Setup guide for WordPress SharePoint Integration
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.
WordPress Embed SharePoint OneDrive Documents plugin allows you to embed sharepoint documents/files on your wordpress site.
Full Featured Demo1. 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
Note: In the paid version of the plugin, you can assign the Sites.Selected permission. Click here to learn how this helps with granting permissions.
3. Configure Embed SharePoint OneDrive Documents Plugin
- Navigate to the Embed SharePoint OneDrive Documents Premium / Enterprise Plugin.
- Under the Manage Application tab, paste the information from the Azure AD App and click on Save button.
- Now click on the save button and then do the test configuration.
- If the connection is successful, you will see the below window.
- Go to the document library tab where it will show the list of your all SharePoint sites initially.
- Select the required site and it will fetch the drive residing under that site.
- You can see all the documents and folders present in that drive by selecting it.
Note : Before you configure the SharePoint Plugin, you would need to configure your Azure AD app first. This will allow you to get all the required endpoints for configuring the plugin.
| Application ID | Copy and paste the Application ID from Azure AD App |
| Client Secret | Copy and paste the Client Secret from the Azure AD App |
| Tenant ID | Copy and paste the Directory ID from Azure AD App |
| Site URL | You can keep this empty if you want to sync all the SharePoint site, otherwise enter the link of specific SharePoint site from where you want to sync documents |
4. 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.
- Now navigate to the right-hand side and click on Save Shortcode.
- Now click on the copy icon highlighted below to copy the shortcode.
- 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.
Note: Please note that this will create the embed for the current view of the folder.
If you are looking for anything which you cannot find, please drop us an email on office365support@xecurify.com
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