Fires before the user is authenticated.

The variables passed to the callbacks are passed by reference, and can be modified by callback functions.

$user_login string

Username (passed by reference).

$user_password string

User password (passed by reference).

This action is located inside of wp_signon() . In contrast to the wp_login action, it is executed before the WordPress authentication process.

This action hook is not to be confused with the wp_authenticate() pluggable function.

File: wp-includes/user.php. View all references

do_action_ref_array( 'wp_authenticate', array( &$credentials['user_login'], &$credentials['user_password'] ) );