Simplr Registration Form Plugin

Installation Instructions:

Download and unzip the package. Upload the simplr_reg_page folder into your wp-content/plugins directory. Go to your plugins dashboard and click “Activate”.

Usage Instructions:

To use this plugin simply employ the shortcode [Register] on any WordPress post or page. The default role is “subscriber”. To apply another role to the registration simply use the the role parameter, for instance: [Register role="editor"]. If you have created custom roles you may use them as well.

You can also use shortcode so specify a custom confirmation message for each form:

[Register role="teacher" message="Thank you for registering for my site. If you would like to encourage your students to register, please direct them to http://www.domain.com/students"]

Finally, you can specify emails to be notified when a new user is registered. By default site admins will receive notice but to notify others simply use the notify parameter:

[Register role="teacher" message="Thank you for registering for my site. If you would like to encourage your students to register, please direct them to http://www.domain.com/students" notify="email1@email.com,email2@email.com"]

Plugin Options:

Please feel free to suggest future options for this plugin in the comments. The current options are:

• Admin Email: Specify the FROM email you would like to use for the registration confirmation message.
• Confirmation Message: Customize the message you would like to appear in the confimation email.
• Style: Overrides the default stylesheet included with the plugin.

At any rate, for anyone who’s running a pods installation and having trouble getting SEO friendly titles on your pod pages, this plugin creates a template tag <?php pods_seo_title(); ?> that you can use to override wordpress default behavior. The plugins check to see if the page is a pod page, and if so calls the title of the respective pod. If not, it checks to see if the page is singular and returns the TITLE | SITENAME format if it is. Otherwise it returns the SITENAME | SITE DESCRIPTION form.

Download: Pods SEO Titles

Admittedly, I’m biased. You can read my review of WordPress Pods CMS here. But here’s my two cents anyway:

1. If all you’re looking for is a way to add a new content type, and it’s ok that that content type is mostly based on the “post” format, then flutter will probably get you there. Flutter basically customizes the user interface for entering custom fields. Theoretically you could even get rid of all the default fields and use all custom fields instead.
2. But if you need to create all new content types and need to have complete control over the end-user experience then pods is a much better choice. Pods is especially powerful when creating directories where you need to cross reference fields. For instance, you want to create a list of events where the end user can click on the speaker’s name and see all other events with that speaker. Trying to do this with flutter would be a nightmare. But with pods, you create a pod table for events and one for speakers, set up a template, and your done. Well, it’s not quite that easy … but it’s close.

The advantage of pods is that it’s robust and dynamic. Flutter is essentially just an advanced hacked. Pods is a true extension. But the disadvantage of pods is that, at least for now, it is still a tool for developers who know their html and at least a little bit of PHP. A novice user is going to find Pods maddening!

More info on Pods and Flutter.