You can confirm whether or not email addresses are being verified by creating a new account on WordPress after having enabled Discourse Connect. If email addresses are verified, you will see a confirmation at the bottom of the user’s preferences page. You can also manually mark an email address as verified from here:
Assuming email addresses are not being verified, instructions for how to have email addresses marked as verified when a user creates an account are here: Configure single sign-on (SSO) with WP Discourse and DiscourseConnect. This would be safe to do if your site is sending users a confirmation email that contains a link they need to click before they can access the site. If your WordPress site isn’t doing that, you could also add some code so that user’s email addresses are marked as verified after they have registered for one of your courses. Setting that up might require some help from a developer.
I’m seeing two separate login pages on your site:
- Log In ‹ Project Van Life — WordPress (doesn’t contain a link to your registration page)
- https://projectvanlife.com/login/ (contains a link to your registration page, but clicking the link takes me to a “not found” page)
The easiest thing to do would be to sort this out so that there is only one login page on the site, and the page contains a valid link to the site’s registration page. I suspect that can be accomplished via the settings page of the plugin that is adding the login form. Note that if you choose to use the login page at https://projectvanlife.com/login/ , you will need to add /login to the “Path to your Login Page” in the WP Discourse settings:
I think this might confuse users. An easier approach would be to just add a link to your Discourse forum that is structured so that users are automatically logged into Discourse when they click the link. Here are details about how to create the link: Create a DiscourseConnect login link. Once DiscourseConnect is enabled on your site, you should also structure this link in that way:
That is possible. Some details about how to do it are here: How to import Discourse users to WordPress? - #2 by simon. The main problem I see is that you’d be creating work for yourself without making things much easier for your users. If it was me, my concerns would be that users might not get or read the email and some users might not be happy about having a new account created on their behalf. There’s also a potential security issue unless the importer plugin you use has a way of forcing users to change their passwords after their first login.
It would be a lot easier to just create a banner topic in your “staff” category with details about the change. The wording in the screenshot could be improved a bit:
Once you’ve made the change, update the banner topic to let users know to contact an admin if they run into any issues logging in.
I just thought of something that might help. You could temporarily configure your Discourse site to be the DiscourseConnect provider for your website between now and the time that you set your WordPress site to be the DiscourseConnect provider. If you did that, you could add something like the following to the banner topic:
Here’s the full link that I’ve used:
<a href="http://wp-discourse.test/?discourse_sso=1&redirect_to=http://wp-discourse.test/wp-admin/profile.php" target="_blank">Create an account on (your website name)</a>
Clicking it will register a new account on WordPress and redirect users to their WordPress profile page where they can set a password. Note that for your case you will need to replace both uses of http://wp-discourse.test in the link with https://projectvanlife.com/