What I’ve always wanted was a way to reload the current page after I have logged in. So if I’m on the “Search” page, I just want to go to the login page, then go back to the page I was on when I clicked the “Login” link. Finally – a solution!

Thanks to David Chambers – it is as easy as changing the url that the “login” link points to.

<a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-login.php?redirect_to=<?php echo urlencode($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); ?>">log in</a>

He calls it WordPress Login Redirect. I would imagine that this would be a handy plugin for a lot of people. On an intranet, you may want to provide a link to the dashboard if they are an admin, or a link to logout if they are not. I have been using a very simple conditional statement that determines what to put in place of the login link after you are logged in.

<?php
	global $current_user;
	get_currentuserinfo();

	if (!(is_user_logged_in())) { ?>
		<a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-login.php?redirect_to=<?php echo urlencode($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); ?>">Log in</a>
	<?php } elseif
		(
		(($current_user->user_login) == "brock") 	||
		(($current_user->user_login) == "admin")
		)
		{
			echo "<a href=\"";
			echo get_option('siteurl');
			echo "/wp-admin/\">Dashboard</a>";
			} else { ?>
			<a href="<?php echo wp_logout_url( get_permalink() ); ?>" title="Logout">Logout</a>
			<?php
		}
?>

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I have always thought it would be nice to have a navigation bar that aligns text to both the left and the right, so I finally took the time to get this working. Once I figured it out, it was very simple to setup.

So on the left you’ll have this:

And on the right you’ll have this:

It is as simple as an html table. Yep. Just think about it. Your navigation bar is a single row, with two columns. I set my left column to 70% and my right column to 30%. Then I can align each table to the left or right.

I set the entire table inside an unordered list, then each page link is just an li or a list item. Your header.php file will probably look similar to mine, but without the table. What you choose to do with your newly-balanced right side is up to you. I am displaying the current time with a greeting depending on the time of day. At my office we are displaying the visitors IP address (very handy on a LAN).

<div id="navbar">
	<ul>
		<table width="100%">
			<tr>
		<td width="80%"><li><a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>">Home</a></li>
		<?php wp_list_pages(); ?>
		<?php wp_list_categories(); ?>
		</td>
		<td width="20%" align="right"><div id="txt"></div></td>
			</tr>
		</table>
	</ul>
</div>

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