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This plugin hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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Simple Gmail Login

By victor_jonsson
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Description

Once you have installed this plugin you can login to wp-admin using your ordinary user name (or your email)
and your password on GMail (your old wordpress password still works as well).

Additional features

  • You’ll get a log of all login activity in wp-admin
  • Add an HTML-snippet that will be added below the login form

Installation

  1. Install the plugin via the WordPress.org plugin directory
  2. Your set to go! Now you can login to wp-admin using your GMail credentials

Reviews

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gmail login

instadp August 28, 2018
Can I use this plugin for gmail login on my WordPress website?
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did not work waste of time

jitendrakkatiyar February 8, 2017
did not work waste of time
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Contributors & Developers

“Simple Gmail Login” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

1.2.7

  • No longer removes log when updating plugin
  • Now possible to clear the log

1.2.6

  • Moved wp_enqueue_style to correct action

1.2.5

  • Fixed time bug in log
  • Fixed bug in options page

1.2.3

  • Fixed bug that made the log look empty in the dashboard widget

1.2

  • Now validates login credentials against wp database before GMail
  • Now possible to add an html snippet that will be displayed below the login form

1.1.4

  • Exception no longer thrown if timezone isn’t set
  • Fixed bug related to systems having safe_mode or open_basedir turned on
  • Dashboard widget is not registered if log isn’t writeable

Meta

  • Version 1.2.8
  • Last updated 13 years ago
  • Active installations 10+
  • WordPress version 2.5 or higher
  • Tested up to 3.5.2
  • Tags
    gmailloginwp-admin
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Ratings

3 out of 5 stars.
  • 2 5-star reviews 5 stars 2
  • 0 4-star reviews 4 stars 0
  • 0 3-star reviews 3 stars 0
  • 0 2-star reviews 2 stars 0
  • 2 1-star reviews 1 star 2

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