Allow users from my ASP.Net MVC site to access my private WordPress site

I have an ASP .Net MVC site and I would like users who are logged in to my site to be able to access a separate WordPress site which I also own. Otherwise, if a user is not logged into my ASP .Net site, the WordPress site should remain private.

What is the easiest way to implement this? I thought about SSO but it seems like overkill for this simple scenario. I don't need users identified on the WordPress site; they won't be allowed to post or anything, all they can do is just read my posts there.

Topic password single-sign-on Wordpress

Category Web

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I ended up making the whole WP site private except to logged in users by using a plugin (Ultimate Member). Then I created a single login which would be used from the .Net site. The way it works is:

  1. User clicks on link within .Net site to access WordPress site
  2. Server-side: performs POST to /wp-login.php with credentials for single WP user
  3. Server-side: retrieve cookies from wp-login.php response
  4. Client-side: call to custom PHP page on WP site: /setcookies.php and set user’s session cookies for WP site domain using cookies from previous step
  5. Client-side: open WP site in iframe using session cookies

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