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Login/Logout and User Welcome

<div id="user-details">
<?php
   if (is_user_logged_in()) {
      $user = wp_get_current_user();
      echo ‘Welcome back <strong>’.$user->display_name.‘</strong> !’;
   } else { ?>
      Please <strong><?php wp_loginout(); ?></strong>
      or <a href="<?php echo get_option(’home’); ?>/wp-login.php?action=register"> <strong>Register</strong></a>
<?php } ?>
</div>

Uses WordPress functions and queries to pull user information, and to display the login/logout/register links.

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  1. mansur

    thanks for this…
    this code very usable for multi authored site..

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    • mansur

      Please add some additional code for integrate gravatar with login user….

      TQ…

  2. Alex

    This doesnt seem to work, breaks the whole site!

    Any ideas? Is there any other config that needs to be done?

    Cheers!

    Reply ↓
  3. Tristan

    I didn’t test this code, but the single quotes might be breaking the code. They may need to be replaced with the regular tic mark ( ‘ ) instead of the fancy single quotes ( ‘ ) and ( ’ ), which probably were converted when copy/pasting from ms Word

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  4. Tristan

    ug, tic mark was converted when I posted
    '

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  5. Adi

    yop! ..usefull! thx

    Reply ↓
  6. Steward John

    Nice tutorial.. thanks for that.

    Reply ↓
  7. tanna

    hello, I tried to do this but it didn’t work and now I can’t even log in to wordpress nor my website. It gives me a 505 internal error message and tell me to contact “cgiadmin@yourhostingaccount.com”. Please advice.

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  8. tanna

    sorry it’s 500 not 505 Internal Error

    The message is:

    “0

    500 Internal Server Error

    The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable
    to complete your request.

    Please contact the server administrator,
    cgiadmin@yourhostingaccount.comand inform them of the time the error”

    Reply ↓
  9. amnrnamnai

    i need to put this code where cause i didn’t find the location :( am i need to create one more page ? or i need to put this code in a wadge ? please tell me

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  10. Aron

    Thanks for this, works well for me.

    My only question is how to extend the Logged in message to include an option to log out??

    i.e, Welcome Back USER, ‘logout?’

    Many thanks

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  11. Andrew @ EmailExpert

    Thanks tristan

    Aron the code your looking for (complete) is here, it also offers a hardcoded link to where you like (replace EMailExpert.org) by clicking username:

    <?php
   if (is_user_logged_in()) {
      $user = wp_get_current_user();
      echo 'Hi <strong><a href="http://emailexpert.org/" rel="nofollow">'.$user->display_name.'</a></strong> | <a href="">Logout</a>';
   } else { ?>
      Please <strong></strong>
      or <a href="/wp-login.php?action=register"> <strong>Register</strong></a>
    Reply ↓
  12. Andrew @ EmailExpert

    nope ok visit

    http:// codex.wordpress.org/ Function_Reference/ wp_logout_url

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