Fortunately, we can make use of the existing functionalities to implement registration from the frontend. We can use regular HTTP requests or AJAX-based techniques for implementing this feature. In this book, I am going to focus on a normal process instead of using AJAX. Our first task is creating the registration form on the frontend.
There are various ways to implement such forms on the frontend. Let's look at some of the possibilities as described in the following sections:
Shortcode implementation
Page template implementation
Custom template implementation
Now let's look at the implementation of each of these techniques.
Shortcodes are the quickest way of adding dynamic content to your pages. In this situation, we need to create a page for registration. Therefore, we need to create a shortcode that generates the registration form as shown in the following code:
add_shortcode( "register_form", "display_register_form" ); function...