Validate User Registration

  • Hi, I want to make a plugin that will allow me to restrict registration to only folks taht have a piece of validating data. I’m not sure what hook to use however. Is there any way to use a hook to edit what shows up on the wp-register.php form?

    An alternative would be to let anyone reigster but not see stuff then have an automated way of letting them increase their user level with certain validating data.

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  • Yeah, I’d like this too – I’m getting about 15 random spam users trying to sign up per day!

    I know that some software packages also have ‘invitation only’ where you generate an invitation email to them and they use that generated data in the registration process. That is what I am doing with phpBB right now and it works great!

    Yes. I am also interested in implementing a similar solution.

    Have you looked at the Role Manager Plugin?
    It’s fairly flexible – you can creat as many new roles as you want and assign each role a certain WP privelege(s). From just being able to read the blog all the way up the chain.

    This has to be a popular request. I would love a way to allow only those who I want to allow to comment on my blog page. Anyone?

    grallaj;

    Doesn’t the setting “Comment author must have a previously approved comment” in Administration > Options > Discussion kind of solve that?

    Also, another idea is to use the WP Contact Form Plugin on a Page called “Request Registration”.

    mandrill

    (@mandrill)

    I agree, a system much like you see on many forums would probably be the best way to go about it. Where the user is sent an email with a link they have to click to activate their account. Or even if the email that the admin gets to inform them that a new user has signed up includes an option to approve them or not, much like the comment moderation system.

    This is a modification that you can make to wp-register.php that should prevent automated registrations – by changing the default behaviour and requiring a response. Sorry, I don’t have the technical ability to make it into a plugin.

    yeah and since we seem to think its OK to spam out fricken blog on 10 post heres MY PLUGIN:

    https://www.village-idiot.org/archives/2007/01/10/wp-deadbolt/

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