{"id":2119,"date":"2011-08-07T14:49:37","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T18:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/?p=2119"},"modified":"2011-08-07T23:14:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T03:14:53","slug":"quicklogin-plugin-for-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/2119\/quicklogin-plugin-for-wordpress","title":{"rendered":"QuickLogin Plugin For WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog runs on <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a>, which has been a great solution for my needs. But as the developer of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/marsedit\/\">MarsEdit<\/a>, you might guess I get the opportunity to see <em>a whole heckuva lot<\/em> of other systems, and sometimes find myself envious of their advantages, big and small.<\/p>\n<p>One such advantage I noticed is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squarespace.com\/\">Squarespace<\/a> users can log in from any page on their blog, just by <a href=\"http:\/\/help.squarespace.com\/customer\/portal\/articles\/10974-i-hid-my-login-prompt-on-my-website-how-do-i-log-in-now-\">pressing the escape key<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By default, WordPress requires that you either memorize the admin page URL, or list an ugly &#8220;Login&#8221; link i the blog&#8217;s template. I never liked the idea of having a login link for a site that <em>only I should ever be logging in to<\/em>, so for years I have omitted the login link from my site.<\/p>\n<p>This means that when I&#8217;m reading comments or something on my site, and am not logged in, I have to do a silly dance before I respond or moderate a comment:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Go to the URL bar in my browser.<\/li>\n<li>Change URL to \/wp-admin\/<\/li>\n<li>Enter the proper login credentials.<\/li>\n<li>Hit back button to get back where I was.<\/li>\n<li>Reload the page to see the comment form as a logged-in user.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>This ends today. My <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/danielpunkass\/QuickLogin\">QuickLogin Plugin<\/a> for WordPress is a drop-in solution that, when activated, gives your WordPress blog the same delicious escape-key behavior that Squarespace offers. Now when I am browsing my own blog and want to log in, I just press the escape key. After I authenticate, I&#8217;m automatically returned to the reloaded page I was viewing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog runs on WordPress, which has been a great solution for my needs. But as the developer of MarsEdit, you might guess I get the opportunity to see a whole heckuva lot of other systems, and sometimes find myself envious of their advantages, big and small. One such advantage I noticed is that Squarespace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacking","category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2119"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2128,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions\/2128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}