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Shortcode was misrepresented in the readme, it wasnt implemented yet.

Its going to be used for a login button to allow easy login for users with Patreon. Its coming around in ~2 weeks.

Yeah, technically this is possible. Patreon WordPress will register users to your WP site if they log in via Patreon and they dont have a linked account before. So you can actually do that.

But i didnt test if disabling account registration in WP general options would prevent the plugin from generating user accounts. You may test after disabling account generation.

If it doesnt let the plugin to create user accounts, then you can just remove register/login links from your sidebar, widgets etc while leaving account creation option in WordPress on. This would cause your users to go through Patreon like a social login.

With 1.0.2, we are going to Connect with Patreon shortcode, which you can use to print out login buttons anywhere on your site. This update is to be released soon, so you can make use of that functionality to put buttons in your login pages or widgets.

Upon visiting the settings page of the plugin, you should see an uneditable field called ‘redirect uri’.

This should be the exact redirect URI which you put into the app settings page at Patreon.

If these values mismatch, you will get that security error.

the article content was also sent to all the regular WordPress email subscribers, regardless of whether they were patrons or not, just as a regular post would be.

Emailing possibly happened through a mailing list plugin or service you have. Because Patreon Connect doesnt have any such feature, or doesnt currently integrate with any such plugin or functionality. (At least not yet).

Therefore, even if you make some posts patron only, that plugin or service you have still would not know that it shouldnt send such posts and would keep sending those posts to everyone.