This post has the goal to answer one of the often asked questions – can you have WatuPRO tie quiz attempts to user accounts? The short answer is yes, of course.

Here are more details:

How Does It Work

It’s very easy. In Edit Quiz -> User and Email Related Settings tab you need to select “Require user login”:

A lot of new options appear when you select this but they are not related to user registration itself.

So, once you select this the quiz will not be accessible to users without accounts. If you want to allow users to register themselves make sure the following option on your General WordPress Settings page (not a WatuPRO page!) is selected:

If you don’t want users to register themselves, you need this to be unchecked.

What’s important to understand is that WatuPRO uses the underlying WordPress user login and registration system rather than inventing its own. This has a lot of advantages, with the main one being that any plugins you use to customize user registration and profile pages will affect WatuPRO as well.

About Emails Sent on Registration

Emails that are sent at the time of user registration are controlled by WordPress, not by WatuPRO. If you want to change the email contents you can do it with various other plugins. For example, see this tutorial.

About Customized User Profiles

If you have customized the user profiles with other plugin or theme, or with your custom code, this should also work fine with WatuPRO. However before rushing to install a custom profile plugin just because you want to collect some contact information along with the quiz, check the option “Ask user for contact details” which we provide at Edit Quiz -> User and Email Related Settings tab:

About Integration With Membership and Other Plugins

Because WatuPRO uses the built-in WordPress user management system, integration with any other plugins which do so is seamless. Fortunately almost all membership plugins and other plugins dealing with user profile use it as well instead of investing their own. This is the beauty of WordPress.

Please have in mind integration does not mean WatuPro will automatically show custom profile fields somewhere in the quizzes or that other plugins will automatically show WatuPro stats on user profile pages. It means just that any changes that other plugins do to user profile affect the same users that take quizzes.