Reply To: Member edit of individual entry?

05/22/2015 at 1:23 pm #335461
Steven Zahm
Keymaster

@ Murray

re: There is no way to bulk mark each existing user as registered?

If you are speaking about an existing WordPress user. The fact the the user exist means they have registered (or are register).

If you are speaking about an existing Connections entry, if they have a matching entry, Link will link the two. There is no need to bulk mark entries as registered because it does not matter… if the user exists and they can login meaning they are already registered.

re: But tell me this – is a registered user the same as a WP admin? In other words, would my USERS list fill up with these registrants?

Essentially, yes. The difference between an an admin and a user is what permission they have. Obviously as an admin you have all permissions. A user is extremely limited permissions as such are not permitted to anything other than change their user password and name. If you have Link installed, they would also have permission to edit their entry but only if you add that permission.

Does that make sense?

It starting to sound like you might be confused about what a WordPress user is and what the process for a person to register as a user is.

There are a lot of great resources that explain the WordPress Roles and Capabilities as related to Users. There are also great resource that explain the registration process in WordPress and how to configure the default roles and capabilities assigned to users. They explain far better than I can articulate.

Once you better understand these, then I’m certain you’ll understand why a user needs to register before they are permitted to make edits to anything within WordPress, not just data within Connections.