What are the best practices to achieve cross-domain interoperability and transparency in aggregate data through a uniform, hashed user naming schema?

The following plugin was just presented at the special session on data provenance to amend NSA's hard problems during the Hot Topics on Science of Security (HoTSoS) symposium. I'm looking for peer review regarding best practices prior to submission to the WordPress repository. It's fairly self-explanatory and a surprisingly simple way to achieve cross domain interoperability through the hashing of usernames. Other open source networks persist around this concept but Wordpress is a much larger medium with a potential for …
Category: Web

How to fake a Wordpress login?

As many of you know WPEngine don't support PHP SESSIONS unless the user is logged in. In that case WPEngine start taking consideration of PHP SESSIONS and the software based on hybridauth like Wordpress Social Login or Wordpress Social Invitations will work ok. So my question is : There is a way to fake a Wordpress login?
Category: Web

LinkedIn Social Wall | Is there a plug-in (Free / Paid) to display a LinkedIn feed in a social wall (not just a feed)?

I have been researching plug-ins that have the capabilities of displaying a LinkedIn feed in a beautiful social wall style, to no-avail. Previously, I had one that was working however they disabled the ability to display LinkedIn feeds due to the changes in LinkedIn's policies. I have yet again been tasked with creating a tiled LinkedIn feed (with permission to purchase a plug-in). I told him it is not possible but I am hopeful someone will be able to point …
Category: Web

How to prefill WordPress registration with social details

I created custom registration process in WordPress with a lot of extra fields like first name, last name etc. I would like to make integration with Facebook/LinkedIn so first name, last name, email, fields are be prefilled with Facebook/LinkedIn, but still, users will need to enter other fields to finish registration. Is it possible to do something like that, or is there some plugin which is doing that?
Category: Web

Front-End Social photo upload

I’m looking for a plugin which helps me to add image uploader on front-end of my website for my woocommerce customers and then review uploaded photo by admin and if accepted they will be added on home page or somewhere in page block. it will be very good if such plugin has not only uploading from computer, but upload from facebook and instagram. Thank you very much!
Category: Web

Wordpress Site login problem with facebook, twitter and other social media

I am running My Wordpress Powered Website on a free hosted platform and the provider blocked PHP curl extension. I want to let visitors login with facebook and other social platforms. I tried with some wordpress plugins (e.g: nextend facebook connect, social connect etc.) But, those plugins requires curl extension to work. Is there any alternatives to activate facebook, twitter connect in my wordpress website for login? Any help or suggestion will be highly appreciated.
Category: Web

How to pass a numeric id to a page template?

I am using a Wordpress installation with Wordpress Social Login as a "canvas" for an HTML5-based board game. In the file /wp-content/themes/twentythirteen-child/front-page.php I get the numeric ID of the viewing user (returned by wp_get_current_user() method) and then her or his Facebook data (id, first name, last name, gender) from the $wpdb->prefix . 'wslusersprofiles' table - and can display the game and score for that user at the front page of my website. My question please: underneath the game board I …
Category: Web

Email verification feature in wordpress social login plugin

I'm using wordpress social login plugin.. It uses HybridAuth library. Here is a demo of HybridAuth library. The wordpress plugin looks nice. But it generates a random email for most of the social sites. This plugin doesn't offer email verification for the sites which doesn't offer verified email address. I mean the plugin says Currently only Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Foursquare do provide the verified user email So for other sites it generates a random email address. This is the …
Category: Web

Need an advice about comments

I am searching a solution for wordpress comments. I like standart comments, I already styled it and made some additionaly functionality. But there is one that I can't find and don't know how to make it. I need an ability for unregistered users to left comments using some social service, . So, I don't want to offer them ability to log-in using their social service, but only to comment. UPD: I didn't know about such rule. So ok, how can …
Category: Web

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