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Configure Social Login into WordPress using Steam | Steam SSO Plugin

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

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

Steam is a video game digital distribution platform. With social login you can use Steam Login on your website and allow your community of gamers to login to your website in seconds With a one-click configure Steam Social login on your WordPress login page, your users can quickly log in to your website using their Steam account. It saves them time, and they wouldn’t have to enter their login details at any time. The can simply login with Steam 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 Steam 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 Steam.

WordPress Steam 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 Steam Social Login into WordPress (WP)

Step 1: Configure Steam Social Login into Your WordPress

Follow the steps below to configure Steam login in WordPress

Configure Steam Social Login

Steam profiles that are Limited User Accounts are not allowed to access the Steam Web API. To learn more about Limited User Accounts and how to overcome them please visit the following page:
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To access your Steam Web API Key go to Steam developers console at https://steamcommunity.com/dev/apikey and Sign up/Login with your Steam account.

Enter Domain Name (from miniOrange Social Login Plugin). Click on the checkbox that appears to agree to Steam Web API Terms of Use . Click on Register to access your Steam Web API key.

2. Set credentials in miniOrange Social Login Plugin

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

social login miniOrange plugin to enable steam SSO

Copy the Steam Web API Key and paste it as App ID.

Leave the App secret field blank.
Enter Profile in the scope field.
Then click on Save & Test Configuration button.

If you aren’t already logged in, please log in to Steam.

A notification from the plugin that the test was successful will be shown. That means your Steam custom app was set properly.

Test configuration successful to connect with steam web API

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