LearnWorlds SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) | Login into LearnWorlds using WordPress

Overview

LearnWorlds is one of the world's fastest-growing mentoring platforms. You can now enable Single Sign-On (SSO) to LearnWorlds using WordPress as your Identity Provider (IDP) with the Login using WordPress Users (WP as SAML IDP) plugin. This plugin allows you to use your WordPress (WP) credentials to securely log in to LearnWorlds via SSO. Here we will go through a step-by-step guide to configure SSO between LearnWorlds as Service Provider (SP) and WordPress as an Identity Provider (IDP).

Pre-requisites : Download And Installation

To configure LearnWorlds WordPress SSO with WordPress site as an Identity Provider, you will need to install the miniOrange Login using WordPress Users ( WP as SAML IDP ) plugin.

Configuration Steps

1. Setup LearnWorlds as SP (Service Provider)

Follow the following steps to configure LearnWorlds as SP:

• Login to the WordPress site as Admin.
• Go to the WordPress IDP plugin, and navigate to the IDP Metadata tab.
• Here, you can find the Identity Provider Metadata URL /XML Metadata or endpoints like IDP Entity ID, SAML Login URL, SAML Logout URL (Premium Feature), Certificate for SP configuration.

• Login to your LearnWorlds site.
• You would require the following endpoints from the plugin to configure the SSO:

Name of Identity Provider	WordPress
Issuer URL	Provide the IDP-Entity ID / Issuer value from the IDP metadata tab of the WordPress IDP Plugin
SSO URL	Provide the SAML Login URL / Passive Login URL from the IDP metadata tab of the WordPress IDP Plugin
Certificate	Provide the Certificate downloaded from the IDP metadata tab of the WordPress IDP Plugin

2. Configure WordPress as IDP (Identity Provider)

• To configure Single Sign On in the WordPress IDP side, get the SP metadata from LearnWorlds.
• Go to the WordPress IDP plugin, and click on the Service Providers tab.
• Enter the following information into the corresponding fields:

Service Provider Name	LearnWorlds
SP Entity ID or Issuer	Copy and paste the SP-EntityID from LearnWorlds
ACS URL	Copy and paste the ACS URL from LearnWorlds
NameID Format	urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:nameid-format:emailAddress
Assertion Signed	Checked

• Click on the Save button to save the configurations.

3. Attribute Mapping ^{Premium Feature}

• In the WordPress IDP plugin, navigate to the Attribute/Role Mapping tab.
• In the User Attributes section, enter attribute names under Name and choose the corresponding User Meta Data from the dropdowns.
• You can also add more attributes by clicking on + sign to add attributes.

In this Guide, you have successfully integrated LearnWorlds - SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) with plugin - Login using WordPress Users (WP as SAML IDP). Configuring LearnWorlds as SP and WordPress as IDP. This solution ensures that you are ready to roll out secure Single Sign-On (SSO) access with SAML 2.0 Authentication into LearnWorlds using WordPress login credentials.