Title: Website Integration question
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Website Integration question

 *  [TheCockroach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thecockroach/)
 * (@thecockroach)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-site-integration-question/)
 * Hello!
 * And just to start off, I’m not referring to a WP multi-site integration.
 * But, I’m having a hard time determining the best course of action for integrating
   our sites. We have our main website (which relies on Google’s Identity Toolkit),
   our WP blog, and a Discourse forum. We have a subscription option on our site
   though, which offers advanced features.
 * Website: Uses the value of a field within the Datastore to determine if the user
   has a subscription or not, and grants access to our Pro features accordingly.
 * Blog: Uses a custom role (Pro) to determine whether or not the user can view 
   the Pro sections of our Blog articles. We use that in combination with the “Hide
   This” plugin to determine how far into an article a user can read.
 * Forum: It’s currently set to invite only, as it is a private forum only for Pro
   users.
 * So basically, it would go like this: A user purchases our Pro subscription, and
   then it updates the Datastore, marking them as a Pro user. Our system then creates
   a Blog user, and marks it as a Pro user. Then, our system sends out an invite
   to the user for our Pro forums.
 * All three use separate log-ins though, which is obviously a pain. So I’m looking
   for a way to integrate them all, and make for a better user experience. I’m NOT
   the site owner, or even the site Dev, but more of the sites tech guy and/or Quality
   Assurance lead. I do have access to virtually everything though, so that’s not
   an issue. Even just being able to integrate 2 of the 3, would be wonderful
 * I found a WP/Discourse plugin that would have been great, but it doesn’t allow
   you to set roles for access. So I wouldn’t be able to control who entered our
   forum with that one. It was on the “soon to come” list for that plugin, but it’s
   been 9 months since an update, so I expect it won’t be anytime soon, if EVER,
   that that feature gets added.
 * So does anyone know of a good WP plugin that could be used for such? I know I’d
   probably have to integrate the forum separately, with a plugin of it’s own, and
   that’s fine. I think my main concern though, is finding a plugin that will allow
   users to sign-in from our main site, but that will also work with the current
   permissions we have set-up for our Pro users (and without allowing non-Pro users
   to use the Pro features, ofc).
 * And also, preferably without relying on the need to code anything else into our
   site’s code, since the chances are that it would take forever for that to get
   done.
 * Any suggestions/ideas would be greatly appreciated! Or even if you know of a 
   good place to ask such a question other then here, that would be awesome as well.
   As I’m sure there ARE probably much better places to ask such a thing, all things
   considered. I’m just not really aware of where those places may be.
 * Thanks,
 * ~Joshua

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