Improve member type support on registration screen.

[dcavins]

There are a couple of cool things in the member types code that would be great to employ on the registration page:

• Make it easy to add a "select member type" radio/checkbox fieldset to the sign-up form and/or the user-facing profile edit form. I can imagine there being a need for a member type select that the user can change at any time and a version that can only be set once, like on the sign-up screen. I'm not sure if this would be an xprofile field or a setting somewhere else.

• Make the extended profile form on the sign-up screen responsive to selections made in the "member type" selector.

At the moment, it's possible to create a new extended profile field, associate it with one or more member types, assign it to the sign-up field group, and mark it required, though these fields are only rendered on the profile edit screen (both front and back-end).

Some portion of this work could be delegated to a plugin, but it seems like, at the least, adding a member type selector to the registration form should be made simpler.

[imath]

I agree, let’s work on this during 12.0.0 dev cycle.

[teeboy4real]

I was thinking that a feature to preselect member type would be awesome before the registration form is displayed. this will help in loading registration form fields that are assigned to only specific member types.

[imath]

Interesting idea @teeboy4real how would preselection work ? A modal/page asking the users what type of account they wish to register to?

Thinking about @dcavins 's ticket description, the easiest way to achieve this is to build a new profile field type allowing member type selection, options would be 'User can select 1 member type only' or 'User can select more than 1', depending on this option > radio or checkbox.

Who want to submit a first PR/patch?

[teeboy4real]

Hello @imath

I think a page would be better and easier for customization reasons. for example you can register freely on pinterest.com but to register as a business users would need to visit another url ​https://www.pinterest.com/business/create/

For example let say we have two member types (business) and (brand)
The sign up url structure can be

1. ​https://site.com/preselect-sign-up/ - page to preselect member type registration
2. ​https://site.com/sign-up/business - this will load profile fields assigned to this member type business
3. ​https://site.com/sign-up/brand - this will load profile fields assigned to this member type brand

Quick Question
Just wondering could this type of registration structure help reduce spam registration

[imath]

We were very busy with the new BP Rewrites API during this development cycle and couldn't progress about this ticket. Sorry. Let's try to do so during next development cycle.