Wordpress & SSO Problems

rlarusso

So finally have this thing working, now the issues are with SSO in Wordpress.
A few questions...

When I log in to Wordpress, it doesn't log me in to the forums. Is there any way to be logged into the forum when I log into Wordpress?

A problem we're having is when the login popup is presented, we log in with our Wordpress stuff, and the whole site reloads into the login popup window. Any way to keep this all in one window?
What about using an overlay (e.g. Lightbox, Buttbox whatever is cool this week) instead of a popup?

Mark

We've been looking at your implementation and see that there are quite a few different problems occurring. We've got some fixes in place, but we need to test them more thoroughly before pushing them live. I'll be sure to post back here when we've pushed all of our fixes and tested them on your forum.

rlarusso

Thanks Mark! Look forward to these changes.

rlarusso

By the way, since my boss asked me -- is there an ETA on your work? Not to rush you, just need to keep the guy who signs the paychecks happy :)

rlarusso

Hey, it's been over a month and a half with no response to this issue.
SSO has changed, it looks like it was worked on, but we get this error:

Provider not found.
The page you were looking for could not be found.

That's coming up on the JSConnect main page.

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We're leaning towards abandoning Vanilla forums. After all this time and the core functionality doesn't work. Everyone else claims it works, but it doesn't for us. Support has been abysmal -- it's been over a month since this thread was touched and the ball was left in Vanilla's court. Mark said above "I'll be sure to post back here when we've pushed all of our fixes and tested them on your forum." and I guess that never happened?

Mark

Hi @rlarusso - Apologies for not getting back to you sooner. We did make updates to the code and we did push them out and we did verify that everything worked. The fixes included browser compatibility issues, document resizing issues, in-page popups, and removing redirect loops for embedded pages. I know that there was some work done to JSConnect as well, but I was not involved in those updates.

I just visited your forum, and I was redirected to a page on your site that didn't contain any content. It looks like your embed page in wordpress is just empty, so the forum isn't showing up. I can't do any further debugging until that is fixed on the WordPress side. I'd be happy to debug the SSO issues for you if you can either fix that page or point me in the direction of another page where you're embedding Vanilla.

Fearless_leader

Is there a step by step instruction for setting up single sign on.
I can't find real instructions. I have a paid account (hosted but if this as hard as it looks I am out.
I am fairly adept but I need a step1 step 2 step 3 ect. instruction.

Lincoln

Hi @Fearless_leader, if you're making a custom SSO system, the documentation is here: http://vanillaforums.org/docs/jsconnect You'll probably need some programming experience to set it up properly.

We've automated SSO setup with some common systems like Facebook, Twitter, personal WordPress sites, and Google. If you need help with any of those, let us know.

Fearless_leader

I have a wordpress site and I cant make it work.
I have the 49 per month package is that enough for SSO

Lincoln

@Fearless_leader Yes, SSO is available on all plans. Where are you running into trouble?