Going in Circles for a Log In Widget…

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  keithking · Member · Sep 1, 2013 at 3:13 am

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  Why is this so hard? I’m just trying to add a simple log in widget to my wordpress.com blog, I don’t want the easily available “meta” widget, I just want a very simple log in box. Does that exist on WP?

  also, if I am using the free wordpress.com site for my blog, do I need to update it, or is that done automatically by wordpress.

  thanksinadvance

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  auxclass · Member · Sep 1, 2013 at 3:50 am

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  Your log-in page is below – make a log-in link and put it in a Text Widget

  easiest – go to a Post – in visual editor – Log-in for the text – turn it into a link with the code below – switch to text edit mode – copy all the html code and paste it into a Text Widget – that should do it – don’t think it will have the fancy stuff with the toggle between log-in & log-out

  https://sofahopper.wordpress.com/wp-login.php

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  keithking · Member · Sep 1, 2013 at 4:36 am

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  wow auxclass, thank you, but you lost me.

  I know what the link to my log in is, but the rest of what you said was a bit confusing. Is there no widget that I can simply drag and drop? I find it hard to believe that WP offers me all those D&D widgets, but not a nice little log in box (and I’m not talking about the ‘meta’ widget).

  I want a simple log in box at the in my third footer position.
  does that not exist?

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  auxclass · Member · Sep 1, 2013 at 4:45 am

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  Paste the text below into a Text Widget – note – posting source code here sometimes gives me problems – so wait for a second post below this on in case the formatting or something happened

  Log-in

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  auxclass · Member · Sep 1, 2013 at 4:46 am

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  Ok – will take a couple of minutes to wait for the spam filter to let me post again –

  <a href="https://sofahopper.wordpress.com/wp-login.php">Log-in</a>

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  auxclass · Member · Sep 1, 2013 at 4:50 am

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  OK – the above code worked for me on my picture blog – sent me to your log-in page

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  keithking · Member · Sep 1, 2013 at 5:08 am

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  okay auxclass, I got it now, thanks for making it clear for me.

  It’s just a basic link, and not exactly what I was looking for, but it does the job for now. what I really would like is something like the WP log in box (I was planning on posting a pic here to show you what I mean, it is worth 1000 words after all, but apparently this forum doesn’t support images). oh well.

  thanks again for all your help :) (no emoji here either, sigh)

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  auxclass · Member · Sep 1, 2013 at 5:18 am

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  You can upload a picture to a picture hosting site – or just upload it to your media library and post a link here to the picture

  You can also title the Text Widget to maybe “jazz” the looks up a bit – or the log-in could also be a click on picture

  You be welcome & good luck with your blog –

  the text widget might be able to be boxed but I am not sure about that and probably above my skills