I’ve been trying to figure out how to force wordpress to use the discourse SSO instead of the default login. Discourse is a pretty central part of our organization and the SSO works for the wordpress install, but I’m trying to figure how to disable the old login and just use Discourse instead of it …

[image] Speck_of_the_Cosmos: I’ve been trying to figure out how to force wordpress to use the discourse SSO instead of the default login. I think an easy approach would be to password protect wp-login.php and then create your own login page. You can create a login link with the [discourse_sso…

Will that work for redirects? Like if someone has a bookmark for mywebsite.com and they go there and aren’t logged in, they get sent to the login page. Then when they log in they get sent back to the dashboard. If I do what you say, will it send them to my custom page for the redirect or just fail? …

[image] Speck_of_the_Cosmos: Even now log in with discourse doesn’t redirect back to the page I was on and instead sends me to the home page. It seems like the plugin is unaware of the redirect behavior. Are there any other plugins on your site that are setting a login redirect? Before the WP…

I still don’t think I’m explaining this correctly. There’s two ways to prompt a login screen on wordpress. One, you click on a login link or go to /wp-login. I can indeed modify that to whatever I like using a plugin or whatever. Two, I try to go /wp-admin, but wait, my login has expired so I need…

[image] Speck_of_the_Cosmos: Why doesn’t the ‘login with discourse’ option not know that I was trying to get to the /wp-admin page and instead redirects me to homepage or some other preselected page instead of taking me back to the /wp-admin page that I was already on as the login dialogue came …

Yes, why does it do that instead of mirror the behavior of wordpress itself?

Because the way it’s doing it now is more straightforward, and you are the first person who has asked about it. I’ll look at this next week.

It turns out this is easy to fix. Thanks for asking about it! It will be in the next update - later this week, or early next week. Edit: this has not yet been added to the plugin.

WP-Discourse Force SSO?

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WP-Discourse Force SSO?

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