Community: Block access to WordPress Admin – How do the user change password

[bodin]

Hi,

I’ve set so that a subscriber can Edit their submissions and also remove them.
Also I have checked so that the user of type subscriber cannot access the WordPress Admin bar. A really good function.

So, whenever a visitor who has not logged in yet wants to add an Event, they will get the special Login page, at the bottom there is a Register link which takes the visitor to the default WordPress registration page.

When the user has registered and been sent a automatically generated password. How do the user get access to actually change his/her password?

Sincerely,
Andreas

[Casey]

Andreas,
Users should be able to reset their password by going to the /wp-login.php page on your site and clicking the ‘Reset Password’ link.

Let me know if they’re not able to do this. Thanks!

[bodin]

Hi Casey,

thank you for replying to my post.
I do not show the wp-login.php page anywhere on my WordPress webpage.
It only shows when a user clicks to Add an Event from the Community plug-in. I have hidden the wp-login.php page in order to avoid that people try to hack.

Would it be possible to have a “change password” in the Community plug-in once they have logged in with the auto-generated password?

Thank you in advance!

Sincerely,
Andreas

[Casey]

Andreas,
Unfortunately that’s not currently supported in the plugin. You could add a ‘Change Password’ link that goes to your hidden wp-login.php page. You can do this by performing a template override of any of the Community template files that are located in ‘PLUGIN_DIRECTORY/views’.

Let me know if you have further questions about how to do this. Thanks!

[bodin]

Thank you Casey,
I have to ask you though of a step-by-step explanation on how to do this. 🙂

Sincerely,
Andreas

[Casey]

Andreas,
Here you go:

1) Create a new directory in your theme directory named ‘events’
2) Inside this new ‘events’ folder, create another folder named ‘community’
3) Copy the files from ‘/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-community-events/views’ into the new ‘community’ folder you created

The Community add-on will now use these files to override the default views, so you can customize them as you’d like.

Please let me know if you have further questions. Thanks!

[bodin]

Hi again Casey!

Sorry for a late reply!
Thanks again for supporting me!
Now I need to figure out how to modify the views. 😉

You do not know if there is any PLUGIN that makes it possible to just have a “Change Password” link put somewhere that is visible whenever the user is logged in?

Or even better a PLUGIN that provides a page where the user can change all his/her details, without having access to the Admin panel, which I disabled in the Event Community plugin?

Thank you very much for your willingness to help!

Sincerely,
Andreas

[Casey]

Andreas,
Unfortunately I don’t know of a plugin that does this. Just let me know if I can help further. Thanks!

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