Reddit

Members link their Reddit account and sign in with it afterwards.

Before you start

Console	Reddit app preferences
Endpoint group	Social Login
Email	None. Reddit shares no address at any scope
Signs in	In the browser

Reddit cannot create an account on its own

Reddit’s identity scope returns a username and nothing else — no email address at any scope. An account cannot be created from that, because your site has no way to reach the person.

So Reddit is a linking provider. A member signs in once by another means, links Reddit from Social Connects, and can sign in with it from then on. Offering Reddit as the only option on a registration screen gives members a button that cannot finish.

Create the app

1. Open reddit.com/prefs/apps and choose Create another app.

2. Choose the web app type. The installed app type has no secret and will not work here.

3. Name it what members should see when authorising.

4. Set the redirect uri to the address from Memberside → API Keys → Social Login → Reddit, which looks like https://yoursite.com/wp-json/memberside/v1/social/callback/reddit.

5. Create the app. The client id is the short string directly under the app’s name, not labelled as such. The secret is labelled.

What to paste into Memberside

Under Memberside → API Keys → Social Login → Reddit:

Field	Value
Client ID	The short string under the app name
Client secret	The secret

When it does not work

Symptom	Cause	Fix
A new member gets stuck after authorising	Reddit returns no address, so no account can be created	Have them register first, then link Reddit
“invalid_client”	The installed app type was chosen	Recreate it as a web app
The client ID looks wrong	It is the unlabelled string under the app name	Copy that one
The redirect is refused	Reddit compares the address exactly	Copy it again from the API Keys screen