WordPress 5.3 adds a “Show” button next to the password field on the login screen

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Many web services today display a Show button next to the password fields. The purpose being to help the user ensure that the password entered is correct.

Note that a button already exists to show/hide the password in the New User, Edit User and Reset Password pages. This functionality is now available with WordPress 5.3 on the login screen.

Here’s a quick view of the behavior of the button.

For more information on this feature, check ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. #42888 on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. and changesets [46256] and [46372].

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johngioia 4:45 pm on January 21, 2020

Hi all, what is the best way to remove this SHOW PASSWORD new feature ?
I have a dependency on to not show the password, as the password field is being populated by a KEYBOARD Wedge function. I dont want the user to see the password.
Can I turn it off via some snippet of code ?
johngioia 5:32 pm on January 21, 2020

Hi, I have removed the code from the wp-login.php for now. It was the quickest way.

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