# How to handle user email changes in wordpress / sso / wp-discourse plugin

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**Category:** WordPress\
**Created:** [July 6, 2016, 5:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-handle-user-email-changes-in-wordpress-sso-wp-discourse-plugin/46909 "2016-07-06T17:35:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 11:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-handle-user-email-changes-in-wordpress-sso-wp-discourse-plugin/46909/9 "2016-07-06T23:13:41Z")

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That’s what I thought, but at least on my local setup, without selecting those options I can still log into Discourse after changing my WordPress email address. Selecting the ‘sso\_overrides\_email’ option just makes it so that the user’s Discourse email address is updated if they change it on WordPress.

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