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Guide To Configure Flickr Social Login In WordPress

Integration of Flickr Social Login ( Flickr SSO ) For WordPress using OAuth 2.0 Protocol.
miniOrange Social Login and Register enables your users to use their Flickr 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 Flickr.

Why should I implement Flickr Social Login / Flickr Sign In (Flickr SSO) on my WordPress Site?

Flickr is an American image hosting and video hosting website. It is mainly used by amateur and professional photographers to host high-resolution photos. With a one-click configure Flickr Social login on your WordPress login page, your users can quickly log in to your website using their Flickr account. It saves them time, and they wouldn’t have to enter their login details at any time. The can simply login with Flickr and get logged in to your WordPress website with a click.
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 Flickr 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 Flickr.

WordPress Flickr 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 Flickr Social Login into WordPress (WP)

Step 1. Configure Flickr Social Login into Your WordPress

Follow the steps below to configure Flickr login in WordPress

Configure Flickr Social Login

Once you are within Flickr, point your browser to https://www.flickr.com/services/apps/create/.
Go to 'Create an APP' for creating an API key. Click on the link "Request an API Key".

This will turn up two options, whether you want to go for a commercial app or a non-commercial one. Click on the appropriate link according to your intention.

That you will take you to a page where you have to provide them with a name for your app and a short description.
Once you complete, hit Submit and you will be provided with an App Key and Secret. Preserve these properly because you will need these in future while writing your app.

Here you can find Client ID and Secret as shown below you will get Edit app details.

In App settings click on edit and Enter CallBack URL.

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 Flickr Social Login button is activated on your WordPress Website. This will allow users to connect to your website using Flickr.

Flickr wordpress social login icon on wordpress Flickr login

If you not able to Add Social login icons on your custom login/registration page of your website, you can use our shortcode Guide.

You have successfully configured Flickr Social Login for WordPress Website.

Attractive Social Login Icons

We also provide attractive social login icons in latest version of the social login plugin with 4 types of shapes for social login icons Round, Rounded Icons, Square and Long button. Six themes including Default, White Background, Custom Background, Hover, Custom Hover and Smart. We also provide transform effect for all types of themes and buttons.