Hurray!!! (and one question about generating passwords)

I have one question: Is it possible to have a password input on the civicrm membership form that will transfer to being the wordpress user password

IIRC, you can use a CiviCRM profile to allow this.

Cheers, Christian

@christian,

I know this is an old thread now, but do you know how you can get profile to allow this?.

I’ve been searching around, reading through the stack exchange etc – it seems like if you need anything to go from civicdm TO wordpress we’re probably out of luck.

Would it make a difference if the wordpress site and the civicrm used the same database or separate databases (as recommended)?

It won’t make any difference to use the same DB for Civi and WP. I’ll have a think about this and see what the options are.

This is the way i got it to work. Unfortunately, everything WP related with CiviCRM feels very fragile and there is almost no documentation, so far this is seems to work.

1. In WordPress make sure Settings > General > Membership > ‘Anyone can register’ is checked.
2. In CivicCRM, create a profile with Email (primary) as the only field.
3. Add this Profile to a contribution page on the ‘Profiles’ tab.

@natpromo4 Can confirm that your technique for adding users works to create a WordPress user during membership signup. So we’re closer than before, but still haven’t answered the original question:

I have one question: Is it possible to have a password input on the civicrm membership form that will transfer to being the wordpress user password

I still haven’t found a way to do that. In practice I have used BuddyPress for sign-ups and then synced the xProfile data to CiviCRM before showing the membership form. It’s not ideal but – when it’s explicitly presented as a two-step form – doesn’t seem too awkward.

@christian, i forgot to mention in my previous reply when you add a profile to a contribution page with a primary email field, it shows the wordpress password/password confirm fields. It seems to work perfectly, it just doesn’t seem to be documented anywhere obvious in the CiviCRM documentation/wiki/stackexchange

@natpromo4 I’d like to see this. I followed your steps above, but the password fields don’t show up for me. Can you give exact steps to reproduce?

I would also like to see this work. How does a user get to set a password?

I would be OK with an email notification upon the first sync (creation) of a user that sent a “click here to set your password”.

Has anyone made any progress with this?

When I create a civiCRM Profile with just a Container Email Primary fields and add this to a WordPress page I can update the email address fine but it doesn’t also present a password field ??

Note: The only time I can get CiviCRM to interact with password field is on my initial contribution page with member signup where it asks user to provide a wordpress username and password.

What I need to is to offer user self-service password change option.

@redactuk, WordPress provides users functionality to change their password (once they already have one) on their profile page (where they can also change their admin colour scheme, social network links etc).

So you can do that without having to configure anything within CiviCRM

@natpromo4 Thanks for reply, but I’m not after users updating their details via the WordPress screens. As requested in OP I want a way for users to do this via the front-end. I only replied to this thread as it seemed like you were implying that adding primary email address to civicrm profile/contribution page automatically resulted in password field being icnluded as well, but this is not the case.

Folks, it seems to me that this is a question for StackExchange or similar. It isn’t really about this plugin but rather the way that CiviCRM functions.