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Guide To Configure Foursquare with miniOrange Social Login In WordPress

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

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

Foursquare help you discover and share information about businesses and attractions around you. Every time you use it, you share information about the community to your friends. With a one-click configure Foursquare Social login on your WordPress login page, your users can quickly log in to your website using their Foursquare account. It saves them time, and they wouldn’t have to enter their login details at any time. The can simply login with Foursquare and get logged in to your WordPress website with a click. Social Login is the most popular thing you can 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 Foursquare 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 Foursquare.

WordPress Foursquare 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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WordPress Social Login Plugin

Steps to Configure Foursquare Social Login into WordPress (WP)

Step 1: Configure Foursquare Social Login into Your WordPress

Follow the steps below to configure Foursquare login in WordPress

Configure Foursquare Social Login

To get a Foursquare App detail, go and visit: https://foursquare.com/developers/apps.
Click on Create New Application button.

Now, enter App name and App or Company URL and click on Next button.

foursquare login enter app name and company URL

Enter Redirect URL and Privacy Policy URL and click on Save.

foursquare sign in enter redirect and Policy URL

On the same page you can find Client ID and Client Secret. Copy the Client ID and Client Secret and paste it on instructions page.

enable foursquare sign in client id secret

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

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 Foursquare 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.