Sidebar Login for WordPress

The login form

Sidebar login is self explanatory really; it allows users to login to WordPress from the sidebar of your blog. The plugin consists of both a widget and a template tag making it flexible enough to work in any theme. Styling can be applied through CSS if it does not look quite right.

When a user logs in using the widget they will be redirected to the page they were previously looking at; they won’t be sent to the backend. Once logged in they will see a list of links which you can define on the plugin’s settings page.

You can configure the plugin in Settings > Sidebar Login after installing it.

Instructions

  1. Unzip and upload the php file to your wordpress plugin directory
  2. Activate the plugin
  3. For a sidebar widget: Goto the Appearance > Widgets – Drag the widget into a sidebar and save!
  4. To use the template tag: Add <?php sidebarlogin(); ?> to your template.

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