{"id":715,"date":"2012-09-18T21:34:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T21:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.warlight.net\/?p=715"},"modified":"2012-09-18T21:34:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T21:34:02","slug":"new-feature-facebook-authentication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/new-feature-facebook-authentication\/","title":{"rendered":"New feature: Facebook authentication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WarLight now allows players to sign in with their Facebook account!  <\/p>\n<p>This is simply done as a convenience since it means you don&#8217;t need to remember a separate password for WarLight.  WarLight won&#8217;t post to your Facebook account or do anything <a href=\"http:\/\/flirtatiouslabs.com\/post\/31401127751\/zynga-game-virus-farmville-2\">Zynga-like<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook will never be required to play WarLight.  This is just offered as an option for those who prefer it.  You will always be able to sign in with an e-mail address as you have been able to up until now.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to start signing in with Facebook but you already have an e-mail based WarLight account, you can link your Facebook account to your existing WarLight account at <a href=\"http:\/\/warlight.net\/LinkFacebook.aspx\">this page<\/a>.  Even after linking your accounts, you can still sign in with your e-mail address and password if you choose too.  This will just enable the option of signing in with Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>The main motivation behind allowing this is for the <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.warlight.net\/index.php\/Mobile_Client\">mobile client<\/a>.  Signing in with Facebook is only a small convenience on the website, but trying to type in an e-mail address and password on a phone is much more annoying.  Therefore, it&#8217;s nice to give players another option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WarLight now allows players to sign in with their Facebook account! This is simply done as a convenience since it means you don&#8217;t need to remember a separate password for WarLight. WarLight won&#8217;t post to your Facebook account or do anything Zynga-like. Facebook will never be required to play WarLight. This is just offered as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/new-feature-facebook-authentication\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New feature: Facebook authentication&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}