Tutorial Details
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Estimated Completion Time: 30 min
In this tutorial, I will guide you through the process of making a beautiful “Register” form, using Fancybox, jQuery, and, of course, WordPress. As you’ll find, the process is really quite simple.
Step 1. The Markup
First, let’s place our button at the top of the page, replacing the default description in the theme.
<div id="registration"><a class="show register-button" href="#register-form">Register</a></div>
Notice that in the register button, the href (#register-form) is the same ID as the form below. We’re also using the class “.show” to call FancyBox with jQuery.
We need our base; let’s create our markup. Open header.php, and place this following snippet anywhere you’d like.
<div style="display:none"> <!-- Registration --> <div id="register-form"> <div class="title"> <h1>Register your Account</h1> <span>Sign Up with us and Enjoy!</span> </div> <form action="" method="post"> <input type="text" name="" value="Username" id="" class="input"/> <input type="text" name="" value="E-Mail" id="" class="input" /> <input type="submit" value="Register" id="register" /> <hr /> <p class="statement">A password will be e-mailed to you.</p> </form> </div> </div><!-- /Registration -->
Note that I’m using display:none to hide the form initially.
Step 2. CSS
The CSS is rather simple; I’m merely styling a quick form design in PhotoShop.
The form, minus the styling, looks like so: (note that I’ve removed the display:none in the markup to check my styles)
Let’s next begin styling our box.
div#register-form {
width: 400px;
overflow: hidden;
height: 230px;
position: relative;
background: #f9f9f9 url(images/secure.png) no-repeat 260px 40px;
font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial !important;
}
Continuing on, I’ll now style the text inputs, adding some fanciness.
div#register-form input[type="text"] {
display: block;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
margin: 5px 20px;
padding: 9px 4px;
-moz-border-radius: 4px;
-webkit-border-radius:4px;
width: 200px;
font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial !important;
}
div#register-form input[type="text"]:hover {
border-color: #b1b1b1;
}
div#register-form input[type="text"]:focus {
-moz-box-shadow: 0 0 3px #ccc;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 3px #ccc;
}
Now, I’ll style the button, adding a hover state, and replacing the default button with an image.
div#register-form input[type="submit"]#register {
background: url(images/register.jpg) no-repeat;
border: 0;
clear: both;
cursor: pointer;
height: 31px;
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
left:295px;
text-indent: -9999px;
top:42px;
width:92px;
}
div#register-form input[type="submit"]#register:hover {
background-position: 0 -32px;
}
Finally, we add some general styling.
div#register-form span {
display: block;
margin-bottom: 22px;
}
div#register-form div.title {margin-left:15px}
div#register-form div.title h1,
div#register-form div.title span {text-shadow:1px 1px 0px #fff}
div#register-form div.title h1 {
margin:7px 0;
}
p.statement {
position:absolute;
bottom:-2px;
left:10px;
font-size:.9em;
color:#6d6d6d;
text-shadow:1px 1px 0px #fff;
}
Voila! we have our form. Now, let’s move forward with the jQuery functionality.
Step 3. jQuery
First, we need to include jQuery within WordPress. To achieve this, we need to place the following chunk of code before the <head> tag within the header.php file. Remember, as WordPress itself utilizes jQuery, we don’t want to potentially load it twice!
<?php wp_enqueue_script("jquery"); ?>
<?php wp_head(); ?>
Download Fancybox and place it in your WordPress folder. To organize things a bit more, I’ve created an “Includes” folder.
Next, open your footer.php file, and place the following before the end of the </body> tag
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/includes/fancybox/jquery.fancybox-1.3.1.css" media="screen" />
<!-- Javascript -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/includes/fancybox/jquery.mousewheel-3.0.2.pack.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/includes/fancybox/jquery.fancybox-1.3.1.pack.js"></script>
And now, let’s call the fancybox method; paste this after the code above and before the closing body tag.
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
jQuery(".show").fancybox({
'titleShow' : 'false',
'transitionIn' : 'fade',
'transitionOut' : 'fade'
});
});
We’re done! Our form has been created; we lastly just need to pass the necessary WordPress information to make it function properly.
Step 4. WordPress
There is nothing fancy here; we only require two WordPress snippets, hidden within the wp-login.php file.
The first snippet:
<?php echo site_url('wp-login.php?action=register', 'login_post') ?>
And:
<?php do_action('register_form'); ?>
The final code should look like so:
<div style="display:none"> <!-- Registration -->
<div id="register-form">
<div class="title">
<h1>Register your Account</h1>
<span>Sign Up with us and Enjoy!</span>
</div>
<form action="<?php echo site_url('wp-login.php?action=register', 'login_post') ?>" method="post">
<input type="text" name="user_login" value="Username" id="user_login" class="input" />
<input type="text" name="user_email" value="E-Mail" id="user_email" class="input" />
<?php do_action('register_form'); ?>
<input type="submit" value="Register" id="register" />
<hr />
<p class="statement">A password will be e-mailed to you.</p>
</form>
</div>
</div><!-- /Registration -->
Please note that it’s really important, and necessary, to have user_login as a name and as an ID in your text input; the same is true for the email input. Otherwise, it won’t work.
And with that, we’re done!
Conclusion
With a touch of code, and some tweaks, we’ve managed to build a great looking “Register Form” for our users. What do you think?
Enjoyed this Post?
Subscribe to our RSS Feed, Follow us on Twitter or simply recommend us to friends and colleagues!
By Ivor Padilla
Join our newsletter!
Create a Tutorial, Get Paid!
Have something to teach the world? Want to earn money doing it? Tutorials, screencasts, and articles published here on Nettuts+ are largely contributed by readers just like you! We'll pay you great money for good content. Find Out More
Rudy, I’m currently integrating this in Genesis, and it works fine. I’m using jquery colorbox for the popup.the only thing I can’t get to work is that when I register it doesn’t stay in the modal window but closes it and goes to the wp-login.php
Hey.
Great tutorial! :)
Btw, why is it not sending the password to my email?
thanks!
what wordpress are you using? if you’re using wordpress version 3.1.3, these are the codes missing:
and
>
Notice the name= and id= from the code provided their null that is why no parameters are being passed to the registration.
ooopppsss i can’t paste the code…
just copy the last piece of the code under… “The final code should look like so:”
Great Tutorial , But Please Tell Me Where Could I Put The Styling In Which File ?
I love the secure.png image you used, any way to steal that from you???
When I’m clickin within the fields my fancybox is closing, as if I did press the close button. Any help on that?
Well, for me it works, it loads in fancybox but it’s not loading caring about the styles i used in my css somehow – I don’t know why, the background is black, i get like a 10px white border around it – I checked my css for duplicate names but everything looks fine, what can I do?
hi there…
i noticed in the Meedoo theme, when i click submit in the form, it automatically goes to the login page
how is this achieved?
i have created an order form in a fancybox/iframe, but when i click submit it just stays in the fancybox.
is it because it is an iframe…
hope you can help
This is really great, together with little wp-login.php tweaking this will make registration look way more professional
Can i add a password field to enable user set their password.
All you need is this, with ajax fallback as well.
you don’t need the ids actually, all you need is method post, proper names and that’s pretty much.
This is excellent! Almost exactly what I need =)
I must ask though, instead of having the pop up box appear when you click ‘login’, how can I make it appear when a visitor clicks to go to a particular page? I have one page that I want visitors to log in before viewing, so I’d love for this posh pop up to show to prompt them to log in to view the page fully, and to not show when they are already logged in.
Any ideas how I can do this? Thanks!!
I followed tutorial above step by step but there is no pop up appear when i clicked on register link, could you help me please
something may help you Kubodo,if you copied the code make sure that you have uploded the fancybox folder into a new directory in your theme and name it includes ,check the file name of the fancybox scripts and css you may have another version than the one used here .
<<<<< add this
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
jQuery(".show").fancybox({
'titleShow' : 'false',
'transitionIn' : 'fade',
'transitionOut' : 'fade'
});
});
<<<<< add this
Hi, i try to make it work but it doesn’t. The form doesn’t pop up.
I change the fancybox for the latest one 1.3.4
Can you tell me something about this code
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
jQuery(“.show”).fancybox({
‘titleShow’:'false’,
‘transitionIn’:'fade’,
‘transitionOut’:'fade’
});
});
You ask to add it in the footer.php just befor the what i done. But this script appear in my front end, i suppose it should not??? Is there any error in it?
Regards
Ok, just found the solution the code should be inside script balise.
Can someone tell me where to put the two snippet in the wp-login.php file. I suppose is this that make not functioning the form. When i fill the two fields and press enter it redirect me to the wp-signup.php. I suppose it is not what the form is suppose to do.
So i think is the two snippet that i don’t add at the right place but i have no clue where to add it.
Can someone can help me!