Registration Approval

crash
(@crash)

18 years, 10 months ago

Hello all

I am currently working on a way for a blog admin to be able to approve blog registrations.

The easiest way I see of accomplishing this is enabling registration, but setting the new user’s user_level to -1 during registration. From what I can see, this will effectively make one registered, but not a user. The only thing one can then do is login and see the dashboard. One cannot even edit his user info. The admin can then upgrade a user’s user_level to 0-9.

There are some drawbacks to this method.

First, the user_level field type will need to be changed

Second, nothing about user registration is hookable =/ (*cough* devs), so wp_register.php will have to be hacked, and user administration may need to be hacked (I have not looked at hook-ability there)

Am I missing other drawbacks? Or is there a better way of accomplishing registration approval?

I’d like to hear input 🙂

Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total)

Moderator James Huff
(@macmanx)

Volunteer Moderator

18 years, 10 months ago

I don’t know of any methods for this yet, but you can be rest assured that newly registered users won’t be able to do much. They are created with a user level of 0. A user with a level of 0 can login, edit their own profile, and see the Dashboard, Users/Your Profile, and the existing posts. That is all they can do.

http://codex.wordpress.org/User_Levels

Thread Starter crash
(@crash)

18 years, 10 months ago

Well, there is a problem with that.

If i use 0 as “registered” and 1 as “approved” user_level, then all my approved users will be able to write drafts, something I don’t really want 🙂

Moderator James Huff
(@macmanx)

Volunteer Moderator

18 years, 10 months ago

Why not leave them at 0?

Thread Starter crash
(@crash)

18 years, 10 months ago

because i want to be able to approve my members?

Thread Starter crash
(@crash)

18 years, 10 months ago

After looking around some more, i have decided that there are too many files that need to be hacked to make this work. So I will have to content myself with letting approved users write drafts.

kwesitn
(@kwesitn)

18 years, 1 month ago

No solution?

Tom Lany
(@tomthewebmaster)

18 years, 1 month ago

I decided to compile links to all of the threads on this topic and post them on all of the threads on the topic. Maybe this will spark an idea for someone.

See these threads:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/58132 (most recent)
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/53585
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/35979
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/35703
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/39182

These (below) might also sort of help.

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/66775
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/64278

moshu
(@moshu)

18 years, 1 month ago

Please stop posting all these links! Double posting (triple etc.) is considered very rude thing around here and usually is not tolerated.

Tom Lany
(@tomthewebmaster)

18 years, 1 month ago

Sorry. I will stop.

kwesitn
(@kwesitn)

18 years, 1 month ago

I found a solution that worked for me. Instead of having the email with the username and password be sent to the registrant, I tweaked it so that it comes to me. If I want to approve the user I then just forward the email on to the user. Here is a summary of what I changed:

In wp-includes/pluggable-functions.php

I changed this function on line 427 or so from this:

wp_mail($user_email, sprintf(__(‘[%s] Your username and password’), get_settings(‘blogname’)), $message);

To this:

wp_mail(‘webmaster@mydomain’, sprintf(__(‘[%s] Your username and password’), get_settings(‘blogname’)), $message);

So the user does not get their username and password without me sending it to them. This could probably be turned into a plugin pretty easily…and would do it when I have some time.