Social Media in Luminate CMS

Warning: Effective November 2025, Blackbaud will discontinue support for Luminate CMS. If your organization currently uses Luminate CMS, you should have received direct communication from Blackbaud with further details and next steps.

Implement social media integration on your CMS web pages.

Social login/open authentication - Constituents can use their social account credentials to access your site which provides:

  • Easy registration and login

  • Access to their sharable profile data so you can personalize user communication

Social sharing - Constituents can to spread the word about your mission, events, or fundraising through their personal networks, such as Facebook and Twitter

In Luminate Online, Set up Social Login (Open Authentication).

After open authentication is configured and social login is enabled, the Social Site login component is automatically added to the standard Login page as a string of social site icons.

In Luminate Online, after setting up open authentication, Set Up Social Sharing.

To add share icons on your page, complete the following steps:

Add social sharing icons on a CMS web page

  1. In Luminate CMS, open your web page in the Visual (WYSIWYG) Editor.

  2. Choose the Insert Component icon.

  3. In the Component type options, choose Luminate Online Content.

  4. (Optional) Choose the Float, Width, and Margins options that you want for your embedded icons.

  5. Click OK.

  6. In the Luminate Online content editor, click the Component icon.

  7. In the Configure Component section, complete the steps as described in Add Social Sharing component in the WYSIWYG editor.

  8. Click Finish.

You can track social login and social share analytics in your Janrain dashboard.

You can also enable Luminate CMS to log social share interactions to capture social shares from Luminate CMS-hosted sites into a Luminate Online constituent's profile as an interaction.

This enables you to run Luminate Online reports to view analytic data for your social media activity.

See Social Media Analytics and Reports for more information.