User Registration Add On Questions

I originally posted this as a comment to the Announcement release for the add on, but realized it was probably more appropriate to put this in the forum. Please delete the comment.

Also FYI, doesn't look like you have a forum category for this Add On yet.

Anyway, I've just started testing this new Add-on, as I think its going to really help me with what I'm wanting to achieve, and have some questions.

When creating Custom User Meta and associating it with Form Fields it does not appear to add anything to the Users Profile, but the registration process does complete. I’m assuming if this was working correctly, the Custom User Meta fields should show up on the users profile, and the user should later be able to edit their Custom User Meta fields from the Profile Edit Page correct?

Also, it would be great if you had an option for adding a "Log-In" Advanced Field. That would allow to put Log-In Fields at the top of the form or within a form, requiring Log-In before being able to fill out additional fields.

Also, what about creating forms that allow you to Add Custom User Meta to a profile without being an actual registration form. For instance the user is already registered and you want to allow a logged in user to fill out a form that would add new User Meta to their profile?

You can see a form that I’m hoping to make work with Gravity Forms here.

http://athleticode.com/forms/website-registration-form/

I basically have three types of registrations in this single form. The first field of the form lets the user choose their type of registration. Conditional Logic is used to determine what fields are offered for their registration type. Two of the registration options give the user different roles on the site. The 3rd option is for a user that is already registered for the site but needs to fill out the form to register additional information regarding a purchase and associate additional User Meta to their account.

Hopefully that makes sense. :)

Thanks for your work on this GREAT Add On!

Thanks for the feedback Carl!

I would definitely like to put in these feature requests for this Add On, especially for being able to add and edit user meta on the User Profile Page as well as being able to add User Meta to a user without actually requiring Registration on the form. Seems like you guys would already have a good start on being able to do that. I also think a "Login" advanced field is a no-brainer, one that could work inline within a form.

I also have a few questions, as I've been waiting for this add-on. I have a form where users can submit a news story, and I plan to have a user created when they submit with name, email and bio. So here are my questions
1.) If I don't include a password field, will wordpress just autogenerate it?
2.) If a user submits another form later and fills out all the information - will it try to create the user again and fail?

Cheers!
Barbara

Hi Carl,

A couple more questions for you... I'm trying to keep this a very simple front end form for users to upload a local news story. If I'm lucky, people will come back and submit more than once ;-)

1.) If they have already submitted once, does this mean that they now have to login to wordpress "proper" and can't use the form on my site anymore for future submissions?

2.) Or, is there a way to create another gravity form that basically bypasses the standard wordpress login screen and interface and let's registered authors do more submissions easily?

3.) Is there a way to add more information to my first form - for example text that says something about if you have already submitted and have a user account please click here to login - and allows me to link to another gravity form or enter an a href to do this?

I've been trying to search the forums, but my goodness there is a log of information here. Please feel free to point me to another post if this has already been discussed.

The initial user creation was absolutely perfect, including setting the post author and the bio - so I'm very encourage ;-)

Thanks in advance for your time - and Happy New Year!

Best,
Barbara

Thanks Carl!