November 19, 2007 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- On-demand social media platform KickApps (kickapps.com) announced on Monday it is offering a single sign-on plugin that enables a seamless member login experience between WordPress blogs and KickApps hosted social media sites. WordPress bloggers can now easily integrate social media experiences, such as social networking, user-generated content, programmable video players and widgets for content syndication, to their blogs to boost audience growth and engagement.
"Similar to KickApps, publishers use WordPress for the robustness the application and its ease of use," says Alex Blum, CEO of KickApps. "Like WordPress, the KickApps platform delivers an unmatched level of depth, flexibility and customization. With the new plugin, we're further reducing the barriers to entry for the millions of WordPress bloggers to add feature rich community functionality around their blogging community."
When publishers enable the KickApps SSO plugin between their WordPress and KickApps powered social media sites, registered members of the WordPress powered site will be auto-registered into the site's KickApps powered community during sign in without any initial user import. Once logged in and clicked through to the community site, members can bring over their profile page, where they can start uploading video, photos and audio, and manage their media.
The announcement follows KickApp's its October integration with open source content management system, Joomla!. The WordPress plugin expands on KickApps' focus to encouraging online community creation by Web publishers of all sizes, says the company.
