Firebase social login with Facebook can be easily set up with WordPress Firebase Authentication plugin. Enabling Facebook Social login on your WordPress site will allow users to login with their Facebook account via Firebase instead of creating a separate account for the WordPress site and remembering a different set of credentials. Please refer to the below steps to configure the Firebase Facebook login and click here to know more about the Firebase Social Login features we provide.

1. Steps to create a facebook app:

• Go to Facebook developers console at https://developers.facebook.com/ and sign up/Login with your facebook developer account.

• Go to the Facebook Developers apps page and click the button to Add a New App.

• Select the options as your need to create an App ID.

• Enter the App Display Name and Contact Email for your Facebook app respectively and Select the App purpose then click on Create App ID button to save your settings and create an App ID for your app.

• Select Facebook Login by clicking on the Set Up button.

• Select the Web option.

• Next, enter your wordpress site url in the field of Site URL and click Save. Then, click Continue.

• Go to Settings -> Basic to view your App Id and App Secret (Refer to the image below).
• Enter your Privacy Policy URL in the Privacy Policy URL field and Enter your Terms of Service URL in the Terms of Service URL and choose a category from the dropdown in the Category field. Then, click on the Save Changes button to save your configurations.

• Change your app status from In Development to Live by clicking on OFF as shown in the image below. Then, click on confirm to confirm your change of status.

• Enter the OAuth Redirect URI from your firebase project in the Valid OAuth Redirect URIs field. Click on the Save changes to save your configurations.
• Please refer step-2 to get the OAuth Redirect URI from firebase.

• Copy your App ID and your App Secret which will be required in the next step.

2. Steps to configure facebook app in firebase:

• Go to your firebase project, select Authentication from the left panel and then Sign-in method. Please refer to the image below.

• Select Facebook option from the list of available sign-in options.

• Enable the Facebook method to configure it for sign-in as shown below.

• Enter the App ID and App secret you got from Facebook in the previous step and click on Save.
• NOTE: Here you will get the OAuth Redirect URI which you needed to configure in the facebook app in the previous step.

3. Complete the setup of Firebase Authentication plugin:

• Go to the Firebase Authentication plugin on your wordpress dashboard in which you have configured this firebase project.

• In the Advanced settings tab, select Facebook from the list of available Firebase Authentication Method. Also enable the option to Show login button on WP login page and click on Save Settings.

• Now your wp-login page will display a button to Login with Facebook.

• Clicking on the button will enable the users to login to your wordpress site with their Facebook credentials.

Mail us on oauthsupport@xecurify.com for quick guidance(via email/meeting) on your requirement and our team will help you to select the best suitable solution/plan as per your requirement.