Check ‘Anyone can register’ under Settings->General->Membership.
Be sure to set the ‘New User Default Role’ to the role you want new users to have.
i did activate mine and test it with my other email account (yahoo! especially) and didn’t recieved any mail that contains the activation/password… any help pls
I have it set to “anyone can register” – but then I can’t figure out how people can actually register on the site. It appears you can just fill in name and email to post a comment, but there are no register options there…thanks for any help!
Your visitors have to register at: http://www.theresident.net/www.new.theresident.net/wp-login.php?action=register
You have to point your visitors there by placing this link in a prominent place
Ah, ok, thanks! I didn’t know how to create or find that link.
Thanks so much! After a user registers, how do they upload an avatar? I don’t see that as a profile option…
I really appreciate the input.
http://www.gravatar.com/
is how the avatar business works
I’m having trouble with gravatars actually. I’d really just like to add the ability for users to upload their own avatar when they register, or any time after they register on a profile page or something similar.
Is there a community-building plugin like that for wordpress anywhere?
Thanks again for your help!
Thanks so much, the alkivia looks like what I want for sure. I tried add-local and it didn’t really do what I wanted.
One thing though – just installed alkivia and it says PHP-5 is required for this plugin. How do I know what PHP I’m using, where can I check that? Sorry that’s probably a basic question, I’m self-taught over here…
I figured that out, sorry. 🙂 Just needed to alter my .htaccess file. Now let’s see how alkivia works – will keep you posted. 🙂
