Promising, not there yet

I installed this today after looking at a number of other registration plugins over several days. It looked promising especially as it is free and I do gratis programming for a couple of non-profits with zero budget. The autoresponder option and ability to check statistics looks would be very nice, and the pro upgrade is reasonably priced.

However, when I put in a label for “Phone (10 digits)” I got an error that the field label already existed. When I removed the “(10 digits)” portion the error went away and the field was created. When I tried later to put in a field label “Zipcode (5 digits)” it gave the same error but created the label anyway. When I then edited the phone field back to “Phone (10 digits)” it still complained but this time created the label the way I wanted.

None of my 3 dropdown boxes worked until I removed the “read only” option. This is not intuitive; my assumption since there was such an option, was that without the “read only” option checked, it would function as a combobox since there otherwise is not a combobox field type. A nice touch is, that typing a letter will bump you down the drop down list — nice for a list of 50 state abbreviations.

I also liked that there was a field automatically generated for “Confirm Password”.

The user interface is attractive and pretty intuitive. I did not try the CSS styling, delaying until I could test functionality. The “Advanced” options for field length restriction, required/optional worked correctly for my form.

Field order was easy to rearrange.

Fields are displayed in a vertical list. I’d like to be able to have more control over field size and validation. For now I guess I’ll stick with BuddyPress but this plugin does have potential and should work well for those who need a clean registration form but are not control freaks.