Registration form widget

Overview

The Registration form widget enables your website users to register in your website. After they create an account, they can then use the Login form widget to login.

Place the widget on the page

NOTE: Personalization of this widget is not supported.

You can place a Registration form widget only inside a Section widget.
To do this, perform the following:

  1. Inside a column from the Section widget, click Add widget here…
  2. Select the Login & Users tab.
  3. Click the Registration form widget.
    The widget is placed inside the selected column of the Section widget.

RESULT: The widget displays the First and Last name fields, the Email field, the Password and Repeat password fields, and a Register button.
You can change these labels in the advanced widget settings.

Widget settings

To open the widget settings, perform the following:

  1. In the page editor, hover over the widget.
  2. Click the toggle menu in the widget label.
  3. Click DotNetCore8 (Edit).
    The Login form page opens.

In the Select pages section you can do the following:

Choose what to do after a user registers

Under If form is submitted successfully, users will..., choose what to do after the users change their password:

  • If you want to display a message after a password is changed, select View message.
    You can configure the message in the advanced widget settings.
  • If you want to redirect the user to a particular page, select Redirect to page...
    Click Add (Select page) and select a page from your website.
    For example, you can select the login page.

To facilitate the users that are already registered, you can display a link to the login page.

To do this, under Login page, click Add (Select page) and select a page from your website.
The page must have the Login form widget.

The Registration form widget displays the Log in link.

Enable external identity providers

You can allow your users to login with external identity providers, such as social media.

PREREQUISITES: Before adding an external identity provider as an option to the Login form widget, you must first have configured it.

To do this, perform the following:

  1. Under Allow users to log in with…, click Add (Add).
  2. A list of external identity providers appears.
  3. Select one or more external identity providers.
  4. Click Use selected.
    The Registration form widget displays links to external identity logins.

In Display setting section, you can do the following:

Change the template

To change the template that the Registration widget uses, select the new template in the Registration template dropdown box.

You must first have created a custom template.
For more information, see Next.js pages and templates.

Configure the widget margins

In Margins, you can choose the margins between the text and the column where it is placed.
Choose from the predefined values of none, small, medium, or large.

Save your changes.

Advanced widget settings

To open the advanced settings, in the upper-right corner of the Registration widget page, click DotNetCore11  (Advanced settings)

  • In Label, you can enter a specific name for this widget. This name will be displayed in:
    • The page editor as a label for the widget
    • In the treeview with the page structure in the right pane of the page editor.
  • In CSS class, you can enter individual CSS class for the Login widget widget.

Save your changes.

Configure the labels of the widget

You can change the following labels:

LabelDescriptionDefault value
Registration headerThe label that is displayed on the frontend pageRegistration
First name field labelThe label of the field where the users enter their first nameFirst name
Last name field labelThe label of the field where the users enter their first nameLast name
Email field labelThe label of the username fieldEmail
Password field labelThe label of the field where the user enters the new passwordPassword
Reset password field labelThe label of the field where the user repeats the new passwordRepeat password
Secret question field labelThe label of the security question dropdown, if implementedSecret question
Secret answer field labelThe label where the user enters the answer of the security questionSecret answer
Register buttonThe label of the button that confirms the registrationRegister
Activation link headerThe instructional text set to inform the user that email activation is requitedPlease check your email
Activation link labelThe instructional text confirming that activation have been sent to the user emailAn activation link has been sent to
Send again linkThe label of the button for resending activation emailSend again
Send again labelThe confirmation message that the activation link has been resendAnother activation link has been sent to {0}. If you have not received an email please check your spam box.
Success headerThe header of the message that confirms the registrationThank you!
Success labelThe message that confirms the successful registrationYou are successfully registered.
Login labelThe label of the link to the login pageAlready registered?
Login linkThe text of the link to the login pageLog in
External providers headerThe header displayed above the buttons for external logins, such as Google or Facebookor connect with...
Required fields error messageThe message that is displayed when a required field is not filled outAll fields are required.
Invalid email error messageThe message that is displayed when an invalid email format is enteredInvalid email format.
Password mismatch error messageThe message that is displayed when the new password and its confirmation do not matchPassword and repeat password don't match.
Activation messageThe message that is displayed when the user follows the activation link and activation is successfulYour account is activated
Activation fail messageThe message that is displayed when the user follows the activation link and activation failsYour account could not be activated

Custom fields for User profiles

For more information, see Implement custom fields » Custom fields for User profiles.

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