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Add a Login Box to your Sidebar

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I wrote a post a while back detailing how easy it was to add a Login Box to your template.  But, it’s even easier, it turns out, to add one to your sidebar.

Sidebar Login is a plugin that will let you throw a quick sidebar login box onto your site.  And, it’s AJAX compatable, which means that it logs the user in seamlessly and then displays typical “user” account options (profile, logout, etc).

Install the plugin and then drag the widget to your sidebar to install it.

  • Latest WordPress Hack – Check your Permalinks, People!

    Latest WordPress Hack – Check your Permalinks, People!

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    I’ll type this without the normal pleasantries to make sure this gets out quickly. There’s a WordPress hacker on the loose, and he’s pretty sneaky – he creates a user unseeable to the naked eye (except for the one extra user in the administrator users menu) and masks himself to you, making it easy for…

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  • Better Know a WordPress Tag: ‘siteurl’

    Better Know a WordPress Tag: ‘siteurl’

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    When you’re working on a development site it’s hard to set things up correctly because you know you’re going to change the site, and putting in elements that are more than likely “stationary”, such as links, will have to be changed, and that causes un-necessary headache when it comes time to move the site live. …

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