Right now, I just want to re-create the pages/forms already created in FREE

Here’s the quick answer:

1. Create a registration form from “Registration Forms” menu. Add the “Profile Fields” and “Custom Fields” as you need, give them right “Field Label” and “Meta Key” where needed. Now hit “Publish”. Go back to the “Registration Forms” menu, you’ll see your all “Registration Forms” that you’ve created. Every registration form can be used for two purpose, 1) Registration, 2) Updating User profile, for those purposes there are two shortcode. As you don’t need the registration feature, you need to use the “Edit Profile” shortcode, which is in this format: `[wpuf_profile type=”profile” id=”54″]`. Now insert that code in your profile page where you previously inserted `[wpuf_editprofile]` shortcode. You are done.

2. The FREE versions dashboard and PRO versions dashboard is same. So the old one will work.

3. You’ve to create a form, from the “Forms” menu. Add “Post Fields”, “Custom Fields” or “Custom Taxonomies” as you need. Hit “Publish” and go back to the “Forms” menu, you’ll get the shortcode again. Now insert that shortcode in your page where previously `[wpuf_addpost]` was.

4. You can use just newly created “Forms” for editing the posts. But you’ve to do something first. If you go to edit a post, it’ll show an error “I don’t know how to edit this post, I don’t have the form ID”. So quoting directly from FAQ:

Ans: When you create a post with the new version of WP User Frontend, a form ID is being attached to that post. It’s needed because you might have 10 forms and it doesn’t know which form should be used to edit that post.

For this problem with older posts, one thing you need to do. If you go the those posts edit screen in backend, you’ll see a meta box “WPUF Form”, select the form that should be used to edit the form.

That means, you’ve to update your all existing posts and assign a Form ID to those posts in order to update those posts with your newly created form.

Hope your problems will be solved. Ask questions if you don’t understand.

Actually, I will take it one step further and suggest that, instead of providing instructions, you should just provide ready-to-use forms (in the PRO install) that replicate those used in FREE so that new PRO subscribers only need to put in the shortcodes instead of having to create new forms from scratch.

Can you advise on what your thoughts/leanings of the above?

The above will also give new PRO users an idea of how to set up new forms, etc.  Like an example that they can learn from.  Tweaking something that already exists is a much more effective learning vehicle than trying to create something from scratch (frustrating, frustrating, frustrating).

At least, if you go with my suggestion above, future PRO users will not have to be confused and frustrated as I am now.

Seems like a great idea, I’ll definitely take your suggestion.

Great.  And thanks for the instructions.

I have a few questions about the resulting forms from the shortcodes, but I will do that in another thread.