Title: Adding existing users to forums
Last modified: August 10, 2020

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# Adding existing users to forums

 *  Resolved [redkite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redkite/)
 * (@redkite)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-existing-users-to-forums/)
 * Can I enable my existing users to access the forums without having to register
   them again? I turned off ‘require account activation’ because all users are added
   manually in the backend rather than through user registration.

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 *  [MattGeri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattgeri/)
 * (@mattgeri)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-existing-users-to-forums/#post-13235732)
 * Hi there,
 * Yep! Discussion Board uses the WordPress users system so any WordPress users 
   are also Discussion Board users 🙂
 * Cheers,
    Matt

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 * Last reply from: [MattGeri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattgeri/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-existing-users-to-forums/#post-13235732)
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