Author Archives: Slava Abakumov
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 […]
Drive Folders embedded in BuddyPress Groups
We have sometimes been asked if our Google Drive Embedder Enterprise plugin can be used to embed folders within a tab of a BuddyPress Group. That way, each group – maybe a department within a company – would have a space on the intranet to share commonly-used files; but rather than getting lost inside WordPress’ […]
Google API Changes – our plugins will not be affected!
Google has emailed some of our users to remind them that a selection of their old APIs are to be deprecated on 20th April 2015. Users of all our Google Apps plugins for WordPress – Google Apps Login, Google Drive Embedder, etc – can rest assured that we migrated to the new versions of all […]
Using Google profile photos on a BuddyPress site
Update – we have now built the BuddyPress extension right into the full version of Google Profile Avatars. If you are using BuddyPress and Google Profile Avatars but aren’t seeing Google profile photos throughout your site, please get in touch to ask for version 1.1 of the plugin. We provide a small plugin extension called […]
Allowing only some employee Groups to access your WordPress intranet
[Image via Pexels] Many customers use our Google Apps Login Enterprise version to restrict access to their WordPress intranet so that not only should it be inaccessible to non-employees, but certain groups of employees should have different WordPress roles, and perhaps some employees should not have access at all. Why is this so important? In […]
Bring the power of Google Drive to your employees without them even knowing!
How Flat Branch uses Google Drive Embedder Enterprise version to bring the power of Google Drive to its employees – without them even realizing they have learnt how to use it! Flat Branch Home Loans simplifies home buying for thousands of Americans each year by ensuring its 100+ staff members work closely together to deliver […]
Video explaining Google Drive embedding
Check out our brand new video explaining more about our Google Drive Embedder plugin for WordPress!
Africare uses Google Apps Login for WordPress to connect staff across continents
Africare is a leading US non-profit working to improve the lives of the people in Africa. Founded in 1970, and now employing over 1,200 people in 17 African countries, their international staff need to communicate and work together efficiently. During a recent revamp of their public-facing website, they realized that moving the site over to […]
