Register Plus problems

  • Resolved stuartsbw

    (@stuartsbw)


    16 years, 5 months ago

    Greetings Beautiful WP people

    Set-up
    I’m running (or hope to run) ‘Register Plus’ along with ‘Member Access’.

    Objective
    My aim is to have some premium content restricted to registered members only; and also to capture user contact info, so that I can communicate with them.

    My Background and Gratitude
    I’m not a coder, although I’m quite enjoying trying to figure it out as I deal with each prob in turn! (Maybe I should take a course). So, apologies if my queries are a bit noddy (inane), and thanks so much in anticipation of your patience, attention and help.

    Problems Overview
    Anyway, okay… I have the following probs with Register Plus.
    1) Email / Admin Verification
    2) Invitation Code
    3) Captcha
    4) Disclaimer / License Agreement / Privacy Policy
    5) Auto-Complete Queries
    6) Custom user notification email
    7) Custom admin notification email

    Yep, that’s almost everything, (I’m not going to bother with the CSS)!

    1) Email / Admin Verification
    I would like to operate both these: email verification is good for preventing fake registrations, and I’d also like to manage/moderate users.

    But I think, from reading others’ probs with this, that you can’t. Is that right? If so what’s the best option?

    2) Invitation Code
    I have no idea what this is or might mean, so I don’t know what to do with it (or not). I can’t find any definition of this on WP.

    3) Captcha (simple)
    For now I can’t test register on my site since captcha doesn’t recognise the correctly entered password.

    I see that I have to insert the code <?php session_start(); ?> into the top line of the wp_login.php file. But where is the wp_login.php file?

    It’s not in my editor, nor can I find it among any of my site’s folders and files. Again I can’t find this info anywhere in WP.

    4) Disclaimer / License Agreement / Privacy Policy
    Can anyone suggest some good models for these, that work for blogs? (I’m thinking that once I’m set up I will add bbPress, which might be relevant).

    5) Auto-Complete Queries
    I can (as a non-coder) work out what this does, and I suppose it’s desirable rather than necessary… but it would be nice to work out what the heck to do with the suggestion! 🙂

    What’s a query and how do I link it to the registration page? Where’s the registration page for that matter?

    6) Custom user notification email
    In order to work out how I can personalise this I need to know what a wordpress email verification looks like. I have no idea what it contains so I don’t know what I can or should write.

    But I can’t fnd any examples either in WP or on the net. I could try registering on someone else’s site, but then how do I know I’m getting a WP email verification? And as described above, neither can I register on my own site myself after logging out.

    7) Custom admin notification email
    Where it says (on the CMS) ‘Replacement Keys’ – what’s that all about? If I want to send myself an email to alert me that someone has registered, why would I need to write a special message (other than the supplied username and email addy?

    Am I missing the point here?

    Like I say, apologies if these are a bit dull as queries go, but who knows? Since WP is such an amazing tool, I guess more non-coder folk like me will be arriving here.

    Perhaps complete answers to all these points will be helpful for others like me in the future.

    Anyway, thanks very much for your help.
    Bestest
    S

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)
  • MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    16 years, 5 months ago

    1. Don’t think you need both

    2. To keep track of where the user got the ‘idea’ to register–maybe you sent a email blast with an ‘invite code’ and you want to know if that campaign was successful.

    3. But where is the wp_login.php file? — it’s in the wordpress ‘main’ or ‘root’ folder.

    4. What about terms of service usage.. see wordpress.com terms of service http://en.wordpress.com/tos/

    5. Probably use the auto complete queries in conjunction with the registration email

    6. Disable the plugin. Make sure you allow users to register, logout and then register with a new email address then check that email address to see the resulting email. Normally it looks like:
    Username: mr.me
    Password: PeQ@ssdfe3Q5fjO$
    http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-login.php

    7. Think of the replacement keys as tokens so you don’t have to hardcode the values. For instance %siteurl% is the url to your site. This section is helpful if you want to customize what users get in their email for a notification when registering.

    Before going much further, you might deactive Register Plus, then get conversant with what WordPress does without a plugin. That way you will know what you would want a plugin to ‘change’ in terms of your registration process.

    Thread Starter stuartsbw

    (@stuartsbw)

    16 years, 5 months ago

    MichaelH

    Many thanks for that. Here’s my status as a result:

    1) Email / Admin Verification
    Okay I’m opting for one, although I’m still unclear as to why you can’t use both.

    2) Invitation Code
    Thank you for clearing that one up.

    3) Captcha (simple)
    Thank you, all seems to be working fine now.

    4) Disclaimer / License Agreement / Privacy Policy
    Thank you, all done.

    6) Custom user notification email
    Thank you, I can figure this out now.

    7) Custom admin notification email
    Okay thanks, although I’m still a bit confused about this one. If this is an admin notification, then why are you saying it’s helpful for customising what users get in their email verification?

    I think I sort of get the idea of the replacement keys, so I’m happy to experiment in order to work it out (as you suggest), but I’m unclear as to what task an admin notification email is supposed to be doing.

    Overall though, that’s almost a clean sweep of probs. Much gratitude on your direction MichaelH, thank you!

    S

    jrpmedia

    (@jrpmedia)

    16 years, 4 months ago

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

The topic ‘Register Plus problems’ is closed to new replies.