• Resolved craiglieberman

    (@craiglieberman)


    I’ve spent more than 40 hours trying to resolve this and at this point, I’m ready to poke myself in the eye with a chopstick.

    The reset password has me going around in an endless loop and has been for two months.

    The “reset password” emails are being sent and being received by the requested. Clicking the link in the email takes you back to the login screen. The website is https://fastrackriders.info.

    I’ve updated the theme to the latest version. I’ve updated the WooCommerce to 2.3. All plugins are up to date. I’ve Googled and read every thread I can find. Tried every solution offered in threads, from GitHub, etc.

    I’ve contacted the theme provider who said it’s a WooCommerce issue.

    I’ve turned off all the plugins except woo commerce, problem persists.

    I’ve tried the 2014 theme. Problem persists.

    All I can say from my endless hours of research is that there are hundreds of people searching for lost password/reset password solutions, and each resolution is unique.

    At this point, I’ll PAY someone to fix it. It has to be fixed!

    My email is [email protected] Please have someone email me…preferably, before I poke my own eye out. ??

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  • Since the last time you can remember this working, have you moved your site to a new domain name? Have you messed with either the WordPress Address (URL) or Site Address (URL) in General Settings? If you turned off the WooCommerce plugins, what makes you think it’s still a WooCommerce issue?

    I registered on your site. The lost password featured worked fine for me. Maybe you fixed it by now.

    When you test it, are you using a different persona, ie different email address? My understanding is that profiles for both WordPress admins and WooCommerce registered users are stored in the same user table. So when someone who is an admin “loses their password”, there is some ambiguity about which of the two login screen to show.

    Anyway, did you test as a customer by using an email address that does not belong to an admin?

    Unfortunately offering to pay or to work for pay is against forum guidelines. If you wish to pursue this option, consider posting a job:
    https://jobs.wordpress.net/

    I e-mailed him my guess on a fix and it worked (not for payment, that was just an expression of frustration from the user; he also said he would poke his eye with chopsticks, similarly sarcastic).

    The problem was with the code that generates that url.

    The url sent to the user was something like:
    https://domain.com/my-account/key=blahlogin=whatever

    But it SHOULD have been:
    https://domain.com/my-account/lost-password/key=blahlogin=whatever

    The /lost-password/ failed to get generated in the url in the reset password e-mail to the user.

    See Woocommerce > settings > emails > reset password, and click “View Template” near the bottom. That’s the default code that generates the e-mail, and this is the relevant section that creates the link:

    <a href="<?php echo esc_url( add_query_arg( array( 'key' => $reset_key, 'login' => rawurlencode( $user_login ) ), wc_get_endpoint_url( 'lost-password', '', wc_get_page_permalink( 'myaccount' ) ) ) ); ?>">
    			<?php _e( 'Click here to reset your password', 'woocommerce' ); ?></a>

    This default e-mail template is located in:
    woocommerce/templates/emails/customer-reset-password.php

    But you can modify the template to make it match the theme to your site. yourtheme/woocommerce/emails/customer-reset-password.php overrides the default, where yourtheme is the name of the theme your site uses. This critical code section somehow got altered or removed and was not correct in the modified version made to match the theme, so copying this correct default code back in there fixed it.

    Thread Starter craiglieberman

    (@craiglieberman)

    Problem resolved, gentlemen. Thank you very much.

    Ended up being that the template’s email setting in WooCommerce was overriding WooCommerce’s setting.

    I resolved it by using the php code above and dropping it into the theme files using FTP in my host CPanel.

    Thread Starter craiglieberman

    (@craiglieberman)

    Resolved.

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