jlanpheer

OK, thanks. I had originally posted this on the WP developers’ forum and they said that i should post this here.

Thank you for your reply, i will give this a whirl. I appreciate the suggestions.

OK, thanks for the info. You were/are correct, i created some custom code in a code snippet back awhile ago, I was confused when i didn’t find it in the child theme functions.php file.

Resolved and thank you for the quick response!

Ah gotcha, thanks for the explanation, and yes, i had already done that. Thanks for the suggestion.

Good suggestion, which i had already done, but good to check. A couple of references in single-product.php (get_header( ‘shop’ ); and get_footer( ‘shop’ ); ?>. I have a couple of code snippets that reference the word ‘shop’ in a couple of ways (hiding coupons and the like), but there’s no place that i see which would affect the page title at all.

Thanks for your response, but i’ve done those steps repeatedly, with the same result. All my products do show on the page (as intended), however the H1 tag on the page still says ‘Shop’, even though the page is entitled “Register” and the slug is in fact “register”. I’ve updated permalinks, though i don’t think that i should have to. I’d like to know how to fix it (obviously) but also, what is causing it.

Thank you for your guidance, i appreciate that, i’m learning a ton. Also, i have now seem to have come up with some extra time to implement your “proper” way of doing this, so i AM going to pursue it.

In your last response, you wrote this: “If, for example, you said: “Well, I don’t want users to register a WordPress account because I don’t want them to see or access the WordPress dashboard.” Then I would provide a solution for that.”

Initially, that was one of my hangups when considering this approach. Could you point me at any resources that would guide me thru that? Because it is true, i would ideally want to set up the account for them (and it’s not just 1,2 people) and i do not want them to see or access the WP dashboard (which i “think” i can accomplish to restricting permissions on the page?).

If you have any thoughts on it, i’m going to push ahead on this approach that you recommend.

thank you VERY much!

Hi, and thanks for your reply. I am not using WP user accounts at all. Most users will not have a WP account on the site, so my plugin creates a separate store which stores user names, passwords, roles and a few other key pieces of information. So, once they ‘login’ (not into WP itself, but into this ‘application’), the plugin will determine what they can see and then provides a series of options via links based on their role. The app will then want to pass this information to several other possible pages, based on the permissions that the plugin determines and grants. I’m seeking the best way to do that.

With regards to WP’s not handling PHP’s $_SESSION variables, yes i have read that also and can confirm that to be the case, which is what led me to this question, i assumed (incorrectly) that i could do that when i started this. So, my search for a solution continues. I was not able to get cookies to do the job, i kept getting ‘headers already sent’ errors. If anyone thinks cookies is the way to go here, could you provide just a bit of sample code and where it might be placed to get me started? Otherwise, it sounds like dummy-ing up a ‘virtual form’ programmatically and sending the information via POST variables might be the way i have to go. I guess that I was thinking that there was a better way?

Thank you in advance for all opinions! I’m self-taught and ramping up towards ‘pro’. 🙂