nicumicle / simple-jwt-login

This plugin allows you to log in, register, authenticate, delete and change the user password to a WordPress website using a JWT.

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Simple JWT Login is a FREE WordPress plugin that allows you to use a JWT on WordPress REST endpoints.

The main purpose of this plugin is to allow Mobile apps, or other websites to access the content from a WordPress website via REST endpoints in a secure way.

Overview

Table of contents

• Installation
  • Install from Zip
  • Install from WordPress.org
• Features
• Integrate
  • PHP SDK
  • JavaScript SDK
• Documentation
• Roadmap
• Contribute
  • How can you contribute
• Contributors
• Copyright

💡 Installation

Please note that this plugin version is not fully tested.

If you want to make sure you have a stable version, please download this plugin from WordPress.org.

⚠️ Make sure you use the latest plugin version in production.

Install from Zip

If you want to upload the simple-jwt-login plugin to your website:

• Download downloads/simple-jwt-login.zip
• Upload the zip file into your WordPress website
• Activate the plugin

Install from WordPress.org

In order to install the latest stable version, from your WordPress admin:

• Go to the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress and click ‘Add New’
• Search for ‘Simple JWT Login’ and select ‘Install Now’
• Activate the plugin when prompted

🎉 Features

• 100% Free and open-source under GPL 3.0 License
• Authenticate : REST endpoint that will generate/validate/revoke a JWT
• Autologin: Autologin to a WordPress website with JWT
• Register user: Register users in WordPress by calling a REST endpoint
• Delete user: You can delete a WordPress user by adding some details in the JWT payload.
• Reset password: REST endpoint that allows you to reset WordPress User password. Also, it can send custom email if you want.
• Protect endpoints: Protect WordPress endpoints with a JWT. This way, you can make some endpoints private, and the content can be viewed only if you provide a valid JWT.
• Allow JWT usage on other endpoints: Add a JWT to requests for other API endpoints and you will act as an authenticated user.
• Integrate with other plugins: This plugin works well in combination with other plugins that extends the WordPress REST API.

🔌 Integrate

PHP SDK

In order to easily integrate your app/site with the simple-jwt-login plugin, we have developed a composer package.

composer require nicumicle/simple-jwt-login-client-php

You can check this GitHub repository for more details and code examples.

JavaScript SDK

The Javascript SDK can be installed using npm or yarn into your App.

npm install "simple-jwt-login"

or

yarn add "simple-jwt-login"

You can check this GitHub repository for more details.

📒 Documentation

Plugin documentation is available at simplejwtlogin.com.

• Introduction
  
• Authentication
  
• Autologin
  
• Register User
  
• Reset Password
  
• Delete User
  
• Protect Endpoints
  
• Hooks

🚀 Roadmap

Check out the roadmap to get informed on the latest released features, current statuses, and upcoming features.

• Top Feature Requests (Add your votes using the 👍 reaction)
• Top Bugs (Add your votes using the 👍 reaction)
• Newest Bugs

📜 Contribute

Simple-JWT-Login is an open-source project and welcomes all contributors.

As with all WordPress projects, we want to ensure a welcoming environment for everyone.

With that in mind, all contributors are expected to follow our Code of Conduct.

How can you contribute:

• Open Merge requests on existing issues: CONTRIBUTING.md
• Suggest features or report bugs: issues/bugs
• Translate the plugin: https://translate.wordpress.org

🏆 Contributors

Thanks to all our contributors!

Copyright

This project is distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

By submitting a pull request to this project, you agree to license your contribution under the GNU General Public License v3.0 to this project.