have you enabled registrations on your wp site??  in wp – settings – general… 

simple press is a plugin for wp and as such uses the wp users, login and registration system…

Mr Papa, Thank you, I had not and now I have a ‘Register’ button 

Sadly my login button still does nothing and this is the same with the search button.

Do you know if it is possible to stylise the default wordpress registration form? 

Thx again,

Simon.

On the registration form front then yes it is but you will either need to code to the forms filters if you know how to do that or use a Wp plugin of which there are, I believe, quite a few.

If things are not opening then it usually denotes you have a script conflict as described and explained in this article: http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/faq/troubleshooting/what-is-this-jquery-conflict/

If you give me a link to your forum I can quickly tell you if this is the case if you are unable to follow the dircetions in the article.

Thx Swordfish, I will have a look for a plugin. Any you can recommend that play nice with simple press?

I will have a read of the codex – forum is here at the moment: http://www.webspite.co.uk/forum/

Appreciate the support, thx. Simon.

Wee one we always liked was called ‘Register Plus’ but there seems to be some doubt over it;s status at the moment although I believe a new developer has taken it over. ‘Theme my Login’ is another we have users using but I am not sure if that covers the registration form as well.

If you DO try one out, test it before you go too far as there are one or two we have come across that do NOT honour the WP API and send out the correct ‘event’ message when a user registers which means SP will not add them automatically to a user group etc. So run a test to ensure they get created as a forum member. Sorry – I can’t remember the names of these at the moment.

Thanks again swordfish, I will have a good look around and test locally.

I was looking at some of the example sites that use simple press and this one: http://www.iamstaggered.com/ does exactly what I am trying to acheive with the login form, any ideas how they have acheived this?

Simon.

not sure I follow you…  that is a standard login form.. both wp-login.php and the sp inline form… except for the logo at the top on the wp login form…

if you want the rpx 3rd party login stuff, you need to enable and configure it on forum – components – login and registration…  use the popup help for info on setting up rxp (janrain)…

for the logo, dozens of wp plugins that allow that…  I would suggest:  http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/login-logo/

I believe that is the ‘cimy-user-extra-fields’ Wp plugin.

Sorry for the confusion I mean the registration form, not the login form, the login form is fine as I have already swapped out the logo etc…

There registration form goes to: /wp-signup.php?blog_id=1

Whereas mine goes to: wp-login.php?action=register

wp-signup.php is for WordPress multisite…  wp-login.php would be standard WordPress…

are you using multisite?

Sorry for my ignorance but what is multisite?

I have read up on multisite and to answer you question Mr Papa I am not using multisite. Do you believe that it this that http://www.iamstaggered.com/forum are using to give there forum a custom registration page? 

that is absolutely a multisite domain… when users register, they are registering to get their own blog on his network…

as Andy said though, there are plugins out there like cimy user extra fields or others that let you add custom fields to the registration form…

Ok I will have a good look at cimy user and see if it can give a similar effect upon registration as the staggered site as there registration process was very smooth and made feel that I was not moving away from their site at any time.

Will let you guys know how I get on, thanks again for the support.