We're excited to announce that we have a new way to connect your membership database on Join It with your WordPress.org site.
Through collaboration with current customers, we've developed a new way to connect to 3rd party sites, like WordPress, through the web's most popular identity protocol: OpenID
Here are the high-level steps for connecting Join It and WordPress:
- Request an Application Key from Join It
- Install the OpenID Connect Generic Client onto your WordPress.org instance
- Add the correct inputs for configuring OpenID Connect Generic Client (detailed below)
Setting up OpenID Connect with your WordPress Site
Inputs Quested by the OpenID Plugin:
- Client ID: (Join It needs to provide this to you)
- Client Secret: (Join It needs to provide this to you)
- OpenID Scope: openid
- Login Endpoint URL: https://www.joinit.org/oauth2/authorize
- Userinfo Endpoint URL: https://www.joinit.org/oauth2/user_info
- Token Validation Endpoint URL: https://www.joinit.org/oauth2/token
- End Session Endpoint URL: https://www.joinit.org/account/tokens
- Identity Key: email
- Nickname Key: email
- Email Formatting: {email}
- Display Name Formatting: {email}