Hi Tom, thanks a lot for your time, I do appreciate that!
I’ll try to explain myself a little better. Suppose I have a user who exists only in the external database. Then migration mode gets the job done, because the plugin will retrieve the data from the external database and create the user accordingly.
But what happens next? User now exists in local WordPress. So if later on I tell my external database to block the user in WordPress that simply won’t work because the plugin doesn’t even get to check the external database.
So back to the ‘normal flow’. I can block/unblock the user in the external database and see it blocked/unblocked in WordPress. I can change user roles externally and see them changed locally. I could also change user password externally; if my external database was an IdP with password change features and the like, that would be awesome, but that is simply not the case. That’s why I wish I could keep using WordPress to manage password changes.
The most simple fix I came up with is just that: enabling normal mode except that password hash is validated locally. Of course password syncing across databases would do too but that’s a lot to ask.
Anyway I think your plugin is awesome, it has a lot of potential and works sooo smoothly, keep up with the good work!
Regards.
Jorge
