If you run multiple websites and want to keep users separated, but synchronise them automatically and securely for specific user operations, then WP Remote Users Sync is the plugin to use.
This plugin adds the following major features to WordPress:
- WP Remote Users Sync admin page: to manage remote sites, security settings, import/export users, and view activity logs.
- Remote Sites: manage an unlimited amount of connected sites with configuration for incoming and outgoing user actions (Login, Logout, Create, Update, Delete, Password, Role and Metadata).
- Security: WP Remote Users Sync is the only plugin available allowing users to be synchronised with true layers of security in place. All communications are OpensSSL AES-256-CBC encrypted, HMAC SHA256 signed, token-validated and IP-validated.
- Import and Export Users: connected websites' existing user base can be synchronised manually first thanks to the provided import/export tool.
- Activity Logs: when enabled, all communications between connected sites is logged for admin review and troubleshooting.
- Synchronise all user data: compatible out of the box with WooCommerce, Ultimate Membership, Theme My Login, Gravity Forms, and all user-related plugins as long as they rely on WordPress user metadata and manipulate users with the WordPress user functions.
- Customizable: developers can add their own user actions using action and filter hooks, and more.
- Unlimited websites, unlimited features: there are no restrictions in the number of websites to connect together, and no premium version feature restrictions shenanigans - WP Remote Users Sync is fully-featured right out of the box.
Developers can extend the plugin and add their own custom user actions by using a few filter and action hooks as well as a class inheriting Wprus_Api_Abstract.
Below is a simple example of implementation of an Example action calling the example API endpoint, firing 1 synchronous request and 1 asynchronous request whenever the wp action hook is called by WordPress, and logs the received data (not to be used in production environment!).
All action and filter hooks are documented below, but some of the functions and methods in the example are not documented yet. Full source code documentation is coming soon, but this simple example should get developers going, as most of the heavy lifting is already done by the Wprus_Api_Abstract class.
In this example, we are first creating a simple plugin to implement the action and filter hooks, and include the User Action API class.
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Example of User Action Extension for WP Remote Users Sync
Version: 1.0
Text Domain: my-domain
*/
if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) {
exit; // Exit if accessed directly
}
if ( ! defined( 'WPRUS_EXTEND_PLUGIN_PATH' ) ) {
define( 'WPRUS_EXTEND_PLUGIN_PATH', plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ ) );
}
if ( ! defined( 'WPRUS_EXTEND_PLUGIN_URL' ) ) {
define( 'WPRUS_EXTEND_PLUGIN_URL', plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ ) );
}
add_action( 'wprus_loaded', 'wprus_example', 10, 0 );
function wprus_example() {
require WPRUS_EXTEND_PLUGIN_PATH . 'class-wprus-api-example.php';
}
add_filter( 'wprus_enabled_api_endpoints', 'wprus_enabled_api_endpoints_example', 10, 1 );
function wprus_enabled_api_endpoints_example( $endpoints ) {
$endpoints[] = 'example';
return $endpoints;
}
add_filter( 'wprus_api_endpoint', 'wprus_api_endpoint_example', 10, 3 );
function wprus_api_endpoint_example( $endpoint_handler, $api_endpoint, $settings ) {
if ( ! $endpoint_handler && 'example' === $api_endpoint ) {
return new Wprus_Api_Example( $api_endpoint, $settings, true );
}
return $endpoint_handler;
}
add_filter( 'wprus_actions', 'wprus_actions_example', 10, 1 );
function wprus_actions_example( $actions ) {
$actions['example'] = __( 'Example', 'example-domain' );
return $actions;
}The User Action's logic is then implemented in the file class-wprus-api-example.php included by the plugin.
<?php
if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) {
exit; // Exit if accessed directly
}
class Wprus_Api_Example extends Wprus_Api_Abstract {
/*******************************************************************
* Public methods
*******************************************************************/
public function init_notification_hooks() {
add_action( 'wp', array( $this, 'notify_remote' ), 10, 0 );
}
public function has_remote_async_actions() {
return true;
}
public function handle_notification() {
$result = false;
$data = $this->get_data();
if ( ! $this->validate( $data ) ) {
Wprus_Logger::log(
__( 'Example action failed - received invalid data.', 'example-domain' ),
'alert',
'db_log'
);
return $result;
}
$data = $this->sanitize( $data );
$site = $this->get_active_site_for_action( $this->endpoint, $data['base_url'] );
if ( $site ) {
$user = get_user_by( 'login', $data['username'] );
if ( $user ) {
$result = true;
wprus_log(
array(
'message' => sprintf(
// translators: %1$s is the username, %2$s is the caller
__( 'Example action - successfully received data for user "%1$s" from %2$s.', 'example-domain' ),
$data['username'],
$site['url']
),
'data' => $data,
),
'success',
'db_log'
);
} else {
wprus_log(
sprintf(
// translators: %1$s is the username, %2$s is the caller
__( 'Example action aborted - user "%1$s" from %2$s does not exist locally.', 'example-domain' ),
$data['username'],
$site['url']
),
'warning',
'db_log'
);
}
} else {
wprus_log(
sprintf(
// translators: %s is the url of the caller
__( 'Example action failed - incoming example action not enabled for %s', 'example-domain' ),
$data['base_url']
),
'alert',
'db_log'
);
}
return $result;
}
public function notify_remote() {
if ( ! is_user_logged_in() ) {
return;
}
$user = get_user_by( 'ID', get_current_user_id() );
$sites = $this->settings->get_sites( $this->endpoint, 'outgoing' );
if ( $user && ! empty( $sites ) ) {
$data = array( 'username' => $user->user_login );
foreach ( $sites as $index => $site ) {
$data['example'] = 'example data - asynchronous action';
$this->add_remote_async_action( $site['url'], $data );
$data['example'] = 'example data - synchronous action';
$this->fire_action( $site['url'], $data );
}
}
}
/*******************************************************************
* Protected methods
*******************************************************************/
protected function validate( $data ) {
$valid =
parent::validate( $data ) &&
username_exists( $data['username'] ) &&
is_string( $data['example'] );
return $valid;
}
protected function sanitize( $data ) {
$data['example'] = 'sanitized ' . $data['example'];
return $data;
}
}WP Remote Users Sync gives developers the possibilty to customise its behavior with a series of custom actions and filters.
Actions index:
- wprus_loaded
- wprus_ready
- wprus_unauthorized_access
- wprus_authorized_access
- wprus_ping_fired
- wprus_ping_success
- wprus_ping_failure
- wprus_before_firing_async_actions
- wprus_after_firing_async_actions
- wprus_before_firing_action
- wprus_after_firing_action
- wprus_before_handle_action_notification
- wprus_after_handle_action_notification
do_action( 'wprus_loaded' );Description
Fired when the required files have been loaded and the plugin is ready to be extended.
do_action( 'wprus_ready', (mixed) $wprus, (mixed) $api, (mixed) $settings, (mixed) $logger );Description
Fired when the plugin apis have been fully instantiated, plugin settings are valid, and the plugin is ready to run.
Parameters
$wprus
(mixed) An instance of the Wprus class.
$api
(mixed) Array of API handlers.
$settings
(mixed) Array of settings.
$wprus_logger
(mixed) An instance of the Wprus_Logger class.
do_action( 'wprus_unauthorized_access', (string) $endpoint, (mixed) $remote_data, (string) $token, (mixed) $wprus_api_object );Description
Fired when an action is received and the token could not be validated.
Parameters
$endpoint
(string) The API endpoint receiving the action.
$remote_data
(mixed) Decrypted data received from the remote site. Should not be trusted.
$token
(string) The token used to attempt to authorise the request. May contain encrypted data in the case of an asynchronous request.
$wprus_api_object
(mixed) The
Wprus_Api_Abstractobject used to handle the request.
do_action( 'wprus_authorized_access', (string) $endpoint, (mixed) $remote_data, (string) $token, (mixed) $wprus_api_object );Description
Fired when an action is received and the token was successfully validated.
Parameters
$endpoint
(string) The API endpoint receiving the action.
$remote_data
(mixed) Decrypted data received from the remote site.
$token
(string) The token used to authorise the request. Contains encrypted data in the case of an asynchronous request.
$wprus_api_object
(mixed) The
Wprus_Api_Abstractobject used to handle the request.
do_action( 'wprus_ping_fired', (string) $endpoint, (mixed) $ping_data, (mixed) $response );Description
Fired when a test ping was sent to a remote site.
Parameters
$endpoint
(string) The API endpoint the test ping was sent to.
$ping_data
(mixed) The data sent to perform the ping.
$response
(mixed) The response received from the remote site.
do_action( 'wprus_ping_success', (string) $endpoint, (mixed) $ping_remote_data, (string) $remote_addr );Description
Fired when a test ping was received from a remote site and was successful.
Parameters
$endpoint
(string) The API endpoint receiving the test ping.
$ping_remote_data
(mixed) The data received from the remote site to perform the ping.
$remote_addr
(string) The IP address of the remote site.
do_action( 'wprus_ping_failure', (string) $endpoint, (mixed) $ping_remote_data, (string) $remote_addr );Description
Fired when a test ping was received from a remote site and failed.
Parameters
$endpoint
(string) The API endpoint receiving the test ping.
$ping_remote_data
(mixed) The data received from the remote site to perform the ping.
$remote_addr
(string) The IP address of the remote site.
do_action( 'wprus_before_firing_async_actions', (string) $endpoint, (mixed) $actions );Description
Fired before outputting the asynchronous scripts sending requests to remote sites in the front end.
Parameters
$endpoint
(string) The API endpoint the requests will be sent to.
$actions
(mixed) An array of request data to send to the remote sites. Structure:
array (
0 => array(
'username' => 'username', // The user name of the user to act on
'base_url' => 'https://local-website.com', // The URL of the local site sending the request
'url' => 'https://remote-site.com/', // The URL of the remote site supposed to receive the request
[...] // Other data sent to perform the action
),
[...] // More data for other requests to other remote sites if any
);do_action( 'wprus_after_firing_async_actions', (string) $endpoint, (mixed) $actions );Description
Fired after outputting the asynchronous scripts sending requests to remote sites in the front end.
Parameters
$endpoint
(string) The API endpoint the requests were sent to.
$actions
(mixed) An array of request data to send to the remote sites. Structure:
array (
0 => array(
'username' => 'username', // The user name of the user to act on
'base_url' => 'https://local-website.com', // The URL of the local site sending the request
'url' => 'https://remote-site.com/', // The URL of the remote site supposed to receive the request
[...] // Other data sent to perform the action
),
[...] // More data for other requests to other remote sites if any
);do_action( 'wprus_before_firing_action', (string) $endpoint, (string) $url, (mixed) $data );Description
Fired before sending a synchronous request to a remote site.
Parameters
$endpoint
(string) The API endpoint the request will be sent to.
$url
(string) The URL to send the request to.
$data
(mixed) The data sent to the remote site. Structure:
array(
'username' => 'username', // The user name of the user to act on
'base_url' => 'https://local-website.com', // The URL of the local site sending the request
[...] // Other data sent to perform the action
);do_action( 'wprus_after_firing_action', (string) $endpoint, (string) $url, (mixed) $data, (mixed) $response );Description
Fired after sending a synchronous request to a remote site.
$endpoint
(string) The API endpoint the request will be sent to.
$url
(string) The URL to send the request to.
$data
(mixed) The data sent to the remote site. Structure:
array(
'username' => 'username', // The user name of the user to act on
'base_url' => 'https://local-website.com', // The URL of the local site sending the request
[...] // Other data sent to perform the action
);$response
(mixed) Array containing
headers,body,response,cookies,filename. AWP_Errorinstance upon error.
do_action( 'wprus_before_handle_action_notification', (string) $endpoint, (mixed) $data );Description
Fired before handling a notification received from a remote site.
Parameters
$endpoint
(string) The API endpoint receiving the notification request.
$data
(mixed) The data received from the remote site. Structure:
array(
'username' => 'username', // The user name of the user to act on
'base_url' => 'https://remote-website.com', // The URL of the remote site sending the request
[...] // Other data sent to perform the action
);do_action( 'wprus_after_handle_action_notification', (string) $endpoint, (mixed) $data, (bool) $result );Description
Fired after handling a notification received from a remote site.
Parameters
$endpoint
(string) The API endpoint receiving the notification request.
$data
(mixed) The data received from the remote site. Structure:
array(
'username' => 'username', // The user name of the user to act on
'base_url' => 'https://remote-website.com', // The URL of the remote site sending the request
[...] // Other data sent to perform the action
);$result
(bool) Wether handling the notification was successful or failed ; any change to user data is considered successful even if warnings were raised (for example, if the Update action was received and a user was created instead of updated).
Filters index:
- wprus_enabled_api_endpoints
- wprus_api_endpoint
- wprus_api
- wprus_wp_endpoints
- wprus_actions
- wprus_settings
- wprus_option
- wprus_settings_valid
- wprus_settings_metaboxes
- wprus_template
- wprus_sanitize_settings
- wprus_excluded_meta_keys
- wprus_excluded_meta_keys_like
- wprus_init_notification_hooks
- wprus_request_token_timeout
- wprus_request_token_retry_timeout
apply_filters( 'wprus_enabled_api_endpoints', (mixed) $endpoints );Description
Filter the enabled endpoints.
Parameters
$endpoints
(array) Array of enabled API endpoints. Default:
array(
'login',
'logout',
'create',
'update',
'delete',
'password',
'role',
'meta',
);apply_filters( 'wprus_api_endpoint', (mixed) $endpoint_handler, (string) $api_endpoint, (mixed) $settings );Description
Filter the handler object for a custom endpoint.
Parameters
$endpoint_handler
(mixed) The object instance of a class inherhiting the
Wprus_Api_AbstractAPI class. Defaultfalse.
$api_endpoint
(string) The custom API endpoint.
$settings
(mixed) Array of all the settings.
apply_filters( 'wprus_api', (mixed) $api );Description
Filter the collection of API handlers.
Parameters
$api
(mixed) Array of API handlers. Default:
array(
'login' => $wprus_api_login, // An instance of Wprus_Api_Login inheriting Wprus_Api_Abstract
'logout' => $wprus_api_logout, // An instance of Wprus_Api_Logout inheriting Wprus_Api_Abstract
'create' => $wprus_api_create, // An instance of Wprus_Api_Create inheriting Wprus_Api_Abstract
'update' => $wprus_api_update, // An instance of Wprus_Api_Update inheriting Wprus_Api_Abstract
'delete' => $wprus_api_delete, // An instance of Wprus_Api_Delete inheriting Wprus_Api_Abstract
'password' => $wprus_api_password, // An instance of Wprus_Api_Password inheriting Wprus_Api_Abstract
'role' => $wprus_api_role, // An instance of Wprus_Api_Role inheriting Wprus_Api_Abstract
'meta' => $wprus_api_meta, // An instance of Wprus_Api_Meta inheriting Wprus_Api_Abstract
);apply_filters( 'wprus_wp_endpoints', (mixed) $wprus_endpoints );Description
Filter the endpoints to add to WordPress.
Documented here for the sake of completeness and in case some developers find it useful in very specific cases - adding endpoints to the list should be handled automatically by a class inheriting the Wprus_Api_Abstract class instead of using this filter.
Parameters
$wprus_endpoints
(mixed) Array of endpoints to add. Default:
array(
'token' => 'token/?',
'login' => 'login/?',
'logout' => 'logout/?',
'create' => 'create/?',
'update' => 'update/?',
'delete' => 'delete/?',
'password' => 'password/?',
'role' => 'role/?',
'meta' => 'meta/?',
);apply_filters( 'wprus_actions', (mixed) $actions );Description
Filter the supported actions.
Parameters
$actions
(mixed) Array of actions - key is the action key, value is the action display value. Default:
array(
'login' => __( 'Login', 'wprus' ),
'logout' => __( 'Logout', 'wprus' ),
'create' => __( 'Create', 'wprus' ),
'update' => __( 'Update', 'wprus' ),
'delete' => __( 'Delete', 'wprus' ),
'password' => __( 'Password', 'wprus' ),
'role' => __( 'Roles', 'wprus' ),
'meta' => __( 'Metadata', 'wprus' ),
);apply_filters( 'wprus_settings', (mixed) $settings );Description
Filter the settings' values.
Parameters
$settings
(mixed) Array of all the settings.
apply_filters( 'wprus_option', (mixed) $value );Description
Filter a single setting's option value.
Parameters
$value
(mixed) the value of the option
apply_filters( 'wprus_settings_valid', (bool) $valid, (mixed) $settings );Description
Filter wether the settings are valid ; called before running any other part of the plugin.
Parameters
$valid
(bool) Wether the settings are valid.
$settings
(mixed ) Array of all the settings.
apply_filters( 'wprus_settings_metaboxes', (mixed) $metaboxes );Description
Filter the setting's metaboxes of the plugin's screen.
Parameters
$metaboxes
(mixed) Array representing the metaboxes. Structure:
array(
'id' => array( // Each item is index by its metabox ID
'title' => __( 'Metabox title', 'domain' ), // The title to display
'callback' => 'metabox_callback_function', // The callback to output the metabox
'position' => 'nomal', // The position on the screen - one of 'normal', 'side' or 'advanced'
'priority' => 'default', // The display priority - one of 'default', 'high' or 'low'
'data' => $data, // The data to be passed to the callback
),
[...] // Other metabox items
);apply_filters( 'wprus_template_' . $template_slug, (string) $template_path );Description
Filter the template path of the main page and other elements of the plugin.
This is actually a combination of filters, where the full name of the filter is determined by the $template_slug variable.
Possible values for $template_slug:
submit-settings-metaboxadd-site-metaboxencryption-metaboxip-whitelist-metaboxlogs-metaboxsite-metaboxsite-metabox-templateexport-metaboximport-metaboxmain-setting-pagelog-row
Parameters
$template_path
(string) The path of the template.
apply_filters( 'wprus_sanitize_settings', (mixed) $sanitized_settings );Description
Filter the settings after sanitatization.
Parameters
$sanitized_settings
(mixed) Array of all the settings after sanitatization.
apply_filters( 'wprus_excluded_meta_keys', (mixed) $excluded_meta_keys );Description
Filter the meta keys excluded from selection for synchronization (by default, keys referring to redundant or site-specific data).
Parameters
$excluded_meta_keys
(mixed) Array of exluded meta keys. Default:
array(
'user_url',
'user_email',
'display_name',
'nickname',
'first_name',
'last_name',
'description',
'primary_blog',
'use_ssl',
'comment_shortcuts',
'admin_color',
'rich_editing',
'syntax_highlighting',
'show_admin_bar_front',
'locale',
'community-events-location',
'show_try_gutenberg_panel',
'closedpostboxes_post',
'metaboxhidden_post',
'closedpostboxes_dashboard',
'metaboxhidden_dashboard',
'dismissed_wp_pointers',
'session_tokens',
'source_domain',
);apply_filters( 'wprus_excluded_meta_keys_like', (mixed) $excluded_meta_keys_like_expressions );Description
Filter the meta keys LIKE clauses used to exclude groups of meta keys from selection for synchronization (by default, keys referring to redundant or site-specific data).
Parameters
$excluded_meta_keys_like_expressions
(mixed) Array of meta keys
LIKEexpressions. Default:
array(
'%capabilities',
'%user_level',
'%user-settings',
'%user-settings-time',
'%dashboard_quick_press_last_post_id',
'wprus%',
'%wprus',
);apply_filters( 'wprus_init_notification_hooks', (bool) $init_notification_hooks );Description
Filter wether to initialise the notification hooks for the current request.
Warning: Must be added before WordPress runs the init action.
Parameters
$init_notification_hooks
(bool) If truthy, hooks will be initialised and notifications will be sent to remote sites upon user changes. Set to a falsy value to prevent notifications from being sent. Default
trueexcept in the case of user import.
apply_filters( 'wprus_request_token_timeout', (int) $token_timeout );Description
Filter the timeout for an authentication token request.
Parameters
$token_timeout
(int) The timeout for a token request expressed in seconds. Default
1.
apply_filters( 'wprus_request_token_retry_timeout', (int) $token_retry_timeout );Description
Filter the retry timeout for an authentication token request, in case the first request failed.
Parameters
$token_retry_timeout
(int) The retry timeout for token request expressed in seconds. Default
5.