In some layouts, you may wish to not use the WP-Members sidebar widget for logging users in, but you may still want to display a user’s login status (when logged in) and provide a logout link. Here is how you can do that with a plain text widget.
- Add a plain text widget to your sidebar
- Add the following shortcodes to the text widget:
[wpmem_logged_in]
You are logged in as [wpmem_field user_login].
[wpmem_logout]
[/wpmem_logged_in] - You’ll need to verify that your sidebar can display shortcodes for this to work. If the logout link does not show when you are in a logged in state, you will need to enable shortcodes for the sidebar:
add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');(See “Adding Shortcodes to Other Locations” for more information.)
The resulting widget should only display when the user is logged in and will display the user’s username and a link to logout. Customize as needed…