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  • My company has built a website

    And what application or CMS was used to do this?

    We would like to allow the users to use their username and password (from our website) to login to their existing WordPress blogs – whether the blog is co-hosted or one they have installed themselves under their own domain name.

    Perhaps you could elaborate on this. Don’t understand why you say you would “allow” them to log into their “own” WordPress blogs or “own” installations from your website. Why do you want access to their blogs? If owners give password and username of their installs, someone with access to usernames and passwords can go in and hack the blogs.

    Thread Starter collegefitness

    (@collegefitness)

    Our website is written from scratch using PHP and MySQL. We don’t use an open CMS framework or anything like that.

    We want to let them use their username and password that they use to gain access on our site to login to their personal WordPress site. Why my company wants to do this I don’t have a clear understanding except to provide our user base with a single login for other blogs and social networking services. I would have to say that perhaps we are trying to re-invent the OpenID standard. I’d say off the top of my head that this is a convenience thing we are trying to give them. Kind of like a reverse FaceBook Connect type thing.

    For that matter it seems like my company might as well ask if we can allow our users to use their username and password from our website to access any site that requires a login. Why stop at WordPress.

    … this is a convenience thing we are trying to give them … if we can allow our users to use their username and password from our website to access any site that requires a login…

    With all due respect to what your company is trying to do – make it easy for users to remember usernames and passwords – personally, it sounds more like an issue of CONTROLLING your users blogs and social networking materials. Assuming your users are submissive or inane enough to do what you ask of them, your company will have complete ACCESS to all user data and even to the point of taking over the users applications. Again, you mentioned “allow” – it smacks of another agenda altogether to me – benevolent dictatorship – and that’s my feedback πŸ™‚

    On another note, if you want that kind of control and access to user information, set up WPMU with BuddyPress and host the blogs in your own server plus the social networking factor is already included. If you are the Site Admin – a kinder benevolent dictatorship is already set up in an opensource application πŸ™‚

    Thread Starter collegefitness

    (@collegefitness)

    mercime,

    Thank you for your feedback. After further discussion with our team I have a much better understanding of the task. To better clarify what we are trying to do:

    “We will be integrating one single WordPress based blog into our platform. We would like users to not have to log in twice – once into our site and another time into our WP module. Instead we want our WP module to be able to recognize that an authenticated user has already logged in and be granted an appropriate level of access to WP functionality based on their credentials.”

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

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    Okay, that’s TOTALLY not what you described the first time.

    You want single sign on between your custom CMS and YOUR WordPress install. Not their external blogs.

    Hmm.

    Why? No, I mean why do they need access to your WP install? To comment or create blogs? Basically What do they need to do on WP that requires access?

    You’d almost be better served by making a BuddyPress install and moving your custom CMS to that. I doubt anyone on the free forum will be able/willing to help you craft a custom CMS integration for free.

    You might want to post at http://jobs.wordpress.net/

    What Ipstenu said. Basically, the parameters of your “integration” have changed considerably and I would say, in a better and a workable direction. It had sounded like you were coming from a “police state”

    You should consider contacting whoever created your custom-built CMS to work on making a bridge to WordPress as that person would already know the ins and outs of that custom CMS.
    As a starting point, he/she should find a solution or two by looking into existing plugins in our repository that bridge or integrate some or all functionalities with WordPress install
    http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/plugins/tags/integration

    Of course, as Ipstenu mentioned above, post at http://jobs.wordpress.net/ – they’re excellent.

    Thread Starter collegefitness

    (@collegefitness)

    We want to allow our users to login to our site and then be able to create their own blog and post to that blog without having to login twice. With that being said I’ve installed WordPressMU and am looking into Plug-Ins and possibly and XMLRPC as a solution.

    Thread Starter collegefitness

    (@collegefitness)

    Actually no plug-in will accomplish what I need to do. This will have to be a custom coded solution and possibly implemented with XMLRPC into our WordPress MU.

    Actually no plug-in will accomplish what I need to do

    True, the plugin list I gave was just a reference for your programmer to see how others have bridged their applications to WordPress.

    I’ve installed WordPressMU

    Welcome to WordPress.

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