# Automatically Adding New Users (from WP integration) To A Group

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-adding-new-users-from-wp-integration-to-a-group/156777
**Category:** WordPress
**Created:** [July 4, 2020, 2:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-adding-new-users-from-wp-integration-to-a-group/156777 "2020-07-04T14:10:25Z")
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#### Post date: [July 4, 2020, 5:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-adding-new-users-from-wp-integration-to-a-group/156777/4 "2020-07-04T17:14:19Z")

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> [@alexjpanagis](#):
>
> as long as it’s a general example that can add every new member to a group

Yes, that’s the example that is missing from the topic I linked to. You can add users to a group as a part of the SSO login process by using the `add_groups` SSO parameter. By default, the [WP DIscourse](https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse) plugin doesn’t send this parameter with the SSO payload, but the plugin has a filter that can be used to add this parameter to the SSO payload.

The following code, added to your theme’s `functions.php` file, or to a plugin, should work for you. You can add users to multiple groups in this way. The `add_groups` parameter accepts a comma separate list of group names (with no spaces before or after the commas.):

```php
add_filter( 'wpdc_sso_params', 'wpdc_custom_sso_params' );
function wpdc_custom_sso_params( $params ) {
    $params['add_groups'] = 'your_group_name'; 

    return $params;
}

```

If you only wanted to add specific users to the group, you could call the function like this:

```php
add_filter( 'wpdc_sso_params', 'wpdc_custom_sso_params', 10, 2 );
function wpdc_custom_sso_params( $params, $user ) {
    if (/*add a condition here to check if the user should be added to the group */) {        
        $params['add_groups'] = 'your_group_name'; 
    }

    return $params;
}

```

You can also remove users from groups with the `remove_groups` SSO parameter.

```php
add_filter( 'wpdc_sso_params', 'wpdc_custom_sso_params' );
function wpdc_custom_sso_params( $params ) {
    $params['remove_groups'] = 'your_group_name'; 

    return $params;
}

```

or

```php
add_filter( 'wpdc_sso_params', 'wpdc_custom_sso_params', 10, 2 );
function wpdc_custom_sso_params( $params, $user ) {
    if (/*add a condition here to check if the user should be removed from the group */) {        
        $params['remove_groups'] = 'your_group_name'; 
    }

    return $params;
}

```

The main downside to this approach compared to using the `add_user_to_discourse_group` function that I linked to is that it requires existing users to log out and then log back into Discourse before their group memberships will be updated.

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