user registration confirmation email

  • AlanOldStudent

    (@alanoldstudent)


    11 years, 4 months ago

    We sometimes get bogus user registrations at http://www.occupytacoma.org. New users automatically become contributors (their contributions need to be vetted so we don’t run spam posts) We’re using WP 3.5.

    Right now, when someone registers, WP sends an email with an automatically-generated password, but so many of these bogus registrants use equally bogus email addresses. Of course, that means they never can post spam. But it also means I’ve got to weed out bogus registrants by hand.

    Is there a way to have that email that goes out also include a confirmation link? I’ve searched the plugins, but the few that looked promising to me had some scary feedback in their support forums.

    Regards,
    Alan OldStudent

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  • Mark Ratledge

    (@songdogtech)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Try http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sabre/ A confirmation link is an option.

    Thread Starter AlanOldStudent

    (@alanoldstudent)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks songdogtech.

    I had actually noticed that, but when I went to the plugin page from the control panel, I saw this:

    Warning: This plugin has not been tested with your current version of WordPress.

    And in the support page, there are a lot of unresolved issues.
    http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/sabre

    This is what the one and only review had to say:

    Does not install correctly
    By IAmMarchHare, December 7, 2012 for WP 3.4.2

    Does not allow registration, then throws SQL error. Looked in forum, and this has been going on about two years without a fix. If it isn’t going to be updated or supported, it should be taken down.

    This is what I meant when I said that most of the plugins I investigated before posting looked promising to me but had some scary feedback in their support forums.

    Regards,
    Alan OldStudent

    Mark Ratledge

    (@songdogtech)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    There are fixes in the forums for that plugin; they may be worth a try. The plugin is 3.3 compatible, but no word on 3.5; it may be fine, albeit with the fixes you can try above.

    It’s too bad all those plugins are not really maintained anymore. But it is a complex thing to do, code wise, to develop a plugin with that many features.

    What about using a captcha to prevent bot registrations? Those may be some/most of the bogus registrations you are getting.

    Thread Starter AlanOldStudent

    (@alanoldstudent)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks again for the reply. Sorry it took me 2 days to respond.

    We tried the Sweet Captcha plugin, which really appeals to me. I actually try to noodle stuff out before I ask in a forum. Of course, lots of spammers hire humans to deal with captchas.

    There should be some way that the email WordPress sends to new registrants have a confirmation link the user needs to click. Most forum software has that, and it seems like a logical thing to do. I’m not up to writing the plugin, and I don’t have access to the WordPress code in our installation itself.

    Does anyone else have a suggestion?

    Regards,
    Alan OldStudent

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