Request for a a jetpack-wordpress registration

  • Resolved rosyteddy

    (@rosyteddy)


    10 years ago

    Hope you all are enjoying your well-deserved break or holidays.
    When you come back, here is a small request.

    We already have jetpack-wordpress login that integrates nicely into self-hosted wordpress sites. Now we want to enable the “Likes” feature so that blog posts can be directly liked in the blog itself rather than from Activity stream. To have this memebers have to register TWICE! Once at our self-hosted site, and again at wordpress.com

    I suggest and request that like jetpack-wordpress login, a jetpack-wordpress registration be also added. Users will register in our site, thats what they will see in the front-end. In the back-end registration will actually create an account at wordpess.com whose credentials can seamlessly be used for login into our self-hosted wordpress site.

    Since the “Likes” feature is mostly used by BP users, WP Multisite + BP usage should be kept in mind. BP needs compulsorily another name apart from WP username – the Profile Name. This should be kept in mind, and a jetpack registration form be devised that has these fields.

    It will be really an excellent thing for the members who can just register once and at one place. Thanks a lot.

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  • Plugin Author Jeremy Herve

    (@jeherve)

    Jetpack Mechanic ??

    That sounds like a good idea, but I’m not sure how this would be implemented.

    When signing up for a WordPress.com account, you have to accept our Terms of Service, and then click on a link in a confirmation email to confirm the account creation. How would you handle that during the registration on your self-hosted WordPress site?

    Thread Starter rosyteddy

    (@rosyteddy)

    Hi Jeremy Herve

    Thanks a lot for replying.
    The first criteria is whether we are going to do this as a “Stop Press” feature – that is, whether we have agreed to do it as quickly as possible ??

    If YES, then everything else can be sorted out fast. First of all, this is optional feature – those who want to enable it via Jetpack, can enable it. Those who do not, just do not – no forcing!

    Now to come to your question : the answer is really very simple

    Add a small checkbox ( I prefer in ‘selected state’) below the form
    – This will create an account on both abc.com and wordpress.com and I agree to the TOSs of abc.com & wordpress.com

    Simple.

    Just hyperlink to both the TOSs to abc.com and wordpress.com

    Less than 1% users bother about TOS though companies have to bother for understandable reasons ??

    If done, this will make the life much simpler for millions and can remove the hindrance to easy adoption of Jetpack. Thanks.

    Plugin Author Jeremy Herve

    (@jeherve)

    Jetpack Mechanic ??

    While the checkbox sounds easy enough, I’m not sure how it could work. Your registration process would also have to query WordPress.com to see if an account already exists for this email address. Your process would also have to trigger the confirmation email from WordPress.com.

    We currently do not have any process in place that allows you to create WordPress.com accounts from a third-party service, mostly for the reasons I listed above.

    It could be something we add to Jetpack’s Single Sign On module in the future, but I’m afraid I can’t give you an ETA at the moment.

    Thread Starter rosyteddy

    (@rosyteddy)

    Querying wordpress.com can take place in the background and if email/username exists the same can be denied for new registration in the frontend.

    As per the confirmation email, wordpress.com can authenticate valid and participating sites to have their own authentication. You can look at the ‘Drupal’ module of Drupal version 5

    Nothing is impossible in the coding world. Question is : how much interested we are in such a solution ?? Often demand may not be there but once implemented people crazily use it. That is foresight like Apple ??

    Thanks for your feedback.

    Plugin Author Jeremy Herve

    (@jeherve)

    Jetpack Mechanic ??

    Nothing is impossible in the coding world. Question is : how much interested we are in such a solution ?? Often demand may not be there but once implemented people crazily use it. That is foresight like Apple ??

    I think we’re likely to improve the SSO module in the future to include WordPress.com registration, but I won’t be able to give you an ETA, as it’s not on our roadmap at the moment.

    I took note of it though, so that’s something we’ll consider next time we work on SSO.

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