Create user accounts on a WordPress site with a user registration form. Unsurprisingly, the User Registration add-on is one of the top three in the Formidable Forms tool suite. This is especially useful for membership or subscriber based sites.
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Is one of your New Year’s resolutions to better manage your internet passwords? If yes, you are not alone. Since 2020, Google searches for “password manager app” have peaked.
The surge in searches for password manager apps indicates another rising trend. A trend that is far from peaking: website user registration. Many passwords mean many registered users!
Does your website allow users to create user accounts? If not, read on to see how this can increase engagement on your website.
Why User Accounts are Important for a WordPress Website
Websites used to be fairly static hubs Information. Web 2.0 changed that with the move to dynamic pages with user-generated content and social sharing. Effective websites are websites that “know” their users and foster relationships through digital “conversations.” These conversations aren’t just talking to users; They allow users to talk to you.
Online conversations are made easier with forms. Contact forms are good enough for their purpose, which is transactional. A user typically only submits a contact form when a transaction is required (needs help, etc.).
But what if you want more than just a transactional relationship with your users? For sites beyond transactions, you need registered users. The Formidable Forms User Registration Add-On is what you need to build this form. This post looks at the benefits of user registration forms.
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Sites that can benefit from it via a user registration form
Any website that uses user generated content can benefit from user registration. In general, the following types of sites should allow users to register themselves or log in in some way:
- Membership sites
- Subscription-based sites
- Sites where users should only see their own content and not the content of others (e.g. an online journal)
- Sites that must restrict content to registered and logged-in users
- Sites that encourage users to comment, vote, or rate
- Sites that rely on user-generated content, such as For example, job postings or classified ads.
- Sites that allow guest blog posts
- Sites that segment their users based on user profile metadata for marketing.
- Sites that provide a better user experience in the form of pre-populated metadata in their quote or purchase forms.
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Subscription and member-based sites rely on growing membership. That’s a given. But as we saw above, almost any website looking to provide a better user experience, better segmented marketing, or user-generated content can benefit from additional user registration.
A word on guest blog posts: we got the Viewed the benefits of guest blogging. With only a few guest posts, it’s no big deal for you to create user accounts for them on your WordPress site. However, if you have more than a few, you can save time and give them a better experience by allowing guests to register themselves.
What can be done with user registration?
The Formidable Forms User Registration Add-On allows you to create user accounts on your WordPress site. What you do with these user accounts depends on your particular website, but here are some things you can do with this add-on:
- Add a login form to any page or widget on your website.
- Allow users to create their own accounts on your website with a registration form.
- Allow users to be automatically signed in after they submit the registration form .
- Allow users to upload a profile picture or avatar.
- Allow users to update their profile and change their password. (Note: currently users cannot change their usernames as WordPress does not allow this by default, but they can change their password and any other profile values.)
- Confirm the user’s email address before registering is complete.
Create user accounts on your WordPress site
There are several ways to enable user registration.
If users will be manually are added, you can go to the WordPress Users page and click Add New. This page gives you options to set the email address, automatically generate the password, and send an email to the new user.
On the other hand, you can also allow visitors to create their own accounts. First, download and activate the User Registration add-on. We have helpful instructions in the documentation for you on how to create user accounts on your WordPress site.
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Formidable Forms makes it easy to add user registration to your form. First, set up your fields for your user registration form. The only field Formidable Forms requires for this form is an email field.
Not sure what information to ask for? One of the most important factors in converting website visitors into members is ease of registration. A simple and user-friendly registration form is essential. If you have a lot of information to collect from subscribers, do it incrementally. Otherwise it might look like a tax form! They don’t want it to be taxed. ? For more information on this idea of progressive profiling (gathering information incrementally), see this IronPaper Insights post.
Access the user registration settings in the “Form Actions” section of the form settings. The form action is called Register User.
There are numerous options in this Register User form Action. Below is a screenshot of the fields available to you.
If you want to make it as easy as possible for a new user to instantly access content or features that are restricted to members, maybe you might want to uncheck the Automatically log users who submit this form’ box.
Conclusion
More and more websites are looking to increase user retention and provide a better user experience with the user registration. Keep your site competitive. Get started with the User Registration plugin today and start building your website membership in minutes.
If you already have user registration enabled, we’d love to hear how you set up user registration on your website!
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