[Hidden-tech] WordPress site user reigstration

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:45:11 -0500 Kalista Popp <kalista.popp at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hey folks,
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> I think this very well may be my first post to HT. (Although I have been on
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> I am working with a WordPress site that I "inherited", with features and
> theme already in place.
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> For certain areas of the site, I would like to remove the requirement for
> visitors to register as users. I have pored over the WP FAQ and many
> forums, but cannot find a way to change that setting, or where to do it.

Normally, a WP site has two sides, the public side and the Dashboard. The
Dashboard is the 'back end' and this is where things like pages and posts are
created and the theme and appearence are managed. *Obviously* one needs to be
registered (and usually with elevated priviledges) to do this back end work. I
am assuming you are not looking to make this part of the site publicly
accessable. The public side (the front end) normally does not need people to
be registered. There are a couple of special cases: there a setting to require
registation to *post* comments, but once posted, anyone should be able to read
the comments. It is also possible to create pages and posts that are 'private'
and which require registation and/or a pasword -- these pages are not publicly 
accessable.

There are *also* 'forum' plugins that require registation, at least to post to 
the formum.  There might also be plugins that impose certain types of access 
restrictions.  Plugins can do all sorts of 'interesting' things -- for 
example, I have written a library catalog system plugin that allows logged in 
users to place holds on items in the library catalog.  Writing a plugin to 
required users to be logged in to access certain pages is certainly possible.

I think the site might either be using some sort of plugin that is doing this 
or else the parts of the site that are not 'publicly' (anonymously) accessable 
might consist of pages or posts that are private.  You either need need to 
look at the plugins that are installed (and there might be settings there) OR 
you will need to look at the pages or posts that are not generally accessable 
and see if they are marked as 'private'.


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> I am hoping that this is not a permanent WP site requirement, because it is
> causing frustration in promoting the site.
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> Does anyone out in HT land have any experience with this? I welcome any
> help you can give!



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