Staging a new community: Basic Auth breaks WP-Discourse plugin

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Thanks, this clue helped me solve the issue. Here is the updated basic auth section of app.yml on my Discourse server (no changes were necessary on the Wordpress server):

# basic auth
  after_bundle_exec:
    - replace:
       filename: "/etc/nginx/conf.d/discourse.conf"
       from: "# Allow bypass cache from localhost"
       to: |
            # Allow bypass basic authentication for WP-Discourse plugin
            geo $authentication {
            default "Credentials you must provide.";
            127.0.0.1 "off";
            151.101.3.55/32 "off";
            }
            # Allow bypass cache from localhost
    - replace:
       filename: "/etc/nginx/conf.d/discourse.conf"
       from: "# auth_basic on"
       to: "auth_basic $authentication"
    - replace:
       filename: "/etc/nginx/conf.d/discourse.conf"
       from: "# auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/htpasswd"
       to: "auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/htpasswd"
    - replace:
       filename: "/etc/nginx/conf.d/discourse.conf"
       from: "location = /srv/status {"
       to: "location = /srv/status {
           auth_basic off;"
    - file:
       path: "/etc/nginx/htpasswd"
       contents: |
         alfred:$apr1$jSdLuHyZ$faWxYGjnmLd/zRC6UMsRs1

151.101.3.55 is the (example) public IP address of my Wordpress server. WP-Discourse now reports:
A blank screen displays the green-bordered text, "You are connected to Discord!" (Captioned by AI)

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