Title: Front end user Registration
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Front end user Registration

 *  [JFlynnRN](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jflynnrn/)
 * (@jflynnrn)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/front-end-user-registration/)
 * I am the volunteer webmaster for a community website:
    [http://Www.telliconewvillagers.com](http://Www.telliconewvillagers.com).
 * I want to require visitors to register before being able to view the site.
    I
   don’t especially care about requiring a password and we don’t allow comments 
   or posting as the site is for info only. We just want to know who is visiting.
 * Doesn’t WordPress have this capability WITHOUT using a plugin?
 * Several kind people have responded to my request and suggested some nice sounding
   plugins, but it just seems like it should be something WP should have. I am quite
   new at dealing with website issues and am concerned that Plugins might be complicated
   to implement and might conflict with other parts of the websites.
 * Would be interested in any thoughts on this subject.
    Thanks in advance JoAnne

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 *  [jon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adiant/)
 * (@adiant)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/front-end-user-registration/#post-5779305)
 * Compared with, say, Microsoft Office, WordPress has limited functionality. WordPress
   is Open Source and free of charge to use, and support is free, too. Office is
   not.
 * The Plugin approach allows additional functionality to be provided without burdening
   the WordPress Core development team with thousands of additional pieces of functionality
   to worry about, which would otherwise increase the manpower required to keep 
   WordPress moving forward.
 * Different mindset.
 * As a user, it is an investment in time to determine which Plugins are going to
   be needed. I talk about those choices in a WordCamp presentation I did a year
   ago: [http://jonradio.com/wordcamp/2013.pdf](http://jonradio.com/wordcamp/2013.pdf)
 *  [Tribal Wolves](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tribal-wolves/)
 * (@tribal-wolves)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/front-end-user-registration/#post-5779318)
 * It is not possible to do front-end registration and login without any plugins.
   
   If i may ask, why are you affraid of using plugins? If it inflects your website
   in any way , just disable it.
 * A great users plugin will help you out here – [https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-member/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-member/)
 * It is possible to FORCE front-end registration and login and it have option to
   hide pages from non-logged-in users.
 *  [jon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adiant/)
 * (@adiant)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/front-end-user-registration/#post-5779381)
 * My own plugin takes a different approach: block the site from anyone not logged
   on, and let WordPress handle the Registration and Login in the normal function:
   [https://wordpress.org/plugins/jonradio-private-site/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/jonradio-private-site/)
 *  [jon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adiant/)
 * (@adiant)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/front-end-user-registration/#post-5779393)
 * In the interests of giving a complete answer, the alternative to Plugins for 
   WordPress is to write your own PHP code to add the functionality you want.
 * Ironically, the best way to do that is by writing your own (private) plugin. 
   The WordPress Plugin API is meant for exactly that: adding your own code.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [jon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adiant/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/front-end-user-registration/#post-5779393)
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