The original intention of the plugin was for a non-profit organization who needed a way to coordinate volunteers. They didn’t need to be WP users, it’s more like a membership/contact database.

I’ve gotten several requests for integrating the plugin’s users with WP users, but it’s one of those things that that just gets more complicated the more you look at it. Plugin development is all about incorporating features that have general applications, you don’t really know how any one person is going to use it, so you have to make it flexible. That tends to make things more complex, so I’ve decided not to add this feature to the development queue. It would be far better to design a whole new plugin with that in mind from the beginning.

By the way, I find it interesting that you are working with an intentional community. Different kind of thing, I’m sure, but I lived for several years in the Findhorn community in Northern Scotland and it was a wonderful experience.

But thanks for the suggestion, I’ll try that!

Any words of wisdom on why you’d keep it separate? I guess because this app is more for “outside” info, as opposed to a more “inside” approach?

Does that even make sense? lol

The plugin database is completely separate from the WP users, so no cross-privileges. Have you checked into a plugin called Front End Users? It’s one I’ve used to do something like what you’ve described.

I’d like to have a robust and customizable back end db for member info and also restrict access to members for the forum and member info, etc…

I’m wondering if your signup integrates with the wp user – mingle does apparently…

Thanks!

It’s always best to do this kind of thing in your theme stylesheet by overriding the plugin’s styles. That way, you won’t lose anything when you update the plugin. I left the CSS pretty simple so it would be easy to override.

Also, try using Firefox with the Firebug plugin. Makes editing and interpreting the CSS a lot easier.

Not sure I’m understanding your problem here. You exported a CSV before deleting and reinstalling, and now you’re re-importing them? You could be re-importing your problem as well. IF the CSV is not too big, you might want to open it in a text editor or spreadsheet program and look for something wrong. I don’t have much info to go on here.

I have a support thread going on WordPress asking the same question:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-participants-database-css-help?replies=2

Here’s the dilemma:

This page contains the a contact form that is styled appropriately:
http://monkeybreadbooks.com/contact/

This page contains the plugin you’ve developed:
http://monkeybreadbooks.com/about/survey/

I’m attempting to locate the code that controls the sign up form. That’s all I’m really interested in editing. When visiting the plugin editor in WordPress I only have access to 4 CSS files:
participants-db.css
PDb-admin.css
pdb-list.css
PDb-record.css

I’m having great difficulty locating the style for the sign up form, and how I would convert my existing style for this plug-in. If you could help that would be fantastic!