Configure Azure AD Single Sign-On (SSO) with WordPress OAuth & OpenID Connect Single Sign-On (SSO) plugin. Enable secure login into WordPress using Microsoft Azure AD as OAuth and OpenID Connect provider. Azure AD Single Sign-On (SSO) with WordPress allows your users to login to your WordPress and access the site by authenticating with their Azure AD identity provider. You can also configure plugin using different IDPs such as Azure B2C, Office 365, and other custom providers. It supports advanced Single Sign-On (SSO) features such as user profile Attribute mapping, Role mapping, multi tenant login etc. Here we will go through a guide to configure Single Sign-On (SSO) between WordPress and Azure AD for user authentication. By the end of this guide, users should be able to perform secure login to WordPress and access the site with Azure AD SSO. To know more about other features we provide in WP OAuth Single Sign-On ( OAuth & OpenID Connect Client ) plugin, you can click here.

To know more details about different features provided in Azure AD SSO and Microsoft Office 365 SSO, please click here.

WordPress Azure Integration

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WordPress Azure integration provides functionality to manage all the user operations from your
WordPress site.

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Following are the features supported with WP OAuth Client Plugin

Azure Self-Service Password Reset

Azure AD MFA conditional access

Pre-requisites : Download And Installation

• Log into your WordPress instance as an admin.
• Go to the WordPress Dashboard -> Plugins and click on Add New.
• Search for a WordPress OAuth Single Sign-On (SSO) plugin and click on Install Now.
• Once installed click on Activate

WordPress Azure Integration

   WordPress Azure integration provides functionality
to manage all the user operations from your
WordPress site.

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WordPress OAuth & OpenID Single Sign-On (SSO)

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Steps to configure Azure AD Single Sign-On (SSO) Login into WordPress

1. Setup Azure Active Directory as OAuth Provider

• Sign in to Azure portal.
• Select Azure Active Directory.

• In the left-hand navigation pane, click the App registrations service, and click New registration.

• When the Create page appears, enter your application's registration information.(Refer to the below table)

Name :	Name of your application.
Application type :	Select "Web app / API" for client applications and resource/API applications that are installed on a secure server. This setting is used for OAuth confidential web clients and public user-agent-based clients. The same application can also expose both a client and resource/API.
Redirect URI :	For "Web app / API" applications, provide the base URL of your app. eg, https://<domain-name> might be the URL for a web app running on your local machine. Users would use this URL to sign in to a web client application.

• Make sure the "Grant admin consent to openid and offline_access permissions" option is enabled. When finished, click Register.

• Azure AD assigns a unique Application ID to your application. The Application ID is your Client ID and the Directory ID is your Tenant ID, keep these values handy as you will need them to configure the miniOrange OAuth Client plugin.

• Go to Certificates and Secrets from the left navigaton pane and click on New Client Secret. Enter description and expiration time and click on ADD option.

• Copy the secret key "value" and keep the value handy it will be required later to configure Client Secret under the miniOrange OAuth Client Plugin.

You have successfully configured Azure AD as OAuth Provider for achieving user authentication with Azure AD Single Sign-On (SSO) login into your WordPress Site.

2. Setup WordPress as OAuth Client

3. User Attribute Mapping

• User Attribute Mapping is mandatory for enabling users to successfully login into WordPress. We will be setting up user profile attributes for WordPress using below settings.

Finding user attributes

• Go to Configure OAuth tab. Scroll down and click on Test Configuration.

• You will see all the values returned by your OAuth Provider to WordPress in a table. If you don't see value for First Name, Last Name, Email or Username, make the required settings in your OAuth Provider to return this information.
• Once you see all the values in Test Configuration, go to Attribute / Role Mapping tab, you will get the list of attributes in a Username dropdown.

4. Steps to fetch Azure AD Groups

• Go to Application → Select the application where you want to configure the group mapping. Now, Go to the API Permissions tab.

• Click on the Add permission button, and then Microsoft Graph API -> Delegated Permissions and select openid, Profile scope and click on the Add Permissions button.

• Click on the Grant consent for Demo button.
• Go to Manifest tab and find groupMembershipClaims and changes it’s value to "All" and click on the save button.

• Now you would be able to get the group's value in the Test configuration window.

• You can follow the role mapping section to map the groups to WordPress users while Azure AD SSO.

5. Steps to configure Azure AD Groups in plugin [Premium]

• Go to the Attribute Mapping section in the plugin and map the Attribute Names from the Test Configuration table. Make sure Enable Role Mapping option is enabled and click on the Save Settings button. (Refer to the screenshot)

• Scroll down and go to the Role Mapping section, you need to map Group Attribute Name. Select the attribute name from the list of attributes that return the groups from the test configuration table of Azure AD.
  Eg:Groups

• Assign the WordPress role to the Provider Groups: Based on the Azure AD application, you can allocate the WordPress role to Azure AD Groups. Add the Azure AD group's value under Group Attribute Value and assign the required WordPress role in front of it under WordPress Role.
  For example, in the below image. Group value has been assigned the role of Subscriber.

• Once you save the mapping, the Azure AD group will be assigned the WordPress Subscriber role after SSO.
  Example: As per the given example, a User with group value will be added as a administrator .

6. Custom Attribute Mapping [Premium]

• Go to your application in Azure Active Directory and select Token configuration from the left menu.
• Click on Add optional claim and then select ID from the right section.
• Now choose all the attributes you want to fetch while SSO (e.g family_name, given_name, etc) and click on Add button.
• You might see a popup to Turn on the Microsoft Graph profile permission (required for claims to appear in token), enable it, and click on Add button.

7. Sign In Settings

• The settings in Single Sign-On (SSO) Settings tab define the user experience for Single Sign-On (SSO). To add a Azure AD login widget on your WordPress page, you need to follow the below steps.

Sign in settings for WordPress 5.7 and before

• Go to WordPress Left Panel > Appearances > Widgets.
• Select miniOrange OAuth. Drag and drop to your favourite location and save.


Sign in settings for WordPress 5.8

• Go to WordPress Left Panel > Appearances > Widgets.
• Select miniOrange OAuth. Drag and drop to your favourite location and save.

• Open your WordPress page and you can see the Azure AD SSO login button there. You can test the Azure AD Single Sign-On (SSO) now.

Sign in settings for WordPress 5.9

• Make sure the "Show on login page" option is enabled for your application. (Refer to the below image)

• Now, go to your WordPress Login page. (Eg. https://< your-wordpress-domain >/wp-login.php)
• You will see an Azure AD SSO login button there. Once you click the login button, you will be able to test the Azure AD Single Sign-On (SSO).