Filling in discourse_username when not using DiscourseConnect

[mattdm (Matthew Miller)]

@angus

hm ok, so effectively

1. There would be a subset of your users with different emails on wordpress and discourse.
2. Your username is gauranteed to be the same as its provided by your identity provider for both wordpress and discourse

If we were to decouple the WP Discourse user webhook from the DiscourseConnect functionality (possible), then user matching would occur on the basis of email, not username. Your situation is somewhat specific to your identity setup.

Coming back to this several years later.

Sometime along the way, we changed so email addresses are force-synced from our (oauth2) SSO. So, we should be able to match that way. (And, even if there is for some reason a mismatch, there shouldn’t be a case where an email belongs to someone else, so worst-case that’d just fail, right?)

Any chance of making the WP Discourse user webhook Just Work?

Failing that… I’m not a WP expert, and our WP is hosted, so I’m not sure we have an easy option of customizing the plugin.

CC @jwheel