Active Directory Authentication Integration for WordPress Plugin Directory
Active Directory Authentication Integration is a WordPress app, with a 5.0 average rating from 1 review, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Active Directory Authentication Integration is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Curtiss Grymala. With a rating of 5.0★ from 1 reviews.
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Active Directory Authentication Integration is a category-leading WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. 1 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (5.0★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by Curtiss Grymala — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (1) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Active Directory Authentication Integration works
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This plugin allows WordPress to authenticate, authorize, create and update against an Active Directory domain. This plugin is based heavily on the Active Directory Integration plugin, but has been modified to work with Multi Site and even Multi Network installations of WordPress.
Some of the features included in this plugin are:
authenticate against more than one AD Server (for balanced load)
authorize users by Active Directory group memberships
auto create and update users that can authenticate against AD
mapping of AD groups to WordPress roles
use TLS (or LDAPS) for secure communication to AD Servers (recommended)
use non standard port for communication to AD Servers
protection against brute force attacks
user and/or admin e-mail notification on failed login attempts
determine WP display name from AD attributes (sAMAccountName, displayName, description, SN, CN, givenName or mail)
enable/disable password changes for local (non AD) WP users
WordPress 3.0/3.1 compatibility, including Multi Site and Multi Network
This plugin is based on glatze’s Active Directory Integration plugin, which is based upon Jonathan Marc Bearak’s Active Directory Authentication plugin and Scott Barnett’s adLDAP, a very useful PHP class.
Aside from the changes to make this plugin work more effectively with WordPress Multi Site, this version of the plugin also encrypts the password used to connect to the AD server when it is stored in the database.
This plugin was developed by Curtiss Grymala for the University of Mary Washington. It is licensed under the GPL2, which basically means you can take it, break it and change it any way you want, as long as the original credit and license information remains somewhere in the package.
Important Notice Since I don’t currently have access to multiple AD servers, this plugin has only been tested on a single installation of WordPress with a single AD server. Therefore, it is entirely possible that there are major bugs.
At this time, I am seeking people to test the plugin, so please report any issues you encounter.
Requirements
This plugin requires WordPress. It might work with versions older than 3.0, but it has not been tested with those.
This plugin also requires PHP5. Some attempt has been made to make it compatible with PHP4, but it has not been tested in that environment.
This plugin requires LDAP support to be compiled into PHP. If the ldap_connect() function is not available, this plugin will output an error message and will not do anything.
To Do
Add ability to validate against multiple AD servers (check one, then the other – rather than just load-balancing as the plugin currently does)
DONE as of 0.4a – Update admin interface to utilize native meta box interface rather than custom layout
DONE as of 0.3a – Separate the profile information from the role equivalent groups in the “auto update user” setting
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What is Active Directory Authentication Integration?
Active Directory Authentication Integration is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 5.0-star rating from 1 merchant review, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Curtiss Grymala.