Improve registration process

[danjjohnson]

When registering via My Courses, the registration process is different from the default WordPress process. You enter your chosen password on the page, and no confirmation email is sent.

We should use the default WordPress registration process here, where only the email address and username are entered, and an email is sent with a link to set your password.

Also, we should use the standard login form, to enable login via WordPress.com using Jetpack SSO. #3312 was created to handle this.

[bor0]

@danjjohnson can we conclude the acceptance criteria for this item?

1. Enable SSO logins (need to investigate the possibility of this)
2. Users should be able to register by supplying Username and Email address only (and Email is sent with a password), as opposed to providing a password as well.

[bor0]

Actually, on a second thought, I still don't understand how we can implement this.

We should use the default WordPress registration process here, where only the email address and username are entered, and an email is sent with a link to set your password.

If we send them an e-mail with a link to reset a password, we still have the problem in #1603, i.e. we can't redirect them to my-courses, unless we make another custom form to set passwords.

Another thing we can do is instead send them an e-mail with a link of the password generated for them, and log them automatically, in which case the purpose of that e-mail is to just let them know what their password is for future logins, and not to activate their account.

[bor0]

We discussed this with @danjjohnson internally, and here's what we decided:

1. [PR Add password strength when registering. #1640] We will be adding a Password Strength option, as is done similarly here:
2. [PR Update registration process #1636] We will be adding an option "Automatically generate user password"

• If enabled, when users are going through the registration process they will not be able to set a password, and instead a randomly generated password will be mailed to them.
• If disabled, they will have to set a password themselves.

[lisaleague]

+1 for Automatically generate user password option

[alexsanford]

Standardizing this should also allow for plugins to add features such as email verification when a user registers (although this is probably not needed if they need to use an email link to set their password anyway).

Related: 2943141-zen

[donnapep]

Separated out the standard login form to a separate issue.