- For those of you who
don't know me already
my name is Craig, host of Digital Startup.
Helping entrepreneurs like yourself
build your first online store.
A great way of getting your customers
to sign up to your online store
is by giving the ability
to sign up and login
using their own social media account
such as Facebook or Twitter.
It's much faster than
conventional email sign up
and it streamlines the whole process
making the customers more
willing to click that button.
Stick with me through this video
whilst I review the Magento
2 Social Login extension
by Mageplaza to see if
it's a viable solution
for your potential and
new social login feature.
If this video sounds like
something you might be interested in
I'll see you in just a moment.
So the Magento 2 Social
Login extension by Mageplaza
gives your customers
to ability to register
and login to their online store
via a selection of social
media accounts such as Facebook
Twitter, Google, Instagram,
LinkedIn and many more.
Even after registration
both the customer and the store owner
can edit any information
that gets pulled across
from the social media accounts.
And if your customers decide not to use
the social media accounts
to register and login to your store
they can still access the
traditional registration form.
And all of these can be presented
at a convenient popup box
when clicking on the
sign up or login button.
If you're looking for the
documentation of this extension
you can locate both
the installation method
and user documentation
via the resources tab
in the main menu of the Mageplaza website.
Do know however that the installation page
does contain a link for an
updated version of the page
that explains how to instal
the extension via composer.
The actual user documentation
is fantastic as you can see
is well laid out and
includes animated GIFs
making easy to show you
where the settings are.
For each of the available
login methods it also explains
how to set up your API's.
More on that later.
As mentioned before this extension came
with the ability to instal word composer
which is exactly how I installed it
into my copy of Magento
and it only took me a couple of minutes.
The first thing that you
will notice is that Mageplaza
have added their own
tab onto the back-end.
This is a great little feature if like me
you like to keep everything organised.
You might also notice when
configuring the extension
is that it's enabled by default
with popup login activated.
I absolutely love the popup as it means
customers don't have to leave
the page they're currently on
in order to sign up or login.
From the configuration you can also choose
from a selection of pre-determined colours
that you can fine-tune with CSS
as well as the popup animation.
The only other configuration
is the set of the social media API's.
This is where I actually
rely on the documentation
to help me.
For the sake of this review
I only tested Facebook and Twitter
as they're probably the most popular
social login types anyway.
You don't have to use a popup.
If you decided to disable this feature
then the available social
media login buttons
still present themselves
on the appropriate pages.
I've been playing around with
the configuration settings
I didn't notice any bugs.
But I can't speak for any conflicts
with the other extensions or themes
as I'm using a fresh
copy of Magento 2.1.7.
At the time of recording this video
the Magento 2 Social Login
extension by Mageplaza
is absolutely free with lifetime updates.
So if you think this extension
is going to make your life
a little easier in some way
you could find a link in
the description below.
At this point I'd like
to talk about any issues
or improvements that I experienced
whilst reviewing the extension
but I didn't come across any bugs
and I can't think of any
features that are missing.
However I did find that the
Facebook API documentation
didn't match exactly what I
was looking at on Facebook.
So I kinda had to wing it a little bit
in order to get settings I needed.
During my research for
this particular extension
I did a Google search for
Magento 2 Social Login
and I found a few of
the developers out there
doing very similar extensions.
However, those prices
range anywhere between
99 dollars and 249 dollars
and that kinda makes me a little bit angry
especially when you consider
what you get from Mageplaza
and they're providing that
for absolutely nothing.
So if you're thinking about
adding a social login
feature to your Magento store
then I highly recommend
the social login extension by Mageplaza.
From installation all the way
to the set up of the Facebook
and Twitter API's that
I did for this review
took me only around about 10 minutes.
So if do wanna go ahead with that
you can find a link in
the description below
which will take you straight to the page.
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