Patrick Lai

<p>XLogin enhances the WordPress login page (usually wp-login.php) to<br />
allow users to authenticate with the following external services:</p>
<ul>
<li>Facebook Login</li>
<li>Google Sign-In</li>
<li>Yahoo! OAuth</li>
</ul>
<p>These services can be enabled or disabled individually. XLogin adds a<br />
button to the WordPress login page for each enabled service. Clicking<br />
the button sends the browser to the corresponding external service<br />
where the user can authorize the WordPress site to access their<br />
information. Having been granted access to, for example, the Facebook<br />
public profile of a user, XLogin retrieves their email address to<br />
find a matching WordPress user to complete the login process.</p>
<p>XLogin also maintains a list of external aliases. They are additional<br />
email addresses for mapping to WordPress users. Some scenarios where<br />
external aliases can be handy include:</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p>A user’s email address in his WordPress profile is not used in any<br />
of the external services. For example, a corporate WordPress site<br />
may mandate the use of company email addresses in user<br />
profiles. If a user has for example his Gmail address in the<br />
external alias list, they can still nevertheless sign in Google.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>A WordPress user account is shared by a group of actual<br />
users. With XLogin it is not necessary to have the users share a<br />
single password. Instead just register their email addresses (as<br />
known by the external services) as external aliases; it becomes a<br />
simple matter to add and remove user.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p>XLogin has the option to restrict an external service to only users with<br />
external aliases. This allows tight control on who can use external<br />
services to login.</p>
<p>A user’s profile in WordPress and in the external service may be<br />
different.  Email address is one, and display name (or its component<br />
family and given names) is another. XLogin offers the option to import<br />
the external profile information into the current session. The imported<br />
display name will be tagged with the external service name. For<br />
example, if a user has display name ‘John Doe’ in WordPress, but is<br />
known as ‘Johnny D’ in his Facebook account, then he would be<br />
displayed as ‘Johnny D (Facebook)’ (instead of ‘John Doe’) in his<br />
WordPress session when he logs in with Facebook.</p>
<p>Finally XLogin has the notion of ‘guest’ user. When an email address<br />
provided by an external service does not correspond to a specific<br />
WordPress user, XLogin will proceed with a guest WordPress user<br />
configured for the service. There are plugins that control access to<br />
content based on user roles; a site can combine such with XLogin to<br />
control what is visible to guests. Note that guest WordPress users<br />
should have minimal privileges. XLogin has safeguards to ensure, for<br />
example, that a guest cannot edit posts. It also filters out guest’s<br />
permission to access the dashboard or to update their own profile.</p>


XLogin

Login to WordPress with external services like Facebook, Google, and Yahoo.

ixiter

<p>Simple Google Sitemap is a plugin to create automatically an XML Sitemap for your blog and pings it to ASK.COM, Google and MSN, whenever an Article was published or deleted.<br />
You can edit various options for the created sitemap file.</p>
<h3>History</h3>
<p>= Preposition =<br />
This plugin is similar to Arne Brachold’s (arnee) <a href="http://www.arnebrachhold.de/redir/sitemap-home/" title="Google XML Sitemaps" rel="nofollow ugc">Google XML Sitemaps Plugin</a>.<br />
When i ran into trouble from its huge hunger for memory, I decided to write another Google Sitemapper, including all important features, but less memory usage.<br />
It is also my first WP plugin ever. Hope you like and use it.</p>
<h4>V1.6 – December 20, 2008</h4>
<ul>
<li>New: Yahoo added, since it doesnt require an Application ID anymore to submit a sitemap.</li>
<li>Improvement: Added numbers to language files to show german decimal number format for priority values.</li>
<li>Bugfix: Priority values are allways set correctly now</li>
</ul>
<h4>V1.5 – December 17, 2008</h4>
<ul>
<li>Improvement: Changed class declaration down to PHP 4 compatibility.</li>
</ul>
<h4>V1.4 – December 17, 2008</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bugfix: Link URLs corrected. Using Blog’s permalink settings now</li>
<li>Bugfix: Markdown in readme.txt fixed. Some underscores needed to be escaped.</li>
</ul>
<h4>V1.3 – December 15, 20008</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bugfix: 2 items in german translation corrected.</li>
<li>Bugfix: ask.com ping url corrected</li>
<li>Bugfix: ask.com ping url corrected</li>
<li>Improvement: Found and use wp_remote_get() now, to ping search engines.</li>
<li>Improvement: Shows apporved ping results now</li>
<li>New: Shows ping URLs with the ping results</li>
</ul>
<h4>V1.2 – December 15, 2008</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bugfix: Didnt update the sitemap file, when a page was published. Now it updates when a new page was published, or a prior published page was edited.</li>
<li>New: Multilanguage Feature added. Supportet languages are english (default) and german. </li>
</ul>
<h4>V1.1 – December 14, 2008</h4>
<ul>
<li>Improvement: Added ASK.COM and MSN to pinged Search engines</li>
<li>Improvement: Search Enigine Ping uses fopen, file_get_contents or curl now. If none of these is possible, it throws a propper notification msg to the user and provides links to ping the services manually.</li>
</ul>
<h4>V1.0 – December 12, 2008</h4>
<p>My very first WP plugin ever. It took a few hours to read about WP plugin development and get it to run. Hopefully its bug free. Still some important features missing.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.pytal.de/" title="pytal.de" rel="nofollow ugc">Nenad Marjanovic and Pytal</a> – for great hosting and technical support, for sharing knowledge</li>
<li><a href="http://solscape.astroarts.org" title="Solscape - German Science Blog" rel="nofollow ugc">Olaf Prause</a> – for beta tests, for exciting nightly googletalks about life, universe and all the rest.</li>
<li>The moderators of “Planet Freak”, the worlds funiest Skype talkshow with 4 moderators and various brave single guests – for entertainment</li>
</ul>


Simple Google Sitemap

Creates an XML Sitemap, containing Homepage, Articles and Pages

XLogin vs Simple Google Sitemap