Social Login: email address is already used

Actually, I followed the instructions on the “Social Login” where it says:

First go to: https://developers.facebook.com/apps
Select Add a New App from the Apps menu at the top.
Fill out Display Name, Namespace, choose a category and click Create App
Go to Settings page and click on Add Platform. Choose website and enter in the new screen your website url in App Domains and Site URL fields. They should match with the current hostname veganlinked.com
Go to the Status & Review page and choose yes where it says Do you want to make this app and all its live features available to the general public?
Go back to the Dashboard page and past the created application credentials (APP ID and Secret) into the boxes above.
And that’s it!

I took “that’s it” literally in regard to instructions. It didn’t link to the page you’re suggesting. I’ll try that. It would have really helped if it linked to the documentation.

It’s working now. Thanks Guust, I feel like I should have found that. man, I wasted some time on that hung up on those instructions on the plugin. That really messed me up. Someone will probably benefit from having a link to those more accurate instructions instead of those instructions on the plugin 🙁

Thanks Guust, at least it seems to be good now 🙂

Thanks again,

one thing I noticed kind of weird is the UWP username and the actual facebook “username” are not the same.

on facebook the username is also your “pretty url”. what you use for logging in also your username. In my case my facebook username and pretty url is neofilm. when i use UWP it wants to use Jeff_Adams as my username and pretty url. this inconsistency is likely to cause confusion as it already did with me.

When I had “Let the user enter username?” selected and “Let the user enter email?” I became confused when i was using the social log in. Because my username is not Jeff_Adams but that was what UWP decided it was all the sudden (it seems to be using the “Nickname”). So, I put “neofilm” and this worked in that it was now my UWP username and pretty URL. However, the next time I tried to use the social login I of course had to start all over with the signup process or type in my new username. Essentially this defeats the purpose of having a easy social login.

If I turn off allowing the user to change username then they’re forced into a URL that they may not at all like. Also, if the user didn’t create a username and just used the default UWP (nickname that they may not have none even happened) then they may not know how to sign in.

I guess it doesn’t use the same password as the user uses on facebook either. Because I tried logging in without UWP and I couldn’t, didn’t know the password it seems even though I know my facebook password. This may be a security thing. So, that’s probably fine I suppose…

I’m just not sure this is how other sites use social login. At least I have never noticed the username not being the same when using social login on other sites…

Ok, I guess you’re right, I’ll just leave it as you suggest. Thanks!