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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [External Login] Adapting external login for APIThanks Tom, your replies are very much appreciated!
If users use the wrong email, they won’t be able to log in to WordPress as it won’t match the password. If they initially (accidentally) sign up with the wrong email I guess it would need Admin intervention.
The external database’s API can return data on any of the fields in the membership record so I guess we could get around the problem of people purposely signing up with someone else’s email by also checking postcode or something like that, on initial signup.
I’m very pleased that you say it sounds like it should be a straight forward task for a developer 🙂
I’m trying to learn as much as I can just now so I may try and do it myself.
Thanks again for your help.
PaulForum: Plugins
In reply to: [External Login] Adapting external login for APIYes, at the moment, there is a “Join Us” signup form on the website, which is embedded from the external database. When users sign up (and pay the membership fee) they go onto the external database. To use the website, they need to then create a WordPress account using the same email address, and a new password. There is a “Register for the website” form, separate from the “Join Us” form. Thereafter, when they sign in to the website, theoretically their membership status is set when the API looks up the database for their email address. We chose email address as the lookup because this is unique for each person.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [External Login] Adapting external login for APINo, users can’t login to the external database, it is only Admins can do that. We just want for people to log in to the WordPress website- either as members if their email address is present on the external database, or as non-member users if they are not present on the external database. So users don’t interact with the external database at all, it is just the validation API that does that.
This is the idea anyway; I don’t know if it is possible!Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [External Login] Adapting external login for APITom, many thanks for your kind reply.
I didn’t mean to imply there were no passwords- what we would like to do is to have users log in to the website with their WordPress username and password, but for their email address to be used as the look-up in the external database, membership status got (member or not) and then the WordPress user-account role set to member or non-member.
It’s way above our heads unfortunately, so yes, will need to find a developer.
Best wishes
Paul