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  1. 1. Can you do it without a plugin?

    Certainly. Anything a plugin can do, you can obviously also implement yourself.

    1.1 Should you do it without a plugin?

    No. This is clearly plugin-territory. Even if you want to write the plugin yourself, this would be a better fit for a custom plugin than to incorporate it in your theme. That’s a matter of preference and opinion though – of course it can be done within your theme also.

    For the sake of completeness, let me mention Jeff Farthing’s theme-my-login. It’s a well written, powerful plugin that has been developed for years. It is for sure the (much) less work-intensive solution and you should at least consider using it before you hack away on writing something similar (and most likely less powerful).

    2. How can it be done?

    Have a look at the Administrative Actions and hook into those.

    Again consider downloading the above mentioned plugin and dissect how it works.