Wordpress Members Area?

funkyphantom · 23 Nov 2011 at 20:27

Hi guys,
Im looking for a plugin which would allow me to have a 'members area' on my wordpress website. I would like to use a database of our members surname and date of birth to allow access to pages which i would like hidden from public view.
At the moment I use this program http://www.mtopsoft.com/htmllock/index.html. I then generate a list of 800+ members surnames and date of births to use as Username and Passwords.
Is there anything like 'htmllock' for wordpress?
Thanks

Staffy · 24 Nov 2011 at 01:29

wishlistproducts.com

I have used this on a site before and was happy with it, I am also a member on a couple of sites that use it. It isn't free but is worth it. I am not affiliated with them just a user of the software.

K@rl · 24 Nov 2011 at 17:25

Thanks for the link, I was looking for something very similar. Does it give you the ability to have user specific pages? Like a user profile page that has information and documentation that is specific to them?

Staffy · 24 Nov 2011 at 18:44

K@rl said:
Thanks for the link, I was looking for something very similar. Does it give you the ability to have user specific pages? Like a user profile page that has information and documentation that is specific to them?

Not sure, contact them at the site. If not post on here and i'll ask a mate of mine who is a WP Plugin junky.

funkyphantom · 19 Dec 2011 at 18:54

Im getting desperate here guys

I need a wordpress members area, where i can specify my own database of username and passwords. I don't want to have it so anyone can join by filling in a form. Is there such a thing?

Confused · 19 Dec 2011 at 19:53

Disable signup in the Dashboard and create user accounts manually.

funkyphantom · 19 Dec 2011 at 20:13

Confused said:
Disable signup in the Dashboard and create user accounts manually.

I understand what your saying, but at the moment my list stands at 800 members. This list is produced by a program that can output all of our members Surnames and Date of births. Which i use as usernames and passwords. I then use 'HTML LOCK' to encrypt it all.
It would be a very labour intensive job to manually create user accounts for this many people.

3dcandy · 19 Dec 2011 at 20:39

not sure if this is up to the job, but appears to be the highest rated similiar plugin...

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-members/installation/

funkyphantom · 19 Dec 2011 at 20:41

Thanks 3dcandy, ill check that out.

3dcandy · 19 Dec 2011 at 20:46

no worries...tell us how you get on, might be useful plugin one day

Staffy · 20 Dec 2011 at 10:33

Can you code or know someone who can?

If so extract your db of users as a csv, then create/have created a script to install them into your db & format.

Or take a look at some of the macro software out there. Some of them can take a csv file and insert them into a form through your web browser. Autohotkey and there are a lot of others.