Edit (3 hours after written) - Rewrote my post to clear up confusion after a reply made me realize it was confusing as written. It is my understanding that Discourse primarily uses a standard username and password setup where users register with a username and password to create an account. It is …

Sorry but this is a very confusing post. Please test for yourself on https://try.discourse.org to see if Discourse works the way you think it does Create new topic(s) for additional questions that are not directly related to this one.

[image] erlend_sh: Sorry but this is a very confusing post. Please test for yourself on https://try.discourse.org to see if Discourse works the way you think it does Create new topic(s) for additional questions that are not directly related to this one. Huh, I did not intend my post t…

[image] jd2066: Can an account’s authentication method be changed after it’s created? You can log in with multiple providers as long as they share the same email. E.g. I can use either Google or GitHub on try.discourse.org to log into the same account because I have the same email on both ser…

[image] erlend_sh: Might be possible with a special SSO setup or plugin but we have no plans to do automatic authentication. Hmm, that is a bit disappointing. If I were to setup Discourse to use a WordPress database for SSO and use Discourse for comments then it would be a little bit inconve…

[image] gerhard: The wp-discourse plugin allows SSO between WordPress and Discourse. I saw that plugin but thought it still had the issue mentioned above. Namely that once the user clicks the link to the forum topic for the blog post, they will need to click Log In on Discourse to be logged …

Questions Regarding Account Authentication Methods

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gerhard (Gerhard Schlager) February 8, 2018, 12:56pm 6

The wp-discourse plugin allows SSO between WordPress and Discourse.

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