WordPress includes a standard registration from by default.
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However, you may want to allow users to share their profiles on social media. Or you may want them to submit their business phone number upon registration. You can do all of this by adding more profile fields.
This will help you gather specific data to support your website’s goals, whether it’s for a membership site, an online course, or a community forum.
In this article, we’ll show you how to easily add additional user profile fields to WordPress registration forms.
Why add additional user profile fields to WordPress registration?
By adding more user profile fields to your WordPress website’s registration form , you can collect additional user information. This can help you improve marketing campaigns, personalize content, or learn more about your audience.
For example, you can ask your users to provide their phone numbers or social media profiles when signing up for your WordPress site.
This way, you can send targeted SMS messages to your users or ask them to promote your WordPress blog on their social media accounts.
All of these additional fields can be useful if you run a membership website or allow users to subscribe to your blog. They can also be useful if you want to store additional contact information for other authors on your multi-author blog.
That said, let’s take a look at how to easily add additional user profile fields in WordPress. For this tutorial, we’ll discuss two methods, and you can use the links below to jump to the method of your choice:
- Method 1: Add Custom User Profile Fields Using Advanced Custom Fields (Recommended)
- Method 2: Add Additional User Profile Fields With Profile Extra Fields (Easy & Simple)
- Bonus: Make a Custom User Registration Form in WordPress
Method 1: Add custom user profile fields using Advanced Custom Fields (Recommended)
The best way to add additional fields to your WordPress user profile is to use the Advanced Custom Fields plugin. It allows you to choose from multiple fields and customize them to suit your needs.
First, you’ll need to install and activate the Advanced Custom Fields plugin . For more details, see our step-by-step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin .
Once the plugin is activated, simply go to the ACF “Field Groups” page from your WordPress admin sidebar and click the ‘+ Add Field Group’ button.
This will take you to a new page where you can start by typing a name for the field group.
Note that this will be the name of the entire group of fields and not the individual user’s field.
Next, scroll down to the “Fields” section and choose a field type from the drop-down menu.
For example, if you want users to provide their phone number upon registration, you can choose the “Number” option. If, on the other hand, you want users to provide their social media profiles, you can choose the “Text” option.
Once you’ve done this, enter the field name in the “Field Label” option. For example, if you want users to enter their Twitter username before signing up, you can enter it in the field.
The plugin will then automatically generate a field name that matches your tag name.
Next, you’ll need to go to the “Validation” tab at the top. Here you can make the field required by changing the toggle.
This way, users won’t be able to register on your WordPress site without filling out the additional field.
You can then even set a character limit for your custom field.
Now, go to the “Presentation” tab at the top.
Once there, you can add placeholder text, instructions, and wrapping attributes for your additional user profile field.
Next, scroll down to the “Settings” section and make sure the “Location Rules” tab is selected. Here, you need to set conditional logic for your custom field so that it only displays for your WordPress site’s registration form.
To do this, select the “User Form” option from the drop-down menu in the left corner of the screen. Then, select the “Registration” option from the drop-down menu in the right corner.
Finally, click the “Save Changes” button at the top of the screen to complete your settings.
If you want to add another additional field, you can also click the “+ Add Field” button.
Now visit your user registration page to see the additional user profile field in action.
This is what it looked like on our demo website.
Method 2: Add additional user profile fields with additional profile fields (easy and simple)
This method allows you to quickly and easily add additional fields to user profiles and registration forms in WordPress. It’s a little less flexible, but it gets the job done.
First, you’ll need to install and activate the Profile Extra Fields plugin . If you’re unsure how to do this, you can check out our full guide on how to install a WordPress plugin .
Once the plugin is activated, it’s time to create some additional user profile fields to use on your registration forms.
Let’s create a phone number field as an example, but you can add as many fields as you like.
First, visit the Additional Profile Fields » Add New page in the WordPress admin sidebar. Then, enter a name for the field next to the “Name” option.
For example, if you are creating a field for users to submit their phone number, you might type “Phone Number” as the field name.
Next, select a field type from the drop-down menu. If you’re adding a social media profile field, you can use the “Text Field” option.
However, if you want a field for phone numbers, you’ll need to select that option from the drop-down menu.
You can then also enter a pattern for the phone number field or add a description.
Next, scroll down to the “Field Properties” section and select the check boxes for the user profiles for which you want this field to appear.
For example, if you want this field to appear for all authors who register on your WordPress site, you can check the box next to this user profile.
You can choose as many user profiles as you like.
You can also select the “Required” box if you don’t want users to register without completing this form field.
Make sure the ‘Always show on user registration form’ box is checked so that your user field is displayed on the form.
Finally, click the “Save Changes” button to configure your settings.
Now, you’ll need to go to your WordPress dashboard to change some settings for new registrations.
Go to the Settings » General page of your WordPress admin area and check the Membership box so anyone can sign up for your website.
Next, you’ll need to make sure the default profile is set to the profile for which you added additional fields. Then, click the “Save Changes” button to configure the settings.
This way, you can control the level of access new users have, and this will force the registration form to display the fields you selected earlier in this tutorial.
This is what the default registration form looks like on our demo website.
Bonus: Create a Custom User Registration Form in WordPress
The methods in this tutorial have shown you how to add additional user profile fields to the default WordPress registration form.
However, if you want to create a custom user registration form in WordPress, you can also easily do so using the Forms plugin .
In our opinion, it’s the best form plugin for WordPress . We’ve used it to create contact forms and annual surveys. To learn more about our experience, see our full Forms review .
It allows you to easily design your user registration form using a drag-and-drop editor. It also integrates seamlessly with plugins like Advanced Custom Fields, so you can easily insert additional user profile fields.
For detailed instructions, follow our tutorial on how to create a custom user registration form in WordPress .
We hope this tutorial helped you learn how to add additional user profile fields to your WordPress login. You might also want to check out our beginner’s guide on how to create a custom login page in WordPress and our comparison of the best WordPress login plugins .
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