# DiscourseConnect Provider Questions

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourseconnect-provider-questions/270295
**Category:** WordPress
**Created:** [July 2, 2023, 1:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourseconnect-provider-questions/270295 "2023-07-02T01:00:56Z")
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#### Post date: [July 2, 2023, 3:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourseconnect-provider-questions/270295/9 "2023-07-02T15:33:47Z")

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> [@Sami\_Syed](#):
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> Which I guess makes sense from WP perspective since the user doesn’t actually exist on WP.

Right. If the user doesn’t exist in WordPress, they can’t log in to WordPress.

You don’t need to impersonate anything.

If you want WordPress to be your authentication source

- create all of the users in WordPress. See that the email address in WP matches Discourse
- switch Discourse to using WP as [DiscourseConnect](https://meta.discourse.org/t/13045?silent=true) host

You’ll have to get people to reset their passwords in WordPress.

What problem is moving authentication to WordPress going to solve? I think you’re going to be sorry that you did this.

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