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I'm having a devil of a time sorting out a link to allow anonymous (not logged in) users to edit their profile.

I started by using the info from:
https://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Linking+Profiles#LinkingProfiles-LinkingtoBuilt-inContactViewandEditPage%28s%29

I looked at http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,31300.msg135046.html#msg135046 which seemed like there were similar issues, and tried the several fixes suggested. To no avail.

This gave me a link like:
http://mydomain.org/civicrm/profile/edit?reset=1&gid=13

The link just doesn't work at all. Getting a 404 error. I tried it without the user id and the checksum, still no go.

I tried copying the URL structure from the opt out link that's generated. But that loaded the form on my frontpage and caused layout problems. After setting a specific page (which I called "messages"), the opt out url worked.

So I tried
http://mydomain.org/messages/?page=CiviCRM&q=civicrm/profile/edit?reset=1&gid=13

Which gave me "You do not have permission to execute this url".

I tried it with/out a specific user id tacked on at the end, and with/out a checksum. I tried it being completely logged out of the site, logged in as administrator, logged in as the user associated to the ID in question. I still bump into no persmission to execute URL. I switched browser to make sure it wasn't a cache issue

I went into CiviCRM ACL and added edit my profile to all user under WordPress ACL. I tried adding a CiviCRM role of "anonymous" and granting it privilege of editing that profile. Nada.

//Edit: Also looked at https://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Displaying+Public+Forms+in+WordPress+Frontend+Sites but no go

I'm at my wit's end, and could really use ideas on resolving this.

Thank you

Thanks Donald, I appreciate the response.

Do you have the role: 'Anonymous User'

Yes, I did. I also set the permissions to "view my contact" and "edit my contact". But not to "profile listings and forms"

What were the error messages when u tried with a WP specific url as mentioned here

That looks like the same link as the one for anonymous user However, the error message was:

"You do not have permission to execute this url"

That said, IT IS SORTED!!! I appreciate Chris' support.

On top of the anonymous permission to "profile listings and forms", there were a couple issues:

The URL contained a question mark instead of an ampersand. I had "edit?reset" instead of "edit&reset". This mistake probably comes from my attempting to adapt the URL suggested on https://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Linking+Profiles#LinkingProfiles-LinkingtoBuilt-inContactViewandEditPage%28s%29

That page suggests: http://<site root>/civicrm/profile/edit?reset=1&gid=N&id={contact.contact_id}&{contact.checksum} (note the question mark instead of ampersand). However that URL structure kept giving me 404 errors. In adapting the link, I kept the question mark, where I should have used an ampersand.

Finally, stupid mistake on my part - I was using {contact.id} instead of {contact.contact_id}.

It's the little things. Thanks again to all who helped.