Potential, but a long way to go

It was a quick and painless install & setup, so far everything worked correctly, but it’s got a lot of use-cases that are what I would consider deal-breakers for the moment.

– the login form output is hooked into the login_messages filter, which is excessively frustrating, this is not a message, it should at least be in the login_form_{$action} or login_form actions so this can be used with common other plugins that use the core login form functionality, and should probably also be handling the callbacks for the wp_login_form function
– when using the login button from the registration page as a user that is not yet linked, a new account is created with a username based on the user ID user{$user_id} instead of letting the user select their own username or inferring something nice from the connected account, since this is not something that cannot be changed in WP it’s a bit of a sour UX point, this also means users that already have accounts that don’t understand they need to login normally first in order to ‘link’ their account end up creating lots of dummy accounts
– automatically created accounts do not have an email associated (despite this being a required field for WP accounts …), this means if someone unlinks their account and logs out they are left with no way to recover their account
– the ‘Your Linked Providers’ and ‘Link Another Provider’ in the user profile show both options even if an account is already linked, making it rather confusing as to whether or not the account is linked properly, I know this allows for multiple social accounts, even on the same network, to be used for account login (very cool feature!), but it’s not very clear, especially since clicking on the button almost always leads to a redirect because i’m probably already logged into the account I just authenticated with, and linking two accounts is rather confusing

So it’s got a lot of potential and I’ll be keeping an eye out, but will likely be waiting for a 1.0 before adopting.