Letting users choose their own password?

I have the common issue with new users not receiving their password emails. Thought I might try the script/file solution offered above, but it is no longer at the link. Can anyone post it again? Thanks!

check this:

https://www.village-idiot.org/code/register.php

dont download the source, copy and paste that into a new file, rename it wp-login.php and replace your current wp-login.php

It works, Ive tested it.

Ive went ahead and just posted about the file, and provided a download link.

Its here:
https://www.village-idiot.org/archives/2007/05/29/wordpress-picking-your-password/

Thanks, but Firefox timed out at the second link and a I got a 404 at the first link.

On edit: I got your site to load, but it took about 5 minutes. I then got the download to work, so thanks!

Reading your description makes me wonder if I misunderstood one of the posts above. I thought that in addition to letting users choose their password, this file fixed the users not receiving the password email issue. NOw… upon re reading I see that the way this gets around the missing email issue is that because the user chooses their own password, they don’t need to get the email. So it is a work around, not a fix, but at least solves the problem of admins having to manually email users a pw. Thanks again!

Thanks for the link, but it doesn’t work. The link in your post is:
https://www.village-idiot.org/archives/2007/05/29/wordpress-picking-your-password/
On clicking the download link, it leads to a blank page:
https://www.village-idiot.org/click.php?id=21
Could you please post the right one? It will be of great help!
Thanks

totalGraybear,

the download link works just fine — its merely a way to count downloads. Clicking it in firefox downloads he zip to whatever location you normally download files to in firefox.

In ie 6 and 7 you get a save prompt.

If you cannot download a simple file …

Now that you decided to post a direct link to a file on this site, I suppose I need to put back to the direct linking protection.

Letting Users choose their own password: The following site also carries a similar mod instruction and ZIP file for wp-login.php:
https://weak.org.uk/2007/05/22/wordpress-hack-users-choose-their-own-password/
Its for WP 2.2