authLdap
Use your existing LDAP flexible as authentication backend for WordPress
5(19 reviews)
·5.0K+ active installs·Updated 11 months agoAs of April 2026, authLdap is a WordPress auth plugin with 5.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 19 reviews. It has been downloaded 135K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.5.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Downloads are down 20% this week. Top alternative: WP BASIC Auth.
5/519 reviews
5.0K+active installs
135K+total downloads
16 yearssince 2010
Overview
Use your existing LDAP as authentication-backend for your wordpress!
So what are the differences to other WordPress-LDAP-Authentication-Plugins?
- Flexible: You are totaly free in which LDAP-backend to use. Due to the extensive configuration you can freely decide how to do the authentication of your users. It simply depends on your filters
- Independent: As soon as a user logs in, it is added/updated to the WordPress’ user-database to allow wordpress to always use the correct data. You only have to administer your users once.
- Failsafe: Due to the users being created in WordPress’ User-database they can also log in when the LDAP-backend currently is gone.
- Role-Aware: You can map WordPress’ roles to values of an existing LDAP-attribute.
For more Information on the configurat…
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Best LDAP plugin, best support, thanks a lot Andreas !
by sriviere·1 year ago
Best LDAP plugin, best support with this essential group mapping feature 🙂
All the best from Oleron Island !
Simple but Powerful Enough
by rozmansi·3 years ago
Clean setup, works with OpenLDAP, works with WP 6.1, free.
Nice with group mapping
by boutmos·3 years ago
I use it since 2 years for an Intranet an it work fine.
I was afraid it was broken for WP 6.0 but, it is something else who went wrong in my functions.php
Tested with success on Wordpres 6.0
Great, lightweight plugin
by Christopher Sem·4 years ago
Very flexible plugin, stable codebase, excellent documentation. I especially like the clean configuration interface, which enables me to set the LDAP search filters easily. Plus, you don’t really have to do much – the default settings are what you need when authenticating against an openLDAP instance.
Works perfectly and has group mapping!
by Karolina Vyskocilova·5 years ago
This plugin is the only one in WP.org which works out of the box, it’s super easy to set up and even has user group mapping included. Thanks once again and totally recommended to every one.
Karolina
Download Trends
Today: 14Yesterday: 25This week: 147Period total: 21K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 2.5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v3.1
69.7%
v2.6
21.3%
Other
9.0%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
3.1.3
- Add testing with WP 6.8
Contributors
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