How To Create A Social Login In WordPress

Introduction

How To Create A Social Login In WordPress WooCommerce Social Login extension allows users to log in and checkout with social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Windows Live, VK.com, Amazon, PayPal, Line, Apple, and log in with Email.

It has been proven countless times that the easier it is for a customer to create an account during checkout, the more likely they are to complete their purchase. This extension makes the WooCommerce checkout process another notch easier for customers that prefer to log in via their favorite social networks.

Features:

  • One-click registration.
  • WooCommerce Social Login works standalone with WooCommerce, BuddyPress, bbPress, or PeepSo.
  • Integrate your store’s customer accounts with Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Windows Live, VKontakte (VK.com), PayPal, Amazon, Line, Apple, and log in with Email.
  • Make account access and checkout easy and seamless – customers don’t need to remember another username and password.
  • Reduce friction for repeat purchases – customers typically stay signed into social networks, which means they sign back into your site with one click.
  • Improve security and increase trust by using social sign-on
  • Ability to send newly created account details to user’s email.
  • Auto Integrate on the checkout page.
  • Includes a short code, [woo_social_login], that can be used to place the social login buttons on any page, as well as a widget that can be used in any widget area.
  • Ability to set custom redirect URL to get redirected after customer login with social media.
  • Admin can change the order of social network buttons by drag and drop.
  • View the number of sign-ups for each social network.
  • Generate a pie chart for percentage registration on each social network.
  • Flexibility to link accounts on the ‘My account’ page and ‘Order received’ page for easy checkout in the future.
  • Social accounts are tied to a WordPress user account so that accounts can be accessed even if social accounts are unlinked.
  • A clean & user-friendly admin UI to manage everything.
  • Allow users to sign in or signup with email only.

Minimum Requirements

Below are the minimum requirements to use the plugin.

  • cURL is required for the plugin to function; don’t worry, most hosting providers already have this enabled.
    However, if your host doesn’t the plugin will show you notice, and you must ask your host to upgrade your server.
  • To allow sign-in with Amazon, you must use an SSL for your site. This is a requirement from Amazon.
    If your site doesn’t have SSL, the plugin will show you a notice.
  • PHP version 5.3 or greater (PHP 5.6 or greater is recommended)
  • MySQL version 5.0 or greater (MySQL 5.6 or greater is recommended)
  • WordPress 4.4 or greater

Installing the Plugin

  1. The installation of the plugin is just like any other plugin installation for WordPress. Login to your WordPress site and go to Plugins > Add New.
  2. At the Install Plugins Page click on Upload from the top navigation and then click on browse.
  3. Go to the location on your computer where you saved the downloaded plugin zip file and upload this zipped file. You need to unzip the file first to get the plugin zip file.
  4. Now click on Install Now.
  5. Wait until WordPress has uploaded the file. If it’s done click on Activate Plugin.
  6. Now you should see a message ‘Plugin activated’ at the top of the window.

After installing the extension, a social login tab will be added to the WooCommerce settings page.

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