If you’ve ever done authentication in a Laravel-based project then you probably had to deal with the Socialite extension, which enables OAuth-based authentication using third-party services (like Google or Facebook). Passing dynamic data to the external OAuth system and getting that data back to your application, using Socialite, is something neither easily done nor well documented and given that I’ve seen a lot of people wasting time on this, I
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Seven essential WordPress plugins
Here are the plugins I recommend for use on a WordPress blog. Most (not all) of these plugins are generic, meaning that they are not bound to a specific type of blog and may (or should) be used regardless of what you write. All of these plugins are top quality (IMHO) and provide an invaluable service for any blogger. I wholeheartedly recommend that you use and support them. I think
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