[Plugin: BuddyPress] Twitter, Facebook & Google Connect

  • Are there any FREE plugins for this? Also, the ones I have found don’t work as they should:

    Buddystream includes Facebook and Twitter at a subscription of 50$/year.

    BuddyPress Facebook Connect+ is also minimum 50$.

    TwitConnect only shows in the login widget. Using the php tag anywhere else only shows my e-mail address for some strange reason. I want to put the login button in some custom spots – namely the Slide-in panel plugin.

    WP Google+ Connect and WP-FB-AutoConnect seem to work fine…

    BUT none of them works as they should:

    Scenario 1:
    New user only has a Facebook or Google+ acount. They login to the site using the Connect buttons – A new user account is made, BUT THEY DON”T HAVE A PASSWORD FOR TRADITIONAL LOGIN!

    Scenario 2:
    User already has a buddypress account and is NOT logged in to the blog. They have a facebook or google+ account DOES NOT use the same e-mail as their blog profile. They click the connect buttons – A NEW PROFILE GETS MADE INSTEAD OF LINKING TO THEIR ALREADY ESTABLISHED BLOG PROFILE + NO PASSWORD FOR TRADITIONAL LOGIN.

    Scenario 3:
    User already has a buddypress account and is presently logged in to the blog. They have a facebook or google+ account that doesn’t necessarily use the same e-mail as their blog profile. They click the connect buttons and their profile gets linked to their facebook or google+ accounts. – No problems here because user was already logged in at time of connecting.

    Scenario 4:
    User already has a buddypress account and is NOT logged in to the blog. They have a facebook or google+ account that uses the same e-mail as their blog profile. They click the connect buttons and their profile gets linked to their facebook or google+ accounts. – No problems here because the emails are the same so they link up.

    Basically, isn’t there anything out there that fixes the problems with Scenarios 1 & 2 – namely that if a new connected profile is made, they get asked to create a buddypress password and that before connecting the accounts to have the user be asked to log in to a current buddypress account if they have one?

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/buddypress/

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  • Found this:https://scryb.es/blog/social-connect-widget/. asked them if it works with BuddyPress. no answer yet. will let you know.

    Thread Starter mcfmullen

    (@mcfmullen)

    That plugin doesn’t do what I need at all. It adds links to your facebook page or twitter feed. It DOES NOT connect the site so users can login to it using their facebook or twitter ID.

    Completely different.

    @mcfmullen I thought I had found some pot of gold with “wordpress social login” but they are only free in what they are calling their beta stage. Everyone of the 60k users who integrated this into their site and probably don’t realize they plan to charge for its basic use per/month are in for a shocker. The one thing I wanted most was to force users to enter an email when singing in with twitter since it doesn’t supply one. So the answer to this thread is there currently is no really good free alternative.

    Thread Starter mcfmullen

    (@mcfmullen)

    That’s really disappointing. You’d think facebook and twitter integration would be a basic feature of wordpress by now!

    I see no reason for WordPress to divert resources to integrate the social networks that happen to be popular right now. Secondly, there are already both free and commercial plugins that offer similar functionality.

    That being said, I came here because, like @mcfmullen, I am looking for a comprehensive solution too. This might end up with me branching some of these free plugins – we will see. The search continues.

    Let me know if you find anything! Thanks.

    Thread Starter mcfmullen

    (@mcfmullen)

    You might not see the need but given the multitude of plug-ins available, half of which are outdated and using old APIs, it is clear there is a need for some sort of consistency and maintenance of standards.

    For example, those plug-ins using the old APIs don’t indicate such a thing and so you don’t know if it doesn’t work until you try it and even then, you won’t know why it doesn’t work.

    Another example: There are plugins that do one specific thing and others that do everything possible while still others do many things, but not everything. When combining plugins, they often kill each other because they use the same system of calls which confuses Facebook.

    If WordPress isn’t going to integrate the social network features themselves, it should at least incorporate the central framework to which plugins can connect to so that they don’t kill each other all the time.

    I think most people would agree that SOMETHING needs to be done about the problem.

    Has anyone tried this plugin Social Login https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/oa-social-login/

    @bloglocal,

    Social Login is just that, providing for Social logins, just like Janrain and others. What @mcfmullen is looking for, and a lot of other people as well myself included, is a way to integrate other social streams such as twitter, into the BuddyPress stream.

    Check out Bebop, which is free: https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/bebop/

    I have it installed but have not gotten it to work with Twitter yet. Also, Twitter is phasing out RSS support ?? so that won’t work in the future either.

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    Just to clarify, Bebop will NOT break for Twitter when they turn off their RSS feeds.

    Bebop uses Twitter’s oAuth powered APIs and not their RSS feeds.

    I should know – I’m the developer! ??

    Dale

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