[macwise]

So, maybe my problem is that I haven’t included ALL the code from wp-login in the sidebar…instead I’ve just included the code necessary to get them redirected to the wp-login.php to actually be logged in…Here’s what it looks like. Maybe you can make sense of it:

<!--BEGIN SIDEBAR-->

<?php



$user_login = '';

$user_pass = '';

$using_cookie = false;

if ( !isset( $_REQUEST['redirect_to'] ) )

$redirect_to = 'wp-admin/';

else

$redirect_to = $_REQUEST['redirect_to'];



if( $_POST ) {

$user_login = $_POST['log'];

$user_login = sanitize_user( $user_login );

$user_pass  = $_POST['pwd'];

$rememberme = $_POST['rememberme'];

} else {

$cookie_login = wp_get_cookie_login();

if ( ! empty($cookie_login) ) {

$using_cookie = true;

$user_login = $cookie_login['login'];

$user_pass = $cookie_login['password'];

}

}



do_action('wp_authenticate', array(&$user_login, &$user_pass));



?>



<span class="sidenav_top">&nbsp;</span>

<ul class="sidenav_body" style="">

<li><h2>Login:</h2></li>



<?php



global $userdata;

get_currentuserinfo();

global $user_identity;



if (!$userdata) {

?>



<li style="padding-left: 10px; overflow: hidden;">

<form name="loginform" id="loginform" action="/wp-login.php" method="post">

<p style="margin: 0px; height: 25px; width: 175px;">

<label style="font-size: 11px; text-align: right; width: 76px; display: block; float: left; clear: left;"><?php _e('Username:') ?>&nbsp;</label>



<input style="float: right;" type="text" name="log" id="log" value="<?php echo wp_specialchars(stripslashes($user_login), 1); ?>" size="13" tabindex="1" />

</p>

<p style="margin: 0px; height: 25px; width: 175px;">

<label style="font-size: 11px; text-align: right; width: 76px; display: block; float: left; clear: left;"><?php _e('Password:') ?>&nbsp;</label>



<input style="float: right;" type="password" name="pwd" id="pwd" value="" size="13" tabindex="2" />

</p>

<p style="margin: 0px; height: 22px; float: right; margin-right: 10px; clear: both;">

<label style="font-size: 12px;"><input name="rememberme" type="checkbox" id="rememberme" value="forever" tabindex="3" />

<?php _e('Remember me'); ?></label></p>

<p class="submit" style="height: 35px;">

<input  style="float: right; clear: both; margin-right: 10px;" type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="<?php _e('Login'); ?> &raquo;" tabindex="4" />

<input type="hidden" name="redirect_to" value="index.php" />

</p>

</form>

I am guessing the difference between how I have it set up and how you have it is that I am sending the user to wp-login whereas you are authenticating right there on that page. I tried to get the sidebar to do all the work, but I ran into errors I couldn’t fix on my own…do you have a suggestion for how I might handle the logins in the sidebar? Do you maybe have code I can look at to see how you’re doing it?