7 best WordPress course registration plug-ins (2025)

Whether you’re offering a course online or in person, embedding a course registration form on your website can help encourage registrations and keep the process organized. If your website is built on WordPress, using a WordPress course registration plug-in can make it easy to create and share your registration form on your site.

Top 7 WordPress course registration plug-ins at a glance

	Jotform	Ultimate Member	RegistrationMagic	WPForms	Formidable Forms	Fluent Forms	User Registration & Membership
Best for	Small to medium businesses and sites that need a hosted, standalone registration and form handling solution	Users who aim to build membership sites with a registration function inside WordPress	Sites in search of a user-friendly way to customize registration flows and build complex user registration forms	Sites that need a general-purpose plug-in for forms and registration	Users who need more advanced, data-driven or dynamic registration forms and flows	Users who need a budget-conscious solution that’s still fully featured	Sites requiring gating, subscription functionality, and custom registration flows
Pricing	$34–$99 per month	$276–$348 per year	$89–$189	$49–$199.50 per year	$39.50–$299.50 per year	$79–$299 per year	$99–$499 per year
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1. Jotform Online Forms

Jotform is an ideal solution for collecting course registrations. With Jotform, you can start with one of 80-plus course registration form templates and customize the template to your needs. Jotform’s drag-and-drop form builder also makes it easy to build a professional-looking form from scratch. 

Once you’ve created your form, you can embed it into your WordPress website in just a couple of clicks with the Jotform Online Forms plug-in. It’s also possible to share the form using a unique link, so you could send it via email or text to drive registrations.

Jotform offers many helpful features ideal for course registration. The platform pairs with more than 40-plus trusted payment gateways, including Stripe, Square, and PayPal, so you can collect payments from students when they register for a course.

You can choose from hundreds of widgets — like an email validator and a unique ID creator — to enhance your form’s functionality. You can even connect Jotform with Google Analytics to collect and review detailed information about your course registrants. And Jotform Tables automatically collects and organizes registration information in a convenient spreadsheet.

2. Ultimate Member

Ultimate Member is a WordPress plug-in that offers both front-end elements, like registration forms, and admin capabilities. You can use the plug-in to create customized registration forms, and it gives you plenty of control over the form’s appearance, including the ability to create a multicolumn layout, rearrange form elements, and more.

Ultimate Member is a user-friendly plug-in with a drag-and-drop form builder interface. Users can create profiles and easily manage accounts and user roles. The user restriction feature allows you to limit which users can access certain content, ideal for paid subscription courses or course upgrades. The easy-to-use admin features also include the ability to email some or all of your registered users from the plug-in.

The core plug-in plan is available for free. The Standard Plan subscription costs $276 per year, and the Pro plan costs $348 per year.

3. RegistrationMagic

The RegistrationMagic allows you to create unlimited WordPress registration forms, ideal for offering multiple courses. You can add custom fields, including text, dropdown, and checkbox fields, allowing you to collect the information you need.

This plug-in offers many valuable admin features. It allows you to analyze user registrations overall with graphs, charts, and tables. It also provides data on user login attempts, form conversion rates, user locations, and more. The user control feature lets you deactivate features, provide users with one-time password logins, and even automate workflows for a streamlined registration process.

The Standard plan is free to use. The Premium plan costs $89 to download, and the Premium+ plan costs $189.

4. WPForms

With over six million installations, WPForms is a widely used, beginner-friendly form builder that can easily be adapted for course registration forms. Its free Lite version gives you essential building blocks (text, dropdowns, checkboxes, etc.), email notifications, and form-embedding capabilities, while the premium Pro version expands functionality to 

• Multi-page forms
• File uploads
• Conditional logic
• Payment integration (with Stripe, PayPal, and Square)
• Surveys
• Polls

An intuitive drag-and-drop form builder means you can rapidly build and deploy a registration form without the need for extensive coding skill or experience. Users also enjoy access to a broad library of over 2,000 templates to help get a jumpstart on their user registration forms. For course registration use cases, its payment, conditional logic, and form-template features make it a strong generalist contender.

Because WPForms is so well known and broadly supported, it also benefits from a wide ecosystem of integrations and strong documentation. The developer keeps the plug-in updated and tested up to WordPress version 6.8.3. 

In addition to the free Lite version, you can choose from four different premium plans. Currently, the Basic plan costs $49.50 per year, the Plus level is $99.50 per year, Pro plans cost $199.50 per year, and the Elite plan costs $299.50 per year. 

5. Formidable Forms

For those in need of something more robust and advanced than a generalized all-purpose plug-in, Formidable Forms positions itself as a leading candidate for the power user. Its form builder is ideal for crafting complex course registration systems and support for quizzes, advanced calculations, and data-driven workflows.

Features such as calculated fields and live calculations mean that you can create registration forms that do far more than simply “take names.” With Formidable Forms, you can deploy forms that compute prices and total costs in real time, taking into account factors such as additional fees, discounts, and course-specific extras — building forms with complex branching that remain user-friendly. You can also specify course prerequisites.

Unique among many form plug-ins, Formidable lets you turn submitted data into front-end content, directories, tables, or listings so that you can display courses, attendees, or registrants publicly as a means of additional social proof.

Formidable’s Basic plan is priced at $39.50 per year, the Plus plan is $99.50 per year, the Business plan costs $199.50 per year, and the Elite plan is $299.50 per year.

6. Fluent Forms

Fluent Forms is billed as a fast, lightweight, and highly flexible form builder that combines ease of use with advanced features. It has over 60 input fields and layout options that give users a rich palette of functional fields for more dynamic registration forms. With Fluent Forms, you can include fields and controls such as date pickers, toggles, file uploads, and more. Smart conditional logic, conversational forms, and a built-in AI form builder let you start crafting branching logic and interactive single-question flows that have a more dynamic feel than standard forms while maintaining a conversational tone.

The Free version of Fluent Forms is generously featured, with access to templates, email notifications, scheduling, and entry export. In the Pro version, you’ll gain the ability to visualize data reports and calculation features, as well as adding visual charts, SMS notifications, and more. 

Fluent Forms offers three types of user license. Single site licenses are $79 per year, Agency licenses (for up to five domains) are $159 per year, and Unlimited licenses are $299 per year. Lifetime pricing is also available.

7. User Registration & Membership

User Registration & Membership is a specialized plug-in that’s built specifically for registration, membership, and user profile workflows. A drag-and-drop registration form builder coupled with custom fields lets you get a head start on code-free creation while retaining form and field customization. That said, this plug-in remains lighter and therefore faster than many full membership suites. 

To help keep your site’s permissions appropriately organized, User Registration & Membership lets you automatically assign user roles or memberships based on input choices made at the time of registration. It also offers content restriction and gatekeeping tools that allow you to restrict pages, posts, or sections based on user registration or membership status. Users have control over their profile and account pages, too — they can edit their profile, view their personal data, and manage their account from the frontend using shortcodes.

One of the greatest features is that User Registration & Membership integrates with LearnDash, a popular learning management system for WordPress, so that you can automatically enroll users in specific courses upon registration. Email templates and notifications empower you to customize registration, welcome, and confirmation emails and ensure they’re aligned with your branding. 

User Registration & Membership offers three premium plans. The personal license (one site) is $99 per year, Plus (five sites) is $199 per year, and Professional (unlimited sites) is $499 per year. 

Make course registration a breeze

With these handy plug-ins, you can design one or more course registration forms and put them straight onto your website. Once live, you can start bringing in students and launch your new course with confidence. 

A quality form keeps things organized and hassle-free — so you can spend less time managing sign-ups and more time doing what you love: teaching your course. To get started quickly, try Jotform’s templates and WordPress course registration plugin today. 

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