Setting Up WordPress as an IDM Social Identity Provider

As suggested in the introduction to this chapter, you'll need to take the following basic steps to configure WordPress as a social identity provider for IDM:

Setting Up WordPress

To set up WordPress as a social identity provider, navigate to the following WordPress Developers page: Developer Resources . You'll need a WordPress account. You can then navigate to the WordPress My Applications page, where you can create a new web application, with the following information:

Name
Description
Website URL, which becomes your Application URL
Redirect URL(s); for IDM, normally http://openidm.example.com:8080/
Type, which allows you to select Web clients

When complete and saved, you should see a list of OAuth Information for your new web application. That information should include your Client ID and Client Secret.

Configuring a WordPress Social Identity Provider

To configure a WordPress social identity provider, log in to the Admin UI and navigate to Configure > Social ID Providers.
Enable the WordPress social identity provider.
In the WordPress Provider pop-up that appears, the values for Redirect URI should match the values that you've entered for Allowed Return URLs in "Setting Up WordPress".
Include the values that WordPress created for Client ID and Client Secret, as described in "Setting Up WordPress".
Under regular and Advanced Options, include the options shown in the following appendix: "WordPress Social Identity Provider Configuration Details".

When you enable a WordPress social identity provider in the Admin UI, IDM generates the identityProvider-wordpress.json file in your project's conf/ subdirectory.

When you review that file, you should see information beyond what you see in the Admin UI. The first part of the file includes the name of the provider, endpoints, as well as the values for clientId and clientSecret.

{
    "provider" : "wordpress",
    "authorizationEndpoint" : "https://public-api.wordpress.com/oauth2/authorize",
    "tokenEndpoint" : "https://public-api.wordpress.com/oauth2/token",
    "userInfoEndpoint" : "https://public-api.wordpress.com/rest/v1.1/me/",
    "enabled" : true,
    "clientId" : "<someUUID>",
    "clientSecret" : {
       "$crypto" : {
           "type" : "x-simple-encryption",
           "value" : {
               "cipher" : "AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding",
               "stableId" : "openidm-sym-default",
               "salt" : "<hashValue>",
               "data" : "<encryptedValue>",
               "keySize" : 16,
               "purpose" : "idm.config.encryption",
               "iv" : "<encryptedValue>",
               "mac" : "<hashValue>"
           }
       }
    },
    "scope" : [
        "auth"
    ],
...

You should also see UI settings related to the social identity provider icon (badge) and the sign-in button, described in "Social Identity Provider Button and Badge Properties".

You'll see links related to the authenticationIdKey, redirectUri, and configClass; the location may vary.

The file includes schema information, which includes properties for each social identity account, as collected by IDM, as well as the order in which it appears in the Admin UI. When you've registered a user with a Wordpress social identity, you can verify this by selecting Manage > Wordpress, and then selecting a user.

Another part of the file includes a propertyMap, which maps user information entries between the source (social identity provider) and the target (IDM).

If you need more information about the properties in this file, refer to the following appendix: "WordPress Social Identity Provider Configuration Details".

Configuring User Registration to Link to WordPress

Once you've configured the WordPress social identity provider, you can activate it through User Registration. To do so in the Admin UI, select Configure > User Registration, and activate that feature. Under the Social tab that appears, enable Social Registration. For more information on IDM user self-service features, see "Self-Service End User UI".

When you enable Social Registration, you're allowing users to register on IDM through all active social identity providers.