Default Register

Registers members against WordPress itself, without an Ultimate Member form. The twin of Default Login.

Before you start

Plugin	None. WordPress core
Endpoint group	Default Authentication, plus ACF if you use ACF fields
Plan	Every plan

Add it to your app

1. Drag Default Register onto a navigation bar or the side drawer.
2. Choose which name fields to collect.
3. Set after registration.

Settings

Setting	What it does	Default
Username field	Collect a username	On
First name, Last name	Collect names	Off
Confirm password	A second password field	Off
Password strength	Require a minimum strength	Off
Minimum score	The strength required, when enabled	—
ACF field group	An Advanced Custom Fields group to collect	None
Allowed roles	Which role new members receive	Your site’s default
Social providers	Which providers to offer	None
After registration	Where members land	Stay where they are
Appearance	Screen background, wrapper, buttons	Inherits app tokens

Password strength

Turning it on with a minimum score stops members choosing something trivial. The strength meter renders as they type, so the requirement is visible before they submit rather than after.

ACF fields

Where Advanced Custom Fields is active, a field group can be collected during registration. Enable the ACF endpoint group as well as Default Authentication.

Every ACF field type is supported, including the four that ACF PRO adds — Repeater, Flexible Content, Gallery and Clone. A repeater’s rows can be added, reordered and removed; a flexible-content row picks its layout; a gallery takes several photos in the order they were chosen. Show-and-hide conditions inside a repeater are evaluated per row, so a rule naming a neighbouring field answers about that row.

A field’s width is honoured too: fields set to half width in ACF sit two to a line.

Keep the group small. Registration is the point where people abandon, and a field you could ask for later should be asked for later — on the Profile screen. That applies doubly to a repeater or a gallery — a form that asks for an unbounded list at sign-up is a form people close.

What your members see

The fields you enabled, with per-field validation errors, and social provider buttons where configured.

Registering through the WordPress core form

Terms & Conditions

With the Terms & Conditions service switched on under Memberside → Services, the screen shows an agreement checkbox after your fields, and the member cannot register until they tick it. The social provider buttons stay greyed out until then. Ultimate Member’s own Terms & Conditions extension does not reach this screen; only the service does. See Terms & Conditions for the setup and its limits.

Registration must be open on your site

WordPress’s Anyone can register setting still applies, under Settings → General. With it off, registration is refused however this feature is configured.

When it does not work

Symptom	Cause	Fix
Registration always refused	Anyone can register is off on your site	Turn it on
Wrong endpoint behaviour	Authentication is on instead of Default Authentication	Enable the right group
ACF fields missing	The ACF group is off, or the group is not selected	Enable it and choose the group
New members get the wrong role	The role is set here and on your site	Check both
Registers, then cannot sign in	Approval or confirmation is pending	Check the account in WordPress
No terms checkbox, with Terms & Conditions on	The installed app was built before the feature, or no page is chosen in the service	Rebuild, or choose a page
Social buttons are greyed out	Terms & Conditions is on and the box is not ticked	Expected. Ticking it enables them