# Problem linking Discourse forum to WP Discourse

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-linking-discourse-forum-to-wp-discourse/79824>\
**Category:** WordPress\
**Created:** [February 5, 2018, 2:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-linking-discourse-forum-to-wp-discourse/79824 "2018-02-05T14:39:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![sturdy2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sturdy2/32/138218_2.png) [@sturdy2](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sturdy2)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 5:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-linking-discourse-forum-to-wp-discourse/79824/17 "2020-10-30T17:09:37Z")

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Hi @angus,  
Another update: I installed the Query Monitor plugin (in WP)(see output, below).

 ![Query_Monitor_Output](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/7/07f0966db221aecf483657bcbde47d352fc63f9d.png)

Using cURL at my local computer, I also get a 403 so it seems to me this is an upstream issue my site ans [WP Discourse](https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse). Probably Cloudflare but I don’t want to remove Cloudflare yet. See below.

Another apology for my slowness. I have received a notice from my hosting service that my site is being migrated to another server and there will be some changes, including a change of IP. So I need to delay further work on this problem. May I call on you again when the dust settles?

EDIT: **Solved**! Perhaps a bug at /admin/site\_settings/category/security → allowed crawler user agents.  
It appears that any entry in the allow UA text actually causes a block of all, even a curl command line from my local computer. Resetting the text to empty immediately results in [WP Discourse](https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse) " **You are connected to Discourse!**

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