I’ve been using Discourse on my own Linode for awhile. That install tanked today, and so I just went with the paid Discourse service. However, now when my WordPress users try and access the forum for the first time, they’re given this activation email step that we didn’t have to do before. Anyway to disable this? Thanks!

[image] outergain: now when my WordPress users try and access the forum for the first time, they’re given this activation email step that we didn’t have to do before. Are these new users, or users who already existed on your WordPress site?

Users who already existed and new - they both act the same.

Are you using the WP Discourse plugin? If so, did you have in installed when the users were first created. The way it is supposed to work is that when a user is first created with the WP Discourse plugin enabled, their email address is flagged as being unverified. If the users are registered through the default WordPress registration process, that flag is removed and they are able to login to Discourse without having to confirm their email. If you are using a custom registration process, then users will have to verify their email address. It is possible to override that flag, but I"m curious as to why it’s being applied to existing users.

Yes, I’m using the WP Discourse plugin. The only difference is this: Yesterday I was on a self hosted installation of Discourse. It crashed today. So I just spun up a paid version with Discourse.org. Now this is happening (and I updated the keys, etc)

It’s odd that it’s being applied to existing users. The easiest way to disable it is to hook into the discourse_email_verification filter. It’s applied before the SSO parameters are sent to Discourse. Adding something like this to your theme’s functions.php file should work. Ideally, you should only be doing this if you have verified the email address in some way through WordPress. // Replace 'my_prefix' with your site prefix. add_filter( 'discourse_email_verification', 'my_prefix_discourse_email_verification', 10, 2 ); function my_prefix_discourse_email_verification( $require_activation, $user_id ) { // Check that the user has a valid email address, or just return false for all users. return false; }

For existing users, I’d be curious to know what get_user_meta( $user_id, 'discourse_email_not_verified', true ) is returning. If it’s not returning 1, then the issue with existing users is probably something that’s happening on the Discourse end. For new users, unless you are using the default WordPress login, having the account activation email sent by Discourse is the expected behaviour.

Did you restore your old discourse site to the new one or did you just start a new discourse?

Brand new one. This is the 5th discourse instance I’ve had setup, and none of them have ever done this until now. It’s weird.

Thanks @simon - dumb question, but what exactly is the “site prefix.”

[image] Create user automatically in Discourse when they sign up in Wordpress? WordPress The site prefix is just a unique key that you use to prefix functions on your site. It’s used to avoid naming collisions when PHP namespaces aren’t being used. You can set it to anything that’s allowable in a PHP function name., for example matt_chm_discourse_email_verification.

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Francois_Douville (François Douville) June 7, 2018, 6:49pm 17

Thanks, it works perfectly!

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