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Social Login for Simple Machines Forum

Social Login allows your users to connect with one click to your Simple Machines Forum by using their social network accounts. Gather rich demographic information (age, gender, phone numbers ...) about your users without requiring them to fill out any forms. Obtain pre-validated email addresses and increase your data quality.

Social Login seamlessly integrates into your Simple Machines Forum so that you and your users don't have to start from scratch.

Increase your registration rate

Social Login for SMF increases the user registration rate of your Simple Machines Forum by simplifying the registration process. Get rid of long forms and complicated captchas by allowing new users to sign-up with their existing social network account.

Your existing SMF users can furthermore link their regular account to one or more social networks and can then use these social network accounts to login. Eliminate the issues of forgotten usernames and passwords!

35+ Social Networks Supported: Facebook, TikTok, Google, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Yahoo, PayPal, Foursquare, OpenID, LiveJournal, Steam, Wordpress.com, StackExchange, Windows Live, Pinterest, Instagram, Disqus, Blogger, Github.com, Skyrock.com, VKontakte, Mail.ru ... View Datasheet

1. Installation

The installation is not very complicated and should only take a couple of minutes. Please follow our instructions carefully and do not skip any steps.

a. Download the module

Download Social Login for SMF 2.0+

Download Social Login for SMF 1.0+

b. Upload the downloaded package to your SMF forum

Open the administration area of your Simple Machines Forum and navigate to Admin \ Package Manager \ Download Packages. Scroll down to Upload a Package and upload the previously downloaded file.

c. Install the package

After having uploaded the package, locate the OneAll Social Login entry and click on the [ Install Mod ] link.

2. Configuration

a. Open the configuration panel

b. Setup the API connection handler

Click on the button Click here to autodetect the API Connection Handler. You should receive a green success message if your server is able to communicate with our API. Your firewall must allow outbound requests on either port 80 or 443.

c. Enter your API Settings

To obtain your API Credentials you first of all need a OneAll Site. If you do not have a site yet, you should create a new site now.

Fill out the API Settings and click on the button Click here to verify the API Settings. You should receive a green success message if your credentials are correct.

d. Setup the social networks

Select the social networks that you would like to use by ticking their checkboxes.

Please note that many social networks require that the webmasters register their website before being able to use their services. To be able to use the plugin, you must therefore register your website. This process is straightforward and takes only a couple of minutes.

It has to be done only once for each provider and we will guide you through this process. To setup your providers, please login to your OneAll account, select a Site and click on Social Networks.

3. Troubleshooting

a. The API Communication does not seem to work correctly

Please make sure that your firewall does not block outbound requests on both ports 80 and 443. One of these ports must allow outgoing requests (from your server to ours) so that the plugin can establish a communication with our API.

If you have access to the console of your server you can test if outbound requests are allowed by using this command: telnet ping.api.oneall.com 443. If the port is open then you should obtain a result like this:

		~$ telnet ping.api.oneall.com 443
		Trying 136.243.63.184...
		Connected to ping.api.oneall.com.
		Escape character is '^]'.

4. Contribute

Feel free to fork our SMF GitHub repository to contribute to the development of this package.