Login Not Working (Beta)

SFC explicitly does not do that. I eliminated the transparent registration mechanism, and very likely will not be adding it back in. Essentially, it’s confusing to the user because they’re creating an account on the site and passing personal information without knowing it.

This is silly. The whole reason to add a Facebook login to a website is so the user does NOT have to go through a registration process. But SFC requires that you first register BEFORE you can connect via your Facebook account. Who the heck is going to jump through that many hoops just to be able to login via Facebook?

I tried signing in with Facebook and got the same error everyone was getting. There was absolutely NOTHING intuitive about what had gone wrong. It was only after doing a google search that I found this thread and figured out the problem. No user, or very few, will bother trying to figure it out. They see a Facebook Login, they click it thinking they can sign in to your website without going through a registration process. If that doesn’t work, they’ll simply move on. I doubt 1 in a million would be upset that this process registered them with your website especially since the Facebook prompts clearly state you are passing your email address to the website. In fact, I bet most people actually think they ARE registering with your website when they sign in through Facebook.

Just my two cents. The Facebook Connect plugin provides this functionality and I’ve already deactivated SFC. It also provides a Facebook login button as a sidebar widget which bizarrely SFC doesn’t do.

But SFC requires that you first register BEFORE you can connect via your Facebook account.

No, it doesn’t. The register module of SFC both registers you for the site and connects the account to FB all at once. It’s following the recommended method by Facebook to do so.

If you wish to use some other plugin, then by all means, feel free.

So Otto, is there an official way to use SFC with WP-Members? I’ll let people register on my site first, then add their FB account (which seems to be the workflow you’re saying FB corporate endorses, despite being a bit cumbersome). Unfortunately it seems SFC is somehow incompatible with WP-Members…

In a perfect world I’d like a way to have users signup entirely via Facebook (meaning they don’t need to actually type any of their info again, they just need to approve the Connect), and I’d like to have the option of requiring admin approval of users (just like WP-Members).

As I stated before, the register module built into SFC both registers a new user and directly links their account to Facebook in one step.

The screenshot shows this rather clearly, I think:

https://s.www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/simple-facebook-connect/screenshot-6.png?r=487325

The registration mechanism used for this is actually the built-in WordPress mechanism. All SFC does is to intercept the FB data from their registration widget and convert it so the normal mechanism can see it properly. So unless another plugin changes how that bit works in some major way, it’s compatible with everything.

So I wasn’t aware that SFC allowed admins to gatekeep the signups, which is a fairly important step. Also, and I confess I don’t think I was clear about this in my other post, I’d prefer users don’t have passwords just for the WP install. I’d like the *only form of auth* to be FB. Anyway, thanks for pointing out that aspect of SFC.

Hi otto,

I am unable to login through Fb, i entered all the credentials and clicked on login with facebook it throws an error

“ERROR: Cannot log you in. There is no account on this site connected to that Facebook user identity.”

Please help me i am stumped ??

Thanks
Harsha

Thanks @gdaniels99. I got the same question until found this post. make me waste time to find why it not connect and login at one click.

@otto you should describe clearly how the login does. Like you have to register first (with facebook register form) so that you can use login function.

You don’t have to register first with the Facebook register form. If you already have an account on the site, then login normally, go to your profile page, and link your FB account with your WP account.

If you don’t have an account at all, then yes, you have to register first, via some method.

Thanks @otto. I sure it does. It just not I’m looking for. Thanks again for the great plugin.

** now I move to https://www.sociable.es/facebook-connect/
– it does what expect now, just click facebook login button, it will create new accoutnt if not have one. Don’t have to register or setup password at all. I will use your facebook username as login name and you can login anytime when facebook.com is logged in.