Wordpress Bloggers Go Social with KickApps

Shared Authentication Plugin Enables Seamless Experience for Members of Wordpress Blogs 

NEW YORK, November 19, 2007 — KickApps, the leading on demand social media platform, today announced the availability of a Single Sign-On (SSO) 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 fuel audience growth and engagement.

“As an application for self expression, blogging is a natural entry point to social media for many web publishers,” said Alex Blum, CEO of KickApps. “Similar to KickApps, publishers use WordPress for the robustness the application and its ease of use. 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, requiring no initial user import by the publisher. Once logged in and clicked through to the community site, the member is brought over to his or her profile page, where they can start uploading video, photos and audio, and manage their media.

This announcement follows KickApp’s October 2007 integration with leading open source content management system, Joomla!TM. The WordPress plugin is an expansion of KickApps’ commitment to creating easy paths for community creation by web publishers of all sizes.

For more information about the plugin, visit: http://www.kickdeveloper.com/tutorials_wp_sso.html
To download the plugin, visit: http://www.kickdeveloper.com/wordpress/kickapps_wp_plugin_v1.0.zip

About KickApps

Selected by BusinessWeek readers as Best of the Web 2008, KickApps provides brands, enterprises and web publishers with solutions that enable social, interactive, dynamic, distributed and data-informed web experiences. KickApps solutions consist of a suite of hosted social and media applications and services that are used by some of the world’s largest websites and brands to grow & engage their online audiences and foster deeper relationships with customers. Clients include: Budget Travel, H&R Block, U2, CW Television, Guinness World Records, Special Olympics, HBO, Cinemax, Cox Television, the Phoenix Suns, the New York Knicks, the New York Rangers and thousands of other sites. For more information, visit www.kickapps.com and www.kickdeveloper.com.

KickApps Public Relations