Answers.Body: <p>A good place to start is in the documentation at <a href="https://docs.civicrm.org/user/en/latest/membership/online-membership-sign-up/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.civicrm.org/user/en/latest/membership/online-membership-sign-up/</a> in the Civicrm user guide. It would be best to read the whole membership documentation before and after the link given.
  For Wordpress you will need a login system like the one you mention "Profile Builder" which I use myself and can recommend.  You will need to switch on wordpress/settings/General/Membership/Anyone can register but also first get a good security system plug-in otherwise you'll more than likely get a mass of brute-force attempts to infiltrate your system.
  You may want to consider a plugin to prevent non-members from seeing certain membership pages.  Alternatively, after you've set up a membership profile, you could use civicrm to forcibly get non-registered users to open a WordPress user account by using the registration option in ...civicrm/administer/customize data/profiles/settings/advanced settings.
  There's a lot to be considered.  Hope this helps you to get going.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: If you use the CiviCRM WordPress Member Sync plugin then you do not need to allow the "Anyone can register" option which save a lot of worry about spurious account creation.
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Answers.Text: Thank you for the replies. If I use Profile Builder for example, is signing up then a 2 stage process for members? They create their Profile first, then I direct them to the link for the membership/contribution page? Or is there a way to have both happen at once? Is the brute force and spurious account creation a problem if there is no free 'memberships'? 
  Thanks again for all the help.
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Answers.Text: It doesn't have to be a 2 stage process.  After creating your membership profile to be used in your contribution page, in that profile advanced settings, there is a WP user account registration option where you can make registration required, or as an option (not required), or a no account creation option.  You'll probably want to take the first option I've described to make registration a requirement.  There's an extension called "CiviCRM WordPress Profile Sync" that can be used to keep a WordPress User profile in sync with CiviCRM Contact info.  I haven't used the Member extension.
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Body: <p>I have been trying to get my head around using Civicrm (5.13.1) with wordpress (5.2) to create membership options for our organisation. I'm not sure I understand the process of creating a user account though that is synchronised between wordpress and civicrm. 
  I managed to set up the membership types, payment processor and sucesfully tested that. I tried setting up some plug ins like CiviCRM WordPress Member Sync, Members and Profile Builder but not sure how to set things up. Ideally we would like to set up a member's only forum eventually, but for now we would like users to be able to log in and edit information like adresses, cancel autorenewals and etc...</p>
  
  <p>Is there a tutorial or resource somewhere that shows one how to set up user log in details for wordpress that can be 'registered' as part of a member signing up to a civicrm membership? </p>
  
  <p>Sorry for the vague question, I'm just a bit lost for directions here.
  thank you so much for the help,
  best regards,
  David</p>
  
Tags: <profile><registration>
Title: Profile registeration interaction between wordpress and civicrm
ThreadText: # Profile registeration interaction between wordpress and civicrm
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-05-12)
  
  I have been trying to get my head around using Civicrm (5.13.1) with wordpress (5.2) to create membership options for our organisation. I'm not sure I understand the process of creating a user account though that is synchronised between wordpress and civicrm.
  I managed to set up the membership types, payment processor and sucesfully tested that. I tried setting up some plug ins like CiviCRM WordPress Member Sync, Members and Profile Builder but not sure how to set things up. Ideally we would like to set up a member's only forum eventually, but for now we would like users to be able to log in and edit information like adresses, cancel autorenewals and etc...
  
  Is there a tutorial or resource somewhere that shows one how to set up user log in details for wordpress that can be 'registered' as part of a member signing up to a civicrm membership?
  
  Sorry for the vague question, I'm just a bit lost for directions here.
  thank you so much for the help,
  best regards,
  username_0
  
  **Tags:** profile, registration
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2019-05-12. Score: 0
  
  A good place to start is in the documentation at <https://docs.civicrm.org/user/en/latest/membership/online-membership-sign-up/> in the Civicrm user guide. It would be best to read the whole membership documentation before and after the link given.
  For Wordpress you will need a login system like the one you mention "Profile Builder" which I use myself and can recommend. You will need to switch on wordpress/settings/General/Membership/Anyone can register but also first get a good security system plug-in otherwise you'll more than likely get a mass of brute-force attempts to infiltrate your system.
  You may want to consider a plugin to prevent non-members from seeing certain membership pages. Alternatively, after you've set up a membership profile, you could use civicrm to forcibly get non-registered users to open a WordPress user account by using the registration option in ...civicrm/administer/customize data/profiles/settings/advanced settings.
  There's a lot to be considered. Hope this helps you to get going.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: If you use the CiviCRM WordPress Member Sync plugin then you do not need to allow the "Anyone can register" option which save a lot of worry about spurious account creation.  
  > **username_0**: Thank you for the replies. If I use Profile Builder for example, is signing up then a 2 stage process for members? They create their Profile first, then I direct them to the link for the membership/contribution page? Or is there a way to have both happen at once? Is the brute force and spurious account creation a problem if there is no free 'memberships'?  Thanks again for all the help.  
  > **username_1**: It doesn't have to be a 2 stage process.  After creating your membership profile to be used in your contribution page, in that profile advanced settings, there is a WP user account registration option where you can make registration required, or as an option (not required), or a no account creation option.  You'll probably want to take the first option I've described to make registration a requirement.  There's an extension called "CiviCRM WordPress Profile Sync" that can be used to keep a WordPress User profile in sync with CiviCRM Contact info.  I haven't used the Member extension.  
  
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