8 Best User Registration Plugins for WordPress
The internet was primarily designed to exchange information globally. Oftentimes, though, you may find yourself unwilling to offer a website’s content openly to everyone on the internet. This is usually the case with websites serving a specific function, such as wedding websites, which require attendee registration. Furthermore, registration is a useful feature for members-only clubs, paid access events such as concerts, or magazines made available only to subscribers. If you are running a store, you may want to allow discounts and special offers for registered customers, or you may just be organizing an online raffle for your local community. The options are virtually endless.
However, whatever your reasons for wanting to set up registration on your WordPress website, the best way to make it possible is to use a plugin. All user registration plugins will have a similar set of features. Your choice will depend upon your requirements, of course. Paid subscription? A payment avenue won’t be remiss. Multi-tiered discounts? You might want to allow several user roles. Is WooCommerce integration important to you? There are plugins which will let you do that.
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User Registration is a quick and easy way to create and customize a user registration form. It has a user-friendly drag-and-drop editor which you can use to create an unlimited number of different registration forms, in case you are offering different services. You can also set up manual admin approval for each registrant. After registering, the users get an account with your website, which they can log into and make changes as necessary. The plugin also supports email notifications and confirmation, user profile images, and user data export, and that’s just its free version.
Premium addons for this plugin include social login, file upload, WooCommerce integration, conditional logic, and many more.
A free and flexible plugin, WP User Manager allows you to create user profiles for your website with ease. This means custom user registration forms, login forms, and account customization. You have a range of fields you can use and a spectrum of roles which you can assign to your users. Your registered users can then upload their own avatar images and manage their passwords from their account page.
The plugin’s premium versions offer custom fields, admin approval for registering, social login options, WooCommerce integration, multi-site support, and more.
User Registration & User Profile – Profile Builder is a free, comprehensive solution for user registration and user management. Apart from login and registration forms, this plugin also provides your registered users with a special menu which allows them to edit their profiles more easily. On the admin side, it allows you to assign roles to users and edit those roles’ access and capabilities, allowing you to easily restrict content based on user class. And for some extra security, you can set up minimum password strength and length, along with email registration confirmation.
The plugin’s pro version expands on that with more user fields, conditional fields, custom redirects, admin approval for registering, and more.
Not just a registration plugin, WP User Frontend nonetheless has all the basic features. Apart from allowing your users to register on your website, it also opens your website up for user content, making it ideal for community-building. Users can therefore not only edit their profiles, but submit their own posts and upload files, with the admins retaining control through role-based access and email verification. The free version even supports subscription payments.
The plugin’s premium version supports content restriction, avatar uploads, conditional logic, WooCommerce support, and more.
Ultimate Member is a free and versatile registration form builder. While login, registration, user profiles and user roles are the norm, the plugin provides you with a broader range of form options than most: conditional logic and custom form fields. The plugin also has a drag-and-drop form builder which makes it easy for anyone to create any kind of form they like.
You can expand on this versatility with some very functional paid addons, such as WooCommerce integration, social login, friend and follower relations between users, and many others. If you want to use it on multiple websites, though, you will need a subscription plan.
If you have a bit of a background in HTML and CSS, ProfilePress may be just the thing you’re looking for. This plugin, while geared towards the advanced user, has some basic options to offer: login forms, registration forms and password reset forms, as well as custom redirects on login, registration and other events.
The plugin’s coding focus means that your forms will fit into the design of nearly any theme. Unfortunately, this means you need to code all of them. Of course, you can also check out the developer’s theme shop for ready-made solutions, which will, however, set you back some.
Ninja Forms is a very flexible plugin which allows you to create all kinds of forms from scratch using a drag-and-drop editor, and this includes registration forms. There is even a registration page template ready to use out-of-the box. Ninja Forms is not limited to simple single-page forms, too: you can create multi-page forms and apply conditional logic. And not only that: even the free version allows for PayPal and Stripe integration. The drawback? The plugin doesn’t automatically provide user profiles, meaning you’ll have to give it a pass in case this feature is important to you.
RegistrationMagic is a free, yet powerful registration plugin which allows you to create unlimited registration forms for different users. The plugin provides you with multiple ready-made layout options, and if they don’t work for you, a user-friendly registration form creator. On the security side, you can set it up to send your users their passwords by email, auto-generate passwords, and set submission limits by device. RegistrationMagic also has the option to set up paid registrations, as it integrates with PayPal.
The premium version of the plugin adds to this advanced security features, Stripe integration, user banning, and more.
In Conclusion
That’s all well and good, we hear you say, but which of these is the very best? It really all depends on what you’ll be using the plugin for. Looking for a very flexible, customizable user profile editor? Ultimate Member and User Registration & User Profile – Profile Builder may just be the way to go. WP User Manager and WP User Frontend are free solutions ideal for an online community, while WP User Manager is easiest for a website offering restricted content to registered users only. If you want a free plugin with admin approval for each registration, User Registration will sort you out. If you are running an online store, WooCommerce integration will be a paid option, so you’d better look to other features to help you make up your mind.
