WordPress How To: Trick Out Your Registration Page
I know you are interested in how to make that boring WordPress login/registration page have some flair. I know so based on the tons of visitors to a post I did a bit back about the Register Plus Plugin.
Here are more alternatives!
Wouldn’t be nice if you knew about even more plugins, tips and tricks that will tell you exactly how you can trick out your WordPress login/registration page? It sure would!
- Binary Moon Custom Login Plugin: This nifty plugin allows you to customize the graphics used on the login page to your liking. An added benefit to this plugin is “Chicks dig blokes with groovy login screens.” I just love developers with a personality!
- Wp Customized Login: Makes integrating your logo into the login screen as easy as 1,2,3.
- Custom Login Plugin: Based on the example sites using this plugin and the available features this just may be the robust option so many of you have asked me about. I used this plugin for my registration page
- Then, install the WP Hide Dashboard plugin so your subscribers only “see” their profile page!
- Get Inspired!: Here you will find some of the neat logins others have done to inspire you to create your own way cool login page.
There you have it! A batch of great plugins and ideas on how to make your registration page all your own! Why be boring when you can be branding?
At your service,
Judith
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I am trying to setup to where a visitor can sign up on my site to get an email when I make a new post. (wordpress)
Do you know of a plugin that does this?
Pat Guttery
Baton Rouge
Hey, Pat:
No plugin required! Just login to your Google account, if you don’t have one, sign up. Then go to FeedBurner.com and setup your feed there. FeedBurner will walk you through the process and provide you with the code you can copy and paste into your sidebar. Then, visitors can sign-up and get copies of your new posts in their inbox. FeedBurner allows you to configure all kinds of things, including if the e-mail subscribers receive has just a snippet or the full post — your choice.
HTH!
hi
i am new to this plugin..
i have installed this plugin n settings
too.. now i want to add the new user sign-up in my blog.. Hw to add. hw to
call the functionality.. pl guide me
Hey, Jaffer:
Here is a plugin that will add the user login to your sidebar for you. HTH! ;-)
Sidebar Login Plugin
Judith, it’s nice to meet you :) I’m designing my first blog, and I don’t know which of the plug-in listed above work well together and which exclude each other. What combination of these plug-in works well together to allow me the most flexibility with the design and best functionality? Do any conflict?
I’ve installed Registration Plus and can’t find any instructions other than how to set the settings. So far, it doesn’t send any notifications and I don’t know where to look for pending accounts to approve, so I’m looking for detailed instructions, if you know where any might be posted. Devbit isn’t offering any info right now, apparently.
Do you know of a plug-in that will let me integrate the registration form right into the blog, on a separate page, or on a transparent pop up?
Sorry for so many questions! Any you have time to answer are appreciated. Thank you!
Hey, Meisha:
Thanks for stopping by!
I use the Custom Login Plugin mentioned above for my site. It is easy to use and customize so I would start with that. Register Plus doesn’t seem to be supported by the developer any longer and with the recent 3.0 update — that is very important. You want to only use plugins that keep up with WordPress and that you see the developers are actively involved in supporting to avoid conflicts.
I am going to be doing a post about current Registration Page Plugins next week and will check into the stuff you mention. Stay tuned, O.K.?
Hi Judith,
I am new to wordpress and have just installed the register plus plug in. However it does not send confirmation mails to users with gmail, hotmail and a few other accounts.Do you know of a plug-in that will help sort this issue out? Any advice would be appreciated..thank you!
And yes,happy to have found you! Quirky wordpress is quite a challenge!
Hey, Sheetal:
Thanks for stopping by! I no longer recommend the Register Plus plugin. It hasn’t been updated since 2008 and with WordPress 3.0 out that not cool. In addition, the developer’s page for the plugin in 404ing on his site. Therefore, I recommend the alternatives mentioned on this page for now.
I am investigating other options and will be doing a post on the topic later this week. So be sure to sign up for updates (Muse Alerts) in the right sidebar or follow me on Twitter (@wpmuse).
Hi! Register Plus had an option to alter the auto-email with their first password. Do you have a plugin suggestion that does this? Thanks.
Hey, Pascale:
Thanks for stopping by! Yes, I do have a suggestion — watch for my new post later today on a very cool plugin I am now using on my site later today!
Stay tuned… ;-)
I’m having good luck with Theme My Login. It lets you put your Login and Registration right into your blog design, even in the side bar, if you like. It’s my favorite of all the plug-ins I’ve tried :)
Hey, Meisha:
I think that plugin is pretty cool too! Easy to use, looks like my theme and I love how I can customize all the user e-mails!
For those who didn’t see the post about the plugin we are typing about, check it out: Theme Your WordPress Registration Page.
Hey, thanks for this article!
I have been looking for confirmation of Register Plus not working anymore. That being said, do you know of any plugins that work with 3.0 that can be used to force the user to enter information in other profile fields at registration?
Either way, thanks!
Hey, Josh:
Thanks for stopping by — glad to be of service! I am not aware of any plugins you describe that do what you want that have been tested in 3.0 either.
That gets more into a Membership type of plugin setup to get that level of control/permissions. Check out the Easy WordPress Membership Site Plugin. Maybe that would do the trick?
Hey Judith! Iam making a review website and am trying to create a registration page, so users can post reviews. I hav registerplus but couldnt get it to work (it did install and activate), I have wordpress 3.0. I am using MyReviewPlugin, which register plugin do you think I should use? Thanks so much.
I’m a total beginner and dont know code.
Im getting a bit confused with everyone talking about “tricking out” their registration page. Will this be the same page my visitors use? Cheers!
Hey, Monique:
Tricking out your login page simply means sprucing it up a bit to look more like your site instead of the WordPress default registration page. I no longer recommend RegisterPlus as it doesn’t seem to be well supported. Instead check out the registration plugin I use on my sites and that I reviewed here:
Theme My Login
HTH!
Hi Judith,
First off, this is a great site you’ve put together! Its an excellent resource for anyone needing information on WordPress.
A client is looking to build a website that has exclusive member’s only content. Can you recommend a plugin that requires registration to become a member and can be customized to ask any profiling questions we desire? The plugin should have a login function and provide members with the ability to manage their profiles (e.g. update email address, change phone number, password, etc.).
Thanks!
Hey, Julian:
Thanks for stopping by and for your kind words! Check out my review of the Easy WordPress Membership Plugin. HTH!
Hi Judith,
Thanks very much for your excellent posts and site. With this being my first blog creation, I spent a lot of time searching and playing around with different plugins for the log in and register options until I finally stumbled upon your site. I wish I had managed that sooner as every other feature I’ve added since has come from references from your site.
So just wanted to say thanks and to let you know that I have added a link to one of your pages in my New user welcome email (on Gravatars). I’ll be sure to plug you every other chance I get too as a thank you.
Cheers,
Pete
Hey, Peter:
Wow — thank you for your kind words! You’ve made my day — it is little notes like yours that keeps me plugging away at this keyboard. I am so pleased you found me and that my posts have proven helpful!
At your service,
Judith
Hi Peter,
Thanks for the information, I just wish I had found your posts about Register plus sooner. I wasted a lot of time trying to get it to work. Days in fact. The problem still remains, although your nice up tips for the register page are great, they still don’t add any security to the registration process. I run a fairly successful info blog, and I get tons of registers, the problem is, I can tell that a lot of them are hackers looking for exploits. I really do want to find a way to security automate the process, any ideas on how to do that without having to review every register and manually approve it?
Hey, Bryon:
Judith here… ;-)
I too run a fairly successful site here as well and don’t have the issues you mention because I use a different plugin (which is mentioned in this very post):
http://www.theistudio.com/muse/theme-your-wordpress-registration-page/
Check it out – HTH!
Thanks Judith,
I might mention that I did get Register plus to work to a small extent here recently. In WP 3.01 if you only check the simplest of options, no captcha, no advance email notifications, only the one for user varification, it seems to work in that respect. But after installing theme-your-wordpress-registration-page plugin, I see it will do that as well and looks nice too.
One thing it does not do is allow registers to use custom passwords, which personally I like, but might not be too big an issue in the long run for ligit users. I will see. User are a ficled bunch sometimes, and we need to keep as many as we can. Thanks again
Hey, Bryon:
Theme My Login does allow custom passwords:
General > Modules > Enable Custom Passwords
Enabling this module will initialize and enable custom passwords. There are no other settings for this module.
HTH!
My Bad,
I guess I get in a hurry some times. I either need new glasses or maybe opening my eyes might help :) thanks again.
No Problem — Glad to Help! ;-)
Hey Judith,
Just a little FYI. My goal when I first posted here was to Stop a flood of registration spam that had been recently hammering my blog from it looks like mostly eastern Europe and Russia. I had tried blocking major blocks of IP addresses, I tried using the different plug-ins mentioned here by you, yet the spam kept coming.
What concerned me the most was that the registrations were coming so fast that there was a real danger that my blog might collapse under the pressure. Not to mention sooner or later one was going to get lucky and actually achieve the crafted user name exploit. I finally found a plug-in that works on the registration page and has a captcha that works, and is very configurable. I thought I would share this info here.
The plug-in I found that finally worked to stop the bots is called SABRE and can be found at the WordPress plug-ins Directory
Hey, Byron:
Thanks for the update and suggestion! I’ll have to check that plugin out! ;-)
this is a follow up to last.
i just figured out how to get register to show up. total “brain lock” on my part.
a.a.p.
Hey, Alex…
Glad you figured things out! ;-)
Hey! Just wanted to check – are you still using the Custom Login Plugin for your registration form – I wanna try it out? I like the fact that the register page appears to refresh on the fly and you stay on the main page!
Hey, Yinka:
Here’s is what I am using now: Theme your WordPress Registration Page. What page you are directed to after logging in and out is controlled by the settings and configurable.
HTH!
Hey Judith, thanks for getting back so quick. Funnily enough I downloaded this just a few days ago but hadn’t got around to trying it out yet, (I downloaded a few plugins in an attempt to find the best one) – I’ll look at it today!
;-)
Quick update! I have just installed and test the Theme your WordPress Registration Page plugin and it works beautifully! it’s awesome! I will be coming back here now regularly to check out your tips
Hey, Yinka!
Glad to hear everything worked out! ;-)
Hi Judith,
I came across this site after looking feverishly for a plugin that charges to register on a WP site. Does Register Plus Redux have this feature? I also found Pie Register but i’m not sure if it’s still supported. Seems like support for both these plugins is seriously lacking. Is there one you recommend? I trust your extensive knowledge in this area will provide the answers i need.
Thanks.
Hey, Bajan:
The plugins you mention simply spruce up your registration page — no more. What you are looking for is a Membership Plugin. I highly recommend Magic Members which gives the flexibility to control access by charging and what one sees based on their membership level as well. Check it out! HTH!
Hi Judith, great info here. I came across this doing a search for WP registration page hacks. Do you know of any plugins that make it possible to create a thank you page for registering? When someone registers for the site I’d like for them to be redirected to a site.com/thank-you.php page. Thanks in advance.
Hey, Lenwood:
Thanks for stopping by! Check out this plugin — let’s you redirect on the login and log out! HTH!
Excellent. I’ll check that out. Thanks so much for the fast response and informative reply.