https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/moderate-account-registration-registration-approval Gravity Support Forums Topic: Moderate account registration / Registration Approval en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:10:39 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/moderate-account-registration-registration-approval#post-203940 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:56:59 +0000 Chris Hajer 203940@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Awesome. Thanks for the update. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/moderate-account-registration-registration-approval#post-203933 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:44:18 +0000 Josh Fialkoff 203933@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks Chris!<br /> I did exactly that yesterday and it works well. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/moderate-account-registration-registration-approval#post-203535 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 05:00:52 +0000 Chris Hajer 203535@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I don't believe there is a setting to enable that. However, if you use the admin notification, that notification will arrive at the site administrator's email, and can be customized to say something like<br /> <blockquote>"A user just registered for your website <a href="http://example.com/" rel="nofollow">http://example.com/</a> - be sure to log in and review their account and moderate as necessary."</p></blockquote> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/moderate-account-registration-registration-approval#post-202697 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:18:17 +0000 Josh Fialkoff 202697@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Chris,</p> <p>Thanks so much for this comprehensive response.</p> <p>How do I make it a default setting to email the site administrator when a pending registration is in the queue (i.e., after a user has submitted a registration form)?</p> <p>I don't see the setting to do this.</p> <p>Thanks again,<br /> Josh </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/moderate-account-registration-registration-approval#post-143690 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:02:54 +0000 Chris Hajer 143690@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I'm glad you have a work around for now. I heard back from one of the developers today.</p> <blockquote><p> As you know, it is not currently possible but this is a feature that has been requested before and one that we will be adding to the Add-On soon. </p></blockquote> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/moderate-account-registration-registration-approval#post-143677 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 19:17:50 +0000 NancyB 143677@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>The work around I am using is to enable user activation but not send the user an email through the GF setting. (If user activation is not required, even if a user doesn't get an email, he can login right away with username and password.)</p> <p>By doing this, the user shows up in the Pending Activations tab. The next step is to send them an email telling them they are regsitered and how to login. One approach is to use the Mailchimp add-on to put them on a mailing list when they register. This could be called 'Pending Activation' list and you could send a custom email to them just as you are activating them.</p> <p>I also use Adminimize which allows me to send certain users to certain pages after login, bypassing the dashboard. You can also have templates assigned to those pages which only accept them if they are 'author' or 'editor' and so on. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/moderate-account-registration-registration-approval#post-143299 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:08:53 +0000 Chris Hajer 143299@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Let me ask the development team about that. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/moderate-account-registration-registration-approval#post-143294 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:01:22 +0000 Dominic 143294@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks for the clarification, Chris! </p> <p>It seems to me that by leaving the Send Email and User Activation options unchecked the user should sit in Pending indefinitely until manually approved — since that user won't get a password emailed to them nor should they get an activation email. </p> <p>Any idea what would be involved in adding this functionality? It looks to me like it's nearly already there. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/moderate-account-registration-registration-approval#post-143288 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 08:51:41 +0000 Chris Hajer 143288@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Sorry, I completely confused moderation (where you approve the user or not) with activation (which attempts to verify that the user registered with a legitimate email address by sending an activation link to that address.) Moderation is not a feature of the User Registration add-on. My apologies for the misinformation.</p> <p>Approval of the user before their account is active is a feature of some other WordPress plugins:<br /> <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-my-login/" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-my-login/</a><br /> I'm not sure how that plugin will work with the User Registration add-on, since it has a lot of the same features.</p> <p>A simple solution would also be to force all newly registered users to a level of Subscriber, or some custom role with limited capabilities on your site. Then, once they activate their account, they can still view your site, but not much else. Your moderation then, if you wanted to 'approve' them, would be to assign them a role with more permissions.</p> <p>If you want to create custom roles for this purpose, you can use the Members plugin by Justin Tadlock to do so: <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/</a></p> <p>Sorry again for misunderstanding the question. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/moderate-account-registration-registration-approval#post-142927 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:08:34 +0000 Dominic 142927@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>These instructions work to a point. </p> <p>With just "Enable user activation" checked my new users appear in the Pending Activations.<br /> I get sent a New Submission email with their details which is great!</p> <p>However, the user also gets an email with an activation link in it. They can then activate their account whether they meet my moderation criteria or not. </p> <p>I, like the OP, want to manually approve each pending user before the activation email (or account login details) get sent to the new user. </p>