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Guide to Integrate Weibo Social Login into WordPress | Weibo SSO

Integration of Weibo Social Login ( Weibo SSO ) For WordPress using OAuth 2.0 Protocol.
miniOrange Social Login enables your users to use their Weibo 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 WordPress Weibo Plugin by miniOrange in few easy steps and setup Weibo.

The social login process is extremely simple. Users come to your website and select whichever social login provider they want to login. They fill in their details on the social network provider’s site. Once the authentication process is completed by the social provider the user can start using your WordPress website. If they are a new user then they are registered and if they are an existing user they are logged in.

What is Weibo and how to implement Weibo social login on your WordPress Website?
Weibo means microblogging and is used to share news, updates and messages just like twitter, Weibo is the most popular social networking platform in china with around 566 million monthly active users.

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

WordPress Social Login (Weibo Single Sign-On (SSO)) for WordPress can be achieved by using our WordPress Social Login plugin.In this guide we will see how to implement Weibo login on your WordPress website in the easiest way.

To know more about other features we provide in WordPress Social Login plugin, you can click here.

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Steps to Configure Weibo Social Login into WordPress (WP)

Step 1: Configure Weibo Social Login into Your WordPress

Follow the steps below to configure Weibo login in WordPress

Configure Weibo Social Login

Go to Click Here and sign in with your weibo app developer account.
From the Developers site home page, click on Website access from the dropdown menu.

Click on Instant Access button.

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Enter app name in the application name field. Note that your application name cannot include blank spaces.
Select I have read and accepted the “microblogging developer agreement” and then click on Create button.

wordpress weibo social login accept agreement

Select the Advanced settings tab. Click on Edit button.

wordpress weibo social login edit advance settings

Enter your redirect URL in the Authorization callback page field and enter your Website URL in Cancel authorization callback field then click on Save Changes button.

wordpress weibo login connect enter redirect url and website url

Go back to Basic Settings tab. Copy the App key and App Secret from the app basic information

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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

Go to miniOrange Social Login Plugin → Click on Configure Apps → click on Weibo :

social login miniOrange plugin to enable weibo SSO

Copy the Client ID and Client Secret from the app credentials section and paste it on the Weibo Instructions page.

weibo WordPress social login Copy clientid and clientsecret

Then click on Save & Test Configuration button.

Save and test configuration for wordpress weibo login

If you aren’t already logged in, please log in to Weibo.
A notification from the plugin that the test was successful will be shown. That means your Weibo custom app was set properly.

Test configuration successful to connect with weibo wordpress

Now you can see that Weibo login is enabled on your WordPress site.

weibo WordPress website social login button display

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

You have successfully configured Weibo 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.