WordPress Sidebar Login 2 – Optimised for wordpress 2.6
At last! My sidebar login widget has evolved into ‘Sidebar Login’ which has both a widget and a template tag to allow you to have a login form in the sidebar of your wordpress powered blog.
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
Sidebar login is self explanatory really; it allows users to login to wordpress from the sidebar! This plugin requires wordpress 2.6 (that is all I have tested) in order to function; this is because wordpress 2.6 has a modified login system to older versions.
Screenshots
Login Form
Logged in
Change Log
You can track changes to the plugin in the wordpress plugin SVN.
Get it now!
You can get the latest version from the wordpress plugin database; Download it here!
Installation Instructions
- Unzip and upload the php file to your wordpress plugin directory
- Activate the plugin
- For a sidebar widget: Goto the design > widgets tab – Drag the widget into a sidebar and save!
- To use the template tag: Add
<?php sidebarlogin(); ?>to your template.
License
WordPress Sidebar Login © Copyright 2008-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.
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Emiliano Bruni says:
I integrate sidebar login with Simple Facebook Connect avatar changing this line
if (get_option(‘sidebar_login_avatar’)==’yes’) echo ”.get_avatar…..
with
/* Emiliano: Integrate with facebook avatar */
if (get_option(‘sidebar_login_avatar’)==’yes’) {
$fbuid = get_usermeta($user_ID, ‘fbuid’);
if (empty($fbuid)) {
echo ”.get_avatar($user_ID, $size = ’38′).”;
} else {
echo ”;
}
I will be very happy if you apply this patch in next sidebar release
Comment made on September 10, 2010 at 8:40 pm
Emiliano Bruni says:
ops…sorry, most of code missed,
http://pastie.org/1150823
Comment made on September 10, 2010 at 8:44 pm
Emiliano Bruni says:
I also integrate Sidebar login action with SFC. As soon as possible I wrote an article to better describe my patch. For now that’s the brutal code without any control
http://www.pastie.org/1151010
Comment made on September 10, 2010 at 10:44 pm
Lorin says:
I am having the same problem as some others. I can log in fine, but then if I click the dashboard link it redirects me to the standard WP log-in page and then I can go to the dashboard from there (after logging in again). I also can’t seem to log out. I’m using this on subdomains (with domain pointers). Could that be the problem?
Comment made on September 17, 2010 at 9:15 pm
Mike Jolley says:
@Lorin: Yes possibly. There are ways to make subdomains use the same login cookie – may want to google/check wordpress.org.
Comment made on September 18, 2010 at 10:37 am
Lorin says:
Thanks, Mike. I think we’ve gone right out of my programming comfort zone, but I like knowing why even if I can’t fix it.
Comment made on September 18, 2010 at 3:02 pm