LoginWordPress User Integration Settings
By default, UWS lets you add members into its own database tables, however UWS can be integrated with the WordPress user database, allowing you to add existing WP users to UWS groups and then use UWS to manage SMS/MMS messaging to those existing WP users.
Clicking on Messaging-Settings-WordPress Integration Settings, displays the options available for integrating with the WordPress user database.
WordPress Integration
WordPress User Database integration
WP Integration Settings
By default, UWS lets you add members into its own database tables, however UWS can be integrated with the WordPress user database, allowing you to add existing WP users to UWS groups and then use UWS to manage SMS/MMS messaging to those existing WP users.
Clicking on Messaging-Settings-WordPress Integration Settings, displays the options available for integrating with the WordPress user database.
Use existing phone number field : If you already have a meta field used for holding user phone number data, then you can enter it into this field. UWS will use this field when it populates its groups. For example, if you’ve selected the “create role based” groups option, then a group will be created for each custom and built-in role, for each member of these groups, the phone number value, will be taken from the meta field you’ve specified.
UWS lists out existing meta fields (taken from the wp_usermeta table), that appear from their names, to be related to phone numbers.
Role Based Groups
Role Based Groups
Role based groups : Selecting this option will create a group for each WordPress custom and built-in role. If an existing phone number field has not been specified above, then the value held in the custom field uws_profile_phonenumber will be used.
You can choose to only display custom role groups, by clicking the “hide standard roles” check box.
A default group, called “All WordPress Users” will also be creating, containing all WordPress users!
UWS Field
UWS Field
Add phone field to profile and user registrations
Clicking the “add phone number field” check box, will the custom field uws_profile_phonenumber to WP user profiles.
Clicking “Show UWS groups” will add a list box containing all available UWS groups, into the WP user profile edit page. This is only visible to site admins, who can choose which UWS groups to add users into.
You can also choose whether to add a phone number field to the site registration form.
When phone numbers are entered in the new user, user profile or registration forms, UWS checks that the numbers are valid (by sending them to Twilio for validation) and are not duplicated (i.e. not already assigned to another WordPress user). An error message will be displayed if the number is not valid, or if the number is duplicated. The text of the error messages can be changed on this settings page.
From the “WordPress Integration Settings” page you can also specify a default UWS group into which new users are added (in addition to the “All WordPress Users” group).
WordPress users are shown on the Messages tab and the Member List, with a WP suffix, to differentiate them from standard UWS users.
