[Plugin: Simple Facebook Connect] Login Redirects Back To "Register For This Site"

I deleted any sign of my FB account from the site. I registered. I checked the user and I was there. However straight after registration, it chucked me back to the registration page again!

this still happens..

if a user doesnt want to register using his facebook account, then he will clear the form and register using his own email. but when he tries to log in using those credentials, it will always redirect to wp-login.php?action=register page. he will never be able to login using those credentials.
just check this by doing following steps..
1.clear your browser cookies
2. go to facebook.com and login
3. now go to your login/register page. it will show name and public info filled with your fb profile.
4. okey now you dont want to add your fb acc(there are some people dont like it right?) so you clear the form and fill “choose a username” and security check. then hit register.
5. now click the login link and see if you able to enter above username and login to site.

everything else in this plugin works except this part..
please someone tell me a solution.

I too am having this problem. Users of my site are reporting that as they click to go to wp-login, they get automatically redirected to the registration form right after the expected login form loads.

I had my wife attempt to login to my site using her laptp this is what occurred:

She already has an account on my site, that was already connected to facebook. When she clicked to login to my site (using the standard meta widget in the sidebar), wp-login.php loaded. For half a second, the login form showed up but then disappeared as the page automatically redirected tot he registration page, with her facebook credentials filled in.

Thinking she had to register for the site again, she chose a username and submitted the form. The page reloaded… and went right back to the registration form. In her e-mail sat her username and password sent by wordpress.

So she clicked to login at the bottom of the registration form. Wp-login.php loaded and then redirected right back to the registration page.

Typing in mydomain.com/wp-admin brings her to the registration form as well. In essence, it is impossible for her to log in.

On the other hand, on my laptop using my admin account (which isn’t connected to facebook), none of these problems occur. I can load up the login form without problem.

I am assuming this is a cookie problem, any ideas how to fix it?

P.S. Clearing cookies did not solve the problem.

Thought I would point out that when you use the “Connect with Facebook” button in comments (if you’re using Facebook comments), and assuming your wordpress account is linked to your Facebook account, that this will also log you into your wordpress account normally.

The answer may lie in the reason that this button works normally, and the /wp-login button does not.

I’m having the same problem.

Does anyone have a solution yet?

I had this problem too, and am currently testing with the add_action() call commented out.
So far, so good..

It’s from the file: sfc-register.php

//add_action('sfc_login_new_fb_user', 'sfc_register_redirect');
function sfc_register_redirect() {
	wp_redirect(site_url('wp-login.php?action=register', 'login'));
	exit;
}

YMMV

otto, the problem described here, of being stuck in a loop on log-in and unable to get to the regular log-in page and log-in as an admin and disable this feature, or the plug-in, is happening also on the site i’m working on, https://www.fullofwin.us/wp-login.php.

this is especially hard to deal with as i cannot get to a regular log-in to log-in with my admin credentials and disable what i need to make this work properly. my client can no longer log-in either, which makes me look like crap.

several people now have described this same problem to you, in greater and greater detail. simply coming back and saying things akin to, “welp, not happening for me, working fine, need more info!” without properly detailing what that “more info” would be is not being very customer responsive.

will there be a fix for this in a future update to the plug-in? if so, when? otherwise, i will have to disable it off my client’s site.

please advise at your earliest convenience.

— faddah wolf
portland, oregon

Time for me to play “good cop” LOL.

I really like Otto’s plugin. I just can’t use the parts that don’t work.

This isn’t a paid “premium” plugin, so we can’t expect Otto to spend unreasonable amounts of time debugging a problem that only some users are having. However, if this is the case, I would suggest having a disclaimer saying so or get rid of the feature altogether.

But fixing it would be awesome. When I tried it, the login part was an optional feature for a project and I simply stopped trying to get it to work. I have not tried to find a replacement plugin because the rest of it did what i needed.

My concern is that if I DID find a plugin that worked in terms of the login (and absolutely needed that functionality), it might interfere with Otto’s, meaning I’d have to find one that does it all and stop using his completely after I invested much time working with it …

That is precisely the problem. Otto’s plugin is virtually incompatible with every other Facebook plugin there is. Since his is the best, his is the one most people use thus the massive problem this causes, even if only a “few” people experience the problem.

You’re implying obligation on his part. Perhaps, but I’m not sure if I agree. Pardon me for following a Capitalist perspective, but what about a promise to “donate” some sum to incentivise his efforts to fix it? Would that be inappropriate?

I believe I sent a few bucks his way in the past when asking for support … just sayin’. The plugin has value, and so does his time. Or maybe have a premium version with promised support?

Otto, what do you think?

i don’t think there is any need to step in here and be pro bono attorney, good cop, bad cop, donut-eating cop, protector, white knight or helicopter-parent for otto. i’m assuming otto is a reasonable, grown adult who can respond for himself, if he so chooses. i feel if you upload a plug-in to the www.remarpro.com repository, for pay or no, you commit yourself to supporting that technology for its lifespan and responding properly when users report valid issues with a bit more than “i need more info, it’s working for me,” when plenty of info to reproduce has been detailed. if you do not wish to support your tech, you should remove it from the repository and notify of such where you can.

the quick work around to get out of the trapped hell of not being able to log-in with otto’s facebook connect plug-in turned on for your WP site is to log-out of facebook in the browser session you’re in, and also clear cache and/or cookies if that alone does not work, and try logging in to your WP site again. you then need to turn off the log-in through facebook in the plug-in settings or register your WP log-in account through facebook through his plug-in. that is what worked for me.

however, nowhere is this detail documented for his plug-in documented in the plug-in or plug-in page. this needs to be documented by otto, at least on the www.remarpro.com plug-in page. and also, the requested user bug reports, that it should not lock you out if you already have a valid log-in with your WP site simply because you haven’t connected your log-in with facebook yet. that is a real issue here and needs to be addressed. it’s just plain, simple, common UI/UX horse sense.

anyway, that’s my input here on the workaround and the documentation and bug fix that is necessary here. we’ll see if otto responds.

best,

— faddah
portland, oregon

Same problem here. I’ve already associated my facebook account in my user profile, but I’m still taken to the register page, and not in fact logged in. Boo.