[drew345]

Thank you very much for your kind research and advice.
I tried it again on another computer, even without changing anything on my website, and I could create an account with a weak password just fine.
I don’t know what was happening before, but it had nothing to do with Simple Membership. Somehow it was computer or browser specific.

Before, when I entered the password for a new member registration, a little bubble would appear and say “weak” or “really weak”, and the “register” button on the register page would be greyed out, to not even let me press it. I tried explorer and chrome on another computer that it doesn’t happen. Not sure what was hijacking my registration page before (don’t have that laptop with me right now).

Anyway, thanks so much for your help and the great plugin,

[drew345]

Yes, It is true, I update all plugins and theme when available.

Still. Is it a Simple Membership Plugin that prevents the “Join” button from being pressed when there is a weak password? If it a Simple Membership feature, any way to disable it?

Thanks,

[drew345]

Thank you,
All redirects are working smooth as silk.
Thanks for the help,

[drew345]

Thank you,
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The question about redirecting after log-in is solved. That works great.
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Is there anything similar for redirecting after registration:
After completing the Registration form on the membership-registration page, the next page is still the membership-registration page, but it is just totally blank.
Of course I can add something to that page like “Login Now”, but then whatever I add actually shows underneath the registration form.
Is there a way to get the Registration page to redirect actomatically to another page after submitting a successful registration? I guess the login page would be the natural place to redirect to.
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And here is more description on the first question:
I have page “Member Area” designated as needing membership to access it.
When I click on the page as an unregistered user, it says, “You need to login to view this content. Pleas Login. Not a Member? Join us.”
Both “Login” and “Join Us” are hyperlinked.
When I click “Join Us” I am redirected to the membership-join page, which has a button on it for “click Join Now Here” which is hyperlinked.
When I click the “click Join Now Here” button, then I am redirected to the membership-registration page, where I register.

What I want is to just jump right from the “Not a Member? Join us” to the membership-registration page (instead of having to go to the membership-join page as an intermediate). But I can’t find the “Not a Member? Join us” HTML code to edit the hyperlink. It doesn’t actually exist on the member-area page, it only shows up on the member-only page when a non-member looks at it.

Sorry if that was still confusing. Basically want to edit the hyperlink on the “Join Us” text that appears when a non user looks at a protected page.

[drew345]

It worked fine this time, here’s what I did:

Restarted computer
Opened Chrome (usually use firefox when logging in as admin)
Went to my webpage (not logged in, no admin privileges)
Clicked on member area, join us, join now and finally on membership-registration page.
Made testMember3 account with new email and new password. Membership level is standard (only one level for me, and it is free).
Successfully registered and redirected to Registration page.
Clicked on Member area, now asked to login (not automatically logged in after registeration?)
Logged in as TestMember3 and redirected to home page (redirected back to Member area would be nice…)
Click on Member area and can successfully see page. (all is well)
I close that browser (Chrome)

I open firefox and go to my website admin page
I log in as my new TestAdmin account
It logs in successfully, so all seems fine now thank you.
I see my WP members on the membership page
I still see my administrator accounts (along with the testMembers on the website users page.)

The things I did different from when the plug in deleted my admin account was that I restarted the computer before adding the testMember on the registration page. At that time, I had my website admin account open in one browser (firefox) and was making the new testMember in another browser (Chrome) with both open at the same time. I don’t want to try that experiement again but you might try that to get to the root of the problem
I learned a lot about this great plug in through this process, thanks
I have some other questions now I will start in a new thread.
Thanks,
Drew

[drew345]

I logged into my website as admin with the newly created Admin ID.

Deactivated all plugins except this one.

Went to WP Membership Members page

Selected Add member
Added Member information for TestMember2 at level “Standard” (my only level).

Back to Members page
I see that TestMember2 is created as “standard” level.

I log out and log in to my website with the new Admin ID

I still have admin privileges (yeah!)

I check WP Members page and TestMember2 is there as “standard” level.

I check website Users page and still see my original Admin account and my new admin account both still there. (yeah!)

STRANGE! OK, this is strange. Now TestMember2 is also listed as a user for my webpage database. It is listed as role “Subscriber”

I will stop here and make sure this is OK…So when I added TestMember2 through the WP Plugin “add member” function, it added TestMember2 to the WP Membership at Membership level “standard” AND it also added TestMember2 to my website users database with “Role” “Subscriber”.

Before I proceed with trying to add a user through the subscription page, I just want to make sure that the above result was as expected. Should adding a member through the plug-in add the member to both the WP membership database AND also put that member in the website Users database?

Thanks

[drew345]

Follow – on question

If I should create the new member through the plug-in: should I be logged in as my original Admin or the new Admin I created in step 2 (or doesn’t really matter)]

If I should create the new member through the member registration page, should I first log out and close all browsers associated with my Admin login account?

Again – it is when I add users though the registration page (never tried directly through the plug-in ) that I am having trouble with my Admin account getting deleted. I read you said that the member database and the actual website database are two separate things (maybe not clear, sorry), but in my case, the member database has been definitely corrupting the website admin database.

I’ll try your procedure above when I get the clarification on that step 3. Thanks so much!

[drew345]

In your process above, should I create the new member (third step) through the plug-in : members : add member option? Or should I create the new member through the registration web page?

I have always been creating the new member through the registration web page before and that’s when my website admin user gets deleted from the wordpress database.

Thanks,

[drew345]

Thanks for the replies, I will try to be more detailed here.

I install the simple membership plugin.
I create a free member level and call it standard.
I create a Member only page and limit it to standard members only .
I test this by opening a new browser, and trying to go to the standard member page.
I get prompted and directed to register as a member
I make a test member name “TestMember1” and use a spare email address I have (not my Admin username or email)
My TestMember1 is correctly registered as “standard” member on my website
But now, mysteriously, my Admin account has been erased from my WordPress database (even though I created TestMember1 from another browser and with another email)
I can no longer log into my website as Admin with my original Admin username and password.
I call GoDaddy and they confirm that TestMember1 is in the wordpress Database, but my Admin username has been deleted

After going through this cycle two times, GoDaddy told me that this plugin should not be able to delete my Admin account like this and recommended that I try a different plug in for my memberpage.

I would like to keep using this plugin, but want to get this resolved before I go through the cycle again…

Why is my Admin account getting deleted from my WordPress database when a new member is added to my website?
How can I add new members while not having my Admin account deleted?

Thanks

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