Description
Sidebar Login adds a useful login widget which you can use to login from in the sidebar of your WordPress powered blog.
Once a user logs in they are redirected back to the page they logged in from, rather than the admin panel (this is configurable).
If you’d like to contribute code to the plugin you can do so via GitHub.
If you’d like to contribute a translation, the project is hosted on WordPress.org.
Usage
Simply go to Appearance > Widgets and drag “sidebar login” to the sidebar of your choice. Within the widget are several options you can use for changing the titles or the links displayed to the user.
To use this widget in a template, use the the_widget() function which WordPress provides.
Tags for titles + links
These tags can be used in the widget settings for titles + links and will be replaced at runtime.
%username%– logged in users display name%userid%– logged in users ID%firstname%– logged in users firstname%lastname%– logged in users lastname%name%– logged in users firstname + lastname%nicename%– user nice name%admin_url%– url to WP admin%logout_url%– logout url%buddypress_profile_url%– Buddypress Profile URL%bbpress_profile_url%– Buddypress Profile URL%avatar%– User Avatar
Filter Reference
sidebar_login_include_css– return false to not include the CSS stylesheetsidebar_login_widget_logged_in_links– An array of links shown when logged in.sidebar_login_widget_logged_out_links– An array of links shown when logged out.sidebar_login_widget_display– Return false to hide the widget.sidebar_login_widget_logged_in_title– The widget title shown when logged in.sidebar_login_widget_avatar_size– The avatar size – defaulted to 38 (thats in px)sidebar_login_widget_logged_out_title– The widget title shown when logged out.sidebar_login_widget_form_args– Arguments for the wp_login_form function.sidebar_login_widget_login_redirect– Redirect URL after login.sidebar_login_widget_logout_redirect– the redirect after logging out.sidebar_login_widget_register_url– The URL for registration links.sidebar_login_widget_lost_password_url– The URL for lost password links.sidebar_login_widget_wp_login_form– The HTML of the Login form.
Action Reference
sidebar_login_widget_start– Fired before the widget.sidebar_login_widget_{logged_in || logged_out}_content_start– Fired before the widget content.sidebar_login_widget_before_{logged_in || logged_out}_links– Fired before the links.sidebar_login_widget_after_{logged_in || logged_out}_links– Fire after the links.sidebar_login_widget_{logged_in || logged_out}_content_end– Fired after the widget content.sidebar_login_widget_end– Fired after the widget.
Notes
- Due to AJAX not working across different domains (see same_origin_policy), AJAX logins will be disabled if your site it non-SSL, but the FORCE_SSL_ADMIN constant is set to true. Instead it will fallback to a traditional POST.
Screenshots
The widget when logged in 
The widget when logged out 
Widget settings
Reviews
November 13, 2022
Easy to implement. Some minor custom css work done and voila great result. I like that the widget does not log something. It seems fully GDPR compliant. Great Job! BR Peter
March 8, 2022
Me ha ahorrado mucho tiempo. Muchas gracias funciona perfectamente con mi tema y con la última versión de Wordpress.
February 28, 2021
Great job! Love it when it only takes me a couple of minutes to setup and test a new plugin. Documentation is clear and simple to understand. Hooks Yeah! Will be hooking my plugin's CAPTCHA feature into your plugin. Awesome work!
February 13, 2021
thanks 🙂 super plugin
January 12, 2021
I really need this to use a reCaptcha, to filter out robots.
I love this sidebar login, it's so easy to use.
December 3, 2019
Please update...
I just have this:
Warning: sizeof() [function.sizeof]: Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in /var/www/railworks.dk/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sidebar-login/includes/class-sidebar-login-widget.php on line 213
Contributors & Developers
“Sidebar Login” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
“Sidebar Login” has been translated into 24 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
Translate “Sidebar Login” into your language.
Interested in development?
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Changelog
3.0.1
- Fix – Fix rendering of additional links when using non-latin characters in the link text.
3.0.0
- Refactor – Rewritten majority of plugin using more up to date standards and namespaces.
- Refactor – Cleaned up the widget settings form to make functionality clearer.
- Refactor – Removed email->username conversion since this is supported natively.
- Tweak – Added %nicename% placeholder.
- Tweak – Improved default styling and included extra wrapping divs (.sidebar-login-form, .sidebar-login-account, .sidebar-login-links).
- Performance – Removed jQuery dependency and BlockUI script.
- Performance – Removed
sidebar_login_js_in_footerfilter – this is now true by default. - Fix – Prevent notices due to incorrect sizeof() usage.
2.7.3
- Tweak – %avatar% placeholder.
- Tweak – Removed translations due to WordPress.org language packs.
- Tweak – sidebar_login_widget_wp_login_form filter.
- Fix – Removed force_ssl_login which is deprecated in 4.4 in favour of force_ssl_admin.
2.7.2
- Feature – Added firstname, lastname, name tags.
- Fix – PHP4 widget contructors (https://gist.github.com/chriscct7/d7d077afb01011b1839d).
- Fix – Missing strings in localisation.
- Fix – Change email to username during wp_authenticate hook.
2.7.1
- Make rememberme show by default, without a widget save.
2.7.0
- Renamed textdomain from sidebar_login to sidebar-login.
- Moved translations to Transifex.
- Added Grunt.
- Removed deprecated sidebarlogin function.
- Option to show/hide the rememberme checkbox.
- Allow login using an email address – username will be queried based on address given.
2.6.0
- Support for Buddypress Profile URL via %buddypress_profile_url%. Thanks Tim Reeves.
- Support for BBPress Profile URL via %bbpress_profile_url%.
- Slovakian translation by Alexander Kriss
- Swedish translation by Tommy Wahlund
- Dutch translation by Bert Smulders
- Russian and Ukranian translation by Yarri
- Polish translation by Czeslaw Liebert
2.5.3
- Removed nonce check on frontend due to conflict with caching scripts
- Arabic translation by Mamoun Elkheir
- Brazillian translation by Marco André Argenta
- Italian translation by Adriano Calvitto
2.5.2
- Latvian translation by Lana Mangusa
- German translation by Klaus-Peter
- Wrapped response to prevent crap plugins breaking the response
2.5.1
- Filterable error classes
- Tweak to how SSL logins are handled.
- FR translation
- Fix $link_cap
2.5.0
- Rewrite and code cleanup – class based.
- Optionless – Moved all settings to the widgets themselves rather than having a settings page.
- Removed all localisations (these are out of date, and need re-doing)
- Removed JSONP/GET request – although this allowed logins between urls of different origin, it poses a security risk as GET requests are logged.
2.4.0
- XSS Fix
- Added classes to tags in widget
- Improved/filtered register and lost password links
- Removed the outdated openid/fb code. Hook it in if you want it.
- Removed markup in favour of wp_login_form()
2.3.6
- Sanitize REQUEST_URI/$pageURL
2.3.5
- Use jsonp to enable login from http to https
- Fixed remember me logic (in js)
- Sanitize redirect url
- Removed esc_attr from username and password to prevent breaking login
- Updated french and italian langs
- Added Swedish lang by Ove Kaufeldt
2.3.4
- SSL URL tweak
- Better handling for force_ssl_login and force_ssl_admin
2.3.3
- Removed a link after request from WordPress.org staff
- wp_lostpassword_url() for lost password link
- sanitized user_login
- Uses wp_ajax for ajax login instead of init functions
- Secure cookie logic change
2.3.2
- Login redirect fix
2.3.1
- Error loop fix
- Added filter for errors – sidebar_login_error
2.3
- Put the project on GitHub
- Added new localisations
- New options panel
- AJAX Login
2.2.15
- FORCE_SSL_LOGIN/ADMIN double login issue fix (Thanks to bmaupin)
- Only added openid styling if other plugin is installed
- Added more languages
2.2.14
- Further revised the |true / |user_capability code – only need to use one or the other now.
2.2.13
- Updated translations
- Support for https and style.css
- is_date fix
- Added option for headings
- Removed attribute_escape for esc_attr – therefore this version needs wp 2.8 and above
- USER LEVEL option gone – replaced with USER CAPABILITY instead – use a capability like ‘manage_options’
2.2.12
- Headers sent bugs fixed
- Avatar display option
2.2.11
- More/Updated langs
2.2.10
- Moved settings to appearance menu
- Changed min user level to capilbilty ‘manage_options’
- Fixed menu showing in wordpress 3.0
- Added %USERID% for links
- Fixed white space bug for link options
2.2.8
- Min level setting for links. Add user level after |true when defining the logged in links.
- Moved ‘settings’ from tools to settings.
- Encoded ampersand for valid markup
- Moved Labels about
- Fixed SSL url
- Reusable widget
2.2.6
- Added changelog to readme.
- OpenID Plugin (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/openid/) Integration.
- %username% can be used in your custom links shown when logged in (gets replaced with username)
- WP-FacebookConnect (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-facebookconnect/) integration (untested!)
- Minor fixes (worked through a big list of em!)