Can the password be set upon registration?

You can do this with the Pro version, where registration, payment, and entering of password can all be done with one form. See here.

Note that enabling custom passwords disables the New User Notification email that contains the password setup link.

Can the password be set on the S2 Memeber registration form instead of having an email sent to them with a random password?

You can enable custom passwords from here: WP Admin -> s2Member -> General -> Registration Options -> Custom Passwords

The New User email won’t be sent by WordPress when that’s enabled, though.

Of course this would require an e mail with a confirmation link to activate the user.

s2Member doesn’t have an account activation step. The closest thing would be having WP generate the password and send it by email, so the user has to look it up before being able to login.

BuddyPress adds an account activation step, if I remember correctly. I don’t know other plugins that do.

I hope that helps. ??

Cristián s2member.net

Thank you

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I’m running S2Member Pro and our members like setting their own passwords and I have had that setting since day one. Yes, I’m aware of security concerns. We have always used the new user e-mail to welcome them to our premium memberships and give them important information about the access they just purchased. Now I’m noticing that the e-mail isn’t going out because we are using custom passwords. Is there any way we can undo this so we can continue to offer custom passwords while still sending out new user e-mail messages. I had always thought that the custom e-mail option meant we were using S2Member and NOT WordPress to send those e-mails and so any changes to WordPress would be irrelevant in this case. I would even suggest that there be the ability to have the ability to generate an independent welcome message that has nothing to do with passwords at all.