Title: Adding users through backend
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Adding users through backend

 *  [mtnichol](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtnichol/)
 * (@mtnichol)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-users-through-backend/)
 * I’ve search and searched without much luck, but was curious as to whether there
   have been discussions/insight as to the success of people adding users to WordPress
   through a backend process. In my case, I have an existing site, that has extended
   user attributes, including groups, that I would like to maintain while still 
   proving integration into WordPress. I could still keep them separate, as the 
   integration isn’t necessarily required, but a single sign-on is definitely desired.
   I’ve found the HTTP authentication plugin that could perhaps meet the needs of
   single sign-on, but the users would still need to be added via the WordPress 
   gui.
 * So the question is, has anyone developed their own bridge to add users to WordPress,
   other then SMF, phpBB, etc..? I’m sure I could reverse engineer the DB to accomplish
   this, but was hoping to leverage the understanding of others first.
 * Thanks for any insight you can provide!

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 * Last activity: [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-users-through-backend/)
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