This application allows you to insert custom content underneath the login screen. Be sure to add accompanying CSS styles if needed.

login_updates.css

/**
 * Basic Login Updates Styles
 * by White Whale Web Services
 * http://whitewhale.net
 
 * When using this file, place it in a /styles sub-folder of the module folder
 * containing the above PHP file so that it can be found by the module code.
**/

/* Card Styles */

.card.extra {
  margin-top: 15px;
}

.card.extra:after {
  clear: both;
  content: '.';
  display: block;
  height: 0;
  overflow: hidden;
  visibility: hidden;
}

/* Columns Styles */

.lw_widget_column {
  float: left;
}

.lw_widget_column > * {
  margin-right: 12px;
}

/* Generic Widget Styles */

.lw_widget li {
  padding-bottom: 15px;
}

.lw_widget li:last-child {
  padding-bottom: 0;
}

.lw_widget li.lw_has_image {
  margin-left: 99px;
  padding-bottom: 0;
}

.lw_has_image .lw_item_thumb img {
  float: left;
  margin-top: 5px;
  margin-left: -99px;
}

.lw_widget li.lw_has_image:after {
  clear: both;
  content: '.';
  display: block;
  height: 15px;
  overflow: hidden;
  visibility: hidden;
}

/* Blurbs Styles */

.lw_blurbs_title {
  color: #333;
  font-size: 18px;
  font-weight: 600;
}

.lw_blurbs_body {
  color: #333;
  font-size: 15px;
}

/* Events Styles */

.lw_events_header_date {
  margin-bottom: 0.3em;
  color: #999;
  font-size: 1.6em;
  font-weight: bold;
}

.lw_events_time {
  font-size: 18px;
  font-weight: 600;
}

.lw_events_title {
  font-size: 18px;
  font-weight: 600;
  line-height: 1;
}

.lw_events_until {
  display: none;
}

/* News Styles */

.lw_news_headline a {
  font-size: 18px;
  font-weight: 600;
}

/* Twitter Styles */

.lw_widget_twitter li {
  position: relative;
  margin-left: 66px;
  margin-bottom: 15px;
  padding: 5px;
  background-color: #ddd;
  -webkit-border-radius: 5px;
  -moz-border-radius: 5px;
  border-radius: 5px;
}

.lw_widget_twitter li:last-child {
  margin-bottom: 0;
  padding-bottom: 5px;
}

.lw_widget_twitter li:before {
  content: "\25C0";
  position: absolute;
  left: -14px;
  top: 12px;
  color: #ddd;
  font-size: 18px;
}

.lw_widget_twitter li:after {
  clear: both;
  content: '.';
  display: block;
  height: 0;
  overflow: hidden;
  visibility: hidden;
}

.lw_twitter_images,
.lw_twitter_date,
.lw_twitter_location {
  display: none;
}

.lw_twitter_username img {
  float: left;
  margin-top: -5px;
  margin-left: -72px;
}

.lw_twitter_username a {
  font-weight: 600;
  text-decoration: none;
}

.lw_twitter_tweet {
  display: block;
  overflow-x: hidden;
}

.lw_widget_column .lw_twitter_tweet {
  margin-right: 9px;
}

private.application.login_updates.php

<?php

// This application allows you to insert custom content underneath the login screen.
// Be sure to add accompanying CSS styles if needed. :)

$_LW->REGISTERED_APPS['login_updates']=array( // register this application
  'title' => 'Login Updates', // the module name
	'handlers'=>array('onLoad', 'onOutput') // the handlers to use
);

class LiveWhaleApplicationLoginUpdates {

  // we use a onLoad to get our custom CSS file loaded into the login page
  public function onLoad() {
    global $_LW;
    if ($_LW->page !== 'login') { return; } // exit if this is not the login page
    if ( file_exists($_LW->INCLUDES_DIR_PATH . '/core/modules/help') ) { // if 1.4.4 or greater, we’ll do things a bit differently
      $_LW->REGISTERED_CSS[] = '/live/resource/css/login_updates%5Clogin_updates.css';
    } else {
      $_LW->REGISTERED_CSS[] = '/live/resource/css/login_updates';
    }
  }
  
  public function onOutput($buffer) {
    global $_LW;
    if ($_LW->page !== 'login') { return; } // exit if this is not the login page

    // pattern is what we’ll search for to insert our new content
  	$pattern = '~<div id="tagline">~i';

  	// update is what we want to add, think about some twitter widgets, event widgets, a blurb widget or a file widget
  	// don’t try this with a slideshow yet :(
  	// uncomment and change these two lines to what you need 
  	//
  	$widget_type = 'blurbs';
  	$widget_code = '<widget name="login_blurbs"></widget>';

  	// let’s go get the widget
   	if (!empty($widget_type) && !empty($widget_code)) {
   	  $updates = $_LW->getUrl("http://{$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']}/livewhale/frontend.php?livewhale=preview_widget&widget={$widget_type}&syntax=" . rawurlencode($widget_code));
   	  $updates = preg_replace('~http://a~i', 'https://si', $updates);
   	}

  	// now we’ll add the updates content to the output
  	if (!empty($updates)) {
    	$result = preg_replace($pattern, '<div class="card extra">' . $updates . '</div><div id="tagline">', $buffer);
  	}

  	// and we return the updated content if the addition didn’t fail
  	return ((empty($result)) ? $buffer : $result);
  }

}

?>