KickApps Adds Drupal Shared Authentication – Extends Distribution

KickApps is announcing this morning their new shared authentication plugin for Drupal. KickApps is now classifying themselves as a, "on demand social media platform." This announcement comes a week after their WordPress shared authentication support.

There are two points here: distribution and ease-of-use. It’s important for KickApps to continue to increase distribution into sites that already have a platform and their integration support makes sense in that area and if they are easy to install and maintain, it should also help them increase distribution.

The module includes support for versions 6.x, 5.3 and 4.7 of Drupal. When developers enable the KickApps SSO module for their Drupal sites, registered site members will be auto-registered into the site’s KickApps powered community during sign in, requiring no initial user import by the developer. Integration tutorials are available on the KickApps developer site.

It will be interesting to actually see it in action as I believe there are two areas that Drupal really lacks on: forums and user profiles. Perhaps this new integration can fix at least the user profile piece.

Editor’s note: We use Drupal on CN.