# WP Multisite with multiple Discourse instances

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**Created:** [February 20, 2021, 6:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wp-multisite-with-multiple-discourse-instances/180531 "2021-02-20T18:12:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 2:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wp-multisite-with-multiple-discourse-instances/180531/2 "2021-02-21T02:11:07Z")

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Hey – this popped up for me since you linked to my original topic. I’ll let @simon chime on with their thoughts, but one option that may or may not work for you (and would be much simpler) is to setup a single Discourse instance and use groups to separate out the forums.You can send group information in the SSO payload.

However, having multiple forums with a single one providing SSO should be pretty straightforward (although I haven’t tried it before). I believe the steps would be:

1. Add [WP Discourse](https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse) plugin, and configure it as an SSO client (in network options)
2. Set up the Discourse forum you would like to function as SSO provider (add secret keys to WP + Discourse, etc.)

From there, when adding subsequent forums they would be configured as an SSO client (and since [WP Discourse](https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse) is setup at the network level, you wouldn’t have to touch any configs when adding new sites).

Hope something in there is helpful to you!

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