Author Archives: Dan
Add a Google Login Button to Your WordPress Site
Why should you add a Google Login button (also known as SSO or Single sign-on) to your WordPress site? It’s simple. It’s more efficient. Instead of trying to remember yet another password, Google’s one-click login allows access without having to reset accounts. (It takes far less admin work as well.) It’s more secure. Particularly, if […]
Friendly usernames for auto-created WordPress users
We originally published this piece in 2015. We’ve updated it with additional WordPress security advice in 2019. Our Google Apps Login Premium and Enterprise plugins allow all users with an email address in an organization’s Google Apps domain to log in to the WordPress site with one click. If the user doesn’t have an account […]
Protect Your Google Apps Login From Phishing Attacks
Following a series of Google Apps login phishing attacks (specifically on Google Docs) in 2017, Google made several improvements. At the time, while we welcomed Google taking steps to address the phishing problems, it caused issues for WordPress plugins. Specifically, the updates made it challenging in cases where customer installation required individuals to create a […]
Set WordPress roles based on Organizational Unit Paths
[Image via Pexels] A popular feature of Google Apps Login Enterprise version has always been the ability to specify role mapping rules – so that members of different Google Groups can have different WordPress roles assigned to them. The only problem was that some companies didn’t have relevant Google Groups already set up (e.g., for […]
Team Drives now supported by Drive Embedder Enterprise
Google recently rolled out ‘Team Drives’ to their G Suite business customers. One big problem for enterprises using Drive is that there is always one ultimate owner of any files shared within Drive. So popular files can be shared by employees, but if the owner happens to leave the company, or decides to reorganize their […]
Google Apps & G Suite is now Google Workspace
Google has announced a new name for the Google Apps product – it’s now known as G Suite! The change was made on 29 September 2016, and you can find out more from Google here. There appear to be no major changes to the product. Google Apps has simply been renamed – in no way […]
How Green Dot used WPg plugins to build their Knowledge Sharing Platform
Green Dot Public Schools is a non-profit organization founded in 2000 to help transform public education in historically underserved communities in the USA. The U.S. Department of Education considers Green Dot to be a national leader in school turnarounds, and they are the only charter school operator to lead the successful turnaround of a 3,000-plus […]
Prevent Brute Force Attacks on Your WordPress Site with Google Apps Login
[Image via Pexels] Let’s say you want better security for your WordPress site. Maybe you want your employees to always access their WordPress account by authenticating through Google (which you see as easier than requiring all users to maintain separate usernames/passwords for WordPress as well as Gmail). You’ve also read about brute force attacks on […]
You Can Now Use Google Apps Login as a Single Sign-On for More Cloud Apps
[Image via Pexels] Google Apps Login can now be used as a Single Sign-On (SSO) solution for a wider range of cloud applications — specifically, those that support the SAML 2.0 standard. Why is this great news for WordPress users? Although our Google Apps Login plugin has always allowed users to sign into WordPress sites […]
It’s now easier to find Drive files to embed
Thousands of WordPress pages contain embedded Google Drive files and folders thanks to our Google Drive Embedder plugin. It’s easy to embed a file: when composing a post in WordPress, click our ‘Add Google File’ button to bring up a dialog box where you can search for the file or folder you want. That works […]
