Require Email Activation not working anymore

  • Resolved Luis Alejandre

    (@luisalejandrewp)


    4 years ago

    I have a client whose site is getting lots of bots registering fake accounts every day.
    For a new user to register on this site email activation was required, but when I tested it today as a new user (using a different email from the one I use as an administrator), I could register automatically so I was automatically logged in without any further action. No wonder why we´re getting all those bots registering like crazy!
    I had the Registration Action set to “Require Email Activation” for this site (for instance when the version of UsersWP was 1.0.21). Now I could not find that setting under USERSWP > Register, and I didn´t find anything on the plugin Changelog that could help me in finding that setting under another tab or something.
    Then I finally found out that this option is now only available through a paid extension (Moderate User Registration).
    Please don´t tell me that, in order to recover the option to require email activation for new WP user registration, I have to tell my angry customer that he has to pay a subscription. That would feel like telling him that his website was kidnapped.
    Please tell me there is an easy (and free) way to have this WP functionality back.

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  • Plugin Contributor Paolo

    (@paoltaia)

    4 years ago

    Hi @luisalejandrewp,

    since we added the option to create more than one registration form, that option has been moved inside the form builder.

    You need to click the Form Options button to see it.

    See screenshot: https://paste.pics/GS9RY

    Thanks,

    Thread Starter Luis Alejandre

    (@luisalejandrewp)

    4 years ago

    Hi Paolo, and thank you for your fast reply.

    I´ve selected the Require Email Activation option again by means of the Form Options as you told me, and it worked alright.

    Apparently, upon updating of the USersWP plugin when these features were changed, the plugin did not take into account that I had the Require Email Activation option already set, so it set the Auto Approve + Auto Login option instead. And that brought a lot of trouble.

    Plugin Support alexrollin

    (@alexrollin)

    4 years ago

    We have already have upgrade function which gets the setting from our previous setting and set it to the new functionality but if you had set it to Force Redirect then it will set default to auto approve + auto login else it should set to the old setting only.

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