How to customize the approval message to the admin?

I realize that is likely considered a repeat question to what has been asked by other users before. However I have looked through the other questions in this support forum and followed the instructions and code snippets provided on the plugin site. If someone would kindly lead me in the right direction to include the new user’s first and last name in the email notification sent to the administrator it would be greatly appreciated!

Right now the email that is received when a new user registers looks something like this given the code I presented in my initial post.

{first_last_name} — {username} — ({user_email}) has requested a username at {sitename}

{site_url}

To approve or deny this user access to {sitename} go to

{admin_approve_url}

Try to use the new_user_approve_request_approval_message_default filter in place of the new_user_approve_request_approval_message. The reason why it wasn’t working is because you were using a filter that runs after the emails have been formatted with the email tags.

Let me know how it goes.

Thank you for your reply Josh. I am sorry it has taken such a while for me to respond.

I have tried to implement adding a new email tag to include the user’s first and last name in the approval email to the admin, but it still doesn’t seem to be working for me.

This is my latest code. I am getting an error at the moment in regard to adding the new email tag. It seems that perhaps the class is no initialized or for some reason the pre-existing tags are not being gathered.

Warning: array_key_exists() expects parameter 2 to be array, null given in [mysite]\wp-content\plugins\new-user-approve\includes\email-tags.php on line 73

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [mysite]\wp-content\plugins\new-user-approve\includes\email-tags.php on line 281

add_action( 'nua_email_tags', 'mytheme_extras_nua_add_email_tags');
function mytheme_extras_nua_add_email_tags () {
	if (! nua_email_tag_exists( 'first_last_name' )) {
		nua_add_email_tag( 'first_last_name', __( 'The users first and last name.', 'mytheme' ), 'mytheme_extras_nua_email_tag_user_first_last_name', array( 'email' ) );
	}
}
function mytheme_extras_nua_email_tag_user_first_last_name( $attributes ) {
	return '' . $attributes['first_name'] . ' ' . $attributes['last_name'];
}
add_filter( 'new_user_approve_notification_message_default', 'mytheme_extras_nua_approval_notification_message', 10, 2 );
function mytheme_extras_nua_approval_notification_message($message) {
	$message = __( '{first_last_name} — {username} — ({user_email}) has requested a username at {sitename}', 'new-user-approve' ) . "\n\n";
	$message .= "{site_url}\n\n";
	$message .= __( 'To approve or deny this user access to {sitename} go to', 'new-user-approve' ) . "\n\n";
	$message .= "{admin_approve_url}\n\n";

	return $message;
}

A follow up question, does your Options add-on allow for including the user’s other profile meta fields in the approval notification email? Fields such as First Name and Last Name etc. I am adding those fields to the registration form.

Currently, the Options addon does not have that functionality. I’m working on the newest version which will support that.

And to answer your question about your new email tag, here is some code that works. You were close.

add_action( 'nua_email_tags', 'mytheme_extras_nua_add_email_tags');
function mytheme_extras_nua_add_email_tags( $email_tags ) {
	$email_tags[] = array(
		'tag'         => 'first_last_name',
		'description' => __( 'The users first and last name.', 'mytheme' ),
		'function'    => 'mytheme_extras_nua_email_tag_user_first_last_name',
		'context'     => array( 'email' ),
	);

	return $email_tags;
}
function mytheme_extras_nua_email_tag_user_first_last_name( $attributes ) {
	return '' . $attributes['first_name'] . ' ' . $attributes['last_name'];
}
add_filter( 'new_user_approve_notification_message_default', 'mytheme_extras_nua_approval_notification_message', 10, 2 );
function mytheme_extras_nua_approval_notification_message($message) {
	$message = __( '{first_last_name} — {username} — ({user_email}) has requested a username at {sitename}', 'new-user-approve' ) . "\n\n";
	$message .= "{site_url}\n\n";
	$message .= __( 'To approve or deny this user access to {sitename} go to', 'new-user-approve' ) . "\n\n";
	$message .= "{admin_approve_url}\n\n";

	return $message;
}

Thank you for your response Josh! Looks like I was in fact closer than I thought. Unfortunately the new email tag still doesn’t display the user’s names. Instead that area of the email is blank, such that the attributes are not being called or there is no data for them. The user’s first and last name are saving properly from the registration form as I can see from their profile in wp-admin. Just thinking out loud… Perhaps this message is sending before the data is saved, though that doesn’t make much sense. Or perhaps those attributes are not available to be called.

— Username: jdaniels — (jdaniels@example.com) has requested a username at My Website Name

I’m having a similar issue and I have tried to make this code work for me, but without any success. what i’m trying to accomplish is to gather some custom information at registration and have that data included in the approval notice email. I’m using UPME, (user profiles made easy), to gather my custom registration data.

these are my meta keys that I would like included in the notice:
first_name
last_name
partner_type
phone_number

is there a way to add these? because I’ve tried plugging them into the code above and it still will not show up.

Thank you

Thank you for your response Josh! Looks like I was in fact closer than I thought. Unfortunately the new email tag still doesn’t display the user’s names. Instead that area of the email is blank, such that the attributes are not being called or there is no data for them. The user’s first and last name are saving properly from the registration form as I can see from their profile in wp-admin. Just thinking out loud… Perhaps this message is sending before the data is saved, though that doesn’t make much sense. Or perhaps those attributes are not available to be called.

— Username: jdaniels — (jdaniels@example.com) has requested a username at My Website Name

I’m having the same problem as Nathaniel describes. I got everything working but it just shows a blank space. I want to use the WooCommerce registration fields in my approval e-mail so I can see which company (billing_company) and the name (billing_first_name and billing_last_name) has registered to the website.

I’ve already got them set up into my registration but the e-mail just fails to show extra fields in any way.

On the support forum I found a link to https://newuserapprove.com/support/faq/edit-email-content but that just gives me a 404 page.

Hjsurk, I am also trying to integrate with a woo commerce install. I was beating my head against the wall trying to accomplish the same thing, since my shop is a business to business and I can’t have just anyone making purchases. I also want as much data in the email as possible so I don’t have to bounce around too much.

I ended up solving it with two approaches. I have a heavily customized situation, and it turned out that my customer is setup as a user in one step, then a lot of the important details from the registration page are added to the user meta in following steps. However, the NUA scripts fire between these two stages.

To build a direct link to the edit-user.php page in the admin, I added a tag to the email_tags array (just like the code examples above). I used the $attributes[‘user_login’] as the argument for get_userdatabylogin(), then build out the link string with the id.

For all the meta data that hasn’t been inserted yet when this code apparently fires, I just accessed the post object directly inside the new_user_approve_notification_message_default filter. I was able to get all the data I wanted into the registration notification email this way.