Learning how to customize your WordPress registration
page can benefit you tremendously.
This option doesn't come up often when people
talk about how to improve their WordPress
websites, and that’s a mistake.
INTRO
With just a few tweaks, you can collect more
information about your users, reinforce your
branding, and gather more data for analytics.
The best part is that customizing your WordPress
registration page is simple, so you’ll be
able to reap these benefits quickly.
Hi, My name is Robert from themeisle.com and
this video is about customizing this particular
page using a WordPress plugin.
Since you’ll be dealing with a page that
is critical to your site’s proper functioning,
it’s important that you back up your WordPress
installation before moving forward.
Once you’ve taken care of that, we can get
down to business.
All you have to do is install and configure
Ultimate Member free, according to the upcoming
instructions.
This WordPress plugin packs in plenty of features,
on top of enabling you to customize WordPress
registration page.
It also provides you with a way of adding
new functions to your user profiles, creating
custom user roles, and setting up complex
forms.
In short, this plugin takes WordPress’ basic
community features and adds a ton of new options
on top of them.
It also enables you to customize your registration
page using a simple drag-and-drop builder,
so you can control exactly how your page will
look and what elements it will include.
After you install and activate the plugin,
hover with your mouse over the new Ultimate
Member tab in your WordPress dashboard, then
click on Dashboard.
Here is the Overview about users near some
options to manage the Ultimate Member database.
Moreover, the settings section is where you
can customize everything.
In the Setup tab, you can choose wich page
can be the user page, account page and all
others for user management.
The Users tab will offer you options to set
the default new user role on registration
and the profile permalink base.
Scrolling down you can choose the default
user display name and more advanced options
to set your user profile display settings.
The Account tab is filled with options to
enable or disable some important features
in the account management.
If you wish to request a strong password for
every user access, enable the last require
a strong password option then hit Save Changes!
Globally control the access of your site to
everyone or just for logged in users.
You can have separate restricts options per
post or page by editing the desired item.
Furthermore, enable or disable functions you
might need then Insert IP's and emails that
you wish to be banned, in the text fields
below.
Set the name of your "mail appears from" title
in the first field, email address, enable
the use of HTML tags then customize or simply
deactivate automatic emails received by your
users.
Notifications settings can be customized here
by adding the admin email address all the
way down to the options for review notifications
and deletion of notifications.
Uploads are important to be managed so set
the maximum size for the uploaded photo and
cover here as you prefer or leave those setting
by default then move to the next tab.
Set the User profile title and user profile
dynamic meta description here for SEO purpose
and save the changes again.
In the Appearance tab, you can separately
customize colors according to your brand for
General Layout, Form Inputs, Profile, Profile
Menu, Registration Form wich has some alignment
options also and for Login Form, the last
one.
Advanced tab contains options to Import or
Export Setting and more I suggest you leave
as default.
For the final setting, activate any extension
you may consider useful then save changes
and move to forms settings.
The following screen will contain three forms
by default.
We want to use the last one – Default Registration.
If you want to customize this form, you can
use the Edit option.
You will need to make your tweaks using the
plugin’s own drag-and-drop builder.
The default registration form includes all
the fields most websites would want, but you
can add more by clicking on the plus sign
below the last field.
Here are some of the options for you to choose
from
Once you’ve selected the fields you want
and rearranged them, you can edit each individually
by clicking on the pencil icon next to their
names.
Doing so will bring up multiple options that
depend on the field you’re working with.
For example, these are the options available
for the Username field.
When your form is ready, all you have to do
is click on the Update button, and your changes
will go live.
It’s that simple.
Moreover, you can set your User Roles and
Member Directories by accessing those links
in Ultimate Member tab and find more extensions
following this link.
There are Premium and Free extensions from
which you can choose.
Learning how to customize WordPress registration
page is a simple time investment that can
pay off more than you’d imagine.
Your new page will enable you to flaunt your
branding and collect critical information
about your users, which can always come in
handy for analytic purposes.
