OAuth is short for “Open Authorization” and it is an open standard for user management. Anyone can use the OAuth protocols and frameworks. You can find OAuth services available via small WordPress plugins and also large multinational companies.
For example, when you sign up for an...
In 2022 there was an interesting debate in the WordPress community about multisite. People asked if it is still relevant and if the technology should be deprecated entirely.
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been building multisite support for RoleUp. So I’ve been trying to better understand...
Should you use the AuthO WordPress service? First, let’s make sure we clear up some naming, because Auth0 is a service with a confusing name.
OAuth (short for “Open Authorization”) is an open standard for user management. Anyone can use the OAuth protocols and frameworks.
Auth0...
Managing users across multiple WordPress sites can be a challenging task for administrators. In this article we’ll discuss some of the most common problems managing users across multiple sites, and propose some solutions.
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No centralized user management
Manually assigning...
In this guide, we’ll talk you through different options for managing users across more than one WordPress site. There are a wide variety of options for different circumstances. For example, if all your users are already inside Google Workspace, or an Active Directory instance, we have some...
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is used to lookup information or devices within a network. In this guide, we’re going to talk about using LDAP to connect user accounts to WordPress. But there are many other users of LDAP. For example, a printer can be a device on your network,...
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What are WordPress user roles?
How agencies can benefit from user roles
Agency Benefit #1. Modifying the admin layout using WordPress user roles
Agency Benefit #2. Role-specific permissions and access
Plugins to view and modify WordPress roles and capabilities.
Plugin #1. Ultimate...
Spambots and other automated scripts constantly probe the internet looking for weaknesses in WordPress websites. hCaptcha for WordPress is designed to identify these bots and prevent them from accessing your site.
In this post you’ll learn all about hCaptcha for WordPress and see how it...
Universities love to use WordPress. The platform is an affordable and powerful way to build all the types of websites that are needed on a campus.
Yes, WordPress can build a complete homepage website for your university, with customizable features and powerful tools.
The common practice of sharing WordPress user accounts makes it easy for agencies to provide site access for both developers and maintainers. But this practice has many downsides.
As we’ll discuss below, we don’t recommend sharing WordPress user accounts in any professional setting.
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