All blogging sites are looking to engage users, we write this stuff to make your life easier and hope that you find what we put out worthwhile and informative.  If you do we hope you’ll comment, follow us on Twitter, follow the RSS feed and maybe register with the site to get all the updates and e-mails.  It’s important as the site matures that this two way interaction happens so that we know we are giving you what you want, not what we think you want and the best way for us to do that is to get you to sign up or register for the site.  So bring on Social Login.

So what does it do?

If you aren’t already logged in, go to the bottom of this page and check out the right most box just above the footer, you’ll see a box that has lots of easy ways for people to register on this site quickly and easily using a wide range of their social media profiles.  The plugin gets their names, e-mail address and some other bits depending on how you configure it and uses this info to create an account on your wordpress site for them.  Then you can send them e-mails when you need to and keep them informed about what is going on now and in the future.

Configuration

Setting up the plugin in WordPress is easy, the control panel provided gives you nice easy options with tickboxes and radio buttons, however configuring each social network isn’t so straightforward.  This issue is due to the varying nature of

So, it seems to us the best way to start this whole blog is to review what we used setting it up.  We managed to get everything set up on this particular blog in just under a day and we will keep adding and removing stuff as we are never happy!  But it’s amazing what you can get done if you use what’s already out there, for this review we will be looking at our floaty bar on the left with all the social media icons on it; The Floating Social Bar.

We’ve tried out a whole load of these things in our time and will review more as the days go by and we get settled into some sort of routine with our post writing.  We decided to use Floating Social as it was the easiest to configure and offered enough social media options for us without being overwhelming.  The plugin is made by the chaps at WPMU who are possibly the biggest WordPress plugin company that we have come across.  Now, at $35 per month the cost of a WPMU membership is not cheap, but however it is well worth it as you get access to not only the Floating Social bar but over 100 other amazing plugins, 150 themes and possibly the best customer support forum I have encountered on the web.  We believe that if you are serious about your website it is a resource that you cannot afford to miss out on.  But lets get back to Floating Social.