Redirection for Locked Forms

I’ve reasoned out all your answers. But they are not good enough.

You see, I have come to realize that Forminator has a way of being lazy:

1.) I used Forminator to create Login and Registration Pages. But I later removed them because users couldn’t be logged-in to a User Dashboard— a User Dashboard that cuts off the WP Admin Dashboard.

2.) NO IN-BUILT REDIRECT OF THE WP LOGIN PAGE
If people type the wrong details multiple times on the Login Form created with Forminator, they are redirected to the WP Admin Login Page.

The reason we always want to create Custom Login and Registration pages, is always to bypass the WP Admin Login Page.

But Forminator couldn’t do this, and didn’t have this in-built. Such an error of judgement!

I decided to look into WP User Frontend, UsersWP, Profile Builder, Pie Register, and some other plugins that can be used to create Login and Registration Forms.

They all had In-built Redirect of the WP Admin or WP Login Page.

Forminator is the only Custom Login and Registration Form Builder that I know of, which didn’t think that an in-built redirect of the WP Admin Login Page is a compulsory necessity.

3.) Forminator decided to build Security Feature into any Form created with Forminator. Now this is a very beautiful Feature.

Where Forminator lags behind, is that, after securing the Form, it expects someone else to complete it’s job for it.

Forminator has this way of failing to complete its work, then sends you off to third party solutions to mend its uncompleted job.

If Forminator decides to lock a Form to logged-in Users, it should also have a way to notify people who come to the Form Page, that the item on the Page is Protected Content, and they need Logged in access, or User Permission to access it.

Forminator should go the extra mile of completing the security intent by creating a Message Page like this— https://prnt.sc/9iOYThVM2BZ4

Or create a space to fill in, a redirect to Login Page–if people select the Security Feature of “Lock Form to Logged in user“.

In conclusion:
–create Login and Registration without User Dashboard.

— Create Login and Registration without in-built Redirect for WP Admin Login Page.

— Secure Form without a Page to redirect users to, while trying to access the Page unauthorized, are the many ways that Forminator is really being lazy.

Forminator is really being lazy in the small but critical areas where it mattered the most.

If it’s to create Forms, we can always use Contact Form 7.

If Forminator is to be more than an ordinary Form Builder, it needs to do these things I’ve mentioned. And it needs to do more than these three(3) things I’ve mentioned, but the many others that other users have certainly requested.

Regards.

I may agree with you that Forminator is for Forms, and not a User Management System.

The one thing actually, that thrills me about Forminator, is that it is too sweet and too smooth to use. When it comes to creating Forms, I will score Forminator 5 Stars because Forminator made Form creation to be a very beautiful and smooth user experience.

The only part where I deviate is that– one thing that life allows is evolution. See the Story of SeedProd from here– https://wordpress.org/plugins/coming-soon/

It was originally created to be a Maintenance and “Coming Soon Page” plugin. But it evolved into a Full Website Builder.

Who then says, that Forminator cannot evolve as well, from being everything Forms only, to an equally User Management System?

So long as you have agreed to be able to create Login, Registration, Payment,Polls, and other kinds of forms, it shouldn’t be a problem for users to have a Dashboard where they can actually view all these submitted Data, away from the native WP Dashboard.

And so long as you have agreed to be able to create Custom Login and Registration Forms especially, a Frontend User Dashboard separate from the WP Admin Dashboard should factor natively into your equation.

The reason for this, is because it doesn’t make good sense to Register and Login with Custom Login and Registration Forms that will still bring me back to the same WP Admin Dashboard.

I would rather use White Label CMS plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/white-label-cms/) —- to Style and Customize the WP Admin Login and Registration Pages, then use the same White Label CMS to create different WP Dashboards for my different User Roles.

This rationale of the fact that creating Custom Login and Registration Pages, must mean that I intend these Custom Login and Registration Pages to totally bypass the default and native WP Admin Dashboard, is my request Number 1, and this is the only logical sense there can be to it, compared to whatever else you are thinking.

If I’m therefore stressing myself to create Custom Login and Registration Pages, it must be that these Custom Login and Registration Pages are totally bypassing the default and native WP Admin Dashboard, and helping me deal with my users through a Frontend Interface.

Helping me deal with my users through a Frontend Interface, is the only logical reason for wanting to create Custom Login and Registration Pages, else the native WP Dashboard fancified with White Label CMS plugin should be quite sufficient then.

2.)Honestly, if the Frontend User Dashboard is ready, then my other Two problems will automatically find their solution.

It means that the Redirect of the native WP Admin and WP Login Page will be a natively built-in Feature, then automatic Content Restriction to Logged-in-Users will also be possible because your Login Feature will be able to track Logged-In session cookies.

These are my ultimate desires of what I expect to see in Forminator in 2023. And I hope you will implement these soon.

Regards.`