[Steven Zahm]

@ Jenna

If you are seeing these two options when logged in:

• View My Directory Entry
• Edit My Directory Entry

That indicates the user you logged in as already has a directory entry in which the user has been linked to. If the user had not been linked to an entry, you would see “Add My Directory Entry”.

If you log in as admin, your edits or new entries will not be moderated as you have permissions as admin to do those functions.

For testing, make sure you are logging as a user. Verify the role assigned to the user you are testing with. And then verify that the user role has the correct permissions set on the Connections : Roles admin page. To allow users to add and edit with moderation check the boxes for Add Entry Moderated and Edit Entry Moderated and then click the Update button.

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jenna

RE: but then I want them to be redirected to the front end form page so that they can intuitively add their directory entry…..possible?

Yes, there are registration plugins which support redirection after registration. Personally, on this site I use the Peter’s Login Redirect plugin. There is an option to redirect post-registration towards the bottom of its settings page. The plugin author also provides a couple code snippets with downloadable plugins you could use for first time user logins. I’d probably use the user meta version if I needed such functionality.

There are many user registration plugins and redirection plugins that provide a lot of extra functionality beyond what WP provides and most already have their process flow for user registrations worked out which is why this is not built in as options in Connections.

[Steven Zahm]

Oh, please send the exact steps to reproduce with links and buttons clicked.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Don

Like before, send an admin login and I’ll take a look. Details can be posted here as a private reply.

[Steven Zahm]

Sure, done.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Patrick

I would expect WC to not switch roles of an existing user… so that make sense to me.

If you switched the user from Customer to Subscriber, can the user still view their order history and edit their account details? The article implies that only the Customer role would have those capabilities any longer.

If the user does not, you could add those capabilities to the Subscriber role using the Capability Manager Enhanced plugin. Or you could assign the user to both roles. Either would work. Welcome to the world of user roles and role capabilities :) Fun, right?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Patrick

With you setup using a Customer and Subscriber role where a member could potentially be both. You might have to use Multiple Roles plugin. I’ve never used it myself but since this is something that WP actually support natively, I image all it does is exposed this functionality in the admin.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Patrick

In regards to string passwords… couldn’t hurt. You would have to test to see if it is compatible with WC. WC may have its on addon to enable such a feature.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Patrick

That is more or less the settings I would have expected to see based on your previous replies.

The only change, maybe… I’ve never used WC before, but I’m fairly certain the default role given to a user is “Customer” regardless of the default role set with WordPress > Settings > General > New User Default Role. So, you could, if you wanted set the New User Default Role to Subscriber so you would not have to change the role from Customer to Subscriber unless your “My Account” page is actually a WC customer account registration, then you still would have to change the user’s role after they register.

You could perhaps use the Nav Menu Roles plugin and setup the nav menu link so it is only visible to Subscribers. this plugin does not “protect” the page, it can help with displaying only relevant menu items based on role and other criteria. The protection comes from the role capabilities which you seem to have setup correctly.

Not sure there is anything for me to test as it sounds lie you have it setup correctly.

One settings change you absolutely need to make, enable this option”Don’t show the cached version for logged-in users” on the cache settings page. Otherwise logged in users might not be able to view the directory or you might display the directory to a “Customer” role because it was cached create by a “Subscriber” when they visited the page. This is not a Connections issue … you could also leak my account page to the wrong logged in user.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jenna

Just two steps for a new user:

1. Register.
2. Add directory entry.

Two steps for an existing user:

1. Login.
2. Add/edit directory entry.

This assumes you are using the core WordPress registration process which logs the user in as part of registration. If you opt to use a plugin to handle registration those plugins can add steps such as email verification and admin moderation. So, the number of steps is really depends on what you decide to do to handle user registration.

You do have me a little confused… you initially said “it was working so that if someone signed up and then logged in their account was created in the wordpress users list“. If you had user registration setup and working, why did you remove it? Then you said, “I just didnt think Register on the login form was really obvious for people that needed to register“. If a person does not register first … how would they login? The user would need an account to log in to which can only happen if the user had registered first. Lets put this in a different perspective… You can not log in to Facebook without first registering. After you register, you setup your profile.

In regards to directory entry moderation, this is entirely dependent on the user role capability settings.

Not sure if this helps, but I hope it does. For some reason I have this feeling we’re not on the same page concerning the issue that you’re experiencing.

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