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Registration Fields

The signup form is built from a list of fields you control. This screen is that list.

Open the registration fields list

Section titled “Open the registration fields list”

Go to DevDiggers Plugins → Affiliates → Registration Fields.

The Affiliates Registration Fields list with label, type, name, position, required, editable and status columns

A notice at the top of the screen repeats the registration shortcode, so you can copy it without opening the Shortcodes tab.

The seven default fields

Section titled “The seven default fields”
Label Type Required
Username Text Yes
Email address Email Yes
Password Password Yes
First Name Text Yes
Last Name Text Yes
How will you promote our site? Select Yes
Please read and accept our Terms and Conditions Checkbox Yes
  • Username and Password are special. Their status follows your WooCommerce account settings. If WooCommerce generates usernames or passwords automatically, those two fields are inactive here and do not render on the form. Change the WooCommerce setting and they come back on their own.
  • How will you promote our site? ships with five options: Website/Blog, Newsletter/Email Marketing, Social Media, YouTube and Others. It is the single most useful field on the form, because the answer is what you read before approving someone.

The How will you promote our site field on the signup form

The columns

Section titled “The columns”
Column What it shows
Label The text above the field on the form
Type Text, email, password, select, checkbox, textarea, radio, number, date, country or state
Name The internal key the value is saved under
Position Sort order on the form, low to high
Required Whether signup fails without it
Editable Whether the affiliate can change it later from their dashboard
Status Active fields render, inactive fields do not

What you can do in the free version

Section titled “What you can do in the free version”
  • Change to Active and Change to Inactive as bulk actions, to switch a field on or off
  • Restore Defaults, which resets the whole list back to the seven fields above

That covers turning off a field you do not want. It does not cover adding one.

Add or edit a field

Section titled “Add or edit a field”

Click Add New, or the Edit row action on an existing field.

The Add Field form with data configuration and rules sections

The form has two sections.

Data Configuration

  • Label is what the affiliate sees.
  • Field Type picks from eleven types: text, email, password, select, checkbox, textarea, radio button, number, date, country and state.
  • Name is the key the answer is saved under. Use lowercase and underscores.
  • Placeholder, Options, Sort Order, CSS Classes and Description fill in the rest. Options is only used by select and radio fields, separated with a pipe character.

The Field Type dropdown on the Add Field form

Rules & Visibility

  • Required blocks signup until the field is filled in.
  • Editable lets the affiliate change the value later from their dashboard settings.
  • Status is Active or Inactive.

Keep the form short

Section titled “Keep the form short”

Every field you add is a reason to abandon the signup. Ask for what you need to make an approval decision and collect the rest later, once someone is actually promoting for you.

Where to go next

Section titled “Where to go next”