Submit user as post, using user login data, after register

  • Paxjah

    (@paxjah)


    9 years, 11 months ago

    Hi there!

    I’m trying to wrap my head around a problem and hope someone can help me with a logical solution.

    I’m setting up 3 membership levels on my site; one is free and the other two are paid for.

    The user registration form has the standard name, email, etc. but also a few custom fields.

    Once either one of the paid-level users has input their data and hit ‘register’ their data is automatically submitted as a post (with related template and into related category) of their registration level. Essentially making their profile, if you will, the one and only post they submit to the site.

    Ideally I’d also like them to be able to update their one post if they need to (so perhaps a small account panel for them).

    What I was thinking was combining the following to accomplish this, but I have my doubts:

    – WPMU Dev Membership Plugin
    – Filtering the WPMU Dev registration form (to add the custom fields)
    – Sidebar Login (any)

    I’m sure I’m going about this in completely the wrong way, but if anyone has any suggestions I’d really appreciate hearing them 🙂

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    I don’t know much of available plugins, so I may be wrong, but this sounds like a custom coded solution to me. It’s mainly a user capability exercise so that registrants become “author” of their post even though it is auto-generated. Setup capabilities so they may edit their “own” posts but cannot create new posts.

    If I may, I would suggest you manage this data a true usermeta, additional fields can be added to the user profile so users can update data as they wish. All of this data can be presented as a sort of “Author Bio” page instead of an actual post. It can be styled in such a way that is indistinguishable from posts if that is important. But the underlying “post” does not exist per se, it is compiled dynamically from usermeta as needed. This is much more in keeping with how WP manages data and would require much less custom code to pull off.

    kubulai

    (@kubulai)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    Have you considered using the (free) WooThemes groups plugin? http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/groups/

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