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WordPress vs WooCommerce Social Login
What’s the difference between Social Login for WordPress, and Social Login for WooCommerce? Isn’t WooCommerce based on WordPress? Yes, exactly; its based on! Meaning WooCommerce extends WordPress with a whole bunch of new fields, like the one thats used during checkout, and most free plugins do not prepopulate the first and last name of a WooCommerce order. Isn’t that what you were trying to accomplish?
Shortlist of my Top 3 recommendations
- Heator Social Login
- Nextend Social Login Pro
Nextend Social Login
I’ve been using and recommending this plugin for a looong time. Ever since back in the days I just got started with S2Member.
SM logins supported
- Free version supports: FB, Google, Twitter (for WP-only)
- Pro adds WooCommerce support and more options to long: LinkedIn, Amazon, VKontakte, WordPress.com, Yahoo, PayPal, Disqus, Apple and more coming soon
PROs
- Free version available (but not for Woo support)
- Super pretty and clean professional looks
CONs
- Expensive I dare say for the Pro version: €53 for a single domain. €212 for upto 10 domains thus €21 per domain in bulk.
Heator Social Login
URL: https://wordpress.org/plugins/heateor-social-login/
SM logins supported
Integrate Facebook login, Twitter login, Linkedin login, Google login, Vkontakte login, Steam login, Line login, Instagram login, Microsoft login (Windows Live login), WordPress login, Yahoo login, Dribbble login, Spotify login, Dropbox login, Foursquare login, Disqus login, Reddit login, Kakao login and Github login buttons
PROs
- Totally FREE. No pro upgrade even available.
CONs
- None? Okay ..
- no Apple ID login.
WooCommerce Social Login
URL: https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-social-login/
SM logins supported
Connects with Facebook, Twitter, Google, Amazon, LinkedIn, PayPal, Disqus, Yahoo, and VK.
PROs
- Created by SkyVerge (a GoDaddy brand); makes a lot of high quality Woo plugins including Woo Memberships
- A lot of custom coding snippets provided
- Create case study information
CONs
- Expensive at $79/year per site!
- Limited login options for its price
- Alignment of buttons is ugly / getting used to.
Conclusion
Which is one is best. The one that has the most affiliate commission? Note: all linked resource do not have referral links at the moment, but they might have soon!
It depends what you need. If money was no object I would buy the 10 sites license of Nextend. Plain simply as its currently the only one that has the fancy Apple login. For which an Apple Developer account (priced at $99) is required.
Update 2021-06-30: +2 new plugins
A new candidate on the horizon:
Social Login (Discord, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn) – WordPress
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