Want to allow users to log into wordpress from the sidebar? Doing so is not as simple as it sounds, so to ease your stress I have created a widget to handle everything.
It lets users login, and then redirects them back to the page they logged in from rather than the backend, it also shows error messages. Read more for more information and the download link.
Sidebar Login Widget v1.5 Build 20070122
By Mike Jolley ( http://www.blue-anvil.com )
What is it?
It’s a widget that allows users to login to wordpress from the sidebar! It uses php sessions to cleverly retrieve the wordpress login error messages, and uses redirects to send the user back to the site, rather than the wordpress backend.
Screenshots
User not logged in:
User logged in:
Errors!
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Installation Instructions
Simply:
- Unzip and upload the php file to your wordpress plugin directory
- Activate the plugin
- Goto the presentation > widgets tab
- Drag the widget into a sidebar and save!
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License
Wordpress Sidebar Login Widget © Copyright 2007-current.
Mike Jolley
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
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Support my sweat, blood and tears
I know, that sounds gross, but we really did put ALOT of effort into this widget. If you like this widget please make a donation via paypal! Any amounts are welcome, your support is much appreciated.
110 - Mike Jolley says:
I have not been able to find the cause of this; some people get it, some people dont. I will most likely create a new version for v2.5 specifically.
Comment made on May 10, 2008 at 4:31 pm
111 - manuel manceli says:
nice plugin bro. make more plugin so that i we are always in your side
THANK AGAIN
Comment made on May 13, 2008 at 11:17 am
112 - jay says:
Hey,
I installed the side login, which is great.
but when users register they dont get emailed a password. I have got a few people to register on different comps, but no password is emailed.
Any ideas whats happening here?
Thanks,
Comment made on May 20, 2008 at 2:00 pm
113 - Mike Jolley says:
@jay - this widget does not handle registrations..its down to wordpress itself.
Comment made on May 20, 2008 at 2:42 pm
114 - jay says:
to mike jolley:
cheers mike.
yeah that makes sense.
so any ideas why wordpress isnt emailing the passwords. I cant see anything in the settings that could affect it.
Or do i need to allocate an email address from my site for wordpress to use to email people??
any help would be great :o)
Comment made on May 21, 2008 at 2:30 am
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116 - Mike Jolley says:
Check your host has the mail() function, or just post on official wordpress forums for help.
Comment made on May 21, 2008 at 10:13 am
117 - Brian Vaughan says:
Great Plugin. I would like to add this to the list of default widgets for *some* themes in a wp_mu installation. What code should I add to the sidebar.php file to accomplish this?
thanks!
Comment made on May 27, 2008 at 11:02 pm
118 - Lucas says:
Hi,
Just like Seth I also have problems to log out! But only when I log out viewing post. When you log out from the frontpage the URL looks like:
logout&redirect_to=URL/ Then I logged out and see the frontpage.
But when I log out while viewing a post or page it goes wrong. The link then is: redirect_to=URL/?p=5. Now I get an Internal Server Error.
When viewing a page and use the first URL (as if im logging out from the frontapge) it goes fine.
Of course I change the redirect URL to fix this, but the strange this is that it only happens on the WP installation on my external webserver. On my localhost it all works!
Any ideas?
Comment made on June 4, 2008 at 10:41 am
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