Sidebar Login
Easily add an ajax-enhanced login widget to your WordPress site sidebar.
4.5(78 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 5 years agoAs of April 2026, Sidebar Login is a WordPress login plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 78 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.0M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2008. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 9% this week. Top alternative: WPS Hide Login.
4.5/578 reviews
10K+active installs
1.0M+total downloads
18 yearssince 2008
Overview
Sidebar Login adds a useful login widget which you can use to login from in the sidebar of your WordPress powered blog.
Once a user logs in they are redirected back to the page they logged in from, rather than the admin panel (this is configurable).
If you’d like to contribute code to the plugin you can do so via GitHub.
If you’d like to contribute a translation, the project is hosted on WordPress.org.
Usage
Simply go to Appearance > Widgets and drag “sidebar login” to the sidebar of your choice. Within the widget are several options you can use for changing the titles or the links displayed to the user.
To use this widget in a template, use the the_widget() function which WordPress provides.
Tags for titles + links
These tags can be used in the widget settings…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Easy to apply Widget and GDPR compliance
by Anonymous User 17709229·3 years ago
Easy to implement. Some minor custom css work done and voila great result. I like that the widget does not log something. It seems fully GDPR compliant. Great Job! BR Peter
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Hace lo que necesitaba
by javigandia·4 years ago
Me ha ahorrado mucho tiempo. Muchas gracias funciona perfectamente con mi tema y con la última versión de WordPress.
Ez and quick setup – well documented – Hooks yeah!
by AITpro·5 years ago
Great job! Love it when it only takes me a couple of minutes to setup and test a new plugin. Documentation is clear and simple to understand. Hooks Yeah! Will be hooking my plugin’s CAPTCHA feature into your plugin. Awesome work!
thanks :) super plugin
by Anonymous User 15932932·5 years ago
thanks 🙂 super plugin
Love it — needs reCaptcha
by whartung·5 years ago
I really need this to use a reCaptcha, to filter out robots.
I love this sidebar login, it’s so easy to use.
- This topic was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by whartung.
Download Trends
Today: 6Yesterday: 9This week: 60Period total: 3K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 5.5.18 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
Version Adoption
v3.0
73.8%
v2.7
21.0%
Other
5.2%
Top Alternatives to Sidebar Login
Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
3.0.1
- Fix – Fix rendering of additional links when using non-latin characters in the link text.
Contributors
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