beetnk / wp-jwt-authentication

Easy-to-use authentication for WordPress

WordPress Authentication Kit

Makes it possible to login to your WordPress backend and Rest API via social networks.

• Login via Account Kit (Phone and Email)
• Login via Facebook
• Authenticate to your WP Rest API via JSON Web Tokens, Facebook and AccountKit

Requirements

• WordPress 4.4 or higher

Installation

• Download the latest version.
• Upload the entire folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
• Activate the plugin
• Go to Settings -> Authentication Kit and create a secret

Login via facebook

Wiki: Set up Facebook

Login via AccountKit

Wiki: Set up AccountKit

WP Rest API

What are JSON-Web-Tokens

JSON Web Tokens are an open, industry standard RFC 7519 method for representing claims securely between two parties.

More on JWT

Authenticate via username and password

In order to get a token for a user, you have to make a GET-request to this endpoint by passing a username and password. If the combination is correct you will receive the token and its expiration timestamp.

GET http://YOUR_URL/wp-json/wp-jwt/v1/login?username=USERNAME&password=PASSWORD