Google Apps
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Google Drive – how a file can belong in multiple folders at once
There is a useful trick in Google Drive whereby you can allow a file to appear in multiple folders at the same time. This means that any changes made to the file within one folder will be reflected immediately in the others – because it is exactly the same file, not a duplicate in any […]
Standardizing your company workflow using Google Forms
Many of our customers use Google Apps alongside a WordPress intranet, and we’ve heard from a lot of them recently about the benefits of using both these systems together. Below is an example explaining how some customers are using Google Forms in their intranets to standardize their processes and make things quicker and easier for […]
Embedding Google Spreadsheets with more control over appearance
A great feature of Google Apps is the ability to embed live spreadsheets in your website, updating automatically whenever your spreadsheet changes. However, you aren’t allowed much control over the appearance of your spreadsheet – which can be inconvenient if you want to direct viewers to a particular part of the sheet. Fortunately, there are […]
A free guide to delegating your Google Apps user management to other people
Although delegation is a practice that many employees feel their employers do too much, it isn’t always the simple pleasure it sounds. It’s especially easy for co-founders of a company, or director of an organization, to end up dealing with certain processes for a long time as the company grows. Fears over handing security to others, and worries that they “won’t do it right”, can make it feel easier to keep full control personally, regardless of how disruptive it may be to more pressing work. One of these processes is the handling of Google Apps user management.
