LDAP Staff Directory

LDAP Staff Directory lets you connect your WordPress site to an LDAP / LDAPS server and publish a public employee directory with zero manual data entry.

Features

• Connects to any LDAP or LDAPS server (including Active Directory, OpenLDAP, Samba), with the scheme chosen from a dedicated selector
• Configurable Base OU and Bind DN
• Extracts: full name, email, job title, department, phone, and telephone extension (PBX / IP-PBX systems)
• Shortcode [ldap_directory] usable in any post, page or widget
• Native Elementor widget with full style controls
• Native Beaver Builder module with General and Style tabs
• Public directory browses department-first: a menu of departments (with employee counts) leads to each department’s contact list, in configurable order (alphabetical or by contact count)
• Employee cards within a department can be ordered by name or job title, ascending or descending, from the admin — no code changes needed
• Exclude specific departments — or employees with no department assigned — from the public directory, enforced at the LDAP query level so those employees are never fetched
• Exclude disabled Active Directory accounts
• Server-side search and pagination, with configurable items per page
• Handles directories with 1,000+ users via RFC 2696 paged LDAP results
• Transient-based cache with configurable TTL, one-click invalidation, and a resilient stale fallback when LDAP is temporarily unreachable
• Guided settings screen under Settings → LDAP Directory, split into Connection / Employees / Fields tabs with plain-language help popovers, a collapsible “Advanced settings” section per tab, and a one-click “Copy request for IT” template for gathering connection details from whoever manages your LDAP server — built for administrators without LDAP experience
• Bind password encrypted at rest, with a show/hide toggle while editing
• SSL certificate verification toggle (supports self-signed certs)
• Optional CA certificate file path
• Multisite compatible (per-site settings)

Requirements

• PHP ldap extension enabled on the server
• WordPress 5.8 or higher
• PHP 7.4 or higher