[davidck]

April 8, 2015 at 12:16 am

This is by design, and yes I know it can be a pain, but the remember me checkbox is there for your convenience.

So, why did we do this?

Simple answer is that it stops bots dead, thus preventing the forum being taken over by spam and spam groups.

Complex answer, the plugin that stops these robots works on the normal wordpress page, but not a custom one.  You receive the custom page first, but it doesn’t know about the plugin, so the first round of authentication fails.  You are then presented with the normal wordpress login page, which knows about the plugin, and you can login normally.  This is more of a theme issue than anything else, but as a result there are no spam problems; a highly desirable result for you and us.

[davidck]

February 15, 2016 at 3:53 am

Login is now at one page, we are relying on the registration form to stop the bots now, and it seems to be working.

[davidck]

May 23, 2019 at 2:08 am

As far as I can see after the site remedial work the login function from the front page is working much better than the old version. There is still much tidying to be done though.