How to load login, register and other forms and nodes in modal window? I am seeking a module or technique to show forms (for example login form, register form etc.) and nodes in a modal window/pop up.

I found some modules that promise to do that, but none of them seems good for my use case:


Ajax Login/Register It does not work with programmatically created login link, I followed this post, without any success.   
Modal forms (with ctools) Is seeking maintainer, so who knows whether or not development will be continued?
Colorbox Node Cant get it working for login, register pages/forms


What is the best way to have this feature. I would prefer a solution that is easily extendible to load nodes or other entities as well within a modal window.

What is the Drupal 7 way to do that?
No need to write single line of code.

To open node add/edit form in modal window, try below modules

https://www.drupal.org/project/ctools_automodal
https://www.drupal.org/project/ctools_automodal_admin

I tried &amp; it works properly for me.

To open node add form in modal
admin/config/system/ctools_automodal_admin -> Modal content types and select content types.

To open node edit form in modal add
node/%node/edit in Extra modal links textarea.