New User Registration Process Not Intuitive

  • monk3

    (@monk3)


    12 years, 8 months ago

    We jsut ran a test run on a non-registered person’s attempt to leave a comment to a post or page.
    The process worked well up and until they log-in for the first time after receiving their email with user name and password.
    At that point in the process, they are directed to their profile page.
    There is not anything (we could find) that is intuitive as to how to go beyond that profile page to either the post or page where they started (as a non-registered visitor), or to the homepage of the site.
    What they currently have to do is either have prior knowledge that the site name in the upper left corner of the screen will take them there (which is very much not a logical or evident move); or, have to frustratingly hunt and search to discover the function of that bit of screen content.
    Is there a way or setting in WP to have the the visitor taken directly back to the page or post they started from after registering and logging back in? That would be far more intuitive.
    Thanks in advance.

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  • Endlyss

    (@akel-res)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    On my site, when I made a front-end login box (instead of having the user go through wp-login.php), it simply refreshed the page with them logged in.

    I added this where my front-end login box was.

    <?php $args = array(
        'echo' => true,
        'form_id' => 'loginform',
        'label_username' => __( 'Username' ),
        'label_password' => __( 'Password' ),
        'label_remember' => __( 'Remember Me' ),
        'label_log_in' => __( 'Log In' ),
        'id_username' => 'user_login',
        'id_password' => 'user_pass',
        'id_remember' => 'rememberme',
        'id_submit' => 'wp-submit',
        'remember' => true,
        'register' => true,
        'value_username' => NULL,
        'value_remember' => false ); ?>
  	 <?php wp_login_form($args); ?>

    As for registration, I just made a target=”_blank” Link in the registration box, so that the registration opened in a new window. (that way they do not lose their place, and they can still go through all of the registration steps).

    And for commenting: I would highly recommend using Disqus. Takes maybe twenty minutes to set up, you can set it to where the user has to have an account with your site before they can post, and it takes care of all of the little stuff that otherwise would take you hours to do.
    http://disqus.com/admin/wordpress/

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