A WordPress Login Widget – Sidebar Login Widget

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1. tjestr says:

   

   how to fix the 2.3 problem camc had?
   i’ve got the same error and i don’t know how to fix it.

   Comment made on October 27, 2007 at 9:17 am

2. Frank says:

   

   Hi, It works fine for me. I will like that the script does not takes you to the dashboard hwn login in or login out.

   It would be cool if it just stays in the main blog page, and you use the widget to get into the dashboard if you want. thanks

   Comment made on October 31, 2007 at 8:47 am

3. Nandan says:

   

   very neat and elegant and very useful. I just put it up on my travel website http://www.ghumakkar.com

   I have multiple bloggers and initially it gets difficult to remember the login link, this makes it so much obvious and clean. Thank you very much.

   Comment made on November 2, 2007 at 6:36 am

4. Dario Caregnato says:

   

   Hi, what if I want to add TWO different widgets in two different pages? If I add your widget it doesn’t instantiate itself as it should, it doesn’t clone itself! A solution might be giving the code to call the plugin via PHP, as Camc requested a few comments ago The code

   widget_sidebarLogin($args);

   doesn’t work. How to use it? Thanks a lot for your work!!

   Comment made on November 2, 2007 at 9:52 am

5. clevermonkey says:

   

   Same problem as camc using WP 2.3.1 -

   First login click gives cookie error, second gives successful login. Any ideas?

   Here’s what I observe:
   1. Open new browser (firefox). I make sure to delete cookies for my site. Go to site, attempt login, get cookie error:

   ERROR: WordPress requires Cookies
   but your browser does not support
   them or they are blocked.

   2. Review of cookies at this point shows: wordpress_test_cookie, lastpost and PHPSESSID.

   3. I click on the login button a second time – I get in, no problem.

   4. Review of cookies now shows the three named above and two more; wordpressuser_###… and wordpresspass_###…

   5. Now I can log in and out with no issue.

   6. Close browser; Open browser; Ok, I can still go in and out.

   7. Delete cookie (those basic three items); problem resumes, back to #1.

   Comment made on November 7, 2007 at 1:32 pm

6. clevermonkey says:

   

   Shame on me, as I forgot to say, but awesome widget! Nicely done!

   Comment made on November 7, 2007 at 2:45 pm

7. Upekshapriya says:

   

   I have the same problem as camc and clevermonkey – it seems to require two goes to get it to log in – the first gives the message about cookies as described above. Using WordPress 2.3.1 with PHP 4.4.7 and MySQL 5.0.45-community-nt on Apache/2.2.4 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8e mod_autoindex_color PHP/4.4.5.

   Comment made on November 8, 2007 at 11:58 pm

8. Jauhari says:

   

   How to use it without Widget?

   Comment made on November 9, 2007 at 2:34 am

9. Jauhari says:

   

   I have some problem too, on my WordPres 2.3.1

   Please help

   Comment made on November 9, 2007 at 2:39 am

10. Capt'n Chris says:

    

    First off… Thanks for a great plugin!

    I also have the same cookie problem as clevermonkey, Jauhari, and Upekshapriya… with regard to it requiring two login attempts and the cookie error.. Any advice?

    Comment made on November 12, 2007 at 11:06 am

11. Mark says:

    

    Same cookie error. The distance between inputboxes are very big How comes?

    Please help asap

    Comment made on November 12, 2007 at 9:36 pm

12. Mars says:

    

    Hi! The plugin is just what I was looking for. Unfortunately I have the same problem as camc, Upekshapriya, and clevermonkey! Any advice on what to do from here?

    Comment made on November 13, 2007 at 6:58 am

13. Theo D. says:

    

    i figured out how to call the plugin manually.

    open the sidebarLogin.php file (located in the plugins folder)
    comment out line 17 where it says extract($args); [to comment that line type “//” before that line. Then save the sidebarLogin.php file. After past this code anywhere you want to put the login

    Comment made on November 17, 2007 at 3:48 am

14. Loki says:

    

    excellent plugin, first of all. is it possible to customize the look of the plugin to fit in with your site’s theme, however? I want to change the grey button, for example.

    Comment made on November 20, 2007 at 9:28 am

15. angelo says:

    

    why the plugin apperars in my blog in this way?
    look @ http://www.democraziatrepuntozero.it

    what can i do?

    thanx

    Comment made on November 20, 2007 at 11:34 am

16. clevermonkey says:

    

    I think I found a workaround to the cookie issue.

    There are a number of folks who have done the 2.3 upgrade who are experiencing a cookie-related problem because of some code in wp-login.php (found in the root blog folder).

    You may read about these issues here -> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/135598

    There are three lines in wp-login.php that come into play; lines 24, 313 and 314 (or thereabouts). What these lines do is set up a test cookie (in 24), then check to see if that cookie exists (313) and if not, set the cookie error (314). This is to make certain that the browser supports cookies as we know it must.

    Some of the suggestions in that support thread recommend commenting out these three lines, which in my opinion is probably harmless. If you can’t support cookies, you already have bigger problems, and you wouldn’t have been able to register to get a login anyway. So, commenting out those lines (by prefixing each line with //) *does* work, but there’s another way, too, that should please the purists by keeping the functionality intact.

    Replace line 313 in this way:
    // if ( $_POST && empty($_COOKIE[TEST_COOKIE]) )
    if ( $_POST && (sizeof($_COOKIE)==0))

    This will test to see if the $_COOKIE array has nothing in it. By my reasoning, we don’t care if our test cookie is there or not, just that the browser supports cookies. So, this finds other cookies that I noticed. It worked, so I stopped hacking it at this point. Unfortunately, we will have to do the hack again the next time we upgrade WordPress. Not for a while yet, though.

    Ok, for the developers: (sorry to be long-winded). When I was first testing this, I had made a typo on the line shown (I had put ‘.sizeof’). Of course, this was a php error, which I was told about. Before I fixed it, I looked for the test cookie and did not see it, though if line 24 had run, it would have been created.

    So here are two questions:

    I’m not a php developer, but if line 24 creates the cookie, shouldn’t it have executed before hitting the test in 313, even though there was a syntax error there?

    If so, is there any kind of a ‘flush’ type function that would force the write of the cookie before the test for it?

    Just wonder if there’s a solution there.

    Best of luck, everyone, and thanks again for the great plugin.

    Comment made on November 24, 2007 at 3:03 am

17. Penny says:

    

    Same cookie problem as mentioned by a few other users.

    Any ideas or comment perhaps?

    Comment made on November 24, 2007 at 5:33 am

18. Lumini says:

    

    clevermonkey, thanks for the code fix. it worked in my case (wp v 2.3).

    Comment made on November 26, 2007 at 5:58 pm

19. foolmars says:

    

    Thanks clevermonkey!

    Comment made on November 27, 2007 at 10:00 am

20. External says:

    

    Please, can you provide the code to paste into a page when not using widgets? Thanx a lot man.

    Comment made on November 30, 2007 at 2:18 pm

21. Jeff Baier says:

    

    Those of you getting the “WordPress Requires Cookies” error, I was able to solve the problem by adding some code to the top of my header.php in my template.

    I explain my solution over at the WordPress.org support forums – http://wordpress.org/support/topic/144079?replies=25#post-656390

    Basically, just put this code – http://dump.theleafyisle.com/testcookiewp.txt at the top of your header.php in your template along with a is_user_logged_in() conditional.

    Comment made on December 1, 2007 at 6:00 am

22. shonari says:

    

    hey ive stumbled on to ur plugin but i am not seeing a register link anywhere for the plugin…i see lost password but thats it

    Comment made on December 2, 2007 at 2:36 am

23. Onder Ceylan says:

    

    Hello,

    I have problem with TinyMCE editor. When I enable this plugin through admin plugin page, the TinyMCE control buttons at the “write panel” disappears. When I disable this plugin, they are coming back! What can I do with that? Any ideas?

    Thanks for this great plugin though.

    Comment made on December 3, 2007 at 11:25 pm

24. Onder Ceylan says:

    

    An another addition;

    I have tried to solve cookie problem and TinyMCE buttons became visible! So that, there is not any problem about that..

    But I have another question; how can I hide “admin panel” link from the users at level 0? I tried an if else command for user_id but plugin crashed. I want to hide panel link from the subscribers and modify the profile page, then they will only see their profile page link from the sidebar panel.

    Any ideas?

    Comment made on December 4, 2007 at 1:47 am

25. Mike Jolley says:

    

    Working on implementing of the wp2.3 cookie bug fixes to the file itself. Check back in a day, or subscribe to RSS; Ill make a post.

    Comment made on December 5, 2007 at 8:50 am

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