WordPress Integration

Authorizer is the recommended plugin for CAS authentication at UH.

Authorizer is the recommended plugin for CAS authentication at UH. It works for LDAP too.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/authorizer/

Special thanks to the developers at the College of Education at Manoa for developing this WordPress plugin.

In general, Authorizer is intended to do away with remembering a separate WordPress username and password, and lets you use UH Logins to log you into your WordPress account. It has a few other optional features, like preventing anyone not logged in from seeing the site, and maintaining a list of approved users, but at its core it's just a way to not have to create and remember WordPress usernames/passwords.

Authentication

Configuring Authorizer for UH Logins (CAS)

<https://github.com/uhm-coe/authorizer/wiki/Configure-Authorizer-for-UH-Logins>

Authorization

If you want to only let a subset of CAS users log in (like faculty/staff), you'll need to inspect their CAS attributes when they log in and only approve them if they are faculty/staff. There's some documentation on how to do that here (this is written specifically about UH Groupings attributes, but can also apply to uhOrgAffiliation).

<https://github.com/uhm-coe/authorizer/wiki/Integrating-WordPress-Roles-with-UH-Groupings>

Note that you can even leverage UH Groupings for WordPress authorizations.