New users created in admin – don’t need approval

As is, we don’t have any way to differentiate between user capabilities and which, if any, should be auto approved.

I do know that I typed this code up last month for a similar, but different issue around member types, that could prove useful to you. It’s not complete, and it is code, but it would run after we’ve marked the user as moderated, and would undo that for you right after.

function bpro_per_role_moderation_override( $user_id ) {
	$user = new WP_User( $user_id );
	$roles = $user->roles;

	// Here you would need to check the $roles variable for the ones
	// you want to not be moderated. If they have one of those roles,
	// run this line: bp_registration_set_moderation_status( $user_id, 'false' );
}
add_action( 'user_register', 'bpro_per_role_moderation_override', 11 );

Awesome! Thank you, it works great as far as not placing them into the approval process! Can I ask you another question? It still sent a “New Member Request” email to the administrators. Is there also a fix that will prevent that email from sending? I tried a couple things but it didn’t quite work.

Not seeing any way to prevent that one, since it’s run and handled in our callback that sets the initial status.

The only other option I can think of for this, would be to re-modify the snippet I provided above, but instead of running the function to set the status, instead have it run this line:

remove_action( 'user_register', 'bp_registration_options_bp_core_register_account' );

You would also need to replace the 11 priority with something like a 9 so that yours runs first to remove our action from consideration. Worth trying out and tinkering.