Simplify your Joomla user registration form

Presented at Sydney Joomla User Group 8th November 2016By Tim Plummer

Standard Joomla Registration Form

Need to enter password and email twice

What I wanted

First challenge

How to make it so you only need to enter email and password once

Found two solutions• Via a plugin• Using a template override

Solution 1 - plugin

Solution 1 - plugin

That’s one way to do it

Solution 2 – template override

/components/com_users/views/registration/tmpl/default.php

Copy to

/templates/yourtemplate/html/com_users/registration/default.php

Solution 2 – template override

Add in some javascript

The result so far

Now we only have one password and email field

Now to get rid of username

Using template override option

Getting closer

Now to split name into firstname and lastname

Using User Enhancement Manager (UE Man)

We have all the fields now

But it doesn’t look pretty yet

Time to rewrite the template override

Fields are in right order now

Now apply some CSS styling

Questions?

Tim Plummerwww.tamlynsoftware.com

@bfsurvey