Inspired by my Creating Front End Registration and Login Forms and Change Password Form Short Code tutorials, this plugin provides a suite of front end registration and login forms that are a great way to customize the feel of your website, and make it feel more integrated. The plugin includes a short code and widget each for registration, login, and change password forms.
Aside from providing a great piece of functionality that is generally missing from WordPress, the forms included with the plugin are also beautifully designed, and there are several themes to choose from.
Features
- Registration Form
- Login Form
- Change Password Form
- Widgets for Each Form
- Short Code for Each Form
- Data Validation
- Beautiful Error Messages
- Efficient Code
- Plugin Settings Page
- Light
- Dark
- Blue
- Green
- Red
Screenshots
Usage
The plugin is exceptionally easy to use. You can the short codes, and place them in a post, page, or text widget.
The following short codes are provided:
[login_form redirect=”"]
[register_form]
[password_form]
There are also three widgets provide:
- Login Form Widget
- Register Form Widget
- Change Password Form Widget
Changelog
Version 1.0.2 – 02-01-2012:
Updated the Redirect Page option in settings to include private pages
Version 1.0.1 – 01-24-2012:
Added the redirect="" parameter to the login_form shortcode. Added a redirect option to the login form widget. Add a logout link to the login form for users that are logged-in.
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Not working. WP 3.3.1 running w3 cache no minify. Not even the shortcode.
Ryan, what do you mean not even the short code? When you place the short codes in a post pr page, do they render anything, is it just blank, or do they just short the short code, unchanged?
Have you tried all three short codes? Also, are you logged in or out when trying to view the short codes?
Hi Pippin- I would like to offer an option for non logged-in users, maybe similar to the core form which allows visitor to enter email. Any way to do this?
An option for which form? What would the non-logged in user be able to do by entering their email?
I guess it is a separate form in addition to what you have that would duplicate what WP core has for ‘forgot your password’ which allows the non-logged-in visitor to enter email address, which sends the password reset link. Thanks for the great plugin Pippin!
Ah, got it. That’s on my list already
Pippin, where can we purchase the Premium version of the Front end user registration plugin?? Is it on here or the CC site?
It’s right here on this page. Look at the bottom of the post.
I swear I dont see anything that indicates a link to download the plugin unless you’re referring to the Free version posted here: http://pippinsplugins.com/creating-custom-front-end-registration-and-login-forms/ ?
Whoops! It was only visible if you weren’t logged in. Take a look now.
HA
Thanks Pippin!
Ok hold on, I’m already a subscriber on your site, is the Free version to active subscribers the same as the one for sale for Non-subscribers?
The nice version (the one on this page that is really nicely designed and full-featured) is free to all paid subscribers. It can be purchased by registered and non registered users for $6.
The free version, which is the one that goes along with the tutorial and has no designs or admin settings, is free for everyone.
I take it I’m a “regular subscriber” then, how do we upgrade to a Paid subscriber? Assuming this will give us access to all premium plugins?
Yes, you’re a “regular user”, meaning you’re not a paid subscriber. To upgrade to a paid subscription, go to to the Join the Site page.
A paid subscription will give you access to all premium tutorials, and all paid-subscriber-only plugins. This does NOT include plugins sold on Code Canyon, as I’m not allowed to do that without violating my license agreement with them. I will, however, be continually releasing subscriber-only plugins here. This Login/Registration plugin is the first subscriber-only plugin.
I just purchased the Front end user registration plugin, not sure if its my theme, but its totally different from the one you got on your blog? Or are those 2 different plugins? I’m referring to the one with the tabbed Bookmark option.
Also, I got a function that redirects the wp-login.php and wp-admin back to the front page cause I dont want the users to access those pages (doesnt fit the theme layout) and clearly its blocking the Reset password option in the plugin since its redirecting the user to the homepage.
Isnt there a way for your plugin to allow the user to complete all the actions within the widget zone without removing those redirect functions?
The plugin you have just purchased, shown in the screenshots on this page, is NOT the plugin I’m using in my sidebar. This should be pretty clear from the screenshots.
The plugin I am using in my sidebar is the Ninety Ajax Login / Register plugin. My copy has been modified to show the bookmarks, which is powered by the User Bookmarks plugin (written by me).
Blocking the default admin / login pages will break just about every front end login / registration plugin. I highly recommend against it.
Gotcha, I figured you would be showcasing your plugin instead of another one for your own blog, but my bad, your presentation was crystal clear.
This is the main reason why I’m trying to implement a front end user login system, to avoid the WP default access, sigh.
Just because I can write my own doesn’t mean I don’t want to support someone else who has done a great job
What I do, and have done on this site, is not worry about hiding the default login / register screens, but instead present the custom forms on the front end. This way users still have a nice way to login / register for the site, but you also don’t have to worry about breaking plugins. Also, the only users who are going to get to the default screens are WP savvy users who won’t care the the layout of the login page doesn’t match the rest of the site. At least I think this is typical.
Agree, but when you’re dealing with a WP savvy client who insists on blocking all access to the those default pages of WP, it’s a pain in the A$$, I know few themes who include a built in function to block the back-office access but no clue where and how to get this done on a different theme, now THAT is a feature request right here Mister
I can pm you the theme for references
I’d love to know which theme does that. I’d buy it just to read the code and apply it to my own theme. Care to share?
I’m not aware of a theme that does, but I assume FanaticWeb does.
@FanaticWeb – Have you tried my plugin with the custom functions? After reviewing my code again, I believe it will work. It all depends on whether the plugin utilizes the wp-login.php file to perform user logins / registrations. In my plugin’s case, everything is done custom, so the redirects won’t affect it (I think).
So you want to add the blocked-backdoor to a theme that doesn’t have it?
Absolutely, the whole point is to maintain the same look & feel experience to the end user on the front end which in my case, front end users are actually contributors to the site, they can create their accounts and post to my site thanks to the GF plugin, I etiehr approve the entries or allow automated submission pending on the category.
Bottom like, one of the themes that provides this front end functionality without the need of external plugins is a Premium Classifieds themes on appthemes.com, their code is rock solid and quite frankly one of the best themes I have yet to deal with, most of their themes use front end account registration and management while embedding those interactions within the theme’s layout, also, should the “savyy” user know his way around to wp-login or wp-admin, they”ll get a nice error message ” You are not authorized to access this section of the site” and this is actually a feature that is available on the backend admin settings called; Block Back-office access.
Now, using a typical theme, I use the GF plugin for User registration and front end postings, they thing i’m missing is a front end account management for these users, whether its a simple forgot password or update account info process, so far, not one plugin managed to deliver a full set of those features without having to redirect to redirect the user to a WP default page (login, reset password, etc)
I really cant believe that no plugins out there were not created to simulate this functionality because after all, when you turn a typical WP theme into a CMS based WP site, I think its essential to keep the look and feel flow of the site constant and not send a user, no matter his role, to a default WP login page no matter how customized that page is, the Header and Footer should get pulled within somewhere to at least keep the user within the same environment of the site.
Well, you may be completely in luck. One of the next scheduled tutorials here is how to create a reset password form that does NOT send the user to the default login page. Sometime after that, I will be working on a front end profile editing tutorial.
Pippin, your plugins have always been premium quality and if you deliver these extra options, I think it’ll be an ultimate one given the features it will provide,no matter the price you set it at, as long as the front end users are kept within the Theme’s layout no matter their basic account interaction (Profile creation, Login/out, Password reset, etc.) without having to deal with forwarding them to the default WP pages for similar tasks, all in all while restricting the web access to Wp-Admin or wp-login (Whether it takes htaccess or core WP template mods)
I’m definitely for this plugin development, this is intended for CMS oriented sites, taking a typical theme and using premium plugins to extend their functionality into a front-end user interaction and self-management with given limitations.
Pippin,
Check your site’s tagline (slogan) for spelling errors. (everday, everyday)
Ha, wow. Amazing how blatant spelling errors can go unnoticed for so long. Thanks, it’s fixed now!
Ain’t that the way it goes…. if you have clean white wall, the one little speck sticks out….
in that spirit, I think you meant to say ’5% off” all premium plugins and not “5% of” )
Ah! You’re right! Thanks for pointing that out!
Hey Pippin,
Great site – with great info! First time trying out your plug-ins. Unfortunately for some reason the css file for this says (inactive) whether I have the ‘disable css styles’ active or not.
Another weird bit – is I’d actually like to redirect logged in people to a ‘private’ page, but by nature of being private does not appear in the drop down to choose the redirect. Thinking I can probably permalink it.
The goal being a ‘login/register’ page… and when you log in – you get to go to the private page. (A ‘client area’ concept) Will probably combine with a member approval plugin so I can manually say choose who registers…. and POSSIBLY a custom ‘role’ plugin so they can all be labelled as ‘clients’ (akin to subscriber)
I feel bad moaning about stuff here as this is my first crack at one of your plugins – but I really do appreciate your site!! Great work.
Redirecting to the private page from the login form is easy. The login_form short code has a redirect parameter that accepts complete permalinks. Redirecting there from the registration page will be a little more difficult. I might make an update for this sometime next week.
hello
how can I add more fields? e.g. address, city, profession, company
You will have to modify the PHP of the plugin manually. If you’re comfortable with a little PHP, it’s pretty simple.
Hi, Pippin! How does this plugin work with captcha? Will it work with third-party captcha plugins? I ask because I’m an old lady with a growing cataract and some captcha’s (especially Google’s recaptcha) are impossible for me to figure out. I’ve been using the Captcha plugin on one site because it is a basic math problem type, or I like to use plain text type captchas. I really like to look and sound of this plugin, but I really need the captcha functionality. Thanks!
Captchas are not included with the plugin and nor will other plugins that add captchas to registration / login forms add any form of captcha to this plugin. The only way to add a captcha to these forms is to do it manually in the code.
That should work! I have a great, simple captcha script that I use for all forms on my business site and I can add that quite simply if you don’t mind…
Of course, you’re more than welcome to modify the code as much as you want, as long as you do not redistribute it without my permission.
So, I was able to inject my captcha code and it’s working (yay!) but instead of redirecting (or anything else) after submitting, I’m getting a blank page. When I do a page refresh it reloads the same page and shows me logged in. Someone registering on the site for the first time gets redirected properly. I’m not exactly sure what I’m doing wrong. It’s set up on the development site at the moment at acgs.selfip.org. There is no functional email but the login/register forms in the sidebar do work, except for the aberration. Is this because of my added code or is it something else?
Thanks!
It’s hard to say exactly what is happening without seeing how you modified the code. Can you put it in a pastebin.com?
I’ve never used pastebin.com before, but I have an account now. Handy website! I simply pasted in all three files in their entirety so you can see the code in situ as it were. The pastes are NOT public. Here are the links to the three files:
scripts.php: The function itself. By the way, this function is part of a contact form script from Gavin Bell. I like it because it uses plain text and is very accessible.
handle-register-and-login.php: The form handling code.
forms.php: The code in the forms.
Once the glitch is fixed, anyone who wants to use the code can…
Your code all looks fine. I’ve just tested it on the live site, and it appears to work. What exactly happens when you try? Does it throw an error everytime?
Hey Pippin. Since the security code works perfectly for the registration form, that is the only place I am currently going to use it. That’s the form most likely to be spammed anyway. Thanks for the great plugin — I really wanted something like this, but the other plugins I tried didn’t work the way I wanted without resorting to ugly captchas (I really, really do NOT like Google’s recaptcha).
I was able to figure out that the problem has to do with the following line of code in the handle-register-and-login.php file:
wp_redirect($_POST['refalf_redirect']); exit;If I commented out that line, the logged in user was redirected to the same page correctly, however, the admin bar doesn’t show until the user reloads the page or goes to a different page. If you do figure out what I did to cause the glitch, please let me know — and please feel free to use the captcha script (and anyone else who would like to use it with this plugin).
Thanks again for the great plugin!
Ah, that explains why it worked for me, but I didn’t see it on the other forms when I tested a moment ago
I hadn’t read this comment yet.
Yeah… it works fine with the registration form. But when I used it with the regular login form, it would return a blank screen and require a refresh. I can restore the plugin so the login form has the captcha if you want to see it in action…
Sounds like the problem is because you are redirecting when there is an error. The redirect should only happen when there are no errors.
So… I figured there had to be an error somewhere, but how do I troubleshoot something like that?
One thing you could do is add a query arg, such as ?test=yes, to the redirect URL, that way you know for sure when the page is simply being reloaded vs. when it is being redirected. Or just change the redirect URL to a completely different URL.
Actually, how could I bypass the redirect and simply return to the same page? That’s actually what I’d prefer anyway. Not that I consider it particularly important now that I’ve thought about it. Simply logins don’t create “spam” users, just the registration forms and that’s what I’m trying to prevent. I have decided not to worry about it for the moment. It will sit and stew in the back of my mind and at some point something will bubble to the top and I’ll have my “aha” moment. In the meantime, it does what I need it to do. Thanks for your input!
The bypass the redirect, just remove the wp_redirect() function.
Any plan to add ability to update profile at frond end?
No, but the Easy User Fields by Remi Corson makes that super easy.
Hi,
We have had to customise our wp-signup page, so we can integrate with our CRM system. Will this plugin pick up the changes we have made to the standard wordpress registration form. Or will we have to create a form from scratch??
Thanks
Rich
Rich, this plugin is designed to show completely custom login / register forms on the front end of the site, so no, it will not pick up on customizations you did to the default wp-login.php page.
ah curses…I’m looking for someway of placing the sign form on a page within the site…so that the menus behave correctly and I can add more content to the page.. Not entirely happy with our current signup page.
Thanks for replying!
That is exactly what this is designed for
So does this plugin bypass the code on the wp-signup page?
Essentially, yes. This plugin does not use any of the code from wp-login.php.
I am wanting to use this plugin (purchased through MojoThemes) as a replacement for the Login/Register/Password Reset pages.
I can see alot of mentions of shortcodes, but the site I want to use this on will be locked down so users have to be registered & logged in to see anything at all (except for the aforementioned pages, of course).
Have you written up any instructions on how to do that? Are there any resources or references you can point me at which would allow me to adapt this plugin to my purpose?
Thank you for your purchase. The first thing to know is that this plugin will not by itself allow you to restrict content to registered users, but it will give you login / registration forms needs. I have a simple plugin available that lets you restrict content to logged-in users: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/restrict-content/
hi!
is it internationalized?
is it compatible with WPML ?
Yes it is
Hi, just buy your plugin and it seem that the redirect link doesn’t work.
I add the short code with the link to the page i want the member to be redirect when he log.
Something like this : [login_form redirect=”http://mysite.com/folder/name/"]
So if i’m on the homepage and i log i stay on the homepage instead been redirected to http://mysite.com/folder/name/
The short code is added in a sidebar widget text.
Thanks for any advice
Can you send me the URL the login form is on so that I can test it myself?
No problem, but do you have an email i can send it?
Send it as a support ticket: http://pippinsplugins.ticksy.com/
Done
Hi Pippin, a kick question how can i change the words Username and Password in to french Nom d’usager et Mot de passe. I done a .po fr_FR.po in i put it in your plugin language folder put it doesn’t change the words it still in english.
I answered your support question. The answer is to name the file “feralf-fr_FR.po”
hi!
I bought your plugin and Easy User Fields(http://codecanyon.net/item/easy-user-fields-collect-users-informations/1723598).
How do I make registration page?
ex.1: customise of native wp registration page(it seems to be complexity)
ex.2: customise of your forms.php. Easy User Fields prepare Frontend Form Shortcode and it’s not fit to php file directly.
Any suggestions, please.
So you would like to include custom fields from Easy User Fields in the registration form? Are you comfortable with a little coding?
Yes it is. I’m comfortable with a little coding.
it is very helpful if you show me the way.
Can you submit this as a support ticket? It’ll be easier for me to give you the code: http://pippinsplugins.ticksy.com
thanks! I’ll do this.
hi!
I’d like to use your plugin with Easy User Fields.
I’d like to have a open registration website.
could you please give me any suggestions?
does this plugin have user confirmation by email?
No, sorry.
BuddyPress compatibility?
The login form will work with BuddyPress, and the registration forms might work. They will work for registering new users, but if there is any buddyPress specific information that the registration form needs, it will not be included in this plugin.
hi!
I would like to ask 2 questions.
one:
when user have error entering his data, error message will be shown but any data user inputs are all cleared.
that’s not good. how do I make it? (to user input data not to be cleared.)
two:
is logout link available? if I use default logout link, user will see default logout page.
Best regards.
1. I hope to improve that at some point, but it’s not a simple fix, sorry.
2. Only the default logout link is available at this time.
thanks for reply!
Hi Mr. P.
I spent that big $6.00 on the Front End Login….plugin. I’m not using for registration because I already have my wp user profiles coordinated between Gravity Fors User Reg and Symposium plugin member profiles.
BUT, I was previously using “Theme My Login” and while I liked it, it was not being kept up to date with the current WP 3.3.2, and there were some glitches, including getting locked out of my own site this morning. Fortunately, I am not alone on that front, and found the solution quickly in the WP forums.
The great news is that the login feature on your plugin works smoothly with my site, which runs an SSL. I had to disable Icons and css because the type inside the buttons was not centering….but no biggy.
I have one question, or possible request…..is there a way to get a redirect upon loggut? And is there a way to get the menu item (I am using shortcodes on page) to show Log In when logged out and Log Out when logged in?
Thanks
Will
Currently, no, there is not a logout redirect option in the plugin, but you should be able to over write the option in the plugin using a filter. Try adding this to your functions.php:
The only way to change the menu items for logged-in/out users is to modify your template files directly. Is that something you can do?