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BuddyPress Dropdown Login Panel

Adds a dropdown login panel to BuddyPress with an account centre for logged in users.

by Christian Wach · github.com/christianwach/bp-dropdown-login-panel · website

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Install

Download source zip No release zip yet

This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.

Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:

wp plugin install https://github.com/christianwach/bp-dropdown-login-panel/archive/refs/heads/master.zip

No built-in updater. New versions won't appear under Dashboard → Updates. Install new releases yourself, or let Git Updater track the repository.

Readme github.com/christianwach/bp-dropdown-login-panel ↗

This is a fork of the seemingly-abandoned BuddyPress Sliding Login Panel written by Sarah Gooding.

BuddyPress Dropdown Login Panel offers a simple login experience for BuddyPress users. It also includes an account centre with a set of links to commonly-accessed BuddyPress features for logged-in users.

The plugin adds a tab to the top of the page which slides down to reveal a panel where the user can login. For logged-in users, this is replaced by a BuddyPress profile and account preview centre featuring teasers of new messages and friend requests as well as links to quickly navigate to other areas of the site.

Installation

GitHub

There are two ways to install from GitHub:

ZIP Download

If you have downloaded BuddyPress Dropdown Login Panel as a ZIP file from the GitHub repository, do the following to install and activate the plugin and theme:

Unzip the .zip file and, if needed, rename the enclosing folder so that the plugin's files are located directly inside /wp-content/plugins/bp-dropdown-login-panel
Activate the plugin
Ensure that a bp_before_header action is present in your theme header
You are done!

git clone

If you have cloned the code from GitHub, it is assumed that you know what you're doing.