Title: force_ssl_login
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: April 28, 2025

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# force_ssl_login( string|bool $force = null ): bool

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/force_ssl_login/?output_format=md#description)
    - [See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/force_ssl_login/?output_format=md#see-also)
 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/force_ssl_login/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Return](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/force_ssl_login/?output_format=md#return)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/force_ssl_login/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/force_ssl_login/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/force_ssl_login/?output_format=md#changelog)

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This function has been deprecated since 4.4.0. Use [force_ssl_admin()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/force_ssl_admin/)
instead.

Whether SSL login should be forced.

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/force_ssl_login/?output_format=md#description)󠁿

### 󠀁[See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/force_ssl_login/?output_format=md#see-also)󠁿

 * [force_ssl_admin()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/force_ssl_admin/)

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/force_ssl_login/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$force`string|booloptional

Optional Whether to force SSL login.

Default:`null`

## 󠀁[Return](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/force_ssl_login/?output_format=md#return)󠁿

 bool True if forced, false if not forced.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/force_ssl_login/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    function force_ssl_login( $force = null ) {
    	_deprecated_function( __FUNCTION__, '4.4.0', 'force_ssl_admin()' );
    	return force_ssl_admin( $force );
    }
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/deprecated.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/deprecated.php#L3730)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/deprecated.php#L3730-L3733)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/force_ssl_login/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Uses | Description | 
| [force_ssl_admin()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/force_ssl_admin/)`wp-includes/functions.php` |

Determines whether to force SSL used for the Administration Screens.

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| [_deprecated_function()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/_deprecated_function/)`wp-includes/functions.php` |

Marks a function as deprecated and inform when it has been used.

  |

## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/force_ssl_login/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [4.4.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/4.4.0/) | Deprecated. Use [force_ssl_admin()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/force_ssl_admin/)  | 
| [2.6.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/2.6.0/) | Introduced. |

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