Moderating new users?

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?

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?

Probably not. But if you don’t “like” them… you can always delete them ??

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

Plucked,

can’t you further edit it to:

wp_mail(#user_email&’,[email protected]’,sprintf(__(‘[%s]Username and password’),get_settings(‘blogname)),message

and that would e-mail you both

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!

Hi again,

I found the solution:

https://www.dealsway.net/2007/09/04/wp-user-moderation/

a plugin that works with WP2.2

thanks!