How to Implement Twitter and Facebook Login in your WordPress Website

If your wordpress blog requires a user to register/sign-in, you probably would like to implement easy registrations for the site users.

Here are two simple mechanism to integrate Faebook and Twitter logins in your WordPress site.

Facebook Connect

There are quite a few plugins available to integrate Facebook integration, but the one we recommend is this. Apart from the fact that this plugin has been developed by a FB engineer, our recommendation is also based on the simplicity of its usage.

In order to use this plugin, you’d need Facebook API keys [which you can obtain from app registration page]

How to Configure Facebook App for WordPress Registration

After you have entered the name and basic details of application, enter your site url in ‘Connect URL’ section (‘Connect’ tab in App configuration page).

Enter the API key and Secret to get started.

Twitter Connect

Again, there are multiple Twitter connect plugins, but the one we recommend is this one.

Twit Connect provides two different options for connecting to Twitter, hosted oAuth or self-hosted.  Using the hosted method, your blog will connect to a Whitley Media server which will manage the oAuth exchange.  In the self-hosted option, everything is handled on your blog, however you must register your blog with Twitter as a Twitter application.  PHP 5 or greater is required to run the self-hosted option

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Do give the above two suggestions a try and share your recommendations.

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  • comment(s) on How to Implement Twitter and Facebook Login in your WordPress Website

    41 Responses to How to Implement Twitter and Facebook Login in your WordPress Website

    1. Ramón says:

      Cool article, it helped me out a lot!!

    2. ravindra says:

      i am a mechanical engg. currently i have join a public sector.

    3. These are excellent tips, there are many reasons to use FaceBook or Twitter as your login especially if you invite Guest bloggers. One less username/password to remember is always ideal, but the only problem is if any one of those are compromised (or your blog) then so is your social network (or vice versa).

    4. manish sharma says:

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    5. kapil says:

      i want to join twitter.

    6. i wanna to join twitter.plz tell me how can join us?

    7. sushameendra says:

      i want to apply twitter of mine so please help me

    8. vickyshukla says:

      i like twitter
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    11. yuvi says:

      i wana be memeber of twitter so pls help me anybody how is this possible.

    12. yuvi says:

      i wana join twitter n i don’t know what is the process so plz help me…

    13. AMAN CHAUHAN says:

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    16. Bilal Farooq says:

      Plz tell me how to join twitter

    17. sampathu c says:

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    18. akr verma says:

      how to use twitter?plz help me.

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    20. shriram says:

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    21. pragya singh says:

      hi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      I m a BCA student and had recently joined twitter

    22. shahbaz says:

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    23. imtiyaz says:

      hi iam imtiyaz i want to joint twitter and plz guid how to use

    24. aniket says:

      i recently join tiwtter for social things

    25. aniket says:

      its good for social thing to do know the news

    26. aniket says:

      join to know about current news with the help of twitter

    27. rajinder chauhan says:

      tell me how to log on twitter

    28. sanchita says:

      i am eager to join twitter please help me to join.

    29. Lowell says:

      thanks… this is cool stuff. Anything in regards to this for other site like Linkedin?

    30. ashok says:

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    31. ashley says:

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    32. gala says:

      great post and plugin! I really love it…im gonna share it to my friends for sure!

    33. Jackie says:

      wp fb connect dont work :(

    34. RAHUL SHARMA says:

      HI TO ALL

    35. VIDYA says:

      i wana join twitter n i don’t know what is the process so plz help me…

    36. Amru says:

      go to http://www.twitter.com to Join twitter, once you have logged in you search for people and start following them.

    37. Andkon says:

      Brilliant sharing! I really love your article…thanks for recommending this plugins. I appreciate it!