rhodesengr

got it. thanks.

well I don’t know how to verify wp cron.

But I found a code snipet to put in functions.php that fixed the problem. It just sends an email from my admin gmail to my admin gmail that a post was made. Think I will just leave at that.

OK i tried you test.
With the plugin decativated, I can see an email in the gmail “sent” folder to no reply. I don’t see any bcc to admin or my test user. I did npt receive email at either my admin gmail or my user email. So I might only be getting them later on when gmail sends the bad delivery notice.

When the plugin is activated again, I see nothing being logged on the gmail “sent” folder.

Settings/ General
6th field down it says Membership.
There is a check box Anyone can Register.
Uncheck it and External registration is disabled.

You can still Register users as the Admin

see this thread
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/uniform-registration-page/
That plugin allows you to hide the registration link but it does not actually deactivate it. Anyone that knows the right syntax can access the registration. I added some code that redirects to a custom registration page but I was still getting spam registrations.

I ended up unchecking the box “anyone can register” in settings. Instead, I add users manually. I used Contact Form 7 to make a form that folks can send me their info to request registration.

Well I guess it is not plugin issue. The verfication emails do show up in the sent folder on gmail but not arriving at address #2.

I tried an experiment. I forwarded the verify email to my same work address and it went through. However, if I copied and pasted the contents into a new email and sent it again, it does not go through.

I don’t really know but I am guessing that the email system at work ( a DOE National Lab) has some heavy filtering going on. They may well be not delivering emails with active links. Why the forwarded message gets through but not the copy and pasted version or the original version, I have no clue. They have the same active links.

ok I feel like a bit of an idiot but not completely.

The yahoo problem is resolved. All the messages were going into spam. The spam folder is initially hidden so I didn’t see it.

However, the issue with address #2 verification email is still not resolved. I receive the plugin test and direct emails but not the verification email.

weird. Now I am at work and on a different computer. The form area background is now gray and it looks fine. Have to wait until I am back home to see if it is different and still white on that PC.

double weird: even the screen shot I posted above has gray back ground when viewed on my PC at work. It looked stark white when viewed at home.

Maybe it is just my monitor settings or something. I guess it is not a WP issue.

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I don’r see a way to attach a file here but in this link I took a screen shot and annotated it. I changed the color scheme to Sunrise but the input fileds and background are still all white.

https://www.rhodesengr.com/miscphotos/admin%20colors.jpg

well thanks but as I mentioned I have tried changing those schemes and they don’t affect the main input area

Thanks for checking but yes I did find a solution. It required adding some code to the theme. Just my opinion, but I think it would be great if you could find a way to include that function in your plugin. Turns out that there are a lot of people out there that know how to get around plugin created Reg pages. Not every one is going to dig as hard as I did or be willing to edit Theme files.

I am not saying exactly what I did here because it will just prod some people to find yet another way around it but I am open to talking about it through some private means.

no doubt. But I tested it with what I am using (User Registration) and it shut it down.

the answer is no. That shuts off all registration.

I thought about that too but the question then becomes can anyone register at all with plugin generated registration forms.

IDK. Maybe that would work.

well I actually have already seen that. Found it on my own.
I don’t want to try to hand-code the built in registration page. I want to just block it.

There are many nice plugins that make nice Registration including required fields, but they aren’t much good if there is a back-channel way to get around the pages or shortcodes generated by plugins.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by rhodesengr.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by rhodesengr.