job drixe
2017-01-09★★★★★works very well SITEWEB44

Releases

recent versions from WordPress.org SVN

2025-11-29v5.1.2.2
2025-11-23v5.1.2.1
2025-11-14v5.1.1
2025-07-16v5.0.0
2025-06-10v4.5.2
2025-05-20v4.5.1
2025-05-14v4.5.0
2025-04-14v4.4.0.1

For developers & the curious

the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary above

Download signals

Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.

Baseline · median of last 7 organic days

Prior 7-day baseline

Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days

Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)

-6.0%

Week-over-week organic trend

Review signals

Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.

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Max month share · biggest single 30-day window

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Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty

61%

5★ share in analyzed sample

Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity

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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo

3.63 → 3.68★

Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered