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Guide To Configure Reddit Social Login In WordPress | OAuth | Reddit WordPress SSO

Integration of Reddit Social Login ( Reddit SSO ) For WordPress using OAuth 2.0 Protocol.
miniOrange Social Login and Register enables your users to use their Reddit account to login/register to your WordPress Website. Give your users a Best choice, without remembering passwords, to login/register on your WordPress website. Setup miniOrange Social Login and Register plugin in few easy steps and allow your users to login using Reddit.

Why should I implement Reddit Sign In (Reddit SSO) on my WordPress Site?

Reddit is an American application that acts as a medium for social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion among the users.With social login you can use Reddit Login on your website and allow your community to login to your website in seconds.
Social Login is the most popular thing you implement on your website nowadays. Almost all websites allows the user to sign in using their social accounts. Through this, a user doesn’t need to go through account creation process on your website. It also saves you build a system of sign up flow. Social sites already did this and websites can rely on the social sites for user verification.

What is OAuth 2.0?

OAuth 2.0, which stands for “Open Authorization”, is a standard designed to allow a website or application to access resources hosted by other web apps on behalf of a user. OAuth 2.0 provides consented access and restricts actions of what the client app can perform on resources on behalf of the user, without ever sharing the user’s credentials.
Although the web is the main platform for OAuth 2, the specification also describes how to handle this kind of delegated access to other client types (browser-based applications, server-side web applications, native/mobile apps, connected devices, etc.)

WordPress Social Login plugin allows for secure login into WordPress while utilizing Reddit as an OAuth and OpenID Connect provider. You may also configure the plugin to use several OAuth providers, such as Facebook, Google, Discord, Twitter, LinkedIn, Amazon, Stackoverflow, Twitch any many more. It enables sophisticated Single Sign-On functionalities like user Customize Icons, Redirection and so on. In this article, we will go through how to set up SSO between WordPress and Reddit.

WordPress Reddit Single Sign-On (SSO) for WordPress can be achieved by using our WordPress Social Login plugin.

Click here to know more about other features we provide in WordPress Social Login plugin.

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Steps to Configure Reddit Social Login into WordPress (WP)

Step 1: Configure Reddit Social Login into Your WordPress

Follow the steps below to configure Reddit login in WordPress

Configure Reddit Login

First of all, go to https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps/ and login to your Reddit Account.
You will be brought to a Application Management Page. Scroll down to find are you a developer? create an app... button.

You will be shown a form where you have to enter Application Details and redirect URL. Fill the form with appropriate information. Enter the Redirect URI from MO OAuth Plugin and then click on create app

You will be brought back to Application Details page. Here you can find Client ID and Secret as shown below.

2. Set credentials in miniOrange Social Login Plugin

Step 2: Set credentials in miniOrange Social Login Plugin

Copy the Client Id and Client Secret form above setup and Paste them into the fields in Instructions.

Then click on Save & Test Configuration button.

Custom app will set properly when Test configuration get successful

Now, You can see the Reddit Social Login button is activated on your WordPress Website. This will allow users to connect to your website using Reddit.