Users located in external database, separate from WP_

  • Resolved rolevine

    (@rolevine)


    6 years, 1 month ago

    I’m working on a WordPress website (and app) that has registered users, all of which are not WordPress users, i.e., the users are stored in a database that is separate from WordPress db. It’s a long shot question, however, can this plugin be used such that the datasource is not wp_users, rather it’s a datamodel that I populate?

    – Rob

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  • Have you looked at External Login? That is what I use to authenticate users that exist in a database that is not WP.

    Thread Starter rolevine

    (@rolevine)

    Hi, thanks for the response, but I finally convinced the people on “the other side of the project” that there was no reason for the users to be in a database other than the WordPress db.

    But using External Login, there will be a 2 set of data for 1 user, in this case If I want to delete user from the External Application, It wont be deleted from the WordPress default database, and in that situation we cant remove, add, update new user. I am looking for something by which I can achieve a way where user can be authenticated from out side database(by an external Application) and there will be no use of WP user table while it comes to user interaction.

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