Accounts and Registration – Conceptual Overview?

  • Resolved digitaltech

    (@digitaltech)


    7 years, 6 months ago

    I just submitted a WC support ticket, but perhaps I should have posted here first. Anyway, I have a simple question…

    I’m confused. There’s a WC option to enable registration on the My Account page; yet I can’t seem to get to the My Account page unless I register.

    I must have a fundamental misunderstanding of things. I thought registration was the act of creating an account. If that’s the case, having an option to register on the account page doesn’t make sense.

    I’m hoping someone can set me straight on this. Thanks!

    (p.s. Is there an official user-to-user WC forum anywhere?)

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  • The my-account page does different things depending on whether the current user is logged in or not. If not logged in, the page will show the login and register dialogs. If the user is logged in, the same url shows the user’s orders, downloads, password change etc.

    Thread Starter digitaltech

    (@digitaltech)

    Thanks for the reply, @lorro. I did figure things out. I just wasn’t grasping that the My Account page was nothing but a “login” or “register and login” page (depending on settings) if the user is not logged in. I was expecting behavior/flow more like that of other systems I’ve used – i.e. if a user attempts to access a page that requires login, they are simply redirected to the “usual” login page and then redirected to the page they were trying to access once logged in. Having the exact same URL serve up entirely different content depending on context just caught be off guard and confused me. Anyway, I think I got it now.

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by digitaltech.
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