A custom lightbox login form that serves as a gatekeeper for links with the class "ajax-login-trigger".
As of April 2026, Mm Ajax Login is a WordPress ajax plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 2.1K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.8+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 10 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: zipaddr-jp.
This plugin allows you to create special links that check whether a user is logged in and then follow the link if they are or show an ajax-powered login form in a simple lightbox if they are not. Once the user fills out the login form with valid credentials they will be logged in and redirected to the page the link points to.
Let’s say you’ve got a page on your site that only logged in users are able to access. It could be a private page or ideally it is a page that is set up to show a standard login form to users who are not logged in. With this plugin you could add the class ‘ajax-login-trigger’ to all the links that point to that page, then when a user clicks one of these links an ajax request is sent to the server to check whether the…
| WordPress | 3.8+ requiredTested up to 4.4.34 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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