function log_in_user($username, $password) {

    // Get the user based on the username from the POST
    $user = parse_user($username);

    // Remove html tags from the title and content fields
    $username_stripped = strip_tags($username);
    $password_stripped = strip_tags($password);

    // Validate the Form Data
    if(isEmptyString($username_stripped)) return new WP_Error('forgot_username', 'You forgot to enter your Username');
    if(isEmptyString($password_stripped)) return new WP_Error('incorrect_password', "You forgot to enter your Password.");
    if(!wp_check_password( $password_stripped, $user->user_pass ) ) return new WP_Error('incorrect_password', "You seem to have entered a wrong password.");

    wp_set_auth_cookie($user->ID, $remember);
    wp_login($username_stripped, $password_stripped);

    wp_redirect(apply_filters('login_redirect', get_bloginfo('url') . '/my-account/','', $user));
    exit;

}