This was a question on an old github issue, which is more easily tracked here on meta https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse/issues/237 From @mattdm : We’re using OpenID for login, and it seems like that option is only available when using DiscourseConnect . Is there another way? Filling them i…

Oh, sorry — I was sure I answered that before but I guess… I didn’t? Maybe I just thought about it! Anyway: The email is initially synced from the SSO for both WordPress and Discourse. However, due to popular demand, we allow people to change that email on Discourse. (It turns out to be frequent …

hm ok, so effectively There would be a subset of your users with different emails on wordpress and discourse. Your username is gauranteed to be the same as its provided by your identity provider for both wordpress and discourse If we were to decouple the WP Discourse user webhook from the Discour…

[image] Angus McLeod: hm ok, so effectively There would be a subset of your users with different emails on wordpress and discourse. Your username is gauranteed to be the same as its provided by your identity provider for both wordpress and discourse If we were to decouple the WP Discourse use…

Ok, so just to clarify [image] Angus McLeod: There would be a subset of your users with different emails on wordpress and discourse. This is no longer the case? [image] Matthew Miller: Any chance of making the WP Discourse user webhook Just Work? Just a note that it does currently w…

If the email matching is too complicated, I feel like “Discourse usernames always match WordPress (and vice versa)” can’t be that uncommon. Even if someone doesn’t have an SSO system which assumes a unique username, there surely must be many smaller sites with, say, dozens of WordPress users where …

[image] Matthew Miller: Sometime along the way, we changed so email addresses are force-synced from our (oauth2) SSO. So, we should be able to match that way. There’s sort of an existing solution for this. Discourse can be configured to be the DiscourseConnect provider for WordPress (the oppo…

That seems silly. We have a centralized SSO. We should not have to configure some of our services to use other random services as the auth provider just to get them to work together. That’s a route to madness.

[image] Matthew Miller: We should not have to configure some of our services to use other random services as the auth provider Don’t get thrown off by the name (DiscourseConnect). If the feature I described was working as it should, it would just be a way for a WordPress user to confirm that …

There will never be a Wordpress username to Discourse username matching identity mechanism in the core plugin, even behind a setting. The only possibility in this context is email matching. I’ve decided to add email matching as a fallback mechanism to the user webhook. It’ll be in the next version, …

Just to close the loop on this, the latest version of the plugin 2.5.4 included various updates to Webhooks, including removing the DiscourseConnect requirement for the “Match Users by Email” setting. See further [image] Configure WP Discourse Webhooks Administrators …

Filling in discourse_username when not using DiscourseConnect

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mattdm (Matthew Miller) July 16, 2024, 5:17pm 12

I think this will solve our problem, at least in 99% of cases. Thank you!!!

@jwheel FYI I went ahead and turned this on our site.

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