# How to integrate Unikname with WooCommerce?

Unikname Connect can be easily integrated with your WooCommerce website with a simple plugin.
WooCommerce (opens new window) is an open-source e-commerce plugin for WordPress. It's designed for small to large-sized online stores.
WordPress (opens new window) is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) written in PHP and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database.
WordPress is used by more than 60 million websites, it is one of the most popular content management system solutions in use. WordPress was originally created as a blog-publishing system but has evolved to support other types of web content: corporate website, media galleries, online stores... such as with WooCommerce extension.
Example
Many WooCommerce websites are running with Unikname Connect such as La Bande Du Coin (opens new window) or Cryptomaniac (opens new window) to give you some examples.
👉 You're welcome to look at them and to see how they've integrated the Unikname Connect Button.
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Prerequisites
✔️ You've signed-up for a Unikname-Connect account
✔️ You've got and setup the Trust certificate for your website ✔️ During the sign-up process you've received your Unikname-Connect Account ID and your API secret key.📖 We assume you're familiar with the administration of your WordPress website and you've already installed the WooCommerce plugin on it.
# Step 1. Install the WordPress plugin
Unikname plugin is available for free on the official WordPress plugins repository (opens new window).
There are various ways of installing the plugin, so choose the one adapted to your installation:
- From your WordPress Dashboard
- With Composer
- From the Github Repository
# Install from your WordPress Dashboard
You can install the plugin directly from your WordPress Dashboard.
- Go to your WordPress Dashboard
- Go to the extensions/plugins manager
- Add a new one
- Look for
unikname
in the search box on right - Install
Unikname
plugin - Then
enable
it
# Advanced installation methods
Advanced installation methods
# Install with Composer
If you're using Composer to manage WordPress, add WordPress-Unikname-Connect to your project's dependencies through the WordPress Packagist repository (opens new window).
Run de following command:
composer require wpackagist-plugin/unikname-connect
# Install from the Github Repository
# Stable version of the plugin
- Go to the release page of WordPress-Unikname-Connect plugin (opens new window)
- Choose the version you want to install by clicking on its version. You should select the last one available
- Select the archive to download which matches your platform ('zip' or 'tar.gz' - choose 'zip' if you don't know)

- Extract the downloaded ZIP archive
- Rename the directory
wordpress-unikname-connect-X.Y.Z
(X.Y.X
depends on the downloaded version) towordpress-unikname-connect
- Upload the
wordpress-unikname-connect
directory to your/wp-content/plugins/
WordPress server directory - Activate Unikname Connect plugin from your Plugins page
# Unstable/development version of the plugin
⚠️ With this method, you are going to install a development version of the plugin, which might be unstable.
Install it only to test unreleased features, to check if a bug as been correctly fixed...
- Download WordPress-Unikname-Connect plugin (opens new window)
- Extract the downloaded ZIP archive
- Rename the directory
wordpress-unikname-connect-master
towordpress-unikname-connect
- Upload the
wordpress-unikname-connect
directory to your/wp-content/plugins/
WordPress server directory - Activate Unikname Connect plugin from your Plugins page
# Step 2. Setup the WordPress Plugin
# General
- Enable the
Enable Unikname Connect
Configure the information provided by the Unikname Support Team (see Prerequisites):
Unikname-Connect @unikname
with the Unikname Connect Account IDUnikname-Connect Secret
with the API secret key

# Pages options
You can then configure on which pages of your WordPress site you want to display the Unikname Connect button:
- WordPress pages

- WooCommerce pages

# Unikname Connect buttons style
You can also fine-tune the style options of the Unikname Connect buttons:

All done!
New users are now able to use their @unikname SSID to sign-up to your Wordpress website.

# Troubleshooting
Still need help?
Live-chat with us by clicking on this button on the right:
OR
Open a topic on our Unikname forum