Setup guide for WordPress SharePoint Integration

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Microsoft Sharepoint WordPress integration can be achieved using our Embed Sharepoint OneDrive Documents WordPress. Synchronize your sharepoint/OneDrive/Office365 user details/documents /files to the WordPress site. We can configure the SharePoint OneDrive Integrator plugin to integrate Microsoft365/Office 365 apps such as Power BI, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Dynamics CRM, OneDrive, and others with WordPress and share their documents/files in your WordPress site.

Pre-requisites : Download And Installation

To configure SharePoint Integration with WordPress, you will need the following pre-requistes:

• Admin access for Microsft Azure AD / Entra ID.
• Premium / Enterprise version of Embed SharePoint OneDrive Library/Documents/Files plugin.

1. Setup for Azure AD App configuration

• Log in to Azure AD Portal, https://portal.azure.com/ as an Administrator.
• You will be represented with the home screen of Azure Active Directory.
• Under the Azure Services section, select Azure Active Directory.

• Under the Manage section, select App registrations tab.

• Now click on the New Registration option.

• Write the App Name in the name field and choose the account type. By default account type is selected as Account in this Organizational Directory only
• In the Redirect URI field, provide the URL of your WordPress site and click on the Register button.
• Once you have provided the above data you can click on Register button.

• After the registration of an application, Azure AD assigns an unique application ID to your application.
• Navigate to the Overview tab, in the left pane.
• Copy the Application ID and the Directory ID, as this will be used as your Client ID and Tenant ID for configuring the SharePoint Plugin.
• Therefore, you can keep it handy somewhere like notepad to later use it.

• From the left navigation pane, navigate to the Certificates & secrets tab.
• Click on New client secret to enter the description and expiration time, then click on the ADD option.

• Copy the Secret Value as shown in the below screenshot. Once you navigate to any other page this value will be hidden so copy and paste it somewhere handy.

Note: Make sure you have copied the value of client secret and not the Secret ID as shown in the below image.

2. Granting API Permissions to your Azure AD Application:

• Go to API Permissions from the left navigation pane and click on Add a permission option.



• Select Microsoft Graph from the list.


• Select Application permissions (2nd option) as type of permissions.

• Under Sites select Sites.Read.All permission and click on the Add Permissions button.

• Click on Grant admin consent for <tenant_name> button and then click on Yes from Grant admin consent confirmation window.

• You can verify the granted status as shown in the image below

4. Enabling Documents Upload and Generate Shortcode to Embed View

• Navigate to the folder/document library for which you want to generate a shortcode to embed the view on your WordPress page.

Note: Please note that this will create the embed for the current view of the folder.

• Now, scroll down to Generate Shortcode to Embed documents section.
• Enable the toggle Allow Users to Upload Files in Folders this will allow users to upload documents in the accessible folders.
• Now click on the Copy Shortcode button which will copy the shortcode content to your clipboard.

• Navigate to the WordPress Page/Post on which would like to display the SharePoint files.
• From the available elements, select the shortcode item.

• Paste the copied content in the shortcode area.

• Click On Publish and view the post to get all documents on your page/post.

5. Copy the URL for Specific file

• When you render into the desired folder you will be able to see the copy url icon on right of the download button, using which you can copy the url for the specific file.

6. Allow access for Non-logged-in (Anonymous) user

• To allow users to see the documents without login on your WordPress site page, Enable the Folder Access For Non Logged-In Users toggle.

7. Manage access using user’s email address

• To enable Restriction for the folders/drives for a user’s email just select the user’s email addresses from the dropdown.
• Then click on the Generate Shortcode button

Additional Resources

• Token type is not allowed
• Embed SharePoint Library in WordPress Media Library
• Micrsoft SharePoint WordPress Integration

If you are looking for anything which you cannot find, please drop us an email on office365support@xecurify.com