Use OpenID Connect to log in to other webservices using your own WordPress.
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Last updated
June 26, 2024
Version
1.3.4
Active installations
20

With this plugin you can use your own WordPress install to authenticate with a webservice that provides OpenID Connect to implement Single-Sign On (SSO) for your users.

The plugin is currently only configured using constants and hooks as follows:

Define the RSA keys

If you don’t have keys that you want to use yet, generate them using these commands:

openssl genrsa -out oidc.key 4096 openssl rsa -in oidc.key -pubout -out public.key

And make them available to the plugin as follows (this needs to be added before WordPress loads):

define( 'OIDC_PUBLIC_KEY', <<<OIDC_PUBLIC_KEY -----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY----- ... -----END PUBLIC KEY----- OIDC_PUBLIC_KEY ); define( 'OIDC_PRIVATE_KEY', <<<OIDC_PRIVATE_KEY -----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY----- ... -----END PRIVATE KEY----- OIDC_PRIVATE_KEY );

Alternatively, you can also put them outside the webroot and load them from the files like this:

define( 'OIDC_PUBLIC_KEY', file_get_contents( '/web-inaccessible/oidc.key' ) ); define( 'OIDC_PRIVATE_KEY', file_get_contents( '/web-inaccessible/private.key' ) );

Define the clients

Define your clients by adding a filter to oidc_registered_clients in a separate plugin file or functions.php of your theme or in a MU-plugin like:

add_filter( 'oidc_registered_clients', 'my_oidc_clients' ); function my_oidc_clients() { return array( 'client_id_random_string' => array( 'name' => 'The name of the Client', 'secret' => 'a secret string', 'redirect_uri' => 'https://example.com/redirect.uri', 'grant_types' => array( 'authorization_code' ), 'scope' => 'openid profile', ), ); }

Exclude URL from caching

  • example.com/wp-json/openid-connect/userinfo: We implement caching exclusion measures for this endpoint by setting Cache-Control: 'no-cache' headers and defining the DONOTCACHEPAGE constant. If you have a unique caching configuration, please ensure that you manually exclude this URL from caching.

Github Repo

You can report any issues you encounter directly on Github repo: Automattic/wp-openid-connect-server

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Active installations
20
Tested up to
6.5.5
This plugin is available for download to be used on your WordPress self-hosted installation.