I have Wordpress with Discourse setup where Discourse is the DiscourseConnect provider for WP. I’m using the WP Discourse plugin and it’s working great so far. The only issue I have encountered so far is that I can’t get the avatar images from Discourse to display in WP. I have tried to implement t…

[image] Uffe Henrichsen: it seems that this would be a pretty common use case Maybe it is. Since I was looking at it anyway, I figured I might as well try an approach that doesn’t use the Simple Local Avatars plugin. The code below hooks into the 'wpdc_sso_client_updated_user' filter that’s …

Hey @uffehe [image] Uffe Henrichsen: adding the code to my WP site’s function.php file … I’m using the Simple Local Avatar plugin What code are you adding and how does the Simple Local Avatar plugin save avatars?

Hi @angus I’m not a developer so I’m kind of guessing here, but as I understand it the Simple Local Avatar plugin normally adds the image to the media library. I couldn’t find much documentation on how it works if it’s supplied via a URL. The code I’m trying looks like this: add_filter( 'wpdc_sso_…

[image] Uffe Henrichsen: This gives me an unhandled exception when I try to log in using SSO. I think the cause of the exception is that your function my_wpdc_sso_client_updated_user isn’t returning the $updated_user array. That array is needed for the function that adds the wpdc_sso_client_u…

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uffehe (Uffe Henrichsen) August 6, 2023, 4:12pm 6

Hi @simon

Perfect - it works exactly as described. And I agree, it’s much cleaner without needing a WP plugin and the confusion around conflicting avatars. Thanks!

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