Saddled up your horses already? Let’s begin with…

Create Registration Form

Coming back to the most pertinent question – How to add a registration form to a frontend WordPress registration page? Once RegistrationMagic is installed and active, a new admin menu item will appear inside your WordPress dashboard, titled RegistrationMagic. This menu item allows you access to important internal features of RegistrationMagic. While there are multiple submenu items attached to it, the first and the most important one is the All Forms menu item, which will open automatically each time you click on RegistrationMagic menu item.

Quick Create Form (Option 1)

All Forms menu item is connected to the All Forms page which presents a card view of all the forms created using RegistrationMagic. When you first install RegistrationMagic, the forms view may look rather spartan, but it is designed to organize and manage hundreds of forms, if you ever wish to.

Notes that the view will look differently (below) if you have switched the view of ‘All Forms’ to ‘Cards View’ (optional). We recommend that you create your first form from the ‘List View’ screen, as shown above.

Please note, there will be a Login Form pinned at the beginning of the forms view; the Login Form cannot be deleted. Although using RegistrationMagic’s login form is optional, it allows you many advantages above a generic login form like high degree of configurability, security features, data logging etc.

For now, let us focus on creating forms.

On top left of the page, right beneath the page title All Forms, you will find a link to create a new form. Once you click on it, a popup will appear.

Once this popup appears, there are a few things you can do to personalize your upcoming form. Firstly, you must enter a name for your form, with which you can later easily identify the form. This guide assumes the form name is set to My Registration Form.

Secondly, right below the text box to enter form name, you can see an additional checkbox option Turn off user registration for this form. If you check this option, the form will not create WordPress user account for the users submitting this form. Checking it will also not add username and password fields to your form.

As soon as you click the Save and Close button, All Forms page will refresh and you will find a new form with the name you entered in the popup (My Registration Form in this case), right next to the Login Form.

As you can see, the minimum it takes to create a form is to set its name. But it will be a very bare-bone form with hardly any functional value. Therefore, you must add fields to it.

Create from Form Templates (Option 2)

Clicking on Start Now! under the section Looking for form templates? in the new form popup will redirect you to a questionnaire based form creation wizard which will help you configure essential form settings before finally saving it. Remember, these settings can also be changed later using the form dashboard. The major advantage of this method is an additional option to select a form template. This allows you to create a form populated with essential fields.

Add Form Fields

At the bottom of the form card on the All Forms card view, you can see couple of action items.

Here’s quick description of these action items and their purpose: Fields allow direct access to form’s Field Manager. You can modify form’s layout from this page. Dashboard redirects you to form’s overview page with access to form statistics and options.

Let’s click on the Fields action item to start adding fields to this form.

The Fields Manager screen shows all the fields that your form currently has. Since this is a new form, you’ll already have an Email field in it. The Email field exists on each form by default and cannot be removed. The Username and Password fields will also be there if it is a registration form you have created. To add more fields to the form, you can click on the Add Field button.

Clicking on the Add Field button will open a popup from where you can select the type of field that you wish to add to your form.

Click on any field type from this list and it’ll open the screen to set the properties of that field. Edit its properties as you like and then click Add to Form. This will then add the field to the form. Please note that all fields when added to a form are added within a row. So you can customize a row to contain up to 4 fields in a horizontal setup. To edit a row, hover your cursor over a field and three options will show up on top of it. Click on the cog icon to open up row settings.

Edit the row settings as you like from the Row Properties popup and the click on the Save button. Other important links to check on the Field Manager screen are the Design and Preview links. The Design screen will allow you to customize the look and feel of the form fields. The Preview link will show you a preview of the form’s appearance on site front-end, without actually publishing the form.

Now that you have fleshed out your form by adding fields, it is time to configure the form.

Configure the Form

You can configure the form from the Form Dashboard. Let’s revisit these optional features later.

Publish the Form

To publish the form on site front-end and make it live for users to register, you’ll need to add the form shortcode to a WordPress registration page. Just go back to the All Forms screen first by clicking on the button at the top left of the Fields Manager screen. On the form card for the form you have created, you’ll see the WordPress shortcode of the form. This will look like:

Copy and paste this shortcode into a WordPress registration page (or post) and publish it. Or, you can choose a form from the dropdown next to the Add Media button, which will add the shortcode for it automatically. Next, you need to add this page to a menu from Appearance -> Menus option from the WordPress Dashboard. The form will now show up on the WordPress registration page the you just created.

So, you have now created a new registration form, added fields to it, and published it on WordPress registration page front-end. That’s great progress! Your site visitors can now register on it with the use of this new registration form.

Although the process of creating a form and then publishing it is now complete, we recommend that you go ahead and have a look at Form Dashboard.

Form Dashboard

Clicking on the Dashboard link from the bottom of the form card, will take you to the Form Dashboard screen. This is where you can configure the settings of your form. Note that global configuration is done from the Global Settings (Left menu item). There are many widgets available on this screen, so let’s explore them one at a time.

Dashboard Widgets

1. Submissions over time: This is a chart showcasing stats of your form visits and actual form submissions. You can filter the results of this chart for specific time range using the Show data for dropdown option.
2. Status: This widget on the side shows the shortcode of the form, it’s visibility to the users, and the form’s creation date. You can also delete the form from this widget.
3. Content: Another one of the widgets on the side, this one shows the number of pages the form has, the number of fields, and the submit button’s label text. You can also duplicate the form from this widget.
4. Stats: In this widget, you can see the stats, such as number of form visits, form submissions, form attachments (only in premium version), conversion rate, and average time. You can also reset the stats from this widget.
5. Quick Toggles: To quickly toggle settings, such as auto WP registration and auto response, use this widget.

Dashboard Sections

6. Build: From this widget, you can visit the Fields Manager and the Design.
7. Configure: Multiple configuration settings are available from this widget. We encourage you to visit each of these configuration settings on your own. Description of what each option does on these configuration settings is explained next to the options themselves.
8. Integrate: From this widget, you can integrate your form with some of the most popular third-party services, such as MailChimp.
9. Publish: Use the settings under this widget to publish your form on the site front-end.
10. Manage: From this widget, you can access all form submission details in one place. As well as emails sent out to the users from RegistrationMagic.
11. Analyze: This widget gives you the options to view analytics for your form. Includes options such as form analytics and field analytics.
12. Automate: The settings under this widget allow you to create automated tasks for user accounts. Includes bulk emails too.

The Form Dashboard widgets are quickly accessible from the All Forms screen, from three dots (…) that are highlighted by hovering your cursor over a form card. (See ‘Build The Form’ section, First Image)

Closing Notes

Before signing off, please note that RegistrationMagic is organized into the following workflows:

Form Workflow: 1. Build 2. Configure 3. Publish
Data Workflow: 1. Manage 2. Analyze 3. Automate

All RegistrationMagic Shortcodes are available in the WordPress Registration Shortcodes list. This concludes our quick Starter Guide on how to create your first WordPress registration page.

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Since this is a genuinely scary scenario for most WordPress users out there, the highly talented team at RegistrationMagic decided to address the problem once and for all. RegistrationMagic calls this the “Match My Theme” feature. It is this highly valuable feature that we are going to explore today.

So, What Does “Match My Theme” Mean Exactly?

Does it adapt and style form skin to the active theme on the site automatically?

Will it save you the many many hours required to recreate the same form for the new design?

Will it help you sleep easy at night without worrying what will happen to your form’s conversion rate when you switch to the new theme?

If your form is built using RegistrationMagic, the answer to all these questions is a resounding “Yes”!

Enough talk though! Let us now see this powerful feature in action. We’ll be using a single form built using RegistrationMagic and figure out ourselves how it will looks on multiple different WordPress themes. If you need a quick overview of how to create a contact or registration form using RegistrationMagic, I recommend checking out our Starter Guide first.

When reviewing compatibility with themes, what better way there is than checking out the most popular themes among WordPress users nowadays. Here’s our form with screenshots of how it appears on five of the most popular WordPress themes…

Avada contact form

Avada contact form or registration form design adapts with Avada theme, automatically.

Divi contact form

Divi contact form or registration form design adapts with Divi theme, automatically.

Neve theme contact form

Neve theme contact form or registration form design adapts with Enfold theme, automatically.

Hello Elementor contact form

Registration form design adapts with Hello Elementor theme, automatically.

Flatsome contact form

Flatsome contact form or registration form design adapts with Flatsome theme, automatically.

With each theme change, the form adapted to the new design perfectly. No tinkering with the design was required at all. Now the themes mentioned above are all based on lighter colors, so you might wonder that the changes you are seeing aren’t that convincing. Well, little do we know that we are both in for a surprise here. As soon as I change to themes that are based on darker colors, everything just starts to get a whole lot more interesting. Don’t believe me? Just see for yourself how RegistrationMagic adapts to the following unusual theme designs…

Coral Dark Theme contact form

Coral Dark contact form or registration form design adapts with Coral theme, automatically.

Big Blue contact form

Big Blue contact form or registration form design adapts with Big Blue theme, automatically.

Amazing! Isn’t it? It matters little to RegistrationMagic which type of theme you apply onto your WordPress site, it just adapts and style the form design to the theme design without a hiccup.

Adaptability in the Evolution of Web Forms

Gone are those frustrating days when users had to fight with web forms and try to mould them manually to their liking. The web forms of today are more flexible, adaptable and intelligible to the users’ ever growing needs. It is web forms like these that will become the mainstay for WordPress websites worldwide, while those who refused to adapt to the users’ needs will wither away. Imbibing the principle of adaptability, pioneers like RegistrationMagic are surely well placed in the driver’s seat, steering the future course of web form evolution.

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RegistrationMagic’s Automation feature allows you to create tasks which run in the background and process actions on form submissions. Each task is attached to a specific form and requires setting rule(s). The tasks are scheduled using WordPress native cron system. Please note, scheduling too many tasks simultaneously may stress resources of shared or moderately powered servers. Automation is another step in our plan to keep providing you greater control over your forms. You will keep seeing new automation rules and actions in coming months. Good luck!

Note that custom user statuses and manual actions are also part of RegistrationMagic plugin, but not included in this WordPress forms automation guide. Visit our WordPress user registration guide for details on how to carry out manual actions with status labels.

This article serves as a complete WordPress forms automation guide. If you need to dive deep into any specific topics, you can browse the individual posts here.

1. Automate Actions on WordPress Form Payment Status

2. Automate Actions on WordPress Form Field Values

3. Setting up Automated Emails for WordPress Forms

4. Automate WordPress User Account Activation, Deactivation or Deletion

5. Automation On WordPress User Account Activation or Deactivation

6. Automation Based on WordPress Form Submission Time

7. Automation Based on WordPress Form Payment Gateway

Automation here refers to the task or rule applied on various aspects of a WordPress registration form. Click “Automation” lying just below “Field Analytics” under your RegistrationMagic plugin. In the meantime, create a new task and start applying the automation rule.

Create a New Automation Rule

The first page assigns a unique task name. Adding a description is not mandatory. Nevertheless, you can insert one for your convenience.

Click “Next” and go to the next page.

List of Automation Triggers

This page contains five distinct automation rules. All these rules can run on the selected form submissions. Let’s discuss all the rules one at a time.

User Account Rule 

The automation rule is applied to the users depending on the selected account state. User accounts can either be active or inactive. This rule is automated according to your selection.

Selecting “Activated User Accounts” runs the rule on those submissions made from active accounts. On the other hand, the “Deactivated User Accounts” rule is applied to submissions made from inactive accounts.

Submission Age Rule 

Enabling the WordPress form submission age rule allows you to select user accounts based on form submission time. That is, automation rule will calculate the age of submission, and use it as input criteria.

Nevertheless, this rule can be configured on two criteria. Submissions older and younger than criterion is used to select submissions older or younger than the specified days. The days are calculated based on the date of running the automation task.

Field Value Rule 

This rule helps in selecting form submissions based on their respective field values. Values can be added beside each other separated by a “|”. However, you can only select fields and values which are present in the form.

For instance, you are looking to run the automation rule on some selected email addresses. This rule is applicable only if those accounts with the relative email addresses have submitted the form.

In fact, remember defining the field and value here if you want the automation to run on selected submissions.

Payment Processor Rule

Payments processors are gateways for executing monetary transactions. Consequently, online payments are possible through these secure gateways. In fact, your card details integrate with these payment processors. At the same time, it helps in quick and undisputed transactions.

Some of the few payment processors incorporated are:

• PayPal
• Stripe
• Offline
• WePay
• Authorize.net

The automation task runs only on those submissions whose transactions are executed using one of these gateways. For instance, selecting Stripe automates only those submissions whose payments are made through Stripe. The same rule also applies to the rest of the payment processors as well.

In short, it lessens the manual steps of selecting forms according to their payment type.

Payment Status Rule

The “Payment Status Rule” only selects submissions depending upon the payment status. Nevertheless, the payment status can be of 3 types:

• Completed
• Pending
• Canceled

The automation task runs only on submissions with a complete, pending or canceled payment status. To summarize, selection rules filter a submission if all enabled rules are true for that submission. To illustrate, enabling both “Field Value Rule” and “Payment Processor Rule” only filters submissions fulfilling both the rules.

For instance, selecting a completed payment status triggers the rule for those submissions with fulfilled payments. Other payment statuses also affect submissions accordingly.

We move on to the next page now.

List of Automation Actions

User account action  

This rule helps to automate WordPress user account activation, deactivation or deletion without manual intervention. You might also do nothing with the account.

WordPress user account automation options include:

• Do nothing
• Activate Account
• Deactivate Account
• Delete Account

Select the action taken on accounts associated with selected submissions. For instance, selecting “Activate account” will make those accounts active according to earlier selections. You can also delete or deactivate user accounts in the same way.

Assign User Role Action

This action will allow you to change the roles of the users selected by the user selection parameters in your Automation task.

There is an important point to note with this action though. It is that while the selected roles will be assigned to the users, their existing roles will get unassigned. So if you want to retain any of their existing roles, you should select those roles in this action as well.

Send Email

This section automates an email to user accounts associated with selected submissions. You can add a subject and a content for the body of the email. You can also add any type of media file and use values from form fields selecting one from the drop-down.

Automated Emails for WordPress forms strengthens the admin-user relationship. With the user receiving account activation and deletion email users feel connected to your brand. You can now make your user aware of their account status with these emails. In fact, your manual workflow post submission is automated with ease. This is because only a single click allows you to send emails to multiple users.

Note that Automation Triggers and User Account Action are accessible for Free for all users, but ‘User Role’ Action and ‘Send Email’ Action are included in the RegistrationMagic Premium package.

Download RegistrationMagic Premium here.

Running the Automation Task

Save each and every configuration or the changes you have incorporated.

To run the task, go to the “Automation” page and click Run Now for the task you created. The automation rule runs exclusively on the selected submissions.

This finally completes the automation guide for WordPress forms.

Note that some features of WordPress forms automation are free, and available for download on our WordPress page. Also, we keep launching new features, which are announced on our Facebook page; stay connected with us on Facebook.

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We all know, there are several facets of a membership site. It can turn into an online store a social networking zone or even a business directory. Whatever be its function, the intrinsic property of a membership site is its users. The members of these sites are generally floating. There are no hard and fast rules binding any members to these sites. This is one of the main reasons why WordPress user management is necessary for a membership site.

WordPress also offers its default user management feature which is quite basic. Thus, it is recommended to take the help of a specialized WordPress User Management Plugin like RegistrationMagic. This plugin is meant to take care of dynamic membership site requirements.

So, to achieve a little extra with respect to user management, boost your membership site with the WordPress RegistrationMagic plugin.

Getting Started with WordPress User Management

Right after installing the WordPress User Plugin, RegisrationMagic, the RegistrationMagic menu will appear on your WordPress dashboard.

Now if you click on the User Manager link, you will land on the plugin’s User Manager page.

Here you will find a list of all your users after WordPress new user registration. This list will show you the profile images, email addresses and activation statuses of your users.

You can select any user from this list and then activate, deactivate or delete their accounts.

There is a search panel on the left that will help you to filter your search. For example, you can search users by name, email id, country, etc. Just below the search panel, you will find the Time and Status panels. These parameters will help to manage your users with segmentation. So, you will get to see the users who registered one month ago and also the users who just registered an hour ago. The Status panel lets you filter your searches with respect to active and pending user accounts.

On the extreme right of your user list, you will find a View link, this will allow you to view your user’s accounts individually.

You will find the following four headings on each user account page:

The first heading lets you view the data that you choose to Add to the User Account. While form creation, when you choose this option on a certain field it appears on the user account in the backend.

On the left side of the screen given in the image below, you can see a list of data about the user under the profile image. Here’s where the plugin lists the user metadata on the backend.

The second heading will tell you if this user has submitted any other form on your site. Then you will get to see the name of the form as well as a PDF of the form that your user submitted.

The third field will display the payment status (if associated in a form) of the user. If your user has not completed a payment, then a pending status will appear. For e-commerce sites, this becomes very handy for the admin. Since he/she will only need the User Manager page to keep a track of the payment history of each user.

Next comes the email notification tab. This space will show you all the emails that have been exchanged between the user and the admin. All the emails that have been sent through this account will appear here. Also, the admin has the liberty to send emails to each user directly from here.

The last tab shows the login statuses of each user in detail. From browser type to login period this space provides some of the very crucial data for WordPress user management.

Here you can understand your user activity by their login records.

That’s not it; RegistrationMagic offers more features for WordPress user management.

Setting up User Roles with RegistrationMagic

On the RegistrationMagic menu, the link below the User Manager option is User Roles. By clicking on it, you will land on the User Roles page, which will let you create new user roles. Not only can you set a new role name, but you also get to set a sign-up charge to the role if you want.

The new role will add up to the list of roles at the bottom of the page. From there you can delete any of the roles at any point in time.

For example, suppose you create a form that you only want your Subscribers to access. Then an Editor on your site will receive “You are not authorized to access this content” if he/she tries to access that form.

There are options to restrict form content on the basis of age, date and other parameters.  So, you see, this plugin makes it a point that your membership site is equipped with all the elements necessary for efficient WordPress user management.

Default WordPress User Management

As I said earlier, WordPress also has an inbuilt user management system. It is quite basic with respect to a fully functioning dynamic membership site.

The WordPress Users page shows a list of all the users on your site.

It shows each member’s name, user role, email id and the number of posts. One will find all the user roles listed above so that after selecting each role one can see the number of users assigned to them.

The admin also gets the liberty to select any user and change their respective roles from this page. Clicking on the Edit button on each user will take the admin to the Edit User page.

Here they can edit the following fields:

First Name

Last Name

Nickname

Generate Password

Profile Image

User Group and other fields that are available in the registration form except for the Username.

The admin is redirected to the WordPress edit user page when he/she clicks on the Edit link on a user account in the RegistrationMagic User Manager page.

However, with this WordPress user plugin, users get the added advantage of sending emails to users from the User Manager page. Also, tracking their login records and form submission history comes consolidated in the same page. Thus making user management less laborious.

WordPress User Management and its Utility

User management is crucial to any membership site. Since the entire revenue of the site depends on the registration and activities of the users. The admin needs to have a clear view of the number of users joining or leaving the site in a period of time. Also, depending on the user activities the admin can plan user engagement programmes like contests, discounts, etc.

You might have come across various shopping sites that send newsletters or reminders if you have not visited the site for some time. This is what efficient user management does. If the admin has a clear view of the login records of a certain user, then he/she can differentiate between a regular and an occasional user. Based on that, they can send out customized emails or offers to the users.

So upgrade your WordPress user management with RegistrationMagic to enjoy dynamic user data management. This WordPress user management plugin will keep you a step ahead of your competitors so that you can cater to your users more efficiently.

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To add captcha in WordPress login and registration form is a response test which confirms whether the user is human or not. Also, registration forms to be submitted incorporates a Captcha assuring that the user is human. This ensures the security and protection of an entry made by the user. On the other hand, the use of CAPTCHA prevents spamming as well.

CAPTCHA blocks spammers trying to harvest automated email IDs. Also, blocked are the ones trying to sign up automatically for the unethical use of websites and blogs. A CAPTCHA with distorted letters isn’t readable by anyone other than human.

Download free registration forms from RegistrationMagic’s template directory.

In this tutorial, we learn to add CAPTCHA in WordPress Login and Registration Form.

Navigating to the reCAPTCHA configuration page

Go to “Global Settings” from your RegistrationMagic plugin on your WordPress dashboard.

Drill into “Security” from the Global Settings page.

You are now in the Security or Anti-Spam page to configure CAPTCHA settings. Check the box beside the “Enable reCaptcha” field.

Once complete, you are prompted to enter the Site Key and Secret Key appearing as pop-ups. Nevertheless, both these keys play important roles in making the reCAPTCHA work.

Generating Site Key and Secret Key

Click the “here” hyperlink just after the description of the “Site Key” field. This takes you further to Google reCAPTCHA aiding you to create your own reCAPTCHA.

Click on “My reCAPTCHA” at the top right portion of the Google reCAPTCHA home page.

Start configuring and generating your reCAPTCHA from the next page. Assign a unique name as the “Label”. Choose the first radio button saying “reCAPTCHA v2”. This embeds an “I’m not a robot” checkbox on the form which is what we are targeting.

Enter a domain name which has not been used before. In this example, we go ahead with example.com. Accept the reCAPTCHA Terms of Service by checking the adjacent check box. Click on “Register”.

Adding reCAPTCHA to your WordPress login and registration form

In the meantime, you can now see your Site Key and Secret Key generated one beside the other. Simultaneously, copy both and paste them in their respective fields on the Anti-Spam page. Scroll down and click the “Save” button.

Eventually, you have added CAPTCHA in WordPress login and registration form. To illustrate, check the screenshot below which has the “I’m not a robot” statement embedded with a checkbox beside it.

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As soon as you send automated welcome emails, you complete a user’s sign up process on your site. Though you don’t need to compose every single automated email that you send out, yet an automated email is customizable. There are various WordPress user registration plugins that offer automated email templates.

RegistrationMagic is one such plugin that offers various automated email templates that you can customize.

So, whenever your users submit a registration form, RegistrationMagic will help you send automated welcome emails to their inboxes.

We already know, automated emails have become the newest trend in online marketing. According to a study by Campaign Monitor, in 2008, 40% of brands sent a welcome message to their new subscribers. Today 80% of brands send these types of automated messages.

The automated emails of RegistrationMagic are unique since you can even apply fields like username, first name etc. to it.

As an example, the registration form has a field “Date of Birth” which the user fills with “05/05/1990”. Now, in the email, we can add the “Date of Birth” field to customize it. Thus your users will find their “Date of Birth” in the automated welcome emails.

So, let’s go ahead and start the process of setting up automated welcome emails for your WordPress user registrations.

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Complete Automation Guide for WordPress forms

The Automated Email Section of RegistrationMagic

First, install the RegistrationMagic plugin on your WordPress dashboard. You will find the plugin menu on your menu panel. From there, go to the All Forms link.

You will land on the All Forms page. Here, you will find all the forms that you create through this plugin. Now as you move your cursor on any form card you will find two links appearing at the bottom corners. These are the Dashboard and Fields link.

From the Fields link, you can add custom user data fields to your WordPress user registration forms.

The Dashboard lets you take care of the WordPress form payment, security, design etc.

Clicking on the Dashboard link will take you to the Dashboard page.

Now, scroll down to Auto Responder under the Configure section here. This is the place from where you will find templates for automated welcome emails.

Compose the Automated Welcome Email

When you click on the Auto Responder link you land on the form specific Automated Responder set up page. First, check the box “auto-reply to the user”. This turns on automated email messages for the form. The user can now receive an email with a successful form submission.

Checking the checkbox will prompt you to fill in the Subject. Next, you can write the content that the user will find in the mail.

Fill the subject input box with a customized text such as “Welcome User”. This is the subject of the Email that the users will find in their inboxes.

Then go to the input box. Here, you can add a customized message to your users.

Click on “Add field” to add user data field in the email. As an example, if you add the Email field, the user will receive an automated welcome email with user’s email ID in it.

You can even add media files, change font style, add heading etc. This text is backed by HTML and Mail Merge. You can also use Rich Text to customize your content.

The Add Field drop-down only shows the fields that are already embedded in the form. If it is a new form and fields and there are no added fields, then the “Add Field” drop-down shows the mandatory fields. The mandatory fields are username, password and email fields.

Write a really catchy content as the welcome email for your users. So that your users feel connected with your site. Lastly, click on Save to finish up.

Automated Welcome Emails in the User Area

When your users submit their forms from the frontend, they will receive the automated welcome emails.

So, after logging in your users can view their inboxes from the user area.

In the above image, you can see the area marked in red shows the automated welcome email sent from my site. It has exactly, the same content that I composed from the backend.

The Benefits of Automated Welcome Emails

So, with RegistrationMagic, it was quite simple to send automated welcome emails after every WordPress new user registration. You can also send account verification or deletion warning emails to your users via automated emails of this plugin.

Since there were options to insert link and media to automated welcome emails sending fun notes with welcome offers and discounts is now a cakewalk.

Also, since there are options to include the username or other fields of a user in these emails. It is easy to send personally addressed emails. This way your users feel prioritized and so they keep coming back to your site. Yet the admin does not need to write every single mail.

These emails basically, make the relationship between a site and its user more cordial. When users find your site name on their mailbox right after signing up they tend to visit right at that time. This boosts the footfall on your site and it becomes more popular on the search engine.

Automated welcome emails also come in use if you want to send out words to many people in one go. Whether its an invitation or a sudden meeting in your office. RegistrationMagic’s automated emails can notify all your staff with you having to compose just one mail.

So, rely on this plugin to take care of most of the manual work on your site. As you focus on managing your business more professionally.

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WordPress user roles (sometimes referred to as WordPress User Levels or WordPress User Types) extend or limit user control on the site. RegistrationMagic will assign the subscriber role to anyone filling the form. The “User Roles” section in RegistrationMagic’s user role editor helps in the management of previously created user roles. The role editor also assigns new user roles, as per your workflow.

Presently, there are five standard WordPress user roles. These include administrator, editor, author, contributor, and subscriber roles. Once you are familiar with these WordPress user roles, you can explore them from your WordPress dashboard.

Let us discuss each WordPress user role briefly first.

The Administrator Role

This role designates the user as an admin. Once you are assigned as an administrator, you can control any feature within the WordPress dashboard.

One can edit core files, modify themes and alter the WordPress user roles of others.

The Editor Role

With editor role, you can access any content. However, you will be restricted from making changes to themes and plugins.

An editor will immediately start managing and publishing blog and pages. Link management is also possible besides moderating comments.

Editors can thus manage every speck of a content but cannot alter the settings outside of content.

The Author Role

Authors can only edit their own posts; they cannot  supervise others’ posts. Author has the permission to add content to the media library.

The role rights allow Authors to delete obsolete content. However, they cannot delta or create pages.

The Contributor Role

The contributor will enjoy complete access to modifying, deleting and editing their draft posts. However, contributor cannot publish the post.

Access to the media library is also under restriction. Thus, the contributor needs to get admin authorization to access images, videos, and other media files.

Guest authors can relish this role if they don’t post on a regular basis.

The Subscriber Role

Subscribers can read the post and comment on the post. They can also create a profile through WordPress dashboard.

Configuring WordPress User Roles through RegistrationMagic plugin’s user role editor

From your WP dashboard click on the plugin menu. The first tab underlying this plugin is the “All Forms” tab, navigate to your desired form dashboard.

You will be redirected to a page where you can build, configure and integrate your page. Under the “Configure” header look for “Accounts”.

From Accounts page, you can configure WordPress user roles. Check the checkbox to add default Username and Password to the form. This will automatically register users in WordPress user area.

Next, explore the option to assign WordPress user roles. Click the drop-down and you will be able to see the five possible roles that can be assigned.

Choose any one of them. Click Save.

Alternatively, you can check box “Allow Users Choice of Roles”. This setting allow users to select their roles themselves, manually.

The next checkbox with the phrase “Force login after Registration” force user to log-in once user account is created. The last field “Email as Username” hides the username field. On checking this box, the Email will work as Username.

Click on save. You have now set up the user role for users registering on your site.

Incorporating more WordPress user roles

From your dashboard navigation to RegistrationMagic >> User Roles. You can create brand-new WordPress user role. However, the role can only inherit permission from one of the 5 pre-defined ones.

In this case, we have assigned Role Key and Role name both as Writer. The role key is the value of the role which will be stored in the database. This key will be invisible to user. The role name, however, is displayed on the front end.

The next drop-down lets you select which pre-defined role you want to inherit permissions from. Upon checking the last box “Sign-up charge”, you can redirect your users to make a payment upon choosing a role. Click Save.

Go back to “All forms”. Copy the shortcode from form card. Navigate to the “All Pages” section. Create New Page. Paste the shortcode. Click Update.

WordPress User Roles are now configured in your WordPress User Registration form. Shared below is a screenshot as to how the embedded User Roles will display on your registration form.

This completes our guide on User roles, User permissions, and user role editor.

If you need a head-start to create your user registration process, visit our detailed WordPress Registration page guide.

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In order to assure a user that his/her form submission has been successful, sites often display a success message. If you host a professional registration based site, then you might want to display custom success message in WordPress to confirm every successful submission. Users feel prioritized when they know they are being monitored by an authorized site owner.

RegistrationMagic allows users to create intelligent forms to serve different purposes. But the success message for every form is in general, the same. The success message displays itself on the frontend of your site.

With our WordPress registration forms plugin, you don’t need to work much to configure a success message. You can actually display custom success message in WordPress using just the “Configure” section of this plugin.

One can choose to redirect your user to a different page after form submission and display success message in WordPress. One can also keep the user on the same page and display the message there itself. So, let’s proceed with our today’s tutorial, where we discuss how to display custom success message in WordPress.

Navigate to Customize the Success Message

From your WP dashboard click on the plugin menu. The first tab underlying this plugin is the “All Forms” tab. Archived in this section is each and every form created to date.

In this example, we configure success message for users submitting the General Purpose Form. This is the form located to the right side of the “Login Form”.

Hover your cursor on the form envelope and click on the dashboard link. Using this section, you can manage, analyze and configure forms. From here, you also get to set WordPress user roles.

Scroll down directly to the Post Submission area. This area allows you to manage activities after a successful form submission. Using this section, you can also display success message in WordPress. So now, go to the Post Submission area to configure your success message.

Configuring the Success Message

The primary field allows you to write a success message inside the input box. This is the message which users will see upon successful form submissions. You can even add media files such as an image or video to decorate the success message. In this instance, we use “The Form was submitted successfully” as the success message.

Shared below is a screenshot displaying the success message on the frontend, post form submission. Your users need to complete filling the form. Then, click on “Submit” to view this message. You can also have payments associated with your form. There you have the liberty to make your users submit form before collecting payment.

Other fields in this section help you display a unique token number. Turning on the ‘Auto Reply’ feature generates a unique token number. This token number goes into the mail inbox of the user once he/she submits the form.

Toggling the “Redirection” field takes the user to a different page after form submission. You can paste the URL or the page link where you want to redirect the user after form submission. You can also avoid redirection by selecting the “None” radio button. Consequently, your success message will be visible on the same page.

The last field, lets you submit form data to external URL. In case your current server crashes, the form data can be retrieved. As a result, you can maintain a different database for form submission.

You saw how easy it was to display custom success message in WordPress. Online form creation becomes really smooth with this plugin. It also lets you create intelligent contact form along with user registration forms. There are several fields to choose from to create functional forms. No need to code or design pages. Thus, even amateurs prefer this plugin.

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Once you are done configuring a web form the way you want it, the next step is usually to publish the form on your site. After all, what is the use of creating a custom web form if it isn’t going to get published on the site. If you are running a WordPress powered website, then creating highly customized web forms is no difficult task. Using the RegistrationMagic plugin, even WordPress novices can create web forms like professionals do. RegistrationMagic equips you with so many form publishing tools that requiring the help of a professional is a thing of the past. So let’s get started with this guide and learn how to publish registration forms and display registered users on your WordPress site.

This guide will assume that you already have RegistrationMagic installed on your site and have already created a form using it. If you haven’t, then please go ahead and do that now. This’ll help you follow along with the guide and publish registration forms and display registered users on your site with ease.

Navigate to the “Publish” Section of your Form Dashboard

Access the “All Forms” screen of RegistrationMagic from the WordPress Dashboard. You can do that clicking on the RegistrationMagic Dashboard menu item. Move your cursor on the form you have created and click the Dashboard link at the bottom of it.

On the Form Dashboard screen, scroll down until you find the “Publish” set of options. Every feature listed in the “Publish” section helps publish some data related to that form on the frontend of the site. We’ll explore them all one at a time.

1. Shortcode

This is the most common way to publish registration forms and display registered users on your WordPress site. Just click on the Shortcode icon and copy the shortcode displayed on the popup that appears next.

Use this shortcode on any post or page and the form will appear there.

2. HTML Code

In addition to shortcode, you also have the option to display your form in an iFrame anywhere on the site. You can do this with the help of the HTML Code publish option. In case you wish to add your own styling to the form, just replace the class mentioned in this code with the CSS class of your own design.

Here’s the view of the form with height and width set to 500.

3. Form Widget

Your RegistrationMagic web form can also be embedded in widgets. From your WordPress dashboard, go to Appearance >> Widgets menu. Within the list of available widgets, locate the RegistrationMagic Form widget.

Drag the RegistrationMagic Form widget from the Widget list and drop it on the widget area of your choice. For this example, I am adding the form to the Blog Sidebar. Then, select the form which you want to display in this widget. I have selected the General Purpose Registration Form.

4. User Directory

This option is also a shortcode, but displays the users that have submitted a form, instead of a form. Click on the icon and then click on the “Copy” link in the popup that appears next. This will copy the shortcode to display all users with successful form submissions on the frontend.

You can also tweak this shortcode by adding an extra parameter if you want to filter by time based form submissions. Omitting the form ID in the shortcode will display all users who have submitted all the published forms.

Combined with the form publish options mentioned above, this shortcode is all that you need to publish registration forms and display registered users on your WordPress site.

5. User Area

With the help of the User Area shortcode, you can now publish user profile containing user’s form submission data on the frontend. This User Area will contain different information tabs, such as “Personal Details”, “Registration”, and “Inbox”. User can access this area by logging in from the frontend of the site.

“Personal Details” tab displays the user’s picture, first name, email, and nickname. The “Registration” tab lists all the form submissions made by the user. Here’s how the user area appears on the frontend…

6. Magic PopUp

The Magic PopUp is an innovative solution offered only by RegistrationMagic. Magic PopUp allows users to access their form submission data, payment details, user profile personal details etc. all on one single button. This button floats on all pages of the site and users can access information offered by it no matter where they are on the site. Even forms can be made accessible through the Magic PopUp button. Which the users can then fill in and submit.

To make your form appear on the Magic PopUp button, click on its icon. Then, click on the star icon that appears on the popup that appears next. This will set your selected form as the default form on the Magic PopUp button.

Next, go back to the Global Settings >> Magic PopUp Button settings and turn on the MagicPopup system. Scroll down to the Custom Link #1 field and check the box next to it. Choose “Page” as “Link Type” and from the drop-down below, select your form. Then click the Save button to save the changes.

7. OTP Login

The OTP login system of RegistrationMagic helps users without WordPress login credentials to access the frontend user area. RegistrationMagic does this by checking whether email address was used during a past form submission by that user. If that is true and the user doesn’t have an account on the site, then the user receives an OTP on his/her email address.

To setup RegistrationMagic’s OTP login, go to Appearance >> Widgets menu in WordPress dashboard and look for the RegistrationMagic Login widget. This is the widget for RegistrationMagic form submissions with OTP login. Only non-registered users can access this feature as it doesn’t require a user to have a user account on the site.

Drag the widget and drop it to the widget area of your choice. I am adding it to the Blog Sidebar.

These unique features of RegistrationMagic make it indispensable to any admin seeking to publish registration forms and display registered users on his/her WordPress site. If you haven’t given RegistrationMagic a try yet, I am pretty sure you will after checking out this guide.

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If you are also building user profiles, memberships, and groups for registered users, do check out comprehensive shortcode list for RegistrationMagic’s companion plugin ProfileGrid.

WordPress Registration Shortcodes List:

Above WordPress registration form shortcodes list is updated till release 5.2.0.2.

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