Joomla allows you to automatically save new contacts in your Contact component when a user create an account.
In your backend, go to Components > Contacts to confirm the new contact item was created automatically.
Visit your public site to see the end result:
In this tutorial we will show you how to use Contact Creator plugin to build a simple user's directory.
Enable the Contact Creator plugin
- Go to Extensions > Plugins
- Search for "User - Contact Creator" plugin
- Automatic webpage is optional
- Select the category for new contacts
- Set automatically publish the contact as yes
- Set status as enable
- Save when you’re done
Test: register a new user
- Go to the register area in your frontpage
- Fill all the information such as username, email, password, etc
- When you're done, click register button
In your backend, go to Components > Contacts to confirm the new contact item was created automatically.
Create a menu item
Let’s create a public page to display all the contacts- Go to Menus > Your menu > Add new menu item
- In menu item type choose Contact > List contacts in a category
- Select the category
- Save when you're done
Visit your public site to see the end result: