My account is a long-standing idea and a well-known solution. Local programs worked on one computer and it was a user account. Personal computers quickly became personal in reality. The time when several people used one computer at once ended quickly. But even in those historical times, when the personalization was the only one at all: each user had his own hard drive or its own disk, its own folder or only one file.
With the advent of the programming world of Internet technologies, the increase in the production of computer equipment and the development of site management systems (CMS), the idea of a personal account has expanded and acquired the character of a real production need.
WordPress Account
As a popular and promising CMS is supposed, WordPress provides a personal admin account - a console for managing the site. This is a management tool, and various users with different rights and responsibilities can work in the console. This level is systemic, but not applied.
In a social sense, on the part of visitors (users), the console is a tool for managing the site, but not a personal account for working according to prevailing public opinion.
Many developers create their own WordPress dashboard plugins . This may be a reasonable decision when you need specific functionality or the site is obliged to impose exact functionality on specific user groups due to a specific application and exact task.
In normal practice, in the style of modern CMS, you need to do everything quickly and comfortably. There is no need to program something personally, you can just take and use. Creating your own personal account on WordPress is an interesting, costly and unpromising task, if there is no good reason.
Designed and available for use, proven designs by experienced WordPress experts. In particular, WP-Recall is considered a full-featured product. This plugin has over 4000 installations, is compatible up to WordPress version 4.9.8 and runs on PHP from version 5.6.
WP-Recall Functionality
Simplicity, comfort and convenience - the characteristic WordPress are ideally implanted in your personal account on WordPress - WP-Recall. There is everything: up to the possibility of organizing your own social network.
WP-Recall's personal account allows you to accumulate information on goods purchased in the store, place orders, control the delivery of goods, keep records and reporting, balance and take notes, write messages and organize interest groups.
WP-Recall provides the user with a profile and its settings: everything from the design of your personal account to the creation of information systems for exchanging data, communicating with colleagues, organizing meetings and your own communities of interest:
- user profile
- private messages;
- global chats;
- Ratings
- the ability to balance;
- news;
- Publications
- support of commercial offers ...
The main advantage of WP-Recall is that it has been used for a long time and has proven itself among professionals creating websites on WordPress + a user's personal account at once: everything is on and everything works right away.
Feasibility WordPress + WP-Recall
You can explore the pros and cons of your personal account, once created. This is an interesting lesson, but few people are attracted to spend time discussing (really useful developments). There is a product ready to use. Starting WordPress is 5-7 minutes of time. Filling the site with information and design - on the strength of the day, another. A personal account on WordPress can be arranged in 10 minutes. What is the point of hiring developers and wasting time?
Of course, it happens that the scope is specific. The setting should be carefully thought out if the conditions for the provision of functionality are specified and do not allow anything superfluous, if the circle of users is company employees or a specific social group of people of a particular specialty ... In all special cases, it makes sense to create your own version of your personal account.
But you can always start small and not waste time in vain. In the end, your own personal account option will require experience and knowledge. Having a technical task for a website with a personal account is far from a decision on how to create a personal account on WordPress.
Create your own plugins
From the fact that WordPress is a popular and convenient CMS, the well-known procedure for solving the problem does not follow: come, see, win. An amateur can create a website on WordPress. It is not necessary to have an understanding of HTML / CSS or PHP / JavaScript.
You may not know what a database is, but creating your own fully-functional website is available in less than one day. You can even immediately equip the site with a personal account. WordPress is an excellent CMS, but getting to know it does not give grounds for developing your own plugins or widgets.
Building a website and making a WordPress plugin are two completely different things. The second task is a month of hard work, and taking into account the “pi” factor, at least three months are released, after which the developer will learn how to create his own WordPress add-ons: plugins, themes or widgets.
It is possible that the developer will come up with his own options for improving this site management system, but whatever he calls them, this will not be the best option for his own development.
WordPress is an already established person, the mentality of the developer community and the logic of development. The desire to be in the key of events and to be in demand for any developer means: to understand how and what exactly was done by the predecessors and move on. Another option means creating your own CMS and proposing your own version of its development.
Login, Logout and Registration
Installation, configuration and use of any personal account on WordPress are closely related to the console and the logic of this CMS.
Nothing prevents wholesale from installing everything at once and then understanding what has been done. This will complicate the solution of the task of creating a site and its promotion on the network.
Optimal:
- create a site first;
- fill it with information;
- gain a rating in the Internet space.
Only when the development team and the site owner receive steady indicators of the growth of visitors' interest, income from the site or other significant positions for a particular site can you think about creating a personal account on WordPress.
The fact is that a site on the network is not at all its own community on a site on the network. The simple concept of “registration” in reality is a serious procedure. WordPress and WP-Recall (for example) simplify the creation of such functionality, but this is the technical side.
The social aspect of the three elements:
- registration;
- entrance;
- exit
It is a serious and responsible social task for the site owner, its administrator and developers.
The social aspect of your personal account
The user should be able to work "as is customary." And the ability to work “as is customary” is a very difficult task in technical terms. Many developers do not understand, and many site owners believe that manual work and self-made plug-in is a matter of one or two days. This is not true.
A WordPress account is a technical implementation of many functions, among which there are a lot of secondary tasks, without which nothing will work. For example, changing a password, deleting an account, controlling access rights, protecting your account from unauthorized access.
Hack sites and banks. Hacking a home-made personal account that does not have proper execution in a technical sense for a professional attacker is not a big problem.
Any violation of the “as accepted” rule will damage the reputation of the site, which is equipped with a personal account, implemented without taking into account the social aspect and complying with the mandatory technical requirements for ensuring reliability and safety.
Use of knowledge and skills
If the development of the site is in the foreground, the arrogance of the developer is in the background, and the owner of the web resource has found time to get acquainted with the real state of things in the technical and social aspects - success is guaranteed.
It's okay to use the experience of thousands of developers around the world who have spent several years creating and developing WordPress, a personal account for it, or other site management systems. There are many libraries of validation, testing, control, management ... All this can and should be used in practice.
If there is a desire to do something unique, your own and unique, then there is no problem. But when the task is to make, run and use, there is no reason to immediately do everything in your own way. To begin with, you can apply the experience of predecessors who sincerely offer a free CMS, a convenient and fully functional personal account.
A launched site can be developed and improved, and at the same time think about how to make something unique for WordPress or your own CMS. Any task is a decision process, not an end result. In Internet programming, it is difficult to find and do a task that would not evolve over time.
Even such simple functionality for WordPress as entering your personal account in practice in independent development translates into significant costs for time and laborious work.
Idea development spiral
Philosophers have long noticed that development is spiraling. Programming - a mirror of intelligence has confirmed this in practice. Use what is already available and learn. The faster you create a site with the necessary functionality, the faster you can do the same, but in your own way.
The simpler the idea to implement, the faster and more efficient the dynamically developing result, the more grateful users and the higher the rating of the author of the project and the site owner.