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How to hide dashboard from registered user, restricted access pages

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  1. KarlaAdams
    Member

    I added the user registration form.
    I created a register required form.
    I added a plugin so I could also decide which pages are hidden from non-registered users.
    I added the login widget to my sidebar.

    When I am logged in as my demo user, I see an empty photo and two links, one for the dashboard and one to logout. I don't want them to see the dashboard link because it would confuse them. Also, I don't like the photo icon either. How do I taylor this?

    Also, I have on that other plugin the option to put users into groups and show pages based on what group they are in. How do I use my gravity registration form to determine which of two groups to put them in?

    Also, I read somewhere that you can have the new user go to a separate web page that belongs to them after loggin in. How do you do that? Are there any examples? I used to do this with my Joomla website and the logged in user had a whole profile they could fill out, etc. With Wordpress, it's a lot more difficult. Will this do the same thing?

    Posted 11 years ago on Friday September 21, 2012 | Permalink

  2. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    A lot of the functionality you are looking for it possible with WordPress, but most has nothing to do with Gravity Forms at all. Gravity Forms will collect the data at the time of registration (or any other time you have someone submit one of your forms.) The rest is up to you.

    Here are two plugins which will allow you to hide unnecessary admin dashboard items:
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/better-wp-security/
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/adminimize/

    You can always hide links and the avatar (photo) in the admin with CSS if you are afraid the link will confuse your users or you do not like the photo.

    For a custom profile page, there are ways to do that too. You can collect all the data with your form, but it's up to you to create and display an extended profile page. Here is one explanation of how to create one.

    http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/09/10/adding-and-using-custom-user-profile-fields

    Some themes also have functionality built in for author pages or member profile pages.

    Regarding groups, Gravity Forms can be sure to collect the information on which group they should belong to, but getting that information in the right place is up to you.

    It's all possible with WordPress. Gravity Forms will collect all the data. The rest is up to you.

    Posted 11 years ago on Saturday September 22, 2012 | Permalink