Is there any way to use Oauth for this plugin?

@jamesdlow,

This plugin is a great start and it’s definitely working as expected for the most part.

It seems to me from reading around about this plugin that it works off POP/IMAP authentication which is ok but is probably more complicated than OAuth which Google provides for Google Apps and regular Gmail users.

I know there are details about implementing it web apps but I believe that you’ll probably want to avoid registering each instance as a web app with Google to acess the data api, you could just use the instructions for OAuth for Installed apps at https://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/OAuthForInstalledApps.html

The goal here is to allow for more information to be pulled from the authentication process like First Name and Last Name so that when a user registers via this plugin it will add their First and Last Names to their fresh wordpress user account as well as create the Nickname field as a combination between First and Last name fields.

This plugin is great but not pulling in names when a new user account is created is a major letdown and I imagine that it’s hard/not possible to grab that data through the POP/IMAP authentication process.

Lemme know what you think.

thetrickster