# 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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**Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 11:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-linking-discourse-forum-to-wp-discourse/79824/18 "2020-10-30T23:44:32Z")

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Glad you figured it out! 🎉

Yes, that setting is intended to be quite restrictive I believe (hence the ALL CAPS warning in the instructions).

To allow your wordpress instance through while using `allowed crawler user agents`, you can add it like so:

```plaintext
Wordpress/<wordpress_version>

```

I just tested this out on my test Wordpress / Discourse by adding `Wordpress/5.5.3` to `allowed crawler user agents` and it worked 👍

If you don’t want to keep updating that every time you upgrade your wordpress you can use a simple plugin to set your own user agent for these type of requests in Wordpress, e.g.

[https://github.com/webdeveric/wp-user-agent](https://github.com/webdeveric/wp-user-agent)

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