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1. Ovidiu
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   just curios, would it work? have you tried it? do you plan to?

   :-)

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gigya-socialize-for-wordpress/

2. DeanSmith
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   I'm testing it right now. It seems really, reallllllly ridiculously slow. Maybe bc of SSL.

   Anyone else have this same problem?

3. Ovidiu
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   it seems the title of this psot got cut off because of the excessively long plugin name.

   the actual question was in the thread title, namely if it is compatible with wpmu :-)

4. Gigya-inc
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   Hi Ovidiu,

   We are currently testing our plugin on WPMU. Please check again in a few days. Hopefully we'll have a more solid answer by then.

   Best,
   Miri Oliel
   -Gigya

5. Gigya-inc
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   Hey DeanSmith,

   Can you please send me a link to your site?

   Thanks,
   Miri Oliel
   -Gigya

6. Bane Unreinen
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   I've been using the plugin for about 2 months now, and overall am very happy with it. About half of the people that register on my site use the Social Network login/registration option provided by Gigya.

7. Gigya-inc
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   Thanks Bane - that is great feedback and we are happy that it works nicely for you.

   btw - 50% registration through Socialize is nice and a bit higher (but overall consistent) with what we see in other places, including non WordPress sites.
   we also see between 30%-50% overall increase in the rate of site registration with Socialize.

8. LoganSix
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   It seems to have an issue with pre-created accounts.

   I am using it with a WPMu setup and it had no problem creating new accounts with Yahoo, Facebook or Google. But, when I deleted those accounts and added one with my Google e-mail address, it doesn't redirect back to the main page after logging in.

9. LoganSix
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   Okay, so slight issue with the plugin.

   If you create a user in the blog and then that person with the same e-mail address tries to use the third party login, it will create another user.

   I am going to try one more test.

10. LoganSix
    Member
    Posted 2 months ago #

    Here's the main issue.

    When a new account is created, it uses the "FirstName LastName" as the username. However, when you create a WordPress user in the admin panel, you can't have a space in the username.

    Therefor, unless the username of the existing WordPress user is exactly the same as the authenticated user, it will create a new account. And since the WordPress username won't allow the space, it's an inevitable that if someone were to switch from using their standard WordPress login to this login, they would create another account.

    Sort of frustrating.

11. Gigya-inc
    Member
    Posted 2 months ago #

    Hi loganSix,

    Thanks for pointing us to this issue.

    Currently the system doesn't support that. You either have an existing Wordpress user or you create a new user using Socialize, you can't have them both linked to the same user entity in WP.

    We are working on a version that will allow linking an existing Wordpress user to a Socialize user. this way it won't be an issue
    anymore.

    Itamar.

12. nickohrn
    Member
    Posted 1 month ago #

    Logan, thanks for the wonderful feedback regarding the username bug. I've taken a look and this affects compatibility with others WordPress components as well, most notably buddypress. If you look at the member viewing ability there, the spaces in usernames cause problems with the member lookup and fetching. Unfortunate that this is happening, but I'll see what I can do.

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