If email is changed a new user is created

  • Resolved Mr Press

    (@tahrirsquare)


    10 years, 6 months ago

    The plugin works great and this is general question and not an issue with the plugin. If a user who has registered with Super Socializer changes his email address in his Facebook account (or Twitter or any social account) and then logs back in, WordPress will create a new user. This happens with all WordPress social login plugins. The same happens if I let the user change his email address with a plugin like WP User Frontend. Is this something WordPress has to live with or could there be a solution? The best I can do is to inform users on registration that if they change their e-mail address in Facebook, they can’t log back in to the same WordPress user they first registered.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/super-socializer/

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  • Plugin Author Rajat Varlani

    (@the_champ)

    If any user changes email address in his social account, and logs back into your WordPress website using Super Socializer plugin, new user will not be created. You can try it.
    REASON: When user logs in using social account, plugin saves user’s social id (unique id provided by that social ID provider) in wordpress database, whenever that user uses same social account to login, plugin checks for this social ID in WordPress database and logs the user in the WordPress user account created previously.

    Thread Starter Mr Press

    (@tahrirsquare)

    Hi. This happened because the user had been created with the plugin WordPress Social Login and because of that probably lacked the social ID. Once I deleted the old user and logged in (with Super Socializer) to create a new user, I can now change the e-mail of that user and log back in again without a new user being created. Great feature of Super Socializer since this did not work in any of the other social login plugins I tested. Thank you for explaining and for the great support!

    Plugin Author Rajat Varlani

    (@the_champ)

    You can thank me by writing a review at following link…:)
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/view/plugin-reviews/super-socializer

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