Step By Step Guide To Configure MiniOrange LDAP Login Premium Plugin For WordPress

Step 1: Install miniOrange LDAP/AD Login for Intranet Sites

From your WordPress dashboard

• Click on PluginsAdd New tab.

• Click on Upload Plugin and choose the downloaded plugin zip.





• After installing the LDAP plugin, activate the plugin from your Plugins page.

Step 2: Setup miniOrange LDAP/AD Login for Intranet Sites plugin

• After successful activation you will see the Icon of LDAP/AD plugin in the menus displayed on the left side on your admin dashboard. Click on the Icon to open LDAP/AD plugin configuration. Click on Register or Login with miniOrange link as shown in the below screenshot.



• In Login/Register tab, Enter your miniOrange account credentials which you have used at the time of the plugin purchase. Click on the Save button.



• After successful login, following license verification screen will be displayed. Goto License->Manage License section in your miniOrange account dashboard. Click on the View License Key button and Copy the license key. Enter the copied license key in the License Key text field as shown in the below screenshot. Click on the Activate License button.



• Once the license is activated successfully. You can now proceed with the plugin configuration.


• Navigate to LDAP Configuration tab. In LDAP Connection Information configure the following settings:

• LDAP Server URL: Specify the host name for the LDAP server.
  eg: ldap://myldapserver.domain:389, ldap://12.12.112.1:389,
  When using SSL, the host may have to take the form ldaps://host:636.

• Service Account DN: This service account will be used to establish the connection with LDAP server. Specify the Service Account DN (distinguished Name) of the LDAP server.

• Service Account Password: Password for the Service Account in the LDAP Server.

• Click on Test Connection and Save.


• Once the connection is successfully made with your LDAP server then go to the LDAP user mapping configuration.

• Search Base: Provide the distinguished name of the Search Base object. If you have users in different locations in the directory(OU's), separate the distinguished names of the search base objects by a semi-colon(;).
  eg. cn=Users,dc=domain,dc=com
  eg. cn=Users,dc=domain,dc=com; ou=people,dc=domian,dc=com.

• Serach Conditions: You can configure either of the two options.

• Username Attribute: Enter the LDAP Username Attribute. You will need to enter the username during LDAP login based on the username attribute configured.
  eg. sAMAcoountName, mail, userPrincipalName

• Custom Search Filter: You can also enable Enable Custom Search Filter to write your own custom search filter.
  eg. (&(objectClass=*)(mail=?)), (&(objectClass=*)(|(samaccountname=?)(mail=?)))

• Click on Save User Mapping.


• After successful user mapping, you can perform test authentication to verify whether the LDAP Authentication is working fine or not by entering the username and password of any LDAP user account.



• Configure Enable login using LDAP settings to login in WordPress site with LDAP credentials.

• Enable LDAP login: This option is disabled by default. You can enable LDAP login once you are done with the "Test Connection & Save" in LDAP Connection Information.

• Authenticate users from both LDAP and WordPress: This option allows users to use either of WordPress credentials or LDAP credentials to login in WordPress site. By default it is "Only Administrators". You can enable this option for "Only Administrators" or "All Users". If you dont want users to use wordpress password you can select "None".

• Redirect after authentication: By default it is "None". You can select redirect option for users after login into wordpress site to "Home Page", "Profile Page", "Custom Page".

• Enable Auto Registering users if they do not exist in WordPress: This option is enabled by default and allow the users to register in WordPress after they login into the WordPress site with LDAP credentials.

• Protect all website content by login: You can protect the website contents by enabling this option. The users will need to enter their LDAP credentials while accessing any page of WordPress site.