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SSO in WordPress

This guide uses Basic SSO, which newer accounts cannot use

The method below passes the WordPress username as a username query parameter — that is Basic SSO, which is switched off by default on every account created from September 2023 onwards and cannot be switched back on from the dashboard. On such an account this guide silently does nothing: the join screen appears instead of the user being logged in.

If you signed up after that date, use SSO Using Unique User Identifier, or create the user from PHP with the Create User API and pass the returned accessToken as described in SSO using Auth Token. The short WordPress walkthrough in Embed in WordPress already uses the access-token approach.

This page remains for accounts created before that change, where Basic SSO is still active.

To implement SSO in Wordpress so that users logged-in your wordpress sites get automatically logged-in to Dead Simple Chat, follow this guide.

In this Guide we use the Dead Simple Chat Basic SSO and Login the Users into the Dead Simple Chat, Chat Room who are already logged-in to Wordpress.

  1. Login to your Wordpress dashboard and open themes editor Appearance → Theme Editor
  2. The edit Theme Functions file (functions.php)
  3. Add the following code on top of the file

function hook_javascript() {
    if(is_user_logged_in()) {
        $output="<script> window.userObject = ".json_encode(wp_get_current_user()).";</script>";
        echo $output;
    } else {
        $output="<script> window.userObject;; </script>";
        echo $output;
    }
}
add_action('wp_head','hook_javascript')

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  1. The open Theme Footer file (footer.php) and paste the following code in the footer

<script type="text/javascript">
    var frames = document.getElementsByClassName("myFrame");
    for (var i =0; i < frames.length; i++) {
        frames[i].src = frames[i].src + "?username=" + userObject.data.user_nicename;
    }
</script>

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  1. Now get the embed code of your chat room from the Dead Simple Chat Dashboard

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Paste the iFrame code wherever you like to the chat on your Wordpress site, it can be added as a Custom HTML block, but add the class="myFrame" to the iFrame.

<iframe class="myFrame" src="https://deadsimplechat.com/YOUR_ROOM_ID" width="100%"
height="500px"></iframe>
  1. That's it! Now the user will be automatically logged-in to the chatroom when are logged-in to your site.