# Wordpress/Discourse connection problem

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-discourse-connection-problem/139713>\
**Category:** WordPress\
**Created:** [January 25, 2020, 1:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-discourse-connection-problem/139713 "2020-01-25T13:46:57Z")\
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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:** [January 25, 2020, 6:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-discourse-connection-problem/139713/3 "2020-01-25T18:36:31Z")

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Thanks for reporting that! If the Connection options fields have not been set, the “connected” message gets displayed. That is a bug. I’ll fix it today. For now, you can ignore that message until you have filled in the fields on the Connection options page. Once you have filled in those fields, the connection message that gets displayed will be accurate.

The problem was caused when I added a condition that bypasses the connection status check if no API credentials have been entered. That condition returns a `WP_Error` object. The function that displays the status notice needs to be updated to check if a `WP_Error` object has been returned.

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