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MS Custom Login

by Mizue Imai (Mignon Style) · Admin & Utilities

Customize login page of your WordPress with images, colors and more.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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47 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 82/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 54 average across 3,790 Admin & Utilities plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.30, well behind 6.8.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

40 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 9/100
Rating quality 61/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3344 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+46% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

99

now · peak 121

10130d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

MS Custom Login · #7404 you Customize Login Imag · #3870 Erident Custom Login · #2525 Loginizer · #46

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.8Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

126per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

9.2y ago

latest release · v1.1

11

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.1 · 9.2y ago1.0 · 10.2y ago0.9 · 11.0y ago0.8 · 11.3y ago0.7 · 11.7y ago0.6 · 11.8y ago0.5 · 11.8y ago0.4 · 11.8y ago0.3 · 11.8y ago0.2 · 11.8y ago0.1 · 11.8y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 77% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.1 77%
v1.0 9.8%
v0.9 9.2%
Older / other versions 4.1%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “800+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
800–900 ≈850

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2015-05-26 · 1,414 observations

800Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
1.1
Last updated
9.2y ago
Added
2014-10-30 · 11 yrs old
Requires WP
3.9
Tested up to
4.8.30
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. kanggunawan
    8.2y ago

    I love this plugin, please update for newest wordpress version. Best I’ve seen so far This topic was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by kanggunawan.

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  2. natuerlich
    9.9y ago

    Weiter so, klasse.

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  3. bgoldman
    11.5y ago

    I haven’t seen very many custom login plugins that are useful for me. My main reason for using them is that I don’t want to get bogged down with creating a custom login for customers when I’m on a tight schedule and trying to work on other things. An effective plugin should give me enough basic customization options to create a professional looking login screen without having to spend that much time tinkering with it. The big failing point for many of these plugins is with the image upload. They just don’t offer enough customization for images. If I’m gong to have to spend that much time styling an image, then why use a plugin? I’ll just write my own css. The MS Custom Login, however, did exactly what I needed it to out of the box. After spending about five or eight minutes tinkering with options, I was able to render a perfectly acceptable login screen. The logo image fully loaded. I was able to place it exactly where I wanted it on the screen and without any loss of resolution. Nice work!

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  4. SGMAX
    11.5y ago

    Logo doesn’t show up no matter what. All other features are great. There was a forum topic about logo not showing up, and it had no response after several weeks.

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  5. wenetwork
    11.6y ago

    if you are just looking to customize your login page, this plugin is the perfect choice. It’s easy…

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  6. AngusMcKinnon
    11.7y ago

    Nice one. Adds a better level of branding to your site over the vanilla wordpress login. [ link redacted, please do not post links in reviews ]

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  7. wadsworth4
    11.7y ago

    Looks fantastic. You can even use it with security plugins that create redirects for login, such as https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/

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  8. Dr. Flow
    11.8y ago

    I have spent I don’t know how many hours searching and using ALL the login form styling plugins. I like this one best! I also must mention that Custom Login is also about equal. TML did not even work for me on a multisite install since WP4.0 so forget it. You can use this with Peter’s Redirects to redirect the login URL and you’re set.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Languages

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Translated into 1 language, 1 at 90% or more · development strings

Japanese 100%

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2026-08-02 900+ → 800+ down after 1 days in tier
  2. 2026-08-01 800+ → 900+ up after 2 days in tier
  3. 2026-07-30 900+ → 800+ down after 181 days in tier
  4. 2026-01-30 1K+ → 900+ down after 3 days in tier
  5. 2026-01-27 900+ → 1K+ up after 1 days in tier
  6. 2026-01-26 1K+ → 900+ down

Competes with

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