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Login or Logout Menu Item

Add a dynamic "Login" or "Logout" menu item to any WordPress Menu and control redirects.

By cartpauj·Menu·Free
4.8(23 reviews)
·20K+ active installs·Updated 2 months ago
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As of April 2026, Login or Logout Menu Item is a WordPress menu plugin with 20K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 23 reviews. It has been downloaded 224K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Admin Menu Editor.

4.8/523 reviews
20K+active installs
224K+total downloads
9 yearssince 2017

Overview

With this plugin you can easily add a dynamic login/logout menu item to any menu on your WordPress site. The menu item will change based on whether the current user is logged in or logged out. You can also set a specific login page url, login redirect url and a logout redirect url.

Thanks to Juliobox for his prior efforts on the BAW Login/Logout Menu plugin which this is derived from

CONFIGURE SETTINGS

After installing and activating the plugin, you can find the settings in your dashboard under: Settings > Login or Logout

Login Page URL – This should be the URL to the page where your users will login at. For most wordpress sites this will be /wp-login.php but if you’re using a membership plugin like MemberPress, it might be something like /login/ instead.

Login Redirect URL…

Read full description on WordPress.org

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Ratings & Reviews

4.823 reviews
5 ★
22
4 ★
0
3 ★
0
2 ★
0
1 ★
1

Recent Reviews

No support for PHP version 8.0 or later
by henhed·2 months ago·3 replies

The plugin don’t seem to work from PHP version 8.0 and above.

Worked Easily and Flawlessly
by Lockhart·8 months ago

I don’t know why this isn’t a standard with WordPress, but am so grateful this developer saw the need and created a functioning, lightweight, easy to use option! Highly recommend this.

It’s incredible…
by MTC·1 year ago

… that WP doesn’t offer this functionality on its own 😀

Great plugin, works like a charm.

Fantastic! Thank you.
by melbatoast4·3 years ago

Thank you so much for this plugin. Elegantly does what I needed two plugins to do before, with less setup and better functionality.

Damn cool
by yannickburky·4 years ago

Thanks for this piece of software

Download Trends

Today: 64Yesterday: 77This week: 474Period total: 32K

Compatibility

WordPress6.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5
PHPfalse+ required

Version Adoption

v1.3
54.1%
v1.2
45.3%
Other
0.6%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.3.0

  • Added support for the block editor Navigation block
  • Search “login” or “logout” in the Navigation block link picker to add the dynamic link
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

cartpaujcartpauj
Plugin Info
Version
1.3.0
Last Updated
Jan 6, 2026
WP Requires
6.0+
Tested Up To
6.8.5
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
20K+
Downloads
224K+
Added
Oct 20, 2017
Business
Free

Tags

menuloginlogoutdynamicmenu item

Developer

C
cartpauj
5 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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