Social Login

47 Quality Score

Active Installs

17/30

With 5,000 active installs it is used by a real but small slice of the WordPress ecosystem, far behind Nextend's 200,000, which limits the breadth of community testing and feedback.

Update Freshness

3/25

It was last updated on 2024-12-02, which is recent, but the long-standing compatibility floor (WordPress 3.0 and PHP 5.4) and the cloud-based architecture mean ongoing core code changes inside the plugin itself are minimal.

User Rating

13/15

A score of 86/100 from 364 ratings is solid and suggests most users who installed it were satisfied with the experience.

Support Health

8/15

The support score of 50 reflects 0 support threads in the repository, which is a real concern: if something breaks, there is no public track record of the developer resolving user issues on the WordPress.org forums.

WP Compatibility

8/15

It is tested against WordPress 6.7.5 and works down to WordPress 3.0 and PHP 5.4, giving very wide compatibility but raising questions about whether it has been hardened against newer PHP 8.x quirks and modern security expectations.

Scores higher than 2% of indexed plugins

About

With Social Login your users can login, register and comment with 40+ Social Networks. Maintenance Free. Uptime Guarantee. Fulltime devs

Active Installs 5k+

Rating ★★★★ 4.3/5

Last Updated 2024-12-02 3:57pm GMT

Requires WordPress 3.0+

Tested Up To 6.7.7

Requires PHP 5.4+

Security History

1 known vulnerability, all patched

1 Critical

Most recent: November 22, 2024

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What It Does

Social Login adds one-click registration and login buttons for 40+ social networks, including Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Twitter, to your WordPress site's login, registration, and comment forms. It replaces the default WordPress account flow (or supplements it) so visitors can authenticate using an existing social profile instead of creating a new password. A cloud-based service is used to handle the connections, which the developer markets as maintenance free.

Who It's For

This plugin is best suited for membership sites, online communities, marketplaces, or any WordPress site that depends on lowering friction for new sign-ups where reducing the steps to register can directly improve conversion. It is also a reasonable fit for publishers who want easier commenting and event or course platforms that need fast social onboarding. The 40+ network support is most valuable to sites whose audiences span many regions and platforms, including TikTok-heavy demographics.

Who Should Skip It

If you only need one or two well-supported providers like Google and Facebook, lighter, more actively maintained plugins such as Nextend Social Login will get you there with better long-term support. Sites that handle sensitive user data or that need a fully self-hosted, on-premise OAuth flow should skip this plugin because it routes authentication through a third-party cloud service.

The Bottom Line

Social Login offers an unusually broad 40+ network list through a cloud-hosted service, but the 5,000 installs, zero public support threads, and modest compatibility score of 50 hold it back. It is a viable option for sites that specifically need many niche providers and are comfortable with a third-party service, but most WordPress users will be better served by Nextend Social Login or a similar higher-scoring alternative. Overall Quality Score: 50.86/100.

Pick this instead if you want the most popular, battle-tested social login plugin with 200,000 installs, active development, and solid provider coverage for the major networks.

Wp Social Login and Register Social Counter 84/100

Pick this instead if you also want social share counters and a wider set of providers bundled with a more active update cycle than Social Login.

miniOrange Social Login and Register (Discord, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn) 79/100

Pick this instead if you specifically need niche providers like Discord, enterprise SSO, or OpenID Connect support backed by a vendor with a paid support tier.

Social Share, Social Login and Social Comments Plugin – Super Socializer 72/100

Pick this instead if you want social login, sharing, and comments from a single add-on with a larger install base (20,000) and more recent community activity.

UsersWP – Social Login 70/100

Pick this instead if your site is already built around UsersWP for profiles and you want a tightly integrated social login extension rather than a standalone tool.