Shibboleth Authentication Plugin for Wordpress
I have secured Wordpress sites with Shibboleth using the Wordpress HTTP Authentication Plugin . This seems to work ok, but now there is a better option. Thanks to Will Norris , who had created a new Wordpress Shibboleth Plugin .
This plugin is very nice written. Will seems to be leveraging the login link in Wordpress with Shibboleth Lazy Initialization. This makes for a very clean login procedure. I have done the same type of login method in Joomla, and the users have been very pleased. He also has created some nice ways to process the attributes from shibboleth and map them to Wordpress roles. This can all be done in the configuration of the plugin.
Keep in mind that you still need to setup the Apache Shibboleth SP, but that is a trivial task indeed.
If you would like to see a live demo of the plugin in action, you can checkout the video here or view it below.
