Description
Social login plugin adds website authentication via popular networks to WordPress login, registration and comments forms. Allow your visitors to login and comment with their existing accounts on Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.
Install now and make forms filling for your visitors easier!
Features
- Enable login with social networks:
- Instagram [NEW]
- Add to:
- Login form
- Registration form
- Comments form
- Select the default role for new users
- Enable user registration only via social buttons
- Link your social accounts to your existing WordPress account
- Compatible with latest WordPress version
- Incredibly simple settings for fast setup without modifying code
- Detailed step-by-step documentation and videos
If you have a feature suggestion or idea you’d like to see in the plugin, we’d love to hear about it! Suggest a Feature
Documentation
Help & Support
Visit our Help Center if you have any questions, our friendly Support Team is happy to help – https://support.bestwebsoft.com/
Translation
- Spanish (es_ES)
- Russian (ru_RU)
- Ukrainian (uk)
Some of these translations are not complete. We are constantly adding new features which should be translated. If you would like to create your own language pack or update the existing one, you can send the text of PO and MO files to BestWebSoft and we’ll add it to the plugin. You can download the latest version of the program for work with PO and MO files Poedit.
Recommended Plugins
- Updater – Automatically check and update WordPress website core with all installed plugins and themes to the latest versions.
- BestWebSoft’s LinkedIn – Add LinkedIn Share and Follow buttons to WordPress posts, pages and widgets. 5 plugins included – profile, insider, etc.
- BestWebSoft’s Pinterest – Add Pinterest Follow, Save buttons and profile widgets (Pin, Board, Profile) to WordPress posts, pages and widgets.
- BestWebSoft’s Twitter – Add Twitter Follow, Tweet, Hashtag, and Mention buttons to WordPress posts and pages.
- BestWebSoft’s Like & Share – Add Facebook Follow, Like, and Share buttons to WordPress posts, pages, and widgets.
Screenshots
Social Login buttons displaying on the login form. 
Social Login short buttons displaying on the login form. 
Social Login buttons displaying on the comment form. 
Plugin Settings page. 
Linking social accounts to existing WordPress account on the profile page.
Installation
- Upload the
social-login-bwsfolder to/wp-content/plugins/directory. - Activate the plugin using the ‘Plugins’ menu in your WordPress admin panel.
- You can adjust the necessary settings using your WordPress admin panel in “Social Login”.
View a Step-by-step Instruction on Social Login Installation
FAQ
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I have some problems with the plugin’s work. What Information should I provide to receive proper support?
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Please make sure that the problem hasn’t been discussed yet on our forum (https://support.bestwebsoft.com). If no, please provide the following data along with your problem’s description:
- the link to the page where the problem occurs
- the name of the plugin and its version. If you are using a pro version – your order number.
- the version of your WordPress installation
- copy and paste into the message your system status report. Please read more here: Instruction on System Status
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Social Login by BestWebSoft” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
“Social Login by BestWebSoft” has been translated into 3 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
Translate “Social Login by BestWebSoft” into your language.
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
V1.4.4 – 01.09.2021
- NEW : Ability to login with Instagram has been added.
- Update : All functionality was updated for WordPress 5.8.
- Update : BWS panel section was updated.
- Update : HybridAuth library was updated.
V1.4.3 – 19.08.2020
- Bugfix : Issue with authorization via LinkedIn has been fixed.
- Bugfix : Google re-login issue has been fixed.
- Update : BWS panel section was updated.
V1.4.2 – 15.06.2020
- Update : Plugin settings page was updated.
- Update : Google Login button was updated.
- Update : HybridAuth library was updated.
V1.4.1 – 03.01.2020
- Bugfix : Vulnerabilities and security issues were fixed.
= V1.4 – 31.10.2019
* NEW : Ability to delete user metadata when deleting the plugin has been added.
* Update : BWS menu has been updated.
V1.3 – 04.09.2019
- Update: The deactivation feedback has been changed. Misleading buttons have been removed.
= V1.2 – 04.03.2019
* NEW : The open source login and registration functionality has been replaced with hybridauth library.
V1.1 – 08.01.2019
- Update : All functionality was updated for WordPress 5.0.2.
- Bugfix : Fixed small bugs.
V1.0 – 16.08.2018
- Update : The plugin settings page has been changed.
- NEW : Ability to change social buttons output and its text has been added.
V0.5 – 02.04.2018
- NEW : Ability to select new user default role has been added.
- NEW : Ability to enable the user registration using the social login button regardless WordPress General settings has been added.
V0.4 – 30.11.2017
- Update : The Spanish language file has been added.
- Update : Redirect functionality has been improved.
- NEW : Ability to link Facebook Account to your existing WordPress account has been added.
- NEW : Ability to link Twitter Account to your existing WordPress account has been added.
- NEW : Ability to link LinkedIn Account to your existing WordPress account has been added.
V0.3 – 04.05.2017
- NEW : Ability to link Google Account to your existing WordPress account has been added.
V0.2 – 14.04.2017
- Bugfix : Multiple Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was fixed.
V0.1 – 03.02.2017
- NEW : Plugin has been released.