Beginner’s Guide: Adding Front-End Page in WordPress

As we all know that WordPress is not just a blogging tool, but more than that. It is a complete Content Management System (CMS) that offers lots of free themes and other flexible features. A number of freelancers use this platform to build a user-friendly and flexible site.

 

If you are a WP beginner, then you must have heard about terms- Back-end and front-end. Where backend is the behind the scene part of a website, the front-end is what your users will see when they visit your site. In this guide, we are going to learn about adding frontend page in the WordPress site.

This guide applies for both shared and VPS hosting platforms.

What is Front-end/custom page login?

Owning a WP site is not a hassle and if it is on a reliable host like 000webhost, things are easier than ever. To make your site working smoothly, all you need is the right information and user-friendly aspect. Thankfully. WordPress back-end makes administrative tasks easier. But when it comes to front-end, there is a lot of confusion within the site administrators and users as this is the part that your site visitors will see. Therefore, it is important to take care of it.

By default, WP allows its users to edit their profile info only from the backend dashboard. This feature is hardly appreciated by the WP site owners and they prefer update or users edit their profile front end. Front-end login page allows users to login from a custom page on the site rather of the default WP login page.

If you are confused regarding WordPress Login page, then you can look for the online guides like this one from000webhost.com that provides you with a complete overview about WordPress login page.

Now, let’s talk about-

Reasons why you need front-end page in WordPress

When users sign in to the WordPress site, it sends them to its profile page admin area by default. But, in the membership sites of WordPress, things are quite different as users don’t require any access to the WP dashboard.

If you are running a WP membership site without using any WP membership plugin, your users will only register and login using WordPress default login screen.

The easy way to do this is by adding a white label in the admin dashboard of WP and your own logo. However, if you don’t want users to get access to the admin area when they log in, then you have to add a custom login page.

This page works as same as any other page of your WP site. It uses styles, fonts, and colours, restricting users to get access or even see the admin area of the site.

Methods to create a front-end page in WordPress

If you are a WP beginner, then it is quite obvious adding front-end page seems like a challenge to you. Luckily, there are simple methods that can make things easier for you and allow you to create a custom page within no time.

Method 1- Install theme My Login

The step you need to do is installing a plugin- Theme My Login in WordPress. After activation, this plugin will enable a ‘front-end page’ that matches your WP theme. Now you can visit the login page and see the custom login page.

Theme My Login is a powerful plugin that can be also used to create custom profile pages, email, registrations and custom redirects. If you want to enable these features, click on the Theme My Login menu in the admin bar and configure the settings of the plugin.

Now see the box and enable each module as it will also enable the setting tab of the module. TML also has a custom login widget. To see it, click on Appearance >> Widgets page and then add TML widget to a sidebar.

Method 2: Create a front-end page using WP Forms

WordPress Forms are known as the most beginner friendly contact form WP plugin. Its premium version enables you to create a custom registration forms and WP login.

To start with it, first of all, you need to install and activate the WP Forms plugin then enter your license key on the setting page. To get your license key, just switch to WPForms site from your account.

After you have completed the verification, you need to move towards the WordPress Forms >> Add-ons page. Below you will discover a ‘User Registration Addon.’ Just click on the install Addon button near to it.

You will see WPForms will install the addon. Now press the activate icon to get it started. Once you’ve activated the addon, you can create a front-end form using WPforms.

WPForms >> Add Page (New) and then Enter form name >>Now choose User Login Form template

This launches WPForms builder and you will see the pre-loaded login fields in your form. Click it to edit it. Now in the next step, click on the Setting tab and click on confirmation. Now you will see that you are login successfully to the account.

Now you can show page and message to your users or can redirect them to any link you want. Save the settings and then close button to come out from form builder. Now you are ready to add this front-end login form to your WordPress site’s page.

This allows you to create a page or edit the prevailing one you want to use as your front-end login page.

You will see a popup where you need to choose the front-end login form that you’ve created before and then click on add form button. You will now see a shortcode appearing in the post editor. Continue with the page editing, save or publish.

You can now visit your website to your front-end page login.

Remember, the role of WPForms is not only to create a front-end login page, but you can also create custom user registration page along with anti-spam features.

To sum up

Creating a WordPress site is not as difficult as it seems, especially if it is on trustworthy host like Hostinger. However, the only thing you should consider is to make it user-friendly by adding user-friendly front-end page in the WordPress.