Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce

Description

“Amazing support and plugin: Support helped me integrate their plugin with another plugin and I am really grateful for it. The best verification plugin out there at the moment with awesome support” – ????? mountainbirb

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In the dynamic world of e-commerce, ensuring the authenticity and engagement of your customer base is crucial.

That’s where the “Email Verification for WooCommerce” plugin comes in, addressing a vital aspect of customer management.

By integrating email verification into your WooCommerce setup, this plugin enhances the security and reliability of user registrations.

It’s designed not just to verify new users but also to streamline customer management for existing accounts. Let’s take a quick look into how this plugin can transform your WooCommerce experience:

1. New User Registration Verification: New user accounts require email verification, bolstering the security and authenticity of each registration.

2. Verification for Existing Users: Have an existing user base? The plugin offers the flexibility to implement email verification for already registered users, enhancing the integrity of your existing customer base.

3. Role-Based Verification Flexibility: Skip the email verification process for selected user roles, allowing you to customize the verification process based on user hierarchy.

4. Customizable Emails & Messages: Tailor the verification messages displayed to users on your site and emails, ensuring a seamless and brand-consistent experience on the frontend of your store.

5. Admin Control and Management: Admins gain significant control, including options to manually verify or unverify users, resend activation links, and even delete unverified users either manually or on an automated schedule.

By integrating these features, the “Email Verification for WooCommerce” plugin not only secures your user registration process but also offers significant flexibility and control in managing your customer base.

?? Recommended By

• ThriveDesk: Best WooCommerce Email Verification Plugins in 2024
• YayCommerce: How to Validate Email Address in WooCommerce
• WPGlob: Best WordPress Email Verification Plugins for Your Business
• LearnWoo: Why and How to Protect WooCommerce Order Page
• Edward Le – LinkedIn: Top 3 Best WooCommerce Email Verification Plugins
• WhiteWP: The Best WordPress Email Verification Plugins to Confirm Contact Information

?? Main Features: FREE Version

?? Verify Customers Emails on Signup

• Require new users to verify their emails on signup
• Block login from unverified users
• Login the user automatically after the account is verified
• Verify guest user billing address on checkout

?? Enforce Email Verification for Current Customers

• Enforce all your current users to verify their email addresses before logging back in to your store
• Resend verification emails by admin when needed

?? Skip Validation based on user role ()

Select to skip validation for any user role based on your store needs (wholesalers, admins, authors, etc.)

?? Add Verification status to “My Account” Page

• Show account verification info on “My Account” page
• Add account verification info widget
• Customize verification message text (Pro)

?? Control Redirection On Verification Status

• Redirects customers after successful verification
• Select where to redirect: Homepage, “My Account”, Shop, previous URL or Custom URL
• Redirects customers after unsuccessful verification
• Select a custom URL after unverified customer tries to login

?? Control Activation/Verification Link Expiration

• Expire link immediately after first click
• Define a custom period (in seconds, days) when the link will be expired (Pro)
• Customize text message to show when has expired (Pro)

?? Activation Email Customization

The plugin allows you to effortlessly customize emails that will be sent to your customers to activate their accounts, you can:

• Delay WooCommerce “Customer new account” email until account is verified
• Select to customize the email from plugin template, or create new email type in WooCommerce >> Emails
• Select from 15+ placeholder (like site_title, user_id, user_email) to be used in email subject & body
• Choose to send separate activation email or embed it in the standard WooCommerce “Customer new account” email
• Configure your preferred mail function (PHP, WordPress, WooCommerce)

?? Verification Confirmation Email Customization

Once your customers are verified, you can customize the confirmation email that will be sent to them, you can:

• Send a verification email immediately once customer activates their account
• Delay sending the emails so customers don’t get too many emails in short time
• Send notification email to admin (or any email) when a user is manually verified by admin
• Customize admin email title & body

?? Block Unverified Users

• You can block content for unverified users (including guests) by preventing access to any page of your site
• Block non-paying users: Block activation link until the customer places an order and its status is considered paid
• Check & Logout unverified users on “My Account” page or any other page

?? Handy Admin Tools

• Allow any user role (non admins) to manage & interact with the admin interface of the plugin
• Add a “Verified” column in “All users” page
• Filter users on “All users” page based on verification status
• Add links for manual email verification, un-verification and email resend by admin
• Bulk action options to Resend email, Verify, or Un-verify users in “All users” page

?? Customize Verification Messages

Once your user clicks on activation link, you can customize messages that appear based on activation status, you can customize:

• Success messages appearing after customer verifies their account
• Messages appearing after signup if you block login for unverified users
• Failed activation messages (expiry, broken link, etc) and include a %resend_verification_url%
• Resend link, error & already-verified messages

?? Delete Unverified Users (Manual & Automatic)

• Delete unverified users from the database for one time
• Delete unverified users from the database automatically (Hourly, Daily, Twice a day, Weekly)

?? More Advanced Options

• More options to control authentication filters, auth cookies, custom logout function
• Encoding options (Base64 or HashIDs)
• Prevent user automatic login after registration on “My Account” page
• Prevent user automatic login after registration on “Checkout” page

“Excellent Support + Plugin: As the title states, brilliant plugin with great free functionality – support was excellent and very helpful in solving a customisation issue.” – ????? Masidus

“Good flexibility and support: Plugin does what it says, and provides lots of configuration options. Had a minor issue that required support, and the problem was resolved very quickly, with great communication. Highly recommended.” – ????? reefables

?? Do More: PRO Version

All what’s listed above (and more) is available in the free version, but for those who would like to go further and beyond, we have a premium version of Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce plugin.

?? The Pro version unlocks more advanced features like:

?? Block Content for Unverified & Guest Users

• Block unverified users from accessing specific products
• Block unverified users from accessing all shop pages, categories, tags, or cart
• Block by custom URLs
• Customize messages appearing when unverified customers try to access blocked content
• Blocks checkout process for unverified users
• Blocks guests from adding any products to the cart
• Block WooCommerce order emails for all non-verified users
• Block account verification by email (and customize the message for them)
• Block “Thank you” (i.e. “Order received”) page access for non-verified users

?? Customization Options

• Verify the user on password reset
• Verify customers as soon as any of their non-free orders are considered paid
• Unverify, logout and resend activation link when a customer changes their email
• Customize email template to be used (Plain, WooCommerce, or Smart)
• Customize titles, heading & content for activation & verification emails
• REST API: Add endpoint allowing to verify users via REST API
• Premium support

?? Compatibility Options

Our plugin offers several compatibility options with third party plugins, like:

• WooCommerce Social Login by SkyVerge
• WooCommerce Social Login by wpweb
• Super Socializer by Team Heateor
• MyListing theme by 27collective
• Nextend Social Login by Nextendweb
• WooMail by CidCode (to append verification email with their email)
• Polylang (multi-language) compatibility
• Essential Addons for Elementor by WPDeveloper
• Email Customizer for WooCommerce by Themehigh
• Email Customizer for WooCommerce by VillaTheme
• Paid Memberships Pro
• YayMail – WooCommerce Email Customizer by YayCommerce
• WoodMart theme by xtemos

And much more to come soon.

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?? User Testimonials: See What Others Are Saying!

“The best verification plugin at the moment with amazing support – they helped me with compatibility with Yaymail.” – ????? Mr Bird

“Friendly Author fast response to fixed the problems and high efficiency to dev “Smart” template.” – ????? pvpasia

“Very good plugin, which is perfectly suited to WooCommerce. The support is really responsive and very competent! Do not hesitate to invest in this plugin if you want to set up an activation system.” – ????? Michel Pompas

“Excellent Plugin: Great plugin, it works perfectly, it’s light and has great management options. Fantastic support as well. It’s worth it!” – ????? Therus

Installation

Follow these simplified steps to get your plugin up and running:

From the WordPress Admin Panel:
1. Navigate to “Plugins” > “Add New”.
2. Use the search bar and find the plugin using the exact name.
3. Click “Install Now” for the desired plugin.
4. Once the installation is finished, and click “Activate”.

Manual Installation Using FTP:
1. Download the desired plugin from www.ads-software.com.
2. Using your preferred FTP client, upload the entire plugin folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress installation.
3. Go to “Plugins” > “Installed Plugins” in your dashboard and click “Activate”.

Manual download & upload from the WordPress Admin Panel:
1. Download the desired plugin in a ZIP format.
2. On your site, navigate to “Plugins” > “Add New” and click the “Upload Plugin” button.
3. Choose the downloaded plugin file and click “Install Now.”
4. After the installation is complete, click “Activate”.

Post-Activation:
Once activated, access the plugin’s settings by navigating to “WooCommerce > Settings” and look for the relevant tab.

FAQ

User registration clears shopping cart?

If your cart is getting empty after a new account is created, there are some things you could try:
– Enable the option Advanced > Custom logout function.
– Set the Advanced > Prevent login after register > Login prevention method option as Use login filter from WooCommerce.

When a user registers, it gives an error. How can I fix it?

Set the Advanced > Prevent login after register > Login prevention method option as Use login filter from WooCommerce.

How to eliminate spam registrations?

If you use some options combined, you’ll be able to remove the unverified users automatically, eliminating spam registrations.
This is what you can do:

• Disable General > Enable email verification for already registered users (This is optional, however it’s more safe)
• Enable Advanced > Delete users automatically
• Set General > Expire time (This is optional but it’s more safe, because you’ll be removing only unverified users whose activation have expired. This is a Pro feature though)

What can I do if I get a 403 error or have issues when trying to save settings?

Some servers have security solutions that do not allow saving settings with HTML tags.
You can try to contact them asking to disable it, or you can try our option:

• Advanced > Replace HTML tags

It will try to convert the angle brackets from HTML tags by other characters.
After that, you’ll just need to save the settings page once more. On the frontend the characters will be converted to HTML tags again.

Why the activation message (“Thank you for your registration…”) is not getting displayed after registration?

Please try to make sure that at least one of the above options are enabled.
If just some of them are already enabled and even so it doesn’t work, try to enable all of the them:

• Advanced > Prevent login after register
• Advanced > Prevent login after checkout
• Logout unverified users on “My Account” page
• Logout unverified users on every page

How to prevent duplicated success message after account verification?

Please try to use General > Redirect on success option as Do not redirect

If a unverified user tries to login how to priorize verification error message over incorrect password ?

Try to set the Advanced > Authenticate filter option as authenticate filter

What can I do if the error messages are not showing?

If an unverified user is trying to login and the error message (Your account has to be activated before you can login…) is not getting displayed you can try two different approaches:

1. Use the Redirect on failure option.
   Even if the Custom redirect URL option is empty, there will be no problem.
   A ?alg_wc_ev_email_verified_error argument will be added to the URL that could help you displaying the message.

2. Change the Advanced > Authenticate filter option.

How to use the alg_wc_ev_verification_status shortcode ?

You can use the [alg_wc_ev_verification_status] shortcode to display the verification status, showing if current user is verified or not.
Params for the [alg_wc_ev_verification_status] shortcode:

• wrapper_template: <div class="alg-wc-ev-verification-status">{content_template}</div>
• content_template: Verification status: {verification_status}
• verified_status: Verified
• unverified_status: Unverified
• hide_if_verified: false
• hide_for_guests: false

wrapper_template params:

• {content_template}

content_template params:

• {verification_status}
• {user_display_name}
• {user_nicename}

How to use the alg_wc_ev_resend_verification_url shortcode ?

You can use the [alg_wc_ev_resend_verification_url] shortcode to display a message with a link to the verification url.
Params for the [alg_wc_ev_resend_verification_url] shortcode:

• wrapper_template: <div class="alg-wc-ev-resend-verification-url">{content_template}</div>
• content_template: You can resend the email with verification link by clicking <a href="{resend_verification_url}">here</a>.
• hide_if_verified: true
• hide_for_guests: false

content_template params:

• {resend_verification_url}

How to use the alg_wc_ev_email_content_placeholder shortcode ?

You can use the [alg_wc_ev_email_content_placeholder] shortcode to append the verification email to some custom email template.
In order to use it, it’s necessary to:

• Enable the option Email > Activation email > Fine tune activation email placement
• Disable the option Email > Activation email > Send as a separate email
• Most probably the option Emails > Activation email > Email template should be set as Plain

Params for the [alg_wc_ev_email_content_placeholder] shortcode:

• user_email

Reviews

Security Risk!!

kwd October 22, 2024 3 replies

I host at WPEngine and its showing your plugin has a security rick. Says this: Email Verification for WooCommerce – Active Version 2.8.10 Security risk Security risk:?sqli.?The plugin contains a vulnerability wherein unauthenticated visitors could inject SQL statements into WordPress. SQL injection could allow an attacker to gain control of your site. Severity: high Fixed in:?no fix yet You might want to check into this because I uninstalled it. Once people see this, they should uninstall it too until you get it fixed.

Title: Essential for Secure Transactions!

diegojs23 June 14, 2024 1 reply

I recently integrated the Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce plugin into my online store, and I must say, it has been a game-changer for both security and customer satisfaction. I run a small but growing e-commerce store specializing in handmade jewelry. With an increasing number of orders, I noticed a rise in fraudulent transactions and fake accounts, which not only hurt my revenue but also caused significant headaches with inventory and shipping. Implementation: Setting up the plugin was incredibly straightforward. The installation took just a few minutes, and the configuration options were clear and easy to understand. I was able to customize the verification email to match my brand’s tone and aesthetic, which was a nice touch. I recommend it totally!

Efficient support

diweb June 6, 2024 1 reply

I have to recommend this plugin, not only because of the problem it solves but because of the support received. We have received assistance when we needed it in a timely and correct manner. The support team was always willing to solve different problems that we experienced during the implementation.

Email Verification for WooCommerce – Activation mails are not getting

bvk69varghese March 19, 2024 3 replies

Hi, We have updated your plugin to the latest version (Email Verification for WooCommerce 2.6.9), and now the activation emails are not being sent to users. Consequently, newly registered users are unable to login. Therefore, we have deactivated the plugin. Could you please provide answers to the following queries: How can we resolve the issue of activation emails not being sent?Is there a method to send activation links to users in bulk via email for them to activate their accounts? Please reply. Thanks.

Amazing support and plugin

mountainbirb February 7, 2023 1 reply

Support helped me integrate their plugin with another plugin and I am really greateful for it. The best verification plugin out there at the moment with awesome support

Excellent support

alevywp November 22, 2022 1 reply

Great support team. 3 days between reporting an issue and the fix.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

2.9.1 – 12/11/2024

• Fix – HPOS compatibility fixed.
• Dev – Email – Activation email – Disabled editing in read-only mode.
• Dev – Updated cross-selling library.
• WC tested up to: 9.4.

2.9.0 – 22/10/2024

• Fix – Vulnerability issue fixed.
• Fix – Function wp_enqueue_script was called incorrectly.
• Dev – Email content / Messages options – Integrated a rich text editor.
• Dev – Reorder General and Email setting options.
• Dev – Add Cross-selling library.
• Dev – Move settings to WPFactory menu.
• Dev – Added the License Key Manager library.
• WC tested up to: 9.3.

2.8.10 – 07/09/2024

• Fix – completely delete duplicate code.

2.8.9 – 06/09/2024

• Fix – delete duplicate HPOS declaration.

2.8.8 – 05/09/2024

• WC tested up to: 9.2

2.8.7 – 30/07/2024

• WC tested up to: 9.1
• Tested up to: 6.6.

2.8.6 – 21/06/2024

• Dev – Email – Activation email – Added option to resend the activation email automatically.
• WC tested up to: 9.0

2.8.5 – 10/06/2024

• Fix – Admin – Users filter – Improve performance for verified users filter.
• Fix – Admin – Users filter – Users display might not work so well with the “Current registered users” option.

2.8.4 – 04/06/2024

• Fix – Compatibility – Email Customizer by VillaTheme – Prevent {alg_wc_ev_viwec} from wrapping the WooCommerce email around the Activation email content.

2.8.3 – 30/05/2024

• Fix – Compatibility – Email Customizer by VillaTheme – Fix {alg_wc_ev_viwec} special text.

2.8.2 – 29/05/2024

• Dev – Shortcode [alg_wc_ev_verification_status] is deprecated in favor of [alg_wc_ev_custom_msg].
• Dev – Shortcodes – Create the shortcodes section on admin.
• WC tested up to: 8.9

2.8.1 – 17/05/2024

• Dev – Advanced – Create option to verify user on WP Social sign up.

2.8.0 – 15/05/2024

• Dev – Advanced – Delete options – Add option to delete users from network.
• Dev – Add new class to handle user deletion.

2.7.9 – 13/05/2024

• Fix – Delete users in background class doesn’t have the proper name.
• Dev – Advanced – Delete users – Show the user id and email of the deleted user in logs.
• Dev – Advanced – Delete users – Always show deleted user info in logs.

2.7.8 – 06/05/2024

• Dev – Add User placeholders to some message options, such as %user_login%, %user_nicename%, %user_email%, %user_url%, %user_registered%, %user_display_name%, %user_roles%, %user_first_name%, %user_last_name%, %admin_user_profile_url%.

2.7.7 – 01/05/2024

• Fix – Verification url may not work on free version.
• WC tested up to: 8.8.

2.7.6 – 30/04/2024

• Dev – Compatibility – Login/Signup Popup – Create option to prevent auto login on sign up from the Login/Signup plugin.
• Dev – Compatibility – Login/Signup Popup – Create option to replace registration message from Login/Signup plugin by the Activate message.

2.7.5 – 29/04/2024

• Fix – Admin – Users Filter – PHP Deprecated: explode(): Passing null to parameter #2 ($string) of type string is deprecated.
• Fix – Vulnerability issue.

2.7.4 – 12/04/2024

• Fix – Add js string to language files.
• Fix – Move footer js script to js file.

2.7.3 – 04/04/2024

• Update – readm.txt
• Tested up to: 6.5.

2.7.2 – 25/03/2024

• Fix – Remove PHP warnings.
• WC tested up to: 8.7.

2.7.1 – 19/03/2024

• Fix – Remove PHP warnings.

2.7.0 – 19/03/2024

• Fix – Remove PHP warnings.
• WC tested up to: 8.6.

2.6.9 – 30/01/2024

• Fix – Guest users option sends the verification email with empty placeholders.
• Fix – Remove unnecessary guest functions.
• Update readme file.
• Fix – Sync the guest user’s verification status after registering with the same email ID.

2.6.8 – 25/01/2024

• WC tested up to: 8.5.
• Update readme file.

2.6.7 – 11/01/2024

• Fix – Email – Some plain text email has placeholders missing.
• Dev – Email – Add %site_title% and %site_url% to email contents by default.

2.6.6 – 10/01/2024

• Dev – Email – Add %site_title% to email subjects by default.

2.6.5 – 09/01/2024

• Dev – Email – Add %site_title% and %site_url% placeholders to emails. This should help with deliverability problems and emails sent to Spam.

2.6.4 – 03/01/2024

• Fix – Guest verification email change to do action on click “Send Mail” link.

2.6.3 – 05/12/2023

• Fix – When the option “WC email template” is set to “WooCommerce > Emails”, the activation and confirmation emails can’t have their content changed via settings.
• WC tested up to: 8.3.
• Tested up to: 6.4.

2.6.2 – 22/10/2023

• WC tested up to: 8.2.
• Fix – Deprecated warning!

2.6.1 – 25/09/2023

• Tested up to: 6.3.
• Update plugin icon, banner.

2.6.0 – 14/09/2023

• Fix – Class WC_Email not found in some circumstances.
• Dev – General – Account verification – New option: “Verification parameter”.
• WC tested up to: 8.1.

2.5.9 – 07/08/2023

• Fix – restrict default validate at checkout page.

2.5.8 – 06/08/2023

• Dev – New option: General > Account Verification > Guest users.
• WC tested up to: 7.9.

2.5.7 – 03/07/2023

• Dev – Declare compatibility with HPOS.

2.5.6 – 17/06/2023

• WC tested up to: 7.8.

2.5.5 – 17/04/2023

• Fix – Undefined array key “hide_for_guests” on Alg_WC_Email_Verification_Core.

2.5.4 – 17/04/2023

• Dev – Improve the send_auth_cookies filter.

2.5.3 – 15/04/2023

• Dev – Compatibility – Woodmart – Auto verify users from WoodMart social authentication.
• Dev – Advanced – Authenticate filter – New option: send_auth_cookies.
• WC tested up to: 7.6.
• Tested up to: 6.2.

2.5.2 – 21/03/2023

• Fix – Compatibility – VillaTheme Email Customizer – Activation/Confirmation email don’t get available as Email types.
• WC tested up to: 7.5.

2.5.1 – 23/02/2023

• Dev – Compatibility – YayMail – New option: Append the Activation email message to the “Customer new account” email using the [yaymail_custom_shortcode_alg_wc_ev_aem] shortcode.
• WC tested up to: 7.4.

2.5.0 – 04/01/2023

• Fix – Email – Email options – Delay Customer new account email forces the email to be always active.
• Dev – Improve the way of initializing the main class.
• WC tested up to: 7.2.

2.4.9 – 15/12/2022

• Fix – Possible error regarding composer dependencies.

2.4.8 – 30/11/2022

• Dev – Email – Confirmation email – New option: Send confirmation email to the user manually verified by admin.
• Dev – Email – Admin email – New option: Send admin email when a user has been manually verified by admin.

2.4.7 – 24/11/2022

• Dev – Blocking – Block content – New option: Block by URL(s).

2.4.6 – 21/11/2022

• Fix – Advanced – Prevent login after register – Use login filter from WooCommerce blocks checkout.
• WC tested up to: 7.1.
• Tested up to: 6.1.

2.4.5 – 19/10/2022

• Dev – Improve code to filter users on admin.
• WC tested up to: 7.0

2.4.4 – 06/10/2022

• Fix – Email domain on translation function is not correct.
• Fix – Add untranslated strings to POT.

2.4.3 – 28/09/2022

• Dev – Messages – New option: “Already verified” message.
• Dev – Compatibility – Polylang – Add option to translate WooCommerce pages with the purpose of sending the activation link and the emails with the correct language.
• Fix – Email – Customer new account email – Delay Customer new account email is being sent along with the activation email.

2.4.2 – 16/09/2022

• Fix – General – Account verification – “Verify account for current users” is not sending emails.
• WC tested up to: 6.9.

2.4.1 – 29/08/2022

• Fix .gitattributes regarding git-tag.sh.
• Dev – Emails – Confirmation email – New option: Delay – Wait for some time before sending the email.
• Dev – Emails – Confirmation email – New option: Delay – Unit of time.
• Dev – Emails – Confirmation email – New option: Delay – Delay value.

2.4.0 – 26/08/2022

• Dev – Advanced – Encoding options – New option: Encoding method.
• Dev – Advanced – Encoding options – New option: Hashids – “Hashids salt”.
• Dev – Advanced – Encoding options – New option: Hashids – “Hashids alphabet”.

2.3.9 – 16/08/2022

• Dev – Compatibility – Email Customizer for WooCommerce by VillaTheme – Add option to enable placeholders on the email templates.
• WC tested up to: 6.8.

2.3.8 – 06/07/2022

• Dev – Admin – Added bulk option to unverify users and integrate support for background processing.

2.3.7 – 20/06/2022

• Fix – Shortcode – Add success and failure messages depending on the user status upon submission of verification form.
• Fix – General – Redirect on success – Store the referer URL on a better place to use later for redirection.
• WC tested up to: 6.6.

2.3.6 – 07/06/2022

• Fix – Error message being displayed on verification.
• Dev – New parameter submit_btn_template added to the shortcode alg_wc_ev_resend_verification_form to control submit button of the form.
• Dev – Emails – Create new “WC email template” option that adds new emails (activation, confirmation) to “WooCommerce > emails”.
• Dev – Emails – Create new “WC email template” option that adds new emails (activation, confirmation) to “WooCommerce > emails”.

2.3.5 – 30/05/2022

• Fix – Creating a new account triggers sometimes the error “Call to undefined function wc_has_notice()“.
• Fix – Blocking – Block account verification by email – Blocks some users when it should not.
• Dev – Shortcode – Add [alg_wc_ev_new_user_info] shortcode to display user information for users who have just registered.
• Dev – Shortcode – Add [alg_wc_ev_resend_verification_form] shortcode to display resend verification form.
• Dev – General – Account verification – Create new option to manage the message displayed to the user who has just changed his email.
• Dev – General – Redirect on success – Create new option to redirect to the previous page the user was before accessing my account page.
• Dev – Compatibility – Add {alg_wc_ev_viwec} special text for Email Customizer plugin by VillaTheme.
• WC tested up to: 6.5.
• Tested up to: 6.0.

2.3.4 – 02/05/2022

• Fix – Success message does not get displayed after verification when “Redirect on success” is disabled.
• Dev – Advanced – Add “Session start params” option.
• Dev – Advanced – Prevent login after register – Create “Login prevention method” option.
• Dev – Add alg_wc_ev_session_start_params filter.

2.3.3 – 26/04/2022

• Fix – Admin – “Allowed user roles” option needs to work empty as well, allowing all user roles to access the plugin settings.
• Dev – Admin – Added bulk verification of users and integrate support for background processing.
• Dev – Admin – Added status filter option in Users list page.
• WC tested up to: 6.4.

2.3.2 – 04/04/2022

• Dev – Compatibility – Paid Memberships Pro – Add option to verify users that signs up via Paid Memberships Pro registration process.
• Dev – Compatibility – Paid Memberships Pro – Add option to verify users that already have a valid membership.

2.3.1 – 21/03/2022

• Fix – Emails – Confirmation email – Subject does not reflect the settings.
• Fix – Emails – Confirmation email – Wrong email heading.
• Dev – Emails – Create alg_wc_ev_email_subject_final filter.
• Dev – Emails – Create alg_wc_ev_email_content_heading filter.
• Dev – Emails – Move “Email template” and “Email wrap method” options from activation email to general email section.
• Dev – Emails – Code refactoring.

2.3.0 – 21/03/2022

• Fix – Emails – Confirmation email – Call to undefined method Alg_WC_Email_Verification_Emails::wrap_in_wc_email_template().

2.2.9 – 18/03/2022

• Dev – Move compatibility code to a new class.
• Dev – Emails – Implement functionality of sending confirmation email to user.
• WC tested up to: 6.3.

2.2.8 – 02/03/2022

• Dev – Improve Alg_WC_Email_Verification_Logouts::block_unverified_user_login().
• Dev – Compatibility – Essential Addons for Elementor – Add option to Verify users who register or log in from Login Register form element.
• WC tested up to: 6.2.

2.2.7 – 31/01/2022

• Dev – Compatibility – Email Customizer – Create option that allows a alg_wc_ev_ec_email_content action hook display the activation email content.
• Dev – Add more strings to wpml-config.xml.
• Tested up to: 5.9.

2.2.6 – 19/01/2022

• Fix – Blocking – Block order emails – Users don’t receive the emails when accounts are activated automatically after the order is paid.
• Dev – Move “Advanced > Block order emails” to “Blocking” section.
• Dev – Remove $code param from alg_wc_ev_user_account_activated and alg_wc_ev_verify_email_error actions.
• Dev – Change Alg_WC_Email_Verification_Core::verify() parameter from is_rest_api to directly.
• WC tested up to: 6.1.

2.2.5 – 10/12/2021

• Fix – Users can’t activate the account.

2.2.4 – 08/12/2021

• Dev – Move “Auto verify paying customers” to General > Account verification.
• WC tested up to: 5.9.

2.2.3 – 21/10/2021

• Dev – General – Verification info – Add customization content to wpml-config.xml.

2.2.2 – 15/10/2021

• Fix – Clicking on resend link from WP 2FA plugin triggers an error.
• WC tested up to: 5.8.

2.2.1 – 12/10/2021

• Fix – Check for WP_Background_Process class before trying to use it.

2.2.0 – 07/10/2021

• Dev – Admin – Add “Allowed user roles” option allowing to manage which user roles will interact with the admin interface from the plugin.

2.1.9 – 27/09/2021

• Dev – Email – Create wpml-config.xml file with admin email options.
• Improve admin settings.
• WC tested up to: 5.7.

2.1.8 – 15/09/2021

• Fix – User can’t resend activation email if “Send as a separate email” option is disabled.
• Fix – Email – Activation email – Change “Email content” default value in order to prevent possible issues from some email services like Outlook/Hotmail.
• Dev – Email – Activation email – Create “Smart” value to “Email template” option.

2.1.7 – 13/09/2021

• Fix – Email – Verify nonce in order to resend the activation email.

2.1.6 – 27/08/2021

• Fix – General – Redirect on success option.
• Dev – Functions – Create the param check_previous_messages to check if the message has been added previously.
• Dev – Improve is_plugin_active() function.
• WC tested up to: 5.6.

2.1.5 – 19/08/2021

• Dev – Advanced – Improve “Authenticate filter” option.
• Improve readme.

2.1.4 – 09/08/2021

• Fix – Possible duplicated activation message.
• Dev – General – Add new option to verify the account if password is reset.
• Dev – Advanced – Add option to use alg_wc_ev/v1/verify REST API endpoint.
• Dev – Improve main verify() function.
• Dev – Improve one-time activation link function.
• Reorganize general section on admin settings.

2.1.3 – 28/07/2021

• Dev – Add [alg_wc_ev_email_content_placeholder] shortcode with user_email param.
• Create the compatibility section.
• Tested up to: 5.8.

2.1.2 – 17/07/2021

• Fix shortcode documentation format on FAQ.

2.1.1 – 17/07/2021

• Dev – Blocking – Create “Blocked pages” option.
• Dev – Blocking – Create “Blocked products” option.
• Dev – Blocking – Create “Conditionals” option allowing to block content by checking the conditionals.
• Dev – Blocking – Create “Redirect” option.
• Dev – Blocking – Create “Error” options.
• Dev – General – Verification info – Create “My account page” option.
• Dev – General – Verification info – Create “Widget” option.
• Dev – General – Verification info – Create “Customization” option.
• Dev – Add [alg_wc_ev_verification_status] shortcode with wrapper_template, content_template, hide_for_guests, hide_if_verified, verified_status and unverified_status params.
• Dev – Add [alg_wc_ev_resend_verification_url] shortcode with wrapper_template, content_template hide_for_guests, params.
• Dev – Improve is_user_verified() function.
• Dev – Improve verification url encoding/decoding by sanitizing characters like +/=.
• Dev – Rearrange admin settings.
• Dev – Add github deploy setup.
• WC tested up to: 5.5.

2.1.0 – 18/06/2021

• Fix – Free and pro plugins can’t be active at the same time.
• Dev – Use wpf-promoting-notice library to add notice on settings page regarding pro version.
• Dev – General – Add “Redirect on failure” option.
• Add FAQ question regarding error messages not getting displayed.
• Add composer setup.
• WC tested up to: 5.4.

2.0.9 – 20/05/2021

• Dev – Messages – Create “Clear previous messages” option trying to avoid duplicated messages.
• Dev – Advanced – Prevent login after register – Create “Force redirect” option.
• WC tested up to: 5.3.

2.0.8 – 09/04/2021

• Fix – Account is not verified if “Send verification as a separate email” is disabled and “Delay Customer new account email” is enabled.
• Dev – Advanced – Block order emails – Add “Blocked emails” option.
• Dev – Advanced – Block order emails – Add “Unblock emails” option.
• Dev – Advanced – Add compatibility option with “WooMail – WooCommerce Email Customizer” plugin.
• Dev – General – Add “Block unverified login” option.
• Add notice on settings page regarding pro version.
• Advanced – Rearrange admin settings.
• WC tested up to: 5.1.

2.0.7 – 22/03/2021

• Fix – Advanced – Fix compatibility with “WooCommerce Social Login (SkyVerge)” plugin.
• Dev – Advanced – Add “Block auth cookies” option.
• Dev – Messages – Resend verification URL – Add “URL” option.
• Move “Mail function” and “Fine tune activation email” options to “Emails” section.
• Tested up to: 5.7

2.0.6 – 25/02/2021

• Fix – General – Activation link – Increase “Activation email delay” priority to fix possible conflicts with 3rd party plugins like “Kadence WooCommerce Email Designer”.
• Fix – Checks $data['id'] from activation time.
• Dev – Emails – Activation email – Add “Email wrap method” option.
• WC tested up to: 5.0

2.0.5 – 15/01/2021

• Fix – Conflict between WCMP plugin and “Delay WooCommerce Customer new account email” option making vendor template emails disappear from WooCommerce settings.
• Fix – Increase priority on redirect_on_success_activation() from alg_wc_ev_user_account_activated hook.

2.0.4 – 13/01/2021

• Fix – General – Activation link – Activation email delay.
• Dev – Advanced – Add “Fine tune activation email placement” option.
• Dev – Advanced – Fine tune activation email placement – Add callback for the new alg_wc_ev_activation_email_content_placeholder hook allowing to fine tune the activation email placement inside the “Customer new account” email.
• WC tested up to: 4.9

2.0.3 – 08/01/2021

• Fix – General – “One-time activation link” option.
• Dev – General – Block adding products to cart – Add “Custom redirect URL” option.
• Dev – Add “Verify paying customers automatically” option.
• Dev – Add “Unverify email changing” option.
• Add missing activation message question to FAQ.

2.0.2 – 18/12/2020

• Fix – Check for possible previous error before checking if user is verified to show the error message.
• Fix – Advanced – Fix compatibility with “Super Socializer” plugin.
• Dev – Advanced – Add compatibility with “Social Login” from My Listing theme.
• Dev – Advanced – Create “Authenticate filter” option.
• Dev – General – Activation Link – Add a “Activation email delay” option, which tries to prevent the activation email from being sent to already authenticated users.
• Move compatibility options to Advanced section.
• WC tested up to: 4.8
• Tested up to: 5.6

2.0.1 – 10/12/2020

• Fix – Admin Options – Delete users – Delete users in background processing avoiding possible server errors.
• Fix – Admin Options – Info about the scheduled event from “Delete users automatically” option.
• Dev – General Options – Add compatibility option with “WooCommerce Social Login” plugin made by WooCommerce author SkyVerge.
• Dev – Advanced Options – Background Processing – Add “Minimum amount” option.
• Dev – Advanced Options – Background Processing – Add “Send email” option.
• Dev – Advanced Options – Background Processing – Add “Email to” option.

2.0.0 – 03/12/2020

• Fix – Success message not getting displayed after redirect.
• Dev – General – Add “Login automatically” option.
• Dev – Advanced Options – Add “Replace HTML tags” option.
• Dev – Advanced Options – Add “Delete users frequency” option.
• Dev – Admin Options – Add info about the scheduled event from “Delete users automatically” option.
• Dev – Filters – alg_wc_ev_html_replacement_params filter added.
• Add “Replace HTML tags” option to readme FAQ.
• Add “How to eliminate Spam registrations?” on readme.
• Move “Prevent automatic user login” section from general to advanced.

1.9.8 – 24/11/2020

• Fix – Settings – Use wp_kses_post instead of leaving the $raw_value.
• Dev – General Options – Add “Expire time unit” option.
• WC tested up to: 4.7

1.9.7 – 08/11/2020

• Fix load_plugin_textdomain call by putting it inside the ‘init’ hook.
• Dev – Emails – Admin email – Allow template variables to be used on ‘Subject’ and ‘Heading’.
• Dev – General Options – Add compatibility with “Nextend Social Login” plugin.
• Dev – General Options – Add compatibility with “Super Socializer” plugin.
• Dev – General Options – Delay option will now send the automatically generated password on email by regenerating it again.
• Add social login link on readme.

1.9.6 – 07/10/2020

• Fix – Wrong text-domain on advanced settings.
• Fix – ‘One-time activation link’ option triggering improper error message after successful login.
• Dev – General Options – Advanced – Improve ‘Custom “logout” function’ option description.
• Dev – Admin – Add ‘Resend verification email’ option for bulk users actions.
• Add ‘User registration clears shopping cart’ FAQ question.

1.9.5 – 08/09/2020

• Dev – General – Add ‘Block non-paying users’ option.
• Dev – General – Block non-paying users – Add ‘Role checking’ option.
• Dev – General – Block non-paying users – Add ‘Send activation email only on payment’ option.
• Dev – General – Block non-paying users – Add ‘Error notice’ option.
• Dev – General – Add ‘One-time activation link’ option making the activation link usable only once.
• Dev – Admin – Add ‘Verified column position’ option allowing to setup the column position.
• Dev – Filters – alg_wc_ev_reset_and_mail_activation_link_validation filter added.
• Dev – Filters – alg_wc_ev_block_unverified_user_login_error_message filter added.
• Dev – Functions – alg_wc_ev_is_valid_paying_user() function added.
• Improve verified icons on admin using dashicons.
• Improve verified column actions.
• Rearrange admin settings.
• WC tested up to: 4.4

1.9.4 – 14/08/2020

• Plugin author updated.
• Tested up to: 5.5.

1.9.3 – 08/08/2020

• Dev – Code refactoring.

1.9.2 – 05/08/2020

• Dev – Advanced – “Mail function” option added.
• Dev – Code refactoring.

1.9.1 – 03/08/2020

• Dev – General – Redirect on success – “Redirect to custom URL” option added.

1.9.0 – 24/07/2020

• Dev – General – Prevent automatic user login after register – “Redirect” option moved from the “Advanced” section; “Custom redirect” option added.
• Dev – Emails – Email content – New placeholders added: %user_id%, %user_first_name%, %user_last_name%, %user_login%, %user_nicename%, %user_email%, %user_display_name%.
• Dev – Emails – WooCommerce template – Footer – Fallback replace_placeholders() function added (to ensure that e.g. {site_title} placeholder is replaced).
• Dev – Filters – alg_wc_ev_redirect_on_registration filter added; alg_wc_ev_after_redirect_checkout filter renamed to alg_wc_ev_redirect_after_checkout.
• Dev – Functions – alg_wc_ev_is_user_verified_by_user_id() and alg_wc_ev_is_user_verified() functions added.
• Dev – Code refactoring.
• WC tested up to: 4.3.

1.8.3 – 08/06/2020

• Dev – General Options – ‘Logout unverified users on “My Account” page’ option added.
• Dev – General Options – ‘Redirect to “My account”‘ option renamed to “Redirect on success”, and ‘Redirect to “Shop” page’ and “Redirect to home page” options added.
• Dev – Advanced Options – ‘Force redirect on “Prevent automatic user login after register”‘ option added.
• WC tested up to: 4.2.

1.8.2 – 26/05/2020

• Fix – Security vulnerability fixed.

1.8.1 – 23/05/2020

• Fix – General Options – Send as a separate email – Correctly marking user as unverified now (when both “Send as a separate email” and “Enable email verification for already registered users” options are disabled).
• Dev – General Options – Logout unverified users on every page – “Redirect” option added (defaults to yes).
• Dev – General Options – Prevent automatic user login after checkout – Admin settings description updated.

1.8.0 – 22/05/2020

• Dev – General Options – “Send as a separate email” option added.
• Dev – General Options – “Logout unverified users on every page” options added.
• Dev – General Options – “Block checkout process for unverified users” options added.
• Dev – General Options – Blacklist emails – Now accepting multiple lines in settings.
• Dev – Admin Options – manage_users_custom_column hook priority increased.
• Dev – Admin Options – Settings descriptions updated.
• Dev – Saving “email sent” data in user meta (“activation”, “WooCommerce customer new account”, “admin” emails).
• Dev – Double checking if email was already sent (“WooCommerce customer new account”, “admin” emails).
• Dev – is_user_verified() – Double checking guests.
• Dev – Code refactoring.
• Localization – fr_FR translation added.
• Tags updated.

1.7.0 – 08/05/2020

• Dev – General Options – “Expire activation link” options added.
• Dev – General Options – “Enable plugin” option removed.
• Dev – Admin Options – “Delete users automatically” option added.
• Dev – Admin Options – Delete users – alg_wc_ev_delete_unverified_users_loop_args filter added.
• Dev – Advanced Options – ‘Notice for “Prevent automatic user login after checkout”‘ moved from “General” settings section.
• Dev – [alg_wc_ev_translate] shortcode added.
• WC tested up to: 4.1.

1.6.0 – 01/05/2020

• Dev – General Options – “Blacklist emails” options added.
• Dev – General Options – ‘Accept verification from “WooCommerce – Social Login” plugin’ option added.
• Dev – Admin Options – Users list column – Now checking “Skip email verification for user roles” and “Enable email verification for already registered users” option values when marking users as “verified”.
• Dev – Admin Options – Users list column – Actions – “Resend” and “Unverify” admin actions added.
• Dev – Admin Options – Users list column – Actions – Notices added.
• Dev – Advanced Options – “Action for sending activation link email” option added.
• Dev – “Advanced” settings section added.
• Dev – Forcing to send activation email for non-verified users only now.
• Dev – alg_wc_ev_verify_email filter added.
• Dev – alg_wc_ev_is_user_verified filter added.
• Dev – alg_wc_ev_new_user_action filter added.
• Dev – Code refactoring.

1.5.1 – 27/04/2020

• Fix – Messages – Grammar errors fixed in the default messages (Resend: “… has been resend…” to “… has been resent…”; Failed/Error: “… can resend email…” to “… can resend the email…”).
• Dev – General Options – Prevent automatic user login after register – Ensuring that woocommerce_registration_auth_new_customer is always true.
• Dev – General Options – Advanced – Action for “Prevent automatic user login after checkout” – ‘On “‘thank you’ page”‘ option added (fixes the issue with CartFlows plugin).
• Dev – General Options – Restyled.

1.5.0 – 22/04/2020

• Fix – General Options – Prevent automatic user login after checkout – Logging out only unverified users now.
• Fix – General Options – Prevent automatic user login after checkout – Displaying “Activate” notice only for non-guests now (i.e. when guest checkout is allowed).
• Dev – General Options – Prevent automatic user login after checkout – ‘Block “Thank you” page’ option added.
• Dev – General Options – Prevent automatic user login after checkout – “Block customer order emails” option added.
• Dev – General Options – “Block guests from adding products to the cart” options added.
• Dev – General Options – Advanced – ‘Action for “Prevent automatic user login after checkout”‘ option added.
• Dev – Admin Options – “Email” options added.
• Dev – alg_wc_ev_core_loaded action added.
• Dev – Settings – Restyled and descriptions updated.
• Dev – Code refactoring.

1.4.2 – 19/04/2020

• Fix – Emails – Email template – WooCommerce – Placeholders (e.g. {site_title}) are now replaced in footer text.

1.4.1 – 17/04/2020

• Dev – General Options – Advanced – ‘Custom “logout” function’ option added.
• Dev – Admin action link description updated.

1.4.0 – 17/04/2020

• Fix – General Options – Prevent automatic user login after checkout – Zero sum order bug fixed.
• Dev – General Options – Prevent automatic user login after checkout – “Add notice” option added.
• Dev – %resend_verification_url% – Using current URL (instead of “My account” URL) now.

1.3.1 – 08/04/2020

• Dev – General Options – “Prevent automatic user login after register” option added (defaults to yes).
• Dev – General Options – “Prevent automatic user login after checkout” option added (defaults to yes).
• Dev – Messages – Activate – %resend_verification_url% placeholder added.

1.3.0 – 03/04/2020

• Fix – “Reset settings” admin notice fixed.
• Dev – General Options – Skip email verification for user roles – …