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WordPress SSO
If you use WordPress to publish your blog or as your website CMS, you can create a single sign-on connection with Vanilla Forums. People registered on your WordPress website or blog will be able to register as members and login to the forum without having to go through a separate registration process. The free WordPress…
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JWT (JSON Web Token) SSO
Introduction to JWT JWT or JSON Web Tokens are a means for transferring "claims" from one party to another in a URL-safe format. The JWT consists of two base64_encoded JSON objects with a signature attached, they can be passed as GET parameters or as Bearer tokens. For more information about JWT please refer to to the JSON…
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Social Connect Options
Vanilla Forums integrates with a number of social applications that you can use as SSO solutions. Learn more about configuring these applications to work with your forum in this section. Facebook Facebook Connect allows users to sign in using their Facebook account. You must register your application with Facebook for this…
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SSO Overview
Single Sign-On overview Single sign-on (SSO) is how to let your users sign on to a third-party system (like a Vanilla Forum) without needing a separate username and password. In broad terms, an SSO solution defines how two systems securely communicate the identity of a user that is switching between them. In the context of…