What does Subscribed Users Mean?

You would need to add a registration form somewhere for them to subscribe. Unless they are assigned to a higher level like “editor” or “administrator, your basic “subscriber” can’t do much except manage their own profile. However, on the development front, you can do funky things like show different information to logged-in people than non-logged in people. There are also plug-ins that let Subscribers see certain posts & pages, and get other special treatment.

More info:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Roles_and_Capabilities

More on registration:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/wp_register

Thanks for the info and the links. I looked over the documentation and it referenced the file general-template.php found in the wp-includes directory. When I read the line for wp-register in the file, it looked fine but I still can’t figure out how to create the form. Is there a plugin for that that you might recommend?

Thank you,
Nuri

I used a variation of this code recently and it worked well:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/redirect-after-login-always-goes-to-profile-edit?replies=6#post-1216626

Well yhou clearly are WAY more advanced than I am, so please bare with me for the questions. Where would I place the script you wrote?

Thanks,
Nuri

Place it wherever you want the registration form on your site. ??

To be more precise – place it in the appropriate theme file, wherever you want the form to appear. i.e. if you want it in the sidebar, place it in sidebar.php, etc.

You could also place it in a text widget, if your theme is widgetized.

Hello again Kathryn,
You have been extremely helpful so please bare with me. The code you gave me worked but again, I am a beginner with this and certainly not a PHP programmer or anything like that.

When I placed the code into the text widget (my site has widgets), it looked funky in that the field were the ID goes contained php code and so did the submit button etc. I took a screen dump of to place here but there is no way.

Furthermore, how can I have less spaces between the Username and Password fields? And is there a way to have the form in it’s own section with a title (like a widget would do)?

Finally, when I have the login form, how do those who are qualified to register as subscribers going to register, where is that option.

I trully appreciate your patience and help Kathryn.

Thanks,
Nuri

P.S. I do like your site!!

Ah – I forgot there’s some PHP in the form and since you can’t have any PHP in a text widget it’ll need to go into directly into your theme files.

You can style the form using CSS and HTML.

Finally, when I have the login form, how do those who are qualified to register as subscribers going to register, where is that option.

Sorry, I don’t understand this question.

I mean when a person views the blog and sees the login form, how do they register in order to get the login ID etc. I setup (in settings) the default to allow users to register as subscribers but not sure how would the form be used with those who do not have ID’s. If I setup an ID for someone, presumably with editing or authoring privileges, they can use the form. But what does it do for the general population?

What does “Anyone can register” as subscriber do for folks? How can they register after I set this up in the setting menu?

Thanks for all your help Kathryn.

Nuri

Ah – that’s something I’ve never done. I just searched the plug-in repository and there are a number of user registration plug-ins you could look at: https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/search.php?q=user+registration&sort=