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How to Set Up Entra External ID Login Using SAML Single Sign On (SSO) for WordPress?

Entra External ID Login for WordPress can be achieved by using our SAML SP Single Sign On (SSO) plugin. Our SSO solution will make SAML 2.0 compliant Service Provider establishing trust between the WordPress site and Entra External ID to securely authenticate and login users.
Here we will go through a guide to configure Entra External ID SSO login between WordPress site and Entra External ID by considering Entra External ID as IDP (Identity Provider) WordPress as SP (Service Provider). Our SSO plugin provides Unlimited user authentications from Azure AD / Office 365 / Azure B2C. You can visit our SSO plugin for WordPress to know more about the other features we provide.

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Configure Entra External ID 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 Entra External ID as IDP - Application Catalog

Entra External ID SSO - More Services

  • Search and select Microsoft Entra ID.
Entra External ID Login using Single Sign On - Microsoft Entra ID

  • Select Enterprise Application.
Entra External ID SSO - Enterprise Application

  • Click on New Application.
Entra External ID Single Sign On - New Application

  • Click on Create your own Application.
Entra External ID Login using Single Sign On - Create your own Application

  • Enter the name for your app, then select Non-gallery application section and click on Create button.
Entra External ID Single Sign On - Create Application

  • Click on Set up single sign on.
Entra External ID Single Sign On | Setup SSO

  • Select the SAML tab.
Entra External ID Single Sign On | Select SAML

  • 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.
Entra External ID Login using Single Sign On | Edit ACS Url

Entra External ID 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.
Entra External ID SSO | Entra External ID Login - Edit Attribute

  • Copy the App Federation Metadata Url to get the Endpoints required for configuring your Service Provider.
Entra External ID SSO | Entra ID SSO - Federation URL

Assign users and groups to your SAML application

  • Navigate to Users and groups tab and click on Add user/group.
Entra External ID Login using Single Sign On | Add groups and users

  • Click on Users to assign the required user and then click on Select.
Entra External ID Login using Single Sign On | Select users

  • After selecting users click on Assign button.
Entra External ID Single Sign On - Assign Users

  • You can also assign a role to your application under Select Role section.

Adding an Enterprise Application to External Identities User Flow

  • Under the Azure Portal home page, locate and click on External Identities from the Azure services section.
Entra External ID Single Sign On - Azure Portal

In the External Identities overview page:

  • From the left navigation menu, expand Self-service sign up.
  • Click on User flows.
Entra External ID Single Sign On - Add Application User Flow

  • Click on the user flow policy you want to configure (e.g., Policies).
  • This will open the policy configuration page.
  • In the left sidebar, expand the Use section.
  • Click on Applications.
Entra External ID Single Sign On - Navigate to Applications

  • Click the + Add application button at the top.
  • A Select application panel will appear on the right side.
Entra External ID Single Sign On - Access User Flow

  • In the search box, you can filter applications if needed.
  • The panel shows 12 results found under Enterprise applications tab.
  • Browse through the list of available enterprise applications.
Entra External ID Single Sign On - Select Application

  • Check the checkbox next to your desired application (in this example, enternalID with ID: 4c97f130-bc9e-448b-b4af-6297135c3627).
  • The selected application will appear in the Selected (1) section on the right.
Entra External ID Single Sign On - Confirm Selection

  • Click the Select button at the bottom of the panel.
  • The application is now associated with your user flow.
  • To utilize this policy during the sign-up process, append the policy parameter to your SSO login
    URL: https://your-sso-login-url?p=
  • You have successfully configured Microsoft Entra External ID as SAML IDP ( Identity Provider) for achieving Entra External ID SSO.
Entra External ID | More services

  • Search and select Microsoft Entra ID.
Entra External ID | Microsoft Entra ID SSO

  • Select App registrations.
Configure Entra External ID - Metadata Import Success

  • Click on New registration.
Entra External ID | Entra External ID 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.
Entra External ID - 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.

Entra External ID - Expose an API

Entra External ID - Edit Application ID URI

  • Go back to Microsoft Entra ID ⇒ App Registrations window and click on Endpoints.
Entra External ID - 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.
Entra External ID - federation metadata

  • You have successfully configured Entra External ID as SAML IDP ( Identity Provider) for achieving Entra External ID login into your (WP) Site.

In the SAML SSO plugin for WordPress, go to the IDP Configuration tab of the plugin. There are two ways to configure the SSO Plugin for WordPress:

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.
SAML SSO for WordPress | 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.
SAML SSO for WordPress | Test configuration

Step 3: Attribute Mapping

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Note: To configure attribute mapping for multiple identity providers, follow the setup guide here. This feature is available in the Enterprise plan.


  • 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.
SAML SSO for WordPress | Login-attribute mapping

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

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.
SAML SSO for WordPress | Test configuration

Step 3: Attribute Mapping

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Note: To configure attribute mapping for multiple identity providers, follow the setup guide here. This feature is available in the Enterprise plan.


  • Attribute Mapping feature allows you to map the user attributes sent by the IDP during SSO to the user attributes at WordPress.
  • In SAML Plugin for WordPress, 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 SAML SSO plugin for WordPress, go to the Service Provider Setup tab of the plugin. There are two ways to configure the SSO Plugin for WordPress:

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
SAML SSO for WordPress | 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 - SAML SSO for WordPress

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

Note and Contact Us - SSO between two WordPress sites

Note: To configure attribute mapping for multiple identity providers, follow the setup guide here. This feature is available in the Enterprise plan.


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

  • Custom Attribute Mapping: This feature allows you to map any attribute sent by the IDP to the usermeta table of WordPress.
Login-attribute mapping - SAML SSO for WordPress

Step 4: Role Mapping

Note and Contact Us - SSO between two WordPress sites

Note: To configure role mapping for multiple identity providers, follow the setup guide here. This feature is available in the Enterprise plan.


  • 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.
SAML SSO for WordPress | Login-role mapping

Step 4: Role Mapping

Note and Contact Us - SSO between two WordPress sites

Note: To configure role mapping for multiple identity providers, follow the setup guide here. This feature is available in the Enterprise plan.


    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.
SAML SSO for WordPress | 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.

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Note: To configure role mapping for multiple identity providers, follow the setup guide here. This feature is available in the Enterprise plan.


  • 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 - SAML SSO for WordPress

  • 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.
SAML SSO for WordPress | 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.
SAML SSO for WordPress | Login-sso setting

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.

    SAML SSO for WordPress | 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.
    SAML SSO for WordPress | 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
    • SAML SSO for WordPress | 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 - SAML SSO for WordPress

  • 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 - SAML SSO for WordPress

    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 - SAML SSO for WordPress

  • 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 - SAML SSO for WordPress

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





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