
A customizable front end user management plugin for membership sites. Use shortcodes for registration, login, restricting access, membership fees, etc
Front-End Only Users is a user management and membership plugin that allows for front-end user registration and login, and for admins to restrict access to portions of their websites to certain users. No need to give access to your WordPress dashboard (unless you want to).
Includes Gutenberg blocks for the following features: register, login, logout, user search, user list, edit account, forgot password and confirm forgot password!
Simply insert the user registration shortcode below on any page to create a user registration form, allowing visitors to sign up as users on the front end of your site. User level selection is also available on registration.
[register] Alternatively, you can use the included Gutenberg blocks. Just search for the feature you want (e.g. “login” or “register”) and add the block to the page.
The front end users are separate from the standard WordPress users, so they have no access to the back end of your site. You can restrict access of different pages to specific users. Also, user management is simple and effective. Additionally, there is a bulk user import feature, via spreadsheet, to make user management and getting started with front-end users even easier.
Ideal for restricted content, membership, dating sites and more!
Front-End Only Users is completely customizable using CSS and is easily personalized. The available registration shortcode, login shortcode and other user shortcodes, can be used to insert registration forms, login forms, edit profile forms and many more forms on any page of your website. You can also make use of shortcodes for content restriction, to restrict access to frontend users who are logged in.
[login] Insert the login shortcode above on any page to display a login form, allowing front end users to log in to access restricted content.
[restricted]Content to restrict goes here[/restricted] Any content placed between the restricted shortcodes above will only be shown to users who are logged in. Further options are available to restrict access to only those who have a specific value for a custom user field.
Create different user fields in the registration form for members to fill out and customize content based on their profiles. User shortcodes are available to display front-end user profiles or allow visitors to perform a user search. Customize forms with CSS to suit your user management needs using the Admin panel.
Type any shortcode name and help (ex:[login help) in any WordPress page to get a complete list of the shortcode’s attributes.
If you have existing members that you’d like to import into the plugin or if you’d like to export your current users to perform bulk updates, no need to worry. Front-End Only Users has a helpful user import feature. If you have a lot of users that you need to add into the system, you can easily perform a user import from a spreadsheet, to get all users into the plugin in one shot.
The premium version of the Front-End Only Users plugin comes with several features that will allow you to enhance your user management and content restriction. This includes the ability to set different user roles / user levels for specific content restriction, to require administrator approval for registrations, to restrict pages based on level, to customize notification emails and more!
Need to set up a paid subscription? Front-End Only Users includes paid membership features that can be broken down by user level, so that different pay user levels can have different restricted access on your site. The included custom user role features allow you to restrict access to different portions of your site to different frontend user groups. These access levels provide a user management experience that makes it easy to set up a paid membership site, monetize your content and segment your users!
** We are pleased to offer a free 7-day trial of the premium version of Front-End Only Users, which you can use to test out all the features before buying the premium version! **
A complete list of the plugin shortcodes can found on our FAQ page, here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/front-end-only-users/faq/
For further information and purchasing options, please visit our WordPress user management plugin homepage.
Thanks to the generous contribution of many of those who use our front-end only users plugin, we’re able to include translation files for the following languages:
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Please note that you can type ‘help’ after any shortcode (in the admin) and it will display a list of that shortcodes available attributes and what each attribute does. (A conflict with some themes makes it so that you may need to be in Text/HTML mode, and not Visual, for this to work.) For example:
[register help
User registration:
Logging in and out:
To manually create a user:
Restricting content:
User profile, user lists, user data and user search:
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Customize your front-end users experience by making use of the many available settings and options, including user login time, WordPress user account linking, sign-up emails, crypt, email confirmation (premium), user admin approval (premium), user activity tracking (premium) and more.
For a list of specific features, see the Front-End Only Users description page here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/front-end-only-users/.
For help and support, please see:

Simple registration page with custom user fields

Login page

Registration page with social login enabled

Restricted page with content preview

Sample user listing page showing all users who specified their "Gender" as "Male" displayed

User search page where visitors can search for users with a specific first name

Forgot password first page in two-step confirmation process

Payment page as part of registration

The "Dashboard" admin screen showing recent user activity

The "Statistics" overview admin screen, showing most visited content and recent user activity

The "Fields" admin screen, where you can create and edit fields

The "Levels" admin screen, where you can create and edit user levels

The "Basic" section of the "Options" admin screen

The "Premium" section of the "Options" admin screen

The "Payment" section of the "Options" admin screen, showing the customizable options

The "Commerce" section of the "Options" admin screen

The "Labelling" section of the "Options" admin screen

The "Styling" section of the "Options" admin screen.

The "Emails" admin screen, where you can modify the different emails that the plugin can send out

The "Payments" admin screen, showing recent payments, amount paid, next payment date and discount code used
Type the shortcode name and help (ex:[login help) in any WordPress page to get a complete list of the shortcode’s attributes.
On the admin page, go to the “Fields” tab. After creating fields, you can drag and drop them to change their order.
You can use the [restricted] shortcode to block sections from non-logged in users, as well as to block other sections from logged-in members.
To block content from non-logged in visitors, you’d simply wrap the content in [restricted][/restricted] tags:
[restricted]Content goes here[/restricted]
To block a portion of content from logged in users, it would looks like:
[restricted block_logged_in=’Yes’]Content goes here[/restricted]
For either tag, you can suppress the message that appears for blocked users if you want to hide content seamlessly by adding “no_message=’Yes'” so:
[restricted no_message=’Yes’]Content goes here[/restricted]
You need to add the following attributes to your [login] or [register] shortcodes: ‘redirect_field’: the field the redirect is based off of (ex. Gender) and ‘redirect_array_string’: a comma separated list of pages to redirect to (ex. Male => http: //ManPage.com, Female => http: //WomanPage.com)
You can use the [user-data field_name=’First Name’] shortcode, assuming that you called your field “First Name” for a user’s first name.
Click on the user you want to approve to see their details and there should be a radio button at the top of the page to approve the user.
To restrict content to a certain level(X) your shortcode would be: [restricted level=’X’]…content[/restricted]
For all levels above “X” level: [restricted minimum_level=’X’]…content[/restricted]
For all levels below “X” level: [restricted maximum_level=’X’]…content[/restricted]
You can add the attribute ‘redirect_page’ to the register tag to send newly registered users to a new page: [register redirect_page=’http://www.example.com’]
Check the “Options” page, and make sure that ‘Login Time’ isn’t blank. If it’s blank, then you’re only logged in for a second. Anything non-blank and higher than 0 should solve the problem.
You can add the attribute [no_message=’Yes’] to your shortcode, so it would look something like this: [restricted field_name=’Name’ field_value=’Alex’ no_message=’Yes”/restricted]
You could add the [user-data] tag to your header file and wrap it in restricted tags so that only logged in users can see it.
To add the confirmation link to the email, you need to include the shortcode [confirmation-link] inside the body of your e-mail.
You would want to create a separate page with the [forgot-password] shortcode, and then another page with the ‘confirm-forgot-password’ shortcode on it. For the [forgot-password] shortcode, you would then add an attribute ‘reset_email_url’ with a value set to whatever URL you’re using for the [confirm-forgot-password] shortcode.
Content can be restricted using the [restricted][/restricted] tag. Any content between the opening and closing tags will only be visible to those who are logged in. To redirect a user when the user in not logged in you would want to use the [login redirect_page=’url’] shortcode where the url is the login page you want to redirect to.
You can customize the plugin by adding code to the “Custom CSS” box on the “Options” page. For example, if you want the button to be red you might try adding:
.ewd-feup-submit.pure-button.pure-button-primary {background: red;}
If you have the premium version, all colors, fonts, sizes, etc. can be customized through the “Styling” area of the “Options” tab.
A great place to start learning about how to translate a plugin is at the link below: http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how-to-translate-a-wordpress-plugin
Once translated, you’ll need to put the translated mo- and po- files directly in the lang folder and make sure they are named properly for your localization.
If you do translate the plugin, other users would love to have access to the files in your language. You can send them to us at Contact@EtoileWebDesign.com, and we’ll be sure they’re included in a future release.
For more questions and support you can post in the support forum:
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/front-end-only-users
Take a look at the plugin documentation:
http://www.etoilewebdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/FrontEndOnlyUserPluginDocument.docx.pdf
Video 1 – Installation and Setup
Video 2 – Basic Shortcodes and Attributes
Video 3 – Advanced Shortcodes and Attributes
Video 4 – Options
Video 5 – Widgets
Video 6 – Public Functions
Video 7 – One-Click Installer
= 2.9.8
– Fixed an error message that was coming up
= 2.6.0=
– Finished the “Level” payments feature, making it possible to let users upgrade to paid memberships to access higher tiered content. We’ve done quite a bit of testing with it, but it’s more complicated than memberhsip payments, so let us know if you come across anything that doesn’t seem to make sense.
= 2.4.0
– Very large update, tonnes of new features so be carefule integrating the new version into live sites (note all previous versions are available at https://wordpress.org/plugins/front-end-only-users/developers/)
– Added support for WordPress users to be able to create profiles and log in
– Added PayPal integration, so that you can charge a membership fee
– Added a minimum password length option
– Added a profile picture custom field type
– Added a strength indicator for user passwords
– Fixed the “Country List” field type
– Fixed a few small errors