Using existing data

  • Resolved fnforestrycouncil

    (@fnforestrycouncil)


    4 years, 8 months ago

    Hi there! Quick one: we’re looking for a plugin to allow users to login using just their name and e-mail. We have existing data we’re collecting through registration (using TypeForm) and wondering whether there’s a way we could just funnel that info through to ‘External Login’ to make a portal?

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  • Plugin Author tbenyon

    (@tbenyon)

    Hey @fnforestrycouncil,

    My first thought is that this is incredibly insecure as you’ve likely thought of this but if you are allowing access to ANY personal information in the WordPress platform I would definitely reconsider.

    You may well have another userflow or reasoning so assuming you’ve thought about the security implications, yes this would be possible. The only thing you’d have to do is modify the label on the WordPress login page so that the username would just say Name and the password would say E-mail. This is relatively straight forward but obviously not something this plugin would handle.

    Then in the settings for this plugin, when you were doing the table mappings, you would map the username field to the name field in your external database and the password field to the e-mail field in your external database.

    Does this answer your question?

    Thanks,

    Tom ??

    Plugin Author tbenyon

    (@tbenyon)

    I haven’t heard back so I’m assuming this is resolved.

    If you have any further questions please don’t hesitate to get back in contact.

    Kind regards,

    Tom ??

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