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Most developers hate doing things that could be automated.
As emphasized in this tweet, we often have to accept that we cannot do it. Fortunately, in the case of code reviews, a lot of things can indeed be automated. As my previous CTO told me once:
Do you want to add a login form to your WordPress sidebar?
A login form in the WordPress sidebar allows users to quickly log in from anywhere on your website. Having easy access to a login form can increase sales for ecommerce sites, boost retention for online courses, and more.
In this article, we will show you how to easily add a custom login form to your WordPress sidebar.
If you run membership websites, online stores, or sell online courses, then you likely need your users to login to perform certain actions.
Since the sidebar appears throughout a website, it makes the login form more noticeable and easily accessible from every page on the site.
Adding a login form to your WordPress sidebar makes it easy for users to sign in to their accounts quickly. This boosts engagement, provides a better user experience, and increases form conversions.
That said, let’s look at how to add a login form to your WordPress sidebar easily. We’ll show you how to add the default login form in the sidebar and create a custom login form.
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You can show the default WordPress login form in the sidebar of your website. This makes it super easy for users to enter their username and password to access the WordPress admin area.
For this tutorial, we’ll use the Astra theme. Do note that the options may vary depending on the WordPress theme you’re using.
To start, you need to go to Appearance » Widgets from your WordPress dashboard.
From here, you can click the ‘+’ button and scroll under the ‘Theme’ heading and click on the ‘Login/out’ widget block to add it to your sidebar.
Next, you’ll see the ‘Login/out’ block in your widgets area. You can then enable the options to display login as a form.
When you’ve made the changes, click the ‘Update’ button at the top.
After that, you can visit your website to see the default WordPress login form in action.
Do note that you’ll be logged in if you immediately go check the form. Simply log out of your site to see how the form will appear to your members.
The default WordPress login form only offers a username and password field. However, you can create a custom user registration form with more fields and customization options.
The best way to do that is by using WPForms. It is the most popular WordPress form plugin, and the premium version of WPForms allows you to easily create WordPress login and registration forms with custom fields.
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The first thing you need to do is install and activate the WPForms plugin. For more details, see our step-by-step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.
Upon activation, you need to visit WPForms » Settings page to enter your license key. You can get your license key from your WPForms account on their website.
After verification, you need to go to WPForms » Addons page.
From here, you need to scroll down to the ‘User Registration Addon’ and click on the ‘Install Addon’ button.
The addon will now automatically install and activate on your website.
You are now ready to create a custom WordPress login form. Simply visit WPForms » Add New page to launch the WPForms builder.
First, you need to enter a form name at the top and then select the built-in ‘User Login Form’ template. Simply hover over it and click the ‘Use Template’ button.
It will display the login fields pre-loaded in your form. You can click on a field to edit it or add new fields from the left column.
WPForms offers multiple form fields you can add using the drag-and-drop builder. For example, you can add a name or CAPTCHA form fields to the login form.
Afterward, head to the ‘Settings’ tab and click on the Confirmation section.
This is where you need to define what to do once a user successfully logs in to your site.
The options include a message, a custom page, or a redirect URL to any page on your site.
Ideally, you would want to redirect users to a page once they are logged in. This could be your homepage, WordPress admin panel, or any other page on your website such as their membership dashboard or client portal.
Next, you can click the ‘Save’ button at the top and exit the form builder.
Your login form is now ready. From here, you can add it to your WordPress sidebar.
Simply visit the Appearance » Widgets page in your WordPress admin area. On this page, add the ‘WPForms’ widget block in the sidebar widget area of your site.
Next, you can select your user login form from the dropdown menu.
You can view more options in the settings panel on your right. For instance, there are options to show the form title and description.
Don’t forget to click the ‘Update’ button when you’re done.
You can now visit your website to see the custom login form.
You can also use WPForms to create a custom user registration form with anti-spam features.
We hope this article helped you learn how to add a login form in your WordPress sidebar. You may also want to see our step-by-step guide on how to start a WordPress blog and the best email marketing services for small businesses.
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Whether you’ve designed websites with only a small handful of WordPress themes or have used dozens of them over the years, we can all agree on one thing: Many WordPress themes that are visually stunning on the frontend of a website end up being ugly as sin and difficult to use on the backend.
Why does it have to be that way?
It doesn’t. If a WordPress theme looks and feels great on the frontend, there’s no reason why its backend doesn’t as well. BeTheme is proof of this.
BeTheme is one of the top 5 best-selling WordPress themes of all time, with more than 260,000 sales and a 4.83-star user rating. In this post, we’re going to show you some of the ways in which this WordPress theme backend is going to make your life easier as a web designer.
After you install BeTheme, you’re going to notice something is different. Gone is the drab and oftentimes cluttered and unintuitive backend of WordPress. In its place, you’ll find a clean, attractive, and useful theme dashboard and tools.
Don’t worry. WordPress and all of its content management tools are still there. But when you’re inside of BeTheme, you’ll find yourself in a space that is at once visually appealing and so easy to use you’ll wonder why the rest of WordPress isn’t built this way.
If you haven’t been inside of BeTheme before (or even lately), join us as we walk through some of its best and most useful backend features:
Your BeTheme dashboard will appear directly under the main WordPress Dashboard link. So there’s no need to sift through the sidebar trying to figure out where your theme settings are.
It’s not just convenient access that makes the BeTheme dashboard great. Click on BeTheme or the Dashboard link and you’ll discover:
Everything in the dashboard is here for the express purpose of helping you get more out of your WordPress theme. Whether it’s streamlining your website setup or discovering new features to use, the dashboard is there to help.
The research on dark mode and the benefits associated with it is inconclusive. That said, enough people have shown a preference for dark mode (which is why popular devices and apps offer the option now), so it could demonstrate big benefits on an individual basis.
The most common benefits that users report are reduced eye strain, better sleep, and longer lasting device batteries when using dark mode.
As a web designer, you’re working in front of a computer screen all day. If you find dark mode to be beneficial for any of these reasons, then you should find yourself a WordPress theme backend like BeTheme’s that enables you to toggle on dark mode.
When you first install a WordPress theme, it’s not always clear where you should go next. For instance, you know that your theme comes with demos, but where do you go to find them? Some themes bury their demos or pre-built websites inside their settings panel, so it can take some digging around.
BeTheme removes all the guesswork.
You’ll find the Setup Wizard under BeTheme as well as in the dashboard. Click on it and the step-by-step website creator will help you:
This whole process takes less than 30 seconds to complete — from the moment you click the setup wizard button to the time it takes to load your new site and page builder into WordPress.
BeTheme has over 650 pre-built websites, with new ones being added to the collection all the time. You’ll find them under the Websites link in the dashboard or under Pre-built websites under the BeTheme sidebar menu.
As a web designer, you’ll quickly become acquainted with the options that are available — and you may even find favorites you prefer to start with.
That said, you want to make sure you’re always designing websites using the latest and greatest design trends and styles. Because of this, BeTheme places previews of its newest pre-built sites in your dashboard.
Having the newest themes front and center will be useful in a number of ways. For starters, you’ll know when you have new sites to design with. Even if you choose not to use those sites (because you already have one you like, for instance), seeing the latest styles and features will be a good source of inspiration. Either way, this will enable you to utilize the latest design trends in your website designs going forward.
The Plugins area of BeTheme isn’t the same thing as the Plugins area in WordPress. While there is some overlap, the purpose of the BeTheme plugins manager is to give you a place to:
It’s the last point that’s important to take note of. You won’t see any of these plugins in the WordPress plugins manager until you’ve installed them.
These recommendations come directly from BeTheme and can help you get more out of your theme and pre-built site. On the flipside of that, not installing them can also help you cut back on unnecessary plugins which will allow you to keep website performance high.
WordPress might be the most powerful and popular content management system in the world. However, it’s a mostly community-driven platform when it comes to themes, plugins, and even providing support.
You shouldn’t have to dig through forum after forum on the WordPress.org website to find help or get answers to your questions. You shouldn’t need to leave your WordPress admin if you can help it at all either.
You won’t need to go far to get support for BeTheme.
Manual & Support are available from the BeTheme sidebar as well as the dashboard. From the support center, you’ll have access to self-support options like FAQs and Documentation. You can also submit a ticket for direct assistance.
Many popular WordPress themes give users the ability to customize the theme settings. With BeTheme, in particular, you can set brand colors, choose custom fonts, establish global layouts, and configure things that are important for the user experience and SEO, like responsiveness, accessibility, and performance.
The one thing that can be annoying about these theme options is that the only way to modify them is from the main WordPress dashboard. So if you happen to be working on a page and realize the global button design hasn’t been configured or you’re dissatisfied with the default sidebar design, you have to save your changes and go to your theme’s backend.
With BeTheme, you don’t have to disrupt your workflow. You can modify your Theme Options right from where you are — be it the BeTheme dashboard or from inside the BeBuilder.
The last area of the BeTheme WordPress theme backend you should know about is called BeCustom. You won’t find this under the dashboard, but you will find it under BeTheme on the sidebar.
This tool gives you the ability to white label BeTheme in certain areas. Here are some of the things you can do with BeCustom:
White labeling allows you to do a number of things.
First, by adding your own branding, it’ll give you a chance to reinforce your name with clients long after you complete their site. While BeTheme may be a name that designers know and trust, your clients will benefit more from seeing yours in there.
In addition, white labeling helps you make WordPress more user-friendly. If you want your clients to feel confident in owning and managing their websites after handoff, removing features they don’t need and making the WordPress theme backend more attractive will help.
What doesn’t BeTheme do?
For starters, it’s a multipurpose WP theme with hundreds of pre-built websites.
Secondly, it’s the fastest, most powerful page builder for WordPress, giving users control over every element within the UI.
And now BeTheme has become the best way to manage a web design project within WordPress.
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog on synchronizing multithreaded integration tests, which was republished on DZone Javalobby from where it received a comment from Robert Saulnier who quite rightly pointed out that you can also use join() to synchronize a worker thread and its unit tests. This got me thinking, just how many ways can you synchronise multi-threaded integration tests? So, I started counting... and came up with: