Profile Builder – Registration, Login and Profile Software

WordPress is a great open-source website platform/’framework’, but it is a complex system and lacks numerous features that are essential for any modern website to fully function and shine. It was designed that way so it needs additional coding by way of developer programming and/or innovative plugins.

Profile Builder is an easy-to-use, powerful WordPress plugin. If you run a website using WordPress then this software will extend your standard WordPress by adding full and flexible professional user registration, login and account profile facilities. It is a dream to use and we use it on several of our SelectWebGroup.com sites including this site! We have used the software since 2018 when we purchased the full plugin versions of both Profile Builder and Paid Membership Subscriptions from Cozmoslabs. We went with Profile Builder after carefully evaluating and testing all the main competitor products. This took some time since there is much ‘expensive regurgitated helpfulness’ promoted and shared on the web, commonly high up within search results, and when most of the products when actually examined, were in our view really not up to the task.

Some notable facilities available with Profile Builder are:

You can set up your user registration system exactly how you wish: (You can set up one simple new registration form or have multiple forms for different types of user.)
There is a good choice of professional preset styles for your forms, or you can style them exactly how you wish with your own CSS if you prefer. A good looking, fully-functional registration and profile system increases sign-ups and helps you communicate effectively.
Login: There are numerous options for setting up an effective, secure and modern website login system. (again with different style templates.) These are easily set up with options for automatically confirming new users’ email addresses and authorising new registrations manually if you wish. The email communications you choose to send out to registered users are easily customised by you via an email dashboard, and it starts off with sensible default email templates that you can tailor if you wish. (Or alternatively just use them as standard). You are completely in control and decide which notifications are to be sent.
Account Profile: Once registered, your users can easily edit their registered profiles via Profile Builder’s frontend website forms where you choose what information fields are to appear in each form.

The facilities are very extensive and you really need to peruse the official site to fully appreciate the depth and professionalism of this plugin software. We suggest you opt for the Pro version which includes all the following features:

High level custom redirects: so you can easily protect areas of your site and also direct users to specific pages after certain actions. (For example: after logins, logging out, completing certain forms, registering, or after a user edits their profile.) This also directs users to your own professional login and other frontend forms rather than use the standard WordPress ones. (It also keeps users out of WordPress admin areas.)
Website restricted areas: You can easily and with confidence restrict areas of your site to certain users, maybe restricting what products they can see and/or purchase.
Extensive Login, Registration, Edit Profile and password reset forms: that can quickly be added anywhere on your site using flexible shortcodes or Gutenburg blocks. Your forms can contain as many custom fields as you like (including repeater fields and conditional logic), and the forms are quick to edit and order using ‘drag and drop’.
Add useful facilities to your forms like: Honeypot or Captcha fields to reduce spambot and false form entries, terms and conditions acceptance and GDPR checkboxes, GDPR Comminations preference check-boxes to help users consent on how they wish to be contacted (E-mail, SMS, Phone or Post)
Multi-Step Forms: that allow larger forms to be more easily digestible for users by splitting the entry sections into groups or separate pages.
Social Login facility: can make it easier for you visitors to login to your site using their Google, Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn accounts, without having to remember new passwords.
WooCommerce Integration: If you run a shop then you can easily synchronise WooCommerce’s shipping and billing fields with your Profile Builder forms as well as being able to restrict parts of your site to logged-in users if you wish.
Many other integration possibilities: Yes Profile Builder integrates by just enabling the required integrations including with bbPress, MailPoet, BuddyPress, MailChimp, Tribulent Newsletters and Campaign Monitor. Profile Builder also seamlessly integrates with the Paid Member Subscriptions plugin if you wish to offer full subscription plan and recurring payment facilities.
Other: All Profile Builder field label names can be redefined (if you wish to call them something else) and we find the flexible Custom Profile Menu facility particularly useful because it allows us using our single menu to easily conditionally display specific menu submenus and menu items depending on user roles and/or the currently logged-in status of users.

Any software product is not only as good as the original team’s design and development, but the support provided to customers after ‘the sale’. Plus then how the product may be further developed over time.

Cozmoslabs staff have always promptly responded to and helped us out with any issues and concerns we have had with the software. There has also been benefit from the continual development of the software with extra features and regular updates. We cannot recommend the software and them highly enough. It is certainly no ‘fly-by-night’ business, and has many dedicated helpful staff led by founder and CEO, Adrian Șpiac. Although you may not use all the features available within the plugin ‘at day one’, the ones you do use will quickly help transform any WordPress website to a much higher level.

Also not everyone is a ‘technical wizard’. So it is particularly nice that the software covering this complex subject is developed so anyone can use it effectively ‘off the bat’ by just setting some simple settings concerning the way you need it to work. And for those who want to delve deeper into the functions, then you can.

Note: Although we suggest you go for the ‘most popular’ Pro version, if you have more than 3 sites then the Agency version would then apply. And if you only have one website, then the Basic version may suffice for you if you do not need the additional Pro addons. But only you can tell after perusing the official site!

There is also a no questions asked, 100% No-Risk Money-Back guarantee with the ability to upgrade or cancel the annually-billed subscriptions at any time.

The very latest recent development additions kindly communicated to us by Flavia of Cozmoslabs just in April 2024 include:

Divi Builder Integration: Profile Builder and Paid Member Subscriptions plugins now integrate seamlessly with the Divi Page Builder.
Gutenburg Editor Integration: Both plugins now fully integrate with the WordPress Gutenburg Block Editor so user forms can now also be created using blocks if you wish.