Amember sidebar plugin/widget for Wordpress

I just updated one of my sites to Wordpress 2.5 and as a result had to make a couple of changes to my Amember sidebar widget.

I didn't like the idea of hacking my template to get Amember functionality. It occurred to me that it may save others the time/trouble so I'm providing it here for free. Also available on WordPress.org at:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/amember-sidebar-widget/

Features:

• Configurable Title (Default: Members)
• Configurable Active Membership Title (Default: Active Membership)
• Configurable Amember Directory (Default: amember)
• Listing of members subscribed products (hyperlinked where applicable)
• Skinnable via CSS (input#amembersubmit for submit button)
• Full XHTML compliancy
• Works under Wordpress 2.3.x and 2.5

Future plans:

• Remember me checkbox
• Ajax based invalid userid/password checking
• Ajax based "Forgot Password"
• Configurable "Logged in" links (check boxes in adbmin to select which links you want to show to members)
• Ajax based lightbox based version to bypass redirect to login page

Installation:

1. Upload wpamember.php to your \wp-content\plugins directory
2. Active "wpAmember" via your WordPress Admin console
3. Add the widget to your sidebar via your WordPress Admin console
4. Optionally configure Widget Title and Amember path via your WordPress Admin console

I'll edit this post to include better instructions, screen shots, etc. if necessary.

Message me or post here if you have any questions or feedback.

note: This is NOT a replacement for a full Amember->Wordpress plugin, this simply adds the necessary Amember login box and member status links to your Wordpress sidebar.

If you just protect files, and not Wordpress based content, then this should be all you will need. If you need to protect content, this can be uses in conjunction with the Amember->Wordpress plugin.

miso/deafdavid,

Sorry for the confusion. This plugin widget will work for both 2.3.x and 2.5 versions of Wordpress. Should work on 2.2 versions as well, but I have not personally tested it.

I never much liked hacking the template to get the Amember functionality so this makes it a much cleaner integration.

Paul/Travis,

I do not use the Amember plugin as I only protect files/folders, not content..

There is a change to the cookie in 2.5

This is probably what is impacting the plugin and I'm guessing will need to be updated by Alex and team.

Hope that helps.

Thanks. It has been submitted.. awaiting approval..

I've got a few things listed in my todo: list, but let me know if there are other things you would like to see it do.

humantorpedo,

Integrating into non-widgetized themes is something I hadn't considered. Perhaps I can register something like <amember-login> tag someone can place in their template to eliminate the need to hardcode.

I have made some changes, updating the above attachment to ver .2. Changes correct a couple of edge case scenarios with session handling and the logout link as well as validation of compatibility with WordPress 2.3.x and WordPress 2.5.

This project is also being tracked on WordPress.org now as an official plugin:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/amember-sidebar-widget/

Please let me know if you have any suggestions / feedback / questions.

In addition to a change to the structure of the code and session handing, I've also added Member Subscription links (title configurable via Widget Control)

I've gotten a couple of emails on how to style the controls

= How do I style the controls? =

Here are example stylings for the controls. Place this in your existing .css file and modify as you wish.

input#a_login { background:#F3F3F3; border:2px solid #B4CBDF; color:#333; font-size:15px; width: 95%;}
input#a_password { background:#F3F3F3; border:2px solid #B4CBDF; color:#333; font-size:15px; width: 95%; }

1) Redirect is not controlled by the widget. Here is a suggestion from an older thread

Code:

function html_redirect($url, $print_header=0, $title='', $text=''){
global $t;
if (!$t) $t = &new_smarty();
$t->assign('title', $title);
$t->assign('text', $text);
$t->assign('url', $url);
$t->display('redirect.html');
} 

to

Code:

function html_redirect($url, $print_header=0, $title='', $text=''){
header("Location: $url");
}

2) The directory option defines where your Amember installation path is for links and buttons and such.

I'm getting quite a few emails on folks that don't want to use widgets.. as a result I'm considering a few options for the next release:

1) use of wordpress tags to do things anywhere in a post, page or theme like):

<- Amember Login Box -> (display login box)
<- Amember Username -> (display amember user name)
<- Amember Subscribed Products -> (display subscribed products)

2) Amember WordPress Admin control panel

Basically bring in Amember Admin CP features into WordPress admin (so you have one place to go).. Not sure if I will IFrame or port individual features over..

Feedback welcome.. no idea on timing as I'm knee deep in a conversion project at the moment..