Title: Validate User Registration
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Validate User Registration

 *  [master_kato](https://wordpress.org/support/users/master_kato/)
 * (@master_kato)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validate-user-registration/)
 * Hi, I want to make a plugin that will allow me to restrict registration to only
   folks taht have a piece of validating data. I’m not sure what hook to use however.
   Is there any way to use a hook to edit what shows up on the wp-register.php form?
 * An alternative would be to let anyone reigster but not see stuff then have an
   automated way of letting them increase their user level with certain validating
   data.

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 *  [digitaltoast](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digitaltoast/)
 * (@digitaltoast)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validate-user-registration/#post-325470)
 * Yeah, I’d like this too – I’m getting about 15 random spam users trying to sign
   up per day!
 *  [Trent Adams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trent/)
 * (@trent)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validate-user-registration/#post-325471)
 * I know that some software packages also have ‘invitation only’ where you generate
   an invitation email to them and they use that generated data in the registration
   process. That is what I am doing with phpBB right now and it works great!
 *  [scottgun](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottgun/)
 * (@scottgun)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validate-user-registration/#post-325472)
 * Yes. I am also interested in implementing a similar solution.
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validate-user-registration/#post-325473)
 * Have you looked at [the Role Manager Plugin](http://redalt.com/wiki/Role+Manager)?
   
   It’s fairly flexible – you can creat as many new roles as you want and assign
   each role a certain WP privelege(s). From just being able to read the blog all
   the way up the chain.
 *  [grallaj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grallaj/)
 * (@grallaj)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validate-user-registration/#post-325474)
 * This has to be a popular request. I would love a way to allow only those who 
   I want to allow to comment on my blog page. Anyone?
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validate-user-registration/#post-325476)
 * grallaj;
 * Doesn’t the setting “Comment author must have a previously approved comment” 
   in [Administration](http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Panels) > [Options](http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Panels#Discussion)
   > [Discussion](http://codex.wordpress.org/Discussion_Options_SubPanel) kind of
   solve that?
 * Also, another idea is to use the [WP Contact Form Plugin](http://ryanduff.net/projects/wp-contactform/)
   on a [Page](http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages) called “Request Registration”.
 *  [mandrill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mandrill/)
 * (@mandrill)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validate-user-registration/#post-325530)
 * I agree, a system much like you see on many forums would probably be the best
   way to go about it. Where the user is sent an email with a link they have to 
   click to activate their account. Or even if the email that the admin gets to 
   inform them that a new user has signed up includes an option to approve them 
   or not, much like the comment moderation system.
 *  [exilefromgroggs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/exilefromgroggs/)
 * (@exilefromgroggs)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validate-user-registration/#post-325544)
 * [This](http://exilefromgroggs.blogspot.com/2007/01/work-on-wordpress-registration.html)
   is a modification that you can make to wp-register.php that should prevent automated
   registrations – by changing the default behaviour and requiring a response. Sorry,
   I don’t have the technical ability to make it into a plugin.
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validate-user-registration/#post-325545)
 * yeah and since we seem to think its OK to spam out fricken blog on 10 post heres
   MY PLUGIN:
 * [http://www.village-idiot.org/archives/2007/01/10/wp-deadbolt/](http://www.village-idiot.org/archives/2007/01/10/wp-deadbolt/)

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 * Last activity: [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validate-user-registration/#post-325545)
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