Custom Joomla Registration Form and Profile

I want to create a custom Joomla registration form and a profile to show the information saved. For this I followed the answer on this thread. I have cloned and changed the files of the user profile plugin. Now the problem is that the edited profile form is not displayed after I have enabled the plugin. I have a login link on my site, which on success redirects to a profile display page after that. When I click edit on the profile display page, the edit profile form is still the same old one and it is located at profile?layout=edit. All it has is:

• Name
• Username
• Password
• Conf开发者_运维百科irm Password
• Email
• Confirm Email
• Basic Settings

Why is this not working. The installation was also fine.

Is this even the right way of doing this.

Please help with this. I appreciate all the help. Thanks!

See original Joomla docs on how to add a profile plugin in Joomla 1.6 http://docs.joomla.org/Creating_a_profile_plugin

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