# Wordpress plugin - can't find admin api key
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-plugin-cant-find-admin-api-key/44730
**Category:** WordPress
**Created:** [May 24, 2016, 9:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-plugin-cant-find-admin-api-key/44730 "2016-05-24T09:10:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@coffee\_lover](https://meta.discourse.org/u/coffee_lover)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2016, 9:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-plugin-cant-find-admin-api-key/44730/1 "2016-05-24T09:10:06Z")
Hi,
I installed the discourse plugin on wordpress its asking me for the admin api key, where do I find it ?
Thanks š
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### Author:  [@mikechristopher](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mikechristopher)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2016, 10:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-plugin-cant-find-admin-api-key/44730/2 "2016-05-24T10:08:20Z")
/admin/api
Or generate one from an admin user profile
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### Author:  [@coffee\_lover](https://meta.discourse.org/u/coffee_lover)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2016, 10:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-plugin-cant-find-admin-api-key/44730/3 "2016-05-24T10:11:53Z")
I have installed the plugin but thereās nothing when I go to the URL, I thought maybe it needs to be done back end but I couldnāt find anything
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### Author:  [@Grex315](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Grex315)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2016, 10:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-plugin-cant-find-admin-api-key/44730/4 "2016-05-24T10:29:45Z")
You go to that URL on your Discourse forum not WordPress.
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### Author:  [@coffee\_lover](https://meta.discourse.org/u/coffee_lover)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2016, 10:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-plugin-cant-find-admin-api-key/44730/5 "2016-05-24T10:35:55Z")
The discourse url is not yet setup as its asking for api key
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### Author:  [@Grex315](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Grex315)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2016, 10:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-plugin-cant-find-admin-api-key/44730/6 "2016-05-24T10:40:20Z")
To generate an API key go to [yourdiscoursesite.com/admin/api](http://yourdiscoursesite.com/admin/api). That is where you can generate an api key for the WordPress plugin. There will be a button that says generate key.
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### Author:  [@coffee\_lover](https://meta.discourse.org/u/coffee_lover)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2016, 10:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-plugin-cant-find-admin-api-key/44730/7 "2016-05-24T10:42:36Z")
as I said the discourse site is not setup, plugin is installed but I canāt see discourse.. It gives me a 404 page not found
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### Author:  [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2016, 4:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-plugin-cant-find-admin-api-key/44730/8 "2016-05-24T16:04:59Z")
The wp-discourse plugin acts as an interface between a WordPress site and a Discourse forum. To get it to work, you need to first set up both a WordPress site and a Discourse forum. You will find the admin api key in the admin section of your forum at ā[yourdiscoursesite.com/admin/api](http://yourdiscoursesite.com/admin/api)ā.
The pluginās [documentation](https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse/wiki/Installation) about this is not very clear. Iāll try to add to it later this week.
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### Author:  [@coffee\_lover](https://meta.discourse.org/u/coffee_lover)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2016, 4:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-plugin-cant-find-admin-api-key/44730/9 "2016-05-24T16:17:14Z")
Hi Simon (@simon ),
Thanks for the reply, I did add it manually to composer.json is there anything else to do ?
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### Author:  [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2016, 4:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-plugin-cant-find-admin-api-key/44730/10 "2016-05-24T16:34:50Z")
Iām not sure. You need to have a Discourse forum up and running to connect to your WordPress site. If you havenāt done that, you can follow either of these guides to do it:
> **[Discourse | DigitalOcean Marketplace 1-Click App](https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/discourse)**
>
> The popular Ruby-on-Rails-based discussion platform
or:
[discourse/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md at main Ā· discourse/discourse Ā· GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md)
Once that is done you need to go to the Discourse site at `/admin/api` and click on the button to generate a new api key. Copy and paste the api key into the Discourse **API Key** setting on your WordPress site.
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### Author:  [@coffee\_lover](https://meta.discourse.org/u/coffee_lover)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2016, 4:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-plugin-cant-find-admin-api-key/44730/11 "2016-05-24T16:41:37Z")
Okay Thanks I will try that .. Much appreciated !
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### Author:  [@Yves\_Lauzin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Yves_Lauzin)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-plugin-cant-find-admin-api-key/44730/12 "2021-02-08T16:29:54Z")
Hello, I take the discussion and have a question : I have a discourse site and a Wordpress site, the differences between the Api key for all users and only one is :
All users ; all users could see and interact with both discourse and Wordpress
One user means that when connected **this** user only can interact with both wordpress and Discourse.
Am I right ?
What is the risk to generate an all user Api key and giving all permissions ?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2021, 2:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-plugin-cant-find-admin-api-key/44730/13 "2021-02-09T02:23:28Z")
Hey Yves, the API key is only used to set up the connection.
Once that connection is set up, any Wordpress user with posting permissions can publish their posts to discourse, depending on what āPublishā settings you have.
I suggest you generate an API key for a specific admin user and call it āWordpressā.