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Azure AD Single Sign-On SSO | WordPress Login using Azure AD

WordPress OAuth / OpenID connect Single Sign-On plugin enables login into your WordPress site using OAuth and OpenID Connect providers like Azure AD B2C, Office 365, Microsoft and other custom and standard providers. It supports advanced SSO features like user profile attribute mapping, role mapping etc. To know more about other features we provide in WP OAuth Single Sign-On ( OAuth / OpenID Connect Client ) plugin, you can click here

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WordPress OAuth/OpenID Single Sign On

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Download And Installation

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

Step 1: Setup Azure Active Directory as OAuth Provider

  • Sign in to Azure portal.
  • Click on App Services and go to Manage Azure Active Directory.
    • OAuth/OpenID/OIDC Single Sign On (SSO), AzureAD SSO Login
  • In the left-hand navigation pane, click the App registrations service, and click New registration.
    • OAuth/OpenID/OIDC Single Sign On (SSO), AzureAD SSO App-Registration
  • When the Create page appears, enter your application's registration information:
    • Name : Name of your application.
    Application type :
    1. 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.
    Sign-on URL :
    1. 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.
  • When finished, click Register. Azure AD assigns a unique Application ID to your application. Copy Application ID and the Directory ID , this will be your Client ID and Tenent ID.
    • OAuth/OpenID/OIDC Single Sign On (SSO), AzureAD SSO Overview
  • 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.
    • OAuth/OpenID/OIDC Single Sign On (SSO), AzureAD SSO secret-Key
  • Copy value. This will be your Secret key.
    • OAuth/OpenID/OIDC Single Sign On (SSO), AzureAD SSO Secret-Key-2
  • Enter application Home page URL Logout Settings->Properties->Logout URL.

    • Azure AD Endpoints and Scope:

    Scope: openid
    Authorize Endpoint: https://login.microsoftonline.com/tenant-id/oauth2/authorize
    Access Token Endpoint: https://login.microsoftonline.com/tenant-id/oauth2/token
    Get User Info Endpoint: https://login.windows.net/common/openid/userinfo
    Custom redirect URL after logout:[optional] https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/logout?post_logout_rediret-uri=<your URL>

Step 2: Setup WordPress as OAuth Client

  • Go to Configure OAuth tab and configure App Name, Client ID, Client Secret, Tenant name and Policy from provided Endpoints
  • openid is already filled.
  • Click on Save Settings to save the configuration.
    • OAuth/OpenID/OIDC Single Sign On (SSO) Azure AD SSO login with azure ad

Step 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.
      • wordpress sso-14
    • 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.
      • wordpress sso

Step 4: Login Settings / Sign In Settings

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

    • Sign In Settings

    • Go to WordPress Left Panel > Appearances > Widgets.
    • Select "miniOrange OAuth". Drag and drop to your favourite location and save.
      • jira sso-16
    • Open your Wordpress page and you can see the login button there. You can test the SSO now.

Additional Add-Ons And Plugin Integrations


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BuddyPress Integration

Allows to integrate user attribute information fetched from OAuth / OpenID Identity Providers (IDP) with the user's BuddyPress profile.

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Page and Post Restriction

Protects the pages/posts of your site with OAuth/OpenID Connect compliant IDP login page & restrict the access to the site based on the user roles.

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Login Form Add-On

Provides a Login form for OAuth/OpenID login instead of button. It relies on OAuth/OpenID sso plugin to have Password Grant configured.

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Media Restriction

miniOrange Media Restriction add-on restricts unauthorized users from accessing the media files on your WordPress site.

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Discord Role Mapping

Discord Role Mapping add-on helps you to get roles from your discord server and maps it to WordPress users while SSO.

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LearnDash Integrator

LearnDash Integration will map the SSO users to LearnDash groups as per the group attributes sent by your Identity Provider.

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Attribute Based Redirection

Attribute Based Redirection plugin can be used to restrict and redirect users to different URLs based on OAuth/OpenID attributes.

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SCIM User Provisioning

SCIM User Provisioning allows you to sync user's creation, updation and deletion from your IDP to WordPress site.

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SSO Session Management

SSO session management add-on manages the login session time of your users based on their WordPress roles.

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Membership Level based Login Redirection

This add-on allows to redirect users to custom pages based on their membership levels after Single Sign-On. Plugin Checks user’s membership level during every login, so any update on the membership level doesn’t affect redirection.

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SSO Login Audit

SSO Login Audit captures and tracks all the SSO users and generates reports.

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