Title: BuddyPress Sliding Login Panel
Author: Sarah Gooding
Published: <strong>July 24, 2010</strong>
Last modified: May 11, 2011

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# BuddyPress Sliding Login Panel

 By [Sarah Gooding](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pollyplummer/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/buddypress-sliding-login-panel.1.2.zip)

 * [Details](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-sliding-login-panel/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-sliding-login-panel/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-sliding-login-panel/#installation)
 * [Development](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-sliding-login-panel/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/buddypress-sliding-login-panel/)

## Description

BuddyPress Sliding Login Panel delivers a fancy, smooth AJAX login experience for
BuddyPress users. It also includes an account center with a full user menu. I put
this plugin together based on the iRedlof Ajax Login by Rohit LalChandani but have
completely re-worked it for use with BuddyPress. The plugin adds a tab to the top
of the page to pull down a panel where the user can login. I wrote in a BuddyPress
profile and account preview center for logged in users where they will be able to
check out a teaser of their new messages and friend requests as well as navigate
to other areas of the site.

BuddyPress Sliding Login Panel Plugin Features:

 * Logged Out Users: The panel displays a welcome message, link to registration,
   password retrieval, and an AJAX login form.
 * Logged In Users: The panel displays a total of two new messages with links to
   the inbox, the user’s current avatar and option to change it, a list of links
   to the most commonly-used BuddyPress components, and a preview of the user’s 
   friend requests.

Many thanks to the team at [quantumactivist.com](http://www.quantumactivist.com/)
for sponsoring some bug fixes for this plugin.

## Screenshots

[⌊screenshot-1.jpg : Panel for Users Not Logged In⌉⌊screenshot-1.jpg : Panel for
Users Not Logged In⌉[

screenshot-1.jpg : Panel for Users Not Logged In

[⌊screenshot-2.jpg : Panel for Logged in Users with no Updates⌉⌊screenshot-2.jpg:
Panel for Logged in Users with no Updates⌉[

screenshot-2.jpg : Panel for Logged in Users with no Updates

[⌊screenshot-3.jpg : Panel for Logged In Users with Messages/Requests⌉⌊screenshot-
3.jpg : Panel for Logged In Users with Messages/Requests⌉[

screenshot-3.jpg : Panel for Logged In Users with Messages/Requests

[⌊screenshot-4.jpg : Full panel view⌉⌊screenshot-4.jpg : Full panel view⌉[

screenshot-4.jpg : Full panel view

## Installation

 1. Upload the plugin to the plugins directory.
 2. Activate the plugin.
 3. Disable the BuddyPress Admin Bar by adding this to your wp-config.php file: define(‘
    BP_DISABLE_ADMIN_BAR’, true );

UPGRADE Instructions: Make sure to save a copy of the plugin if you’ve made customizations
to it. Upgrades will overwrite your files. You will need to re-apply your changes.
I hope to change this in the very near future. Thanks for your patience.

This plugin has no options after you install it, which is simply because I haven’t
yet learned to add in option pages for plugins. As soon as I have the time to figure
that out, I hope to make it much easier for users to customize without having to
edit php files. For now, if you want to change the welcome paragraph or any of the
links, most everything can be found in the update-content.php file. You can also
edit the CSS file included to make the plugin fit your site’s design better. More
than likely you will want to update the logo. The easiest way to do that would be
to name your file logo.png and overwrite the the same file in the images folder.

## FAQ

  Need additional features or customization?

If you want to hire me to make customizations for your site, feel free to get in
touch:
 [Untame.net](http://untame.net) using the [contact form](http://untame.net/contact).
No, I do not provide free support.

  My theme is distorted after activating this plugin

Contact the author of your theme.

  Tab appears but it won’t pull down

This plugin requires you to disable the BuddyPress admin bar. See installation instructions
for details.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“BuddyPress Sliding Login Panel” is open source software. The following people have
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Sarah Gooding ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pollyplummer/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/buddypress-sliding-login-panel/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/buddypress-sliding-login-panel/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/buddypress-sliding-login-panel/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/buddypress-sliding-login-panel/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.2

 * Added sponsor info

#### 1.1

 * Fixed bug that caused ghost friend requests
 * Improved avatar quality
 * Updates to installation instructions

#### 1.0

 * First run!

## Meta

 *  Version **1.2**
 *  Last updated: **15 years ago**
 *  Active installations: **10+**
 *  WordPress Version: ** 2.9.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to: **3.1.4**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-sliding-login-panel/)
 * Tags:
 * [ajax](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ajax/)[buddypress](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/buddypress/)
   [Sliding Panel](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sliding-panel/)[Top Panel](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/top-panel/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-sliding-login-panel/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ Sarah Gooding ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pollyplummer/)

## Support

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