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1# authwordpress - an authentication plugin for DokuWiki
2
3Provides authentication against a WordPress MySQL database backend.
4
5Copyright (c) 2015 Damien Regad <dregad@mantisbt.org>
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7
8## License
9
10This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
11it under the terms of the
12[GNU General Public License, version 2](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)
13or later.
14
15This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
16but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
17MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
18GNU General Public License for more details.
19
20
21## Installation and Configuration
22
23Please refer to the [plugin's documentation](http://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:authwordpress)
24for information on how to install and configure this plugin in DokuWiki.
25
26If you install this plugin manually, make sure it is installed in
27`lib/plugins/authwordpress/` - if the folder is called differently,
28it will not work!
29
30
31## Compatibility
32
33PHP 7.4 or later is required.
34
35### DokuWiki
36
37This plugin has been tested with the following DokuWiki releases:
38
39- 2025-05-14b "Librarian"
40- 2024-02-06b “Kaos”
41
42Plugin version 2026-06-16 dropped support for older DokuWiki releases.
43
44Use version **2025-05-29** for compatibility with:
45- 2023-04-04a “Jack Jackrum”
46- 2022-07-31b “Igor”
47
48Use version **2020-03-14** for compatibility with:
49- 2020-07-29a “Hogfather”
50- 2018-04-22b “Greebo”
51- 2017-02-19e “Frusterick Manners”
52- 2016-06-26e “Elenor of Tsort”
53- 2015-08-10a “Detritus”
54
55It will probably also work with *2013-05-10 “Weatherwax”* and later.
56
57### WordPress
58
59On the back-end side, the plugin supports WordPress releases 4.x to 7.x.
60It has been tested and confirmed to work on versions
614.3 to 4.9, 5.1 to 5.9, 6.0 to 6.9, 7.0.
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63
64## Support
65
66Source code and support for this plugin can be found at
67https://github.com/dregad/dokuwiki-plugin-authwordpress
68