WordPress 4.3 – Unable to disable sending password to users

@virgial — I’m not clear if checking the box on the plugin prevents the email or unchecking the box prevents the email … either way, it does not seem to work for me… anyone else still having problems stopping the new user notification?

Thanks,

Nate

Hi Nate, if the checkbox is checked, mail will be send. I shall add some comments in the next version to clearify that. If you still have difficulties using the plug-in, please try the plug-in whithout other active plug-ins. Let me know if that worked for you.
Cheers

@ Virgial: It appears notification of new user registration (when users added manually) is not getting mailed to administrator. This is not included in the settings.

The first setting ‘New User Notification’ should be ideally split into two:
(1) Enable/disable notification of login credentials to newly registered user

(2) Enable/disable notification of login credentials to Admin of the blog

A bunch of good options. I was happy with the function.php edit, but this new plugin from @virgial is looking great!

I agree with making it more clear about whether having the options checked in https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/manage-notification-emails/ disables or enables the email, and having the admin & user notifications being separate settings would be nice too (if it’s a question about what to do with existing plugin users… I’d vote to have it keep the existing setting continue to be used for the user notification while having the admin notification be an all-new setting). Also, “e-mailaddress” should be “e-mail address” (or email address) in a few spots in the settings.

Thanks!

Hi guyz, Thanx for your remarks. I will take a look at the possibilities of splitting the admin notification.

Updated the manage notification emails plugin with the splitting admin notification.

Skipping over the irony that in order to post on this forum i had to register—which sent me a password in email clear text—I am requesting a feature for 4.3.1 that there be added a checkbox to send the new registered user an invite or not.

I’m okay with that email asking them to pick or change their password. I just don’t always want that message to be sent, and i don’t want to disturb the mailer or a user from using the forgot password function when they need it.

i might add that there’s a caching bug in the current form. When i click show password on the /wp-admin/user-new.php i see the last registered user’s password. Which is significant security issue

Feature requests posted here won’t be seen by the developers, unfortunately.

i reposted this in the support forum:

We need an option to NOT SEND EMAIL TO NEW USER

in 4.3, when adding a new user from the backend: wp-admin/user-new.php

Under the password generator, there’s text that states:
A password reset link will be sent to the user via email.

I am suggesting that there be a checkbox to toggle that action:
[x] A password reset link will be sent to the user via email.

Myself, like many other bloggers i suspect, have guest bloggers where i produce the content. They never login. But, i need to create an account for them so that the metadata Author field works properly. I don’t want to send them any automated notifications.

Long time wordpress developer managing 20+ installations.

While we are waiting for tlash’s request to be fulfilled, could someone more adept than me at coding produce a snippet to be added to the (child) functions.php file to disable the “Confirm Weak Password” option?

One of the largest ironies of 4.3 is that any user can be reading through all the glowing first Google page accounts of the new WordPress 4.3 password security features while simultaneously resetting their password to “123”, “cat” or anything else easy to remember, and not only can the Admin not stop that security vulnerability being introduced into his site, he has no way of even knowing about it.

Yes, as with the notification problem I can add yet another plugin to overcome the damage wrought in 4.3, but I would prefer not to have to assume that extra CPU overhead if possible.

If you can conjure up such a quick fix, many would surely appreciate it.

My Civil War quality surgery to address the problem I just outlined above: after saving a backup copy, delete lines 492 – 500 in wp-admin/user-edit.php.

The removes the “Confirm use of weak password” dialogue and check box entirely and leaves the update button dead until at least a Medium grade password is entered.

Use this at your own risk. You may very well break your site. A more elegant fix is still very much needed.