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User Login / Profile-Bio
Hi,
I’ve spent the morning reading through a number of plugin support pages to find a way to create a user login with profile/bio.
It’s a bit of a plugin combo nightmare.
I want users to register and then create a profile/bio with a profile image and a few compulsory fields.
I need a password recovery system, so the admin login seems ideal, but my first thoughts are that I’d like to keep users out of the admin side of the website.
I’ve looked at Stef’s Bio plugin and other author plugins, dashboards, password protection plugins & forms plugins … which hint that what I want to do may be possible …
Has anyone managed to create a front side login – user bio/profile – with password recovery, compulsory fields/field validation and editable by the user?
Edit … Is it Achievable?
If so has anyone got suggestions for the best combination of plugins to use.
Thanks
Last edited by geoff777 (2011-05-05 14:55:53)
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Re: User Login / Profile-Bio
Here are a few initial pointers based on what some things that I have done:
- mem_self_register – this will allow users to register, maintain passwords etc.
- ign_password_protect – for pages that only registered users are allowed to access. I also use this to create a separate database table for ‘external’ registered users, separate to the normal user table for back-end users, although you will need to create the additional fields to hold user details like address, contact numbers etc
- mem_simple_form – allows you to create front-end forms that users can use to update and add to a database table. In other words, use this to allow users to update their own personal details. These plugins also include field validation.
Out of the box, these should provide everything you need.
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