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Function Reference/wp authenticate

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Description

Checks a user's login information and logs them in if it checks out.

Parameters

$username
(string) (required) User's username
Default: None
$password
(string) (required) User's password
Default: None

Return Values

(WP_Error) 
WP_User

Errors can be verified with is_wp_error()

Change Log

Since: 2.5.0

Source File

wp_authenticate() is located in wp-includes/pluggable.php

Retrieved from "http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_authenticate"

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