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Azure AD Single Sign On SSO for WordPress | WordPress Azure AD Login | Microsoft Entra ID


WordPress Azure AD Login / Office 365 Wordpress SSO (SAML Single Sign On) login [SAML SSO] can be achieved by using our WordPress SAML SP Single Sign On (SSO) plugin. Our SSO solution will make WordPress SAML 2.0 compliant Service Provider establishing trust between the WordPress site and Azure AD / Microsoft Entra ID to securely authenticate and login users to the WordPress site.
Our WordPress Azure AD Single Sign On (SSO) solution helps to secure WordPress sites behind the SSO login so that users are authenticated using their Azure AD / Office 365 / Microsoft Entra ID login credentials. Seamless support for advanced SSO features like Attribute & Group Mapping, Synchronize WordPress user’s details with Azure AD Office 365, Azure AD Multi-Tenancy SSO login support, Populate Employee information from Azure AD to WordPress, Intranet SSO / Internet SSO, Mapping the profile picture from Azure AD / Office 365 to your WordPress avatar, etc.
Here we will go through a guide to configure WordPress Azure AD SSO login between WordPress site and Azure AD / Office 365 by considering Office 365 / Azure AD as IDP (Identity Provider) and WordPress as SP (Service Provider). Our SSO plugin provides Unlimited user authentications from Azure AD / Office 365 / Azure B2C. You can visit our WordPress SSO plugin to know more about the other features we provide.

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Configure Azure AD as IDP

  • In the miniOrange SAML SP SSO plugin, navigate to Service Provider Metadata tab. Here, you can find the SP metadata such as SP Entity ID and ACS (AssertionConsumerService) URL which are required to configure the Identity Provider.
    • Configure RSA SecurID as IDP - SAML Single Sign-On(SSO) for WordPress- Application Catalog

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To setup to setup WordPress Azure AD SSO / Login with Azure AD into WordPress (WP) through Enterprise Applications, you can also follow this step by step Setup Video.


WordPress Azure AD SSO | More services

  • Search and select Microsoft Entra ID.
WordPress Azure AD Login using Single Sign On | Microsoft Entra ID

  • Select Enterprise Application.
WordPress Azure AD SSO | Enterprise registrations

  • Click on New Application.
WordPress Azure AD Single Sign On | New Application

  • Click on Create your own Application.
WordPress Azure AD Login using Single Sign On | Add Non-Gallery Application

  • Enter the name for your app, then select Non-gallery application section and click on Create button.
WordPress Azure AD Single Sign On | Add Non-Gallery Application

  • Click on Set up single sign on.
WordPress Azure AD Single Sign On | Add Non-Gallery Application

  • Select the SAML tab.
WordPress Azure AD Single Sign On | Azure AD WP login | Add Non-Gallery Application

  • After clicking on Edit, enter the SP Entity ID for Identifier and the ACS URL for Reply URL from Service Provider Metadata tab of the plugin.
    Note: For IDP-initiated SSO, the Sign On URL should be left blank.
WordPress Azure AD Login using Single Sign On | Edit ACS Url

WordPress Azure AD Login using Single Sign On | Add ACS Url

  • By default, the following Attributes will be sent in the SAML response. You can view or edit the claims sent in the SAML response to the application under the Attributes tab.
WordPress Azure AD SSO | Configure SAML 2.0

  • Copy the App Federation Metadata Url to get the Endpoints required for configuring your Service Provider.
WordPress Azure AD SSO | Setup SAML 2.0

Assign users and groups to your SAML application

  • Navigate to Users and groups tab and click on Add user/group.
WordPress Azure AD Login using Single Sign On | assign groups and users

  • Click on Users to assign the required user and then click on Select.
WordPress Azure AD Login using Single Sign On | add users

  • After selecting users click on Assign button.
WordPress Azure AD Single Sign On | assign users

  • You can also assign a role to your application under Select Role section.
  • You have successfully configured Microsoft Entra ID / Azure AD as SAML IDP ( Identity Provider) for achieving WordPress Azure AD SSO.
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To setup WordPress Azure AD SSO / Login with Azure AD into WordPress (WP) through App Registrations, you can also follow this step by step Setup Video.


WordPress Azure AD SSO | More services

  • Search and select Microsoft Entra ID.
WordPress Azure AD SSO | Microsoft Entra ID

  • Select App registrations.
Configure RSA SecurID as IDP - SAML Single Sign-On(SSO) for WordPress- Metadata Import Success

  • Click on New registration.
WordPress Azure AD Login using Single Sign On | New registration

  • Assign a Name and choose the account type.
  • In the Redirect URL field, provide the ACS URL provided in Service Provider Metadata tab of the plugin and click on Register button.
WordPress Azure AD Login using Single Sign On | Application Registration

  • Navigate to Expose an API from left menu panel.
  • Click the Add button and replace the APPLICATION ID URL with the plugin's SP Entity ID.

    • Note: Please ensure that the SP Entity ID value from the Service Provider Metadata tab doesn't have a trailing slash('/'). If SP Entity ID has a trailing slash then update it by removing the trailing slash from the SP EntityID / Issuer field under the Service Provider Metadata tab of the plugin, enter the updated value at Azure and click on the Save button.

WordPress Azure AD Login using Single Sign On | Expose an API

WordPress Azure AD Login using Single Sign On | Edit Application ID URI

  • Go back to Microsoft Entra ID ⇒ App Registrations window and click on Endpoints.
WordPress Azure SSO | Azure AD WP login | endpoints

  • This will navigate up to a window with multiple URLs.
  • Copy the Federation Metadata document URL to get the Endpoints required for configuring your Service Provider.
WordPress Azure AD SSO | federation metadata

  • You have successfully configured Azure AD as SAML IDP ( Identity Provider) for achieving Azure AD SSO login into your WordPress (WP) Site.

In the WordPress SAML SSO plugin, go to the Service Provider Setup tab of the plugin. There are two ways to configure the WordPress SSO plugin:

A. By uploading IDP metadata:

  • Click on Upload IDP metadata button.
  • Enter the Identity Provider Name
  • You can either upload a metadata file and click on Upload button or use a metadata URL and click on Fetch Metadata.
Single Sign On between two WordPress sites | Login-upload metadata

B.Manual Configuration:

  • Provide the required settings (i.e. Identity Provider Name, IDP Entity ID or Issuer, SAML Login URL, X.509 Certificate) as provided by your Identity Provider and click on the Save button.
  • Click on Test configuration to check the attributes and values sent by IDP.
Single Sign On between two WordPress sites | Test configuration

Step 3: Attribute Mapping

  • In the free plugin, only NameID is supported for Email and Username attributes of the WordPress user.
  • When a user performs SSO, the NameID value sent by the IDP will get mapped to the email and username of the WordPress user.
Single Sign On between two WordPress sites | Login-attribute mapping

In the WordPress SAML SSO plugin, go to the Service Provider Setup tab of the plugin. There are two ways to configure the WordPress SSO plugin:

A. By uploading IDP metadata:

  • Click on Upload IDP metadata button.
  • Enter the Identity Provider Name
  • You can either upload a metadata file and click on Upload button or use a metadata URL and click on Fetch Metadata.

B.Manual Configuration:

  • Provide the required settings (i.e. Identity Provider Name, IDP Entity ID or Issuer, SAML Login URL, X.509 Certificate) as provided by your Identity Provider and click on the Save button.
  • Click on Test configuration to check the attributes and values sent by IDP.
Single Sign On between two WordPress sites | Test configuration

Step 3: Attribute Mapping

  • Attribute Mapping feature allows you to map the user attributes sent by the IDP during SSO to the user attributes at WordPress.
  • In WordPress SAML plugin, go to Attribute/Role Mapping tab and fill up the following fields in Attribute Mapping section.

NOTE: If you click on Test Configuration button in Service Provider Setup tab and authenticate with your IDP, you can see a list of attributes sent by the IDP in the Attribute/Role mapping tab. This information can be used to provide the above mapping.


In the WordPress SAML SSO plugin, go to the Service Provider Setup tab of the plugin. There are two ways to configure the WordPress SSO plugin:

A. By uploading IDP metadata:

  • Click on Upload IDP metadata button.
  • Enter the Identity Provider Name
  • You can either upload a metadata file and click on Upload button or use a metadata URL and click on Fetch Metadata.
  • In the Premium plugin, you can enable auto-sync for the metadata URL which will auto-update the plugin configuration as per the IDP metadata after a set interval of time
Single Sign On between two WordPress sites | Login-enableauto scan

B.Manual Configuration:

  • Provide the required settings (i.e. Identity Provider Name, IDP Entity ID or Issuer, SAML Login URL, X.509 Certificate) as provided by your Identity Provider and click on the Save button.
  • Click on Test configuration to check the attributes and values sent by IDP.
Test configuration - SSO between two WordPress sites

  • In the Premium Plugin, you can provide the SAML Logout URL to achieve Single Logout on your WordPress site.

  • Attribute Mapping feature allows you to map the user attributes sent by the IDP during SSO to the user attributes at WordPress.
  • In WordPress SAML plugin, go to Attribute/Role Mapping tab and fill up the following fields in Attribute Mapping section.
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  • Custom Attribute Mapping: This feature allows you to map any attribute sent by the IDP to the usermeta table of WordPress.
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Step 4: Role Mapping

  • In the free plugin, you can choose a Default Role which will be assigned to all the non-admin users when they perform SSO.
  • Go to Attribute/Role mapping tab and navigate to Role Mapping section.
  • Select the Default Role and click on the Update button.
Single Sign On between two WordPress sites | Login-role mapping

Step 4: Role Mapping

    In the standard plugin, you can choose a default role which will be assigned to all the non-admin users when they perform SSO.

  • Go to Attribute/Role mapping tab and navigate to Role Mapping section.
  • Select the Default Role and click on the Save button.
Single Sign On between two WordPress sites | Login-role mapping

This feature allows you to assign and manage roles of the users when they perform SSO. Along with the default WordPress roles, this is compatible with any custom roles as well.

  • From the Attribute Mapping section of the plugin, provide a mapping for the field named Group/Role. This attribute will contain the role related information sent by the IDP and will be used for Role Mapping.
  • Navigate to role mapping section and provide the mappings for the highlighted roles.
Login-role mapping - SSO between two WordPress sites

  • For example, If you want a user whose Group/Role attribute value is wp-editor to be assigned as an Editor in WordPress, just provide the mapping as wp-editor in the Editor field of Role Mapping section.

Step 5: SSO settings

  • In the free plugin you can add a Single Sign-On button by enabling Add a Single Sign-On button on the WordPress Login Page toggle in Option 1.
Single Sign On between two WordPress sites | Login-SSO button

  • If your WordPress theme supports login widget, you can add a login widget to enable SP-Initiated SSO on your site.
  • Navigate to Redirection and SSO links tab and follow the given steps given under Option 2: Use a Widget to add a login widget on your site.
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Step 5: SSO settings

In the Standard plugin you can enable SP-initiated SSO using the following options.

  • Auto-Redirection from site: If this option is enabled, any unauthenticated user trying to access your site will get redirected to the IDP login page and after successful authentication, they will be redirected back to the same page on your site which they were trying to access.

    • Steps:

    • Go to Redirection and SSO Links tab of the plugin and navigate to Option 1: Auto - Redirection from site.
    • Enable Redirect to IDP if user not logged in [PROTECT COMPLETE SITE]option.

    Single Sign On between two WordPress sites | Login-optin 1

  • Auto-Redirection from WordPress Login: If this option is enabled, any unauthenticated user trying to access the default WordPress login page will get redirected to the IDP login page for authentication. After successful authentication, they will be redirected back to the WordPress site.

    • Steps:

    • Go to Redirection and SSO Links tab of the plugin and navigate to Option 2: Auto- Redirection from WordPress Login.
    • Enable Redirect to IDP from WordPress Login Page option.
    Single Sign On between two WordPress sites | Login-optin 2

    NOTE: Please enable the Backdoor login and note down the backdoor URL. This will allow you to access the WordPress login page in case you get locked out of the IDP.


  • SSO Links: You can add SSO links anywhere on your site using the Shortcode and Widget provided in Redirection and SSO Links tab > Option 3: SSO Links section of the plugin
    • Single Sign On between two WordPress sites | Login-optin 3

In the Premium plugin you can enable SP-initiated SSO using the following options.

  • Auto-Redirection from site: If this option is enabled, any unauthenticated user trying to access your site will get redirected to the IDP login page and after successful authentication they will be redirected back to the same page on your site which they were trying to access.

    • Steps:

    • Go to Redirection and SSO Links tab of the plugin and navigate to Option 1 : Auto-Redirection from site.
    • Enable Redirect to IDP if user not logged in [PROTECT COMPLETE SITE] option.
    Login-optin 1 - SSO between two WordPress sites

  • Auto-Redirection from WordPress Login: If this option is enabled, any unauthenticated user trying to access the default WordPress login page will get redirected to the IDP login page for authentication. After successful authentication, they will be redirected back to the WordPress site.

    • Steps:

    • Go to Redirection and SSO Links tab of the plugin and navigate to Option 2: Auto-Redirection from WordPress Login.
    • Enable Redirect to IDP from WordPress Login Page option.
    Login-optin 2 - SSO between two WordPress sites

    NOTE: Please enable the Backdoor login and note down the backdoor URL. This will allow you to access the WordPress login page in case you get locked out of the IDP login.


  • Login Button: You can add a customized login button anywhere on your site or WordPress login page by navigating to Option 3: Login Button section of Redirection and SSO Links tab.
Login-optin 3 - SSO between two WordPress sites

  • SSO Links: You can add SSO links anywhere on your site using the Shortcode and Widget provided in Option 4: SSO Links section of Redirection and SSO Links tab.
Login-optin 4 - SSO between two WordPress sites

In this Guide, you have successfully configured Azure AD SAML Single Sign On (Azure AD WP SSO Login) choosing Azure AD as IDP and WordPress as SP using WordPress SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) Login plugin. This solution ensures that you are ready to roll out secure access to your WordPress(WP) site using Azure AD login credentials within minutes.




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