Sidebar Login

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_footer filter – 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!)