Title: Moderating new users?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Moderating new users?

 *  [JamesH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamesh/)
 * (@jamesh)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moderating-new-users/)
 * When wp-register.php is enabled, is there anything – a plugin – available to 
   moderate users before their password that’s emailed them will let them in?
 * Sorry, that’s probably a very basic question… but if anyone can help, that’d 
   be great. 🙂

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 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moderating-new-users/#post-460041)
 * I’m not aware of one. But what is meant by “moderate” users?
 * You have the ability to set a new user’s default role (Options > General). As
   a ‘Subscriber’ they have little access to the blog beyond reading and commenting
   on posts, while as ‘Contributor’ they can also submit drafts of posts, but can’t
   publish. Their role can be changed manually after registration through Users 
   > Authors & Users. Does this fulfill what you’re after?
 *  Thread Starter [JamesH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamesh/)
 * (@jamesh)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moderating-new-users/#post-460219)
 * Sadly it doesn’t – sorry, I wasn’t as clear as I could have been.
 * What I want to do is allow users to register normally. Then, I want the system
   to send me an email (or give me notification on the dashboard) that a new user
   has tried to register and give me details (IP address, etc.). I can then either
   approve or deny their request to become a user – then they either get emailed
   their password or it becomes active when they get approved.
 * I assume this isn’t possible?
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moderating-new-users/#post-460220)
 * Probably not. But if you don’t “like” them… you can always delete them 🙂
 *  [phuckd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phuckd/)
 * (@phuckd)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moderating-new-users/#post-460234)
 * you can do it this way:
    in pluggable-functions.php
 * change the function:
 * wp_mail($user_email, sprintf(__(‘[%s] Your username and password’), get_settings(‘
   blogname’)), $message);
 * To this:
 * wp_mail(‘youremail@yourdomain’, sprintf(__(‘[%s] Your username and password’),
   get_settings(‘blogname’)), $message
 * This will send YOU the confirmation/password email, from there you can decide
   to send the password to the user
 *  [rbenson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rbenson/)
 * (@rbenson)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moderating-new-users/#post-460381)
 * Plucked,
 * can’t you further edit it to:
 * wp_mail(#user_email&’,blog.reg@mydomain.com’,sprintf(__(‘[%s]Username and password’),
   get_settings(‘blogname)),message
 * and that would e-mail you both
 *  [drodrigz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drodrigz/)
 * (@drodrigz)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moderating-new-users/#post-460411)
 * I just found this post and it’s useful, but it solves the issue not very elegantly.
   I think it would be a great plugin. I do to would like to be able to “approve”
   the applicant before the system grant him/her access.
 * The way WP registration is set up, if you want to have a private blog, it really
   is not very private if anyone can register, log in immediately, read / download/
   view all the ‘private’ content, and only when you read your own mail is that 
   you realize that an user had registered, who it is, and if you don’t want him/
   her accessing your site, you have to log in to delete the user, but by this time
   it’s already too late.
 * Has anyone created a hack, or a plugin so that people don’t ‘register’ directly
   but ‘apply’ for a account? All it would need is some sort of ‘pending applicants’
   screen, and when you approve them, then the password and login email would be
   sent, otherwise you can delete them.
 * Any help would be very appreciated!
 *  [drodrigz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drodrigz/)
 * (@drodrigz)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moderating-new-users/#post-460412)
 * Hi again,
 * I found the solution:
 * [http://www.dealsway.net/2007/09/04/wp-user-moderation/](http://www.dealsway.net/2007/09/04/wp-user-moderation/)
 * a plugin that works with WP2.2
 * thanks!

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