Joomla pop-up logins

I think it's all the rage now-a-days to have fancy pop-up login screens. It means it doesn't take up any 'real-estate' on the home page.

Here's a few free plugins for Joomla which can do it:

• Q Login Popup
• requires registration to download
• as it took a while to get the validation
• adds itself as a module
• you just have to "publish" it and put it in a position
• also, put you want it to appear on all pages
• colour didn't match, so I re-did the button. Placed it in 
• /modules/mod_qloginpopup/images/login.png
• YJ Pop Login
• downloaded without registration
• it adds a module
• you just have to "publish" it and put it in a position
• also, put you want it to appear on all pages
• It just showed all of it (not just the button). Javascript must have a conflict somewhere

Making buttons and content only for registered users in Joomla

It's simple really, but I did need to do a search on it. I wanted a button which registered users could press which made a new Article in the News category.

What I did in the end was to make a new module, changed "access" from "public" to "registered". This module would then only show if the user was logged in.

I made a new menu, and put it in this module. I then created a button in the menu of type "Create Article" and made the default Category "News".

But looking at it now, it appears you can change Access to Registered for any menu item. So I could have just added menu items. But it still looks good.