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If you’re using a child theme of the default BP theme, use this tidbit to remove the login widget from the sidebar:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/how-to-remove-login-sidebar-from-bp-12-default-theme#post-46264

To add the login form to the BuddyBar, you’ll need to create a function that outputs the login form and then you’ll need to hook it to the BuddyBar.

Here’s some sample code that you can add to your theme’s functions.php:

function my_login_bar() {

// basically a copy of the login form from the BP sidebar

?>

<form name="login-form" id="sidebar-login-form" class="standard-form" action="<?php echo site_url( 'wp-login.php', 'login' ) ?>" method="post">

<label><?php _e( 'Username', 'buddypress' ) ?><br />

<input type="text" name="log" id="sidebar-user-login" class="input" value="<?php echo attribute_escape(stripslashes($user_login)); ?>" /></label>



<label><?php _e( 'Password', 'buddypress' ) ?><br />

<input type="password" name="pwd" id="sidebar-user-pass" class="input" value="" /></label>



<p class="forgetmenot"><label><input name="rememberme" type="checkbox" id="sidebar-rememberme" value="forever" /> <?php _e( 'Remember Me', 'buddypress' ) ?></label></p>



<input type="submit" name="wp-submit" id="sidebar-wp-submit" value="<?php _e('Log In'); ?>" tabindex="100" />

<input type="hidden" name="testcookie" value="1" />

</form>

<?php

}

// the magic that hooks your my_login_bar() function to the BuddyBar

add_action( 'bp_adminbar_menus', 'my_login_bar', 2);

Keep in mind, you’ll need to style the form to make it look nice in the admin bar, but that should get you started.

More info in modifying the BuddyBar can be found here:

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/modifying-the-buddypress-admin-bar/

Hi there.

I’ve just had a go at implementing this and it’s all working fine. But I was just wondering whether it was possible to run this function if the user is logged out only?

Thanks,
Abi

Hi again.

Firstly, thanks so much for your help r-a-y! I managed to get it working…. But then it has issues when I try to login or out. I think it’s probably to do with where I’ve placed my if/else statements. Just can’t seem to get it working! The first part looks like this:

if ( is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>

Followed by the url to log out, then the else statement and then the function… Any idea where I’m going wrong?

Thanks,
Abi

Can I post all of my code here? I don’t know the right tags to post it! It’s still messing up!

Thanks,
Abi

THANK YOUUU! You are an absolute star.

Hi,

Thanks very much for this code – works perfectly on my site. I want to add one thing to it…

When a user is logged in, it still has the “Username/Password” fields in the admin bar and I want to replace these with a message that says something like “Hello (Username), click HERE to sign out” with the click-able link obviously signing them out.

Also, how do you put a “Sign Up” button up there with it, again to show only when user is logged out?

Thanks.

I figured out why this isn’t working in IE7. For some reason, IE 7 doesn’t add the closing /li tag to “li class=bp-login no-arrow” so the form gets lumped into that li.

The problem is I have “bp-login no-arrow” hidden so everything in it including the form gets hidden as well. You can see exactly what I mean here: http://bit.ly/bVtufR

Is there any way to fix this?

-edit- I fixed this by adding li tags around the form.