Title: hideShowPassword
Author: Barry Ceelen
Published: <strong>2013-11-06</strong>
Last modified: 2018-07-11

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# hideShowPassword

 By [Barry Ceelen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/barryceelen/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/hideshowpassword.zip)

 * [Details](https://tt.wordpress.org/plugins/hideshowpassword/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://tt.wordpress.org/plugins/hideshowpassword/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://tt.wordpress.org/plugins/hideshowpassword/#installation)
 * [Development](https://tt.wordpress.org/plugins/hideshowpassword/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hideshowpassword/)

## Description

Lets you easily show or hide the contents of the password field on the WordPress
login screen. Uses the excellent [hideShowPassword](https://github.com/cloudfour/hideShowPassword)
jQuery plugin by the equally excellent [Cloud Four](http://cloudfour.com/).

**Suggested reading:** [“a compendium of why and how to show passwords and what’s coming next”](http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1941)
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](https://github.com/barryceelen/wp-hide-show-password).

## 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

 1. Install hideShowPassword either via the [Plugins Add New Screen](https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins_Add_New_Screen),
    or by uploading the files to your server
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

## FAQ

  Installation Instructions

 1. Install hideShowPassword either via the [Plugins Add New Screen](https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins_Add_New_Screen),
    or by uploading the files to your server
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b9a182d38d921269ac718934cd3409ec69a6030d4ab9b3a12fa45da7acc870b2?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Woocommerce Admin Only?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/woocommerce-admin-only/)󠁿

 [flyingkites](https://profiles.wordpress.org/flyingkites/) 2022-02-03

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

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/82b014770ba4b999487ba6cd137f7de0ef8268136a35b79a882d2db4541543dc?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Password protected pages](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-protected-pages-43/)󠁿

 [josanto48](https://profiles.wordpress.org/josanto48/) 2020-01-09

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

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7523ecdd3b11a0b519f5611da24786bad2f7fbeb12c6f881caf2ed5d396d2f8d?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Indispensable](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indispensable-158/)󠁿

 [lhberg](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lhberg/) 2019-08-05

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

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9eb7fa1954406367ed985ff0f96e9f9c8a79f12cbeae576cf61601e2e875bdf5?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[It Works!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/it-works-1410/)󠁿

 [the masked cat](https://profiles.wordpress.org/iniblogbudi/) 2018-04-11

I am using WP 4.9.5 and this old buddy still works.

 [ Read all 6 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hideshowpassword/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“hideShowPassword” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Barry Ceelen ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/barryceelen/)

“hideShowPassword” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/hideshowpassword/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “hideShowPassword” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/hideshowpassword)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hideshowpassword/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/hideshowpassword/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/hideshowpassword/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/hideshowpassword/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 2.0.1

 * For WordPress version 4.3 and up, [Dashicons](https://developer.wordpress.org/resource/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](https://github.com/cloudfour/hideShowPassword/issues/11),
   [#13](https://github.com/cloudfour/hideShowPassword/issues/13)

#### 1.0.3

 * Update hideShowPassword.js to [version 2.0.1](http://blog.cloudfour.com/hideshowpassword-2/),
   fixes [#10](https://github.com/cloudfour/hideShowPassword/pull/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

## Meta

 *  Version **2.0.1**
 *  Last updated **8 ел ago**
 *  Active installations **500+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.5.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.9.29**
 *  Languages
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hideshowpassword/) һәм [Swedish](https://sv.wordpress.org/plugins/hideshowpassword/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/hideshowpassword)
 * Tags
 * [login](https://tt.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/login/)[password](https://tt.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/password/)
   [show password](https://tt.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/show-password/)[toggle](https://tt.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/toggle/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://tt.wordpress.org/plugins/hideshowpassword/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.5 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  4 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hideshowpassword/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  1 4-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hideshowpassword/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  1 3-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hideshowpassword/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hideshowpassword/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  0 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hideshowpassword/reviews/?filter=1)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Barry Ceelen ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/barryceelen/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hideshowpassword/)