Hi, I installed the discourse plugin on wordpress its asking me for the admin api key, where do I find it ? Thanks :slight_smile:

I have installed the plugin but there’s nothing when I go to the URL, I thought maybe it needs to be done back end but I couldn’t find anything

You go to that URL on your Discourse forum not WordPress.

The discourse url is not yet setup as its asking for api key

To generate an API key go to yourdiscoursesite.com/admin/api . That is where you can generate an api key for the WordPress plugin. There will be a button that says generate key.

as I said the discourse site is not setup, plugin is installed but I can’t see discourse.. It gives me a 404 page not found

The wp-discourse plugin acts as an interface between a WordPress site and a Discourse forum. To get it to work, you need to first set up both a WordPress site and a Discourse forum. You will find the admin api key in the admin section of your forum at ‘ yourdiscoursesite.com/admin/api ’. The plugin’s…

Hi Simon ( @simon ), Thanks for the reply, I did add it manually to composer.json is there anything else to do ?

I’m not sure. You need to have a Discourse forum up and running to connect to your WordPress site. If you haven’t done that, you can follow either of these guides to do it: [image] Discourse | DigitalOcean Marketplace 1-Click App The popular Ruby-on-Rails-based discussion platform …

Okay Thanks I will try that .. Much appreciated !

Wordpress plugin - can't find admin api key

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mikechristopher May 24, 2016, 10:08am 2

/admin/api

Or generate one from an admin user profile

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