How to Fill Custom Fields with WordPress User Registration Plugin

Need a WordPress user registration plugin with custom fields? You're in luck! Read more about a host of features to help customize your user registration form.

Capture more details during WordPress user registration

Many types of sites can benefit from creating user accounts, and the fewer fields in a registration form, the higher the conversion rates will be. This is a solid rule that I've repeated often. While WordPress registration forms should also be kept minimal, there are specific circumstances where a more complex form is essential.

Collect all the user profile details you need

This is where custom fields come in. Formidable allows you to include as many custom fields as you need! When your form is for club membership, event registration, or signing up for a service, does the same rule apply? Not always! When you are offering something unique that has real value, users will be willing to spend more time and give more details.

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Formidable isn't the only WordPress user registration plugin with custom fields. But we're proud that it's one of the most powerful and flexible options available. But how flexible is it?

With the User Registration add-on, it is possible to register new users from ANY front-end form that contains an email address. That's right - ANY form! This means a completely custom form with as many fields as you need and any field types you want. This includes the option to register new users from multi-step forms.

Your form needs to collect all the details relevant to your unique requirements. For event registrations, this may include contact details, professional affiliations, and even collect payment. Registration for a sports club could require specific questions about medical history. All this extra information can be captured at registration!

Building profiles with custom fields

When your website has profile pages for each user, these custom fields let you build an in-depth profile.

For better user experience, it's still a good idea to break long forms into smaller sections. Use page breaks to create multi-step forms and progress bars or rootlines to keep your form easy to use despite its length. Or break the profile into multiple forms, and each one can help build the user profile when a user is logged in.

Many detailed registration forms have a page for contact information, one for profile details & biography, another for social & website links, and possibly more for details specific to your website.

This form should be set to limit submissions to one per logged-in user. Also, front-end editing should be allowed on this form. This allows users to return to the form and update their profile details, add extra information that may not be required at signup, and build a fuller profile.

Don't want to build the form yourself? No problem. We've built a profile edit form template for you.

Learn More: Formidable's Multi-Step Form Feature

Easy integration with other WordPress user plugins

When you save user details into user profile custom fields, other plugins have access to that info. Membership plugins and many other types of plugins create user accounts. But they aren't form builder plugins, so the forms aren't usually easy to customize.

We often see Formidable Pro users integrate with other plugins in order to achieve a more customizable way to add and update user profiles. In fact, the profile form on this site is designed to work with Easy Digital Downloads to update invoice details. We have also used MemberPress to sign up users and then used Formidable user registration forms to manage profiles from there.

Use Views to display user profiles

For membership websites, it's great to have a way to use all that data and display a directory of your members. Again, Formidable makes this simple!

Use a dynamic View to set up a searchable member directory. Configure your main "All Entries" View to display only the main details of the profile (Perhaps Name, profile image, and membership level). Add a link to the detail View for each entry, so users can click to see the full profile. All the custom fields from your registration form can be used to populate this View, regardless of which form the data is stored in.

The best WordPress user registration plugin with custom fields?

Probably! But don't take our word for it, try it yourself today! All Formidable licenses come with a 14-day money-back guarantee. So check out its powerful features and make sure it fits your unique requirements 100% risk-free!