How does a regular user change their password on my site?

  • I’m at a loss here after a decade of using WordPress I just realized I have no idea how a user can change their own password on my wordpress site without using the wp-admin/profile.php

    I would like to do it without a plugin. Here’s more context:
    1. My website is closed to public registration. I setup and give clients their account initially.
    2. I have built a “client dashboard” which once logged into their account, they can access.
    3. If they want to change their password (or other profile info), I have no idea how they can do that other than linking them to wp-admin/profile.php which I don’t want to do because it gives them access to an unstyled back-end with lots of other information they shouldn’t see. (For this reason, I don’t give them a role.)

    I’d like them to be able to change all their profile info on the FRONT END and am shocked that this doesn’t seem to be possible without a plugin, and I’ve never noticed in many years lol. Maybe I’m just missing it.

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  • WordPress provides two ways for users to change their own passwords:

    1) If they’re logged in already, they can change it on their profile page.

    2) If they’re not logged in, they can reset their password by clicking on the “Forgot Password” link on the login page.

    These two options are reasonable and logical, and are pretty much what you’d see on any public website out there: Facebook, Twitter, Google, and every other website.

    If you create your own login page or a custom user profile/dashboard, then it’s your responsibility to ensure your custom login page and/or dashboard provides the password change / reset features.

    And I don’t really see what is so “shocking” about that. Or perhaps what may be “shocking” is that whatever tool you used to create the custom client dashboard doesn’t provide this option ??

    Thread Starter KingDingbat

    (@kingdingbat)

    What’s shocking is that there’s no way for a user to change their password without accessing their profile on the un-themed back-end dashboard of WordPress, (unless I’m missing a front-end profile somewhere, but don’t think I am) where they also see all kinds of alerts from plugins and things that they shouldn’t see or have access to. That doesn’t make any sense at all.

    But what I was really saying I was shocked about is that I didn’t notice this problem for almost a decade of working with WordPress.

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