Integrating Discourse and game authentication

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Jesper_Nielsen wants to integrate Discourse with his online PC game for seamless user authentication. He’s using Wordpress for his website and wants to keep the game/forum user-space separate from the website admin user-space. simon suggested using the Discourse Wordpress plugin to configure the website as the SSO provider for Discourse. However, Jesper_Nielsen is hesitant about having all Discourse users also being Wordpress users, but likes the idea of associating Wordpress users with Discourse users.

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I’m creating an online PC game and I want to have a forum on my website.
I want the forum and game accounts to be integrated, so that if you log on to the website you can also post on the forums. Furthermore I want the same account to be used for authentication in the PC game (Token based, using a webservice or REST authentication).

The website is made in Wordpress and I started playing with BBPress but wasn’t too impressed. I want the website admin user-space to be entirely different from the game/forum user-space.

I wonder if Discourse is the right tool for the job? And should I let Discourse handle the authentication for the forum as well as the game, or is it easy to configure Discourse to use a different user-space seamlessly (not like the way you can log in with Facebook etc. in here)?

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You could use our WordPress plugin to configure your website as the SSO provider for Discourse.

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Thanks for your reply. I’m not really keen on having all Discourse users also being WP users, but the option of associating WP users with Discourse users sounds nice.