Hello, we are currently building an ecommerce site using Wordpress & Woocommerce to sell downloadable products.
The main site runs on Wordpress in the root, and I have Xenforo installed at /forum for the community section. So far this plugin looks like it achieves everything I could ask for -- except alternately handling user registrations from WP and sending those to the XF database.
I am very much hoping to purchase this product ASAP but I'm a bit hesitant because I don't know if moving user registration off WP and onto Xen only will complicate things.. since Woocommerce (shop system) is built in Wordpress, the most critical features (user registration, history, licenses, files, payments, address, etc) would be done here. Also registration is also prompted in the cart upon purchase of items.. in other words, user authentication is heavily entwined with Woocommerce. Many customers may not even visit the forum, and use the site strictly for shopping.
As it looks, I'd have to likely direct registrations off the cart to Xenforo, and use a redirect to come back to the shop after registration, which produces another question, how to differentiate people registering on Xenforo to checkout in Woocommerce vs those registering in general on the forum?
I'm also a bit concerned about plugins like Buddypress for example, and any plugins or features that get updated upon either registration or profile updating in WP - if that is all done via Xenforo, would these processes still be triggered in Wordpress?
Is there any chance of having optional ability to send WP users to Xenforo database in a future release?
If anyone else has similar issues or experience, I'd love to hear your input.
Regards,
The main site runs on Wordpress in the root, and I have Xenforo installed at /forum for the community section. So far this plugin looks like it achieves everything I could ask for -- except alternately handling user registrations from WP and sending those to the XF database.
I am very much hoping to purchase this product ASAP but I'm a bit hesitant because I don't know if moving user registration off WP and onto Xen only will complicate things.. since Woocommerce (shop system) is built in Wordpress, the most critical features (user registration, history, licenses, files, payments, address, etc) would be done here. Also registration is also prompted in the cart upon purchase of items.. in other words, user authentication is heavily entwined with Woocommerce. Many customers may not even visit the forum, and use the site strictly for shopping.
As it looks, I'd have to likely direct registrations off the cart to Xenforo, and use a redirect to come back to the shop after registration, which produces another question, how to differentiate people registering on Xenforo to checkout in Woocommerce vs those registering in general on the forum?
I'm also a bit concerned about plugins like Buddypress for example, and any plugins or features that get updated upon either registration or profile updating in WP - if that is all done via Xenforo, would these processes still be triggered in Wordpress?
Is there any chance of having optional ability to send WP users to Xenforo database in a future release?
If anyone else has similar issues or experience, I'd love to hear your input.
Regards,