Send registration email to address provided by registrant

You should be able to do this by using the Better Notifications for WordPress plugin.

Be aware, though, that (as its developers themselves have said) that plugin needs a bit of an update and, depending on what version of PHP you’re running, you might get a lot of PHP Notices. These should not, however, affect functionality.

Hi,
I’m the co-author of Better Notifications for WordPress and jut thought i’d chime in and say we’re actively working on an update at the moment and it should be released after some testing in a few weeks.

Great to hear, voltronik — thanks!!

Great! I’ll check it out and let y’all know how it works out. Voltronik – is there sufficient documentation for the plugin to help me out? I’m not a super awesome programmer…

As a user, I can tell you it’s very easy to use. Everything you need is in the back-end.

Hmm… I’ve installed the plugin, and I don’t see a way to specify a notification going to a specific person. Like I said in my message, the employee who is registering will enter their direct supervisor’s name and email address on their registration form. What then needs to happen is for an email to be sent to the supervisor letting them know that their employee has requested access and that their approval or denial is required. So John will designate Bill as his supervisor. The system will send Bill an email saying “Hey, John registered, is that cool with you?”. Bill then replies to the email and says Yay or nay. From what I see with this plugin, you can only say ALL users at a particular level are notified any time something happens. So if I set supervisors as editors, and set them to receive new registration notifications, they would all be notified any time ANYONE registers on the site, whether they need to approve them or not. Make sense?

Yes, it does.

But the problem isn’t the plugin. It’s that there’s no way of knowing in advance who is the supervisor of the person signing up. So there is no way of telling the plugin of whom to inform other than a group of supervisors.

I’m not saying the plugin is the problem. I explained a situation and asked for suggested solutions, and this solution will not accomplish what I need. I’m sure this is a great plugin for a particular purpose, just not mine. ??

I understand. But you won’t be able to get any other plugin to accomplish precisely what you want for the reasons I have given. After all, if you knew who was going to sign up, you could just email them direct for approval.

The only way to get only the specific people involved whom you want is to reverse the process, and have the supervisor add the supervisee as a member. Krum’s KC Groups Management plugin could accomplish that for you.

Thanks for the feedback, but I actually did figure it out. Gravity forms allows you to create custom notifications for all forms, including user registrations. So I created a registration form that has a “Supervisor Email” field, where they input their supervisor’s email address. When that form is submitted, it automatically sends an email to the supervisor informing them that their employee has registered and asking them to reply back with either Approve or Deny. Pretty simple actually. I just wanted to use one plugin (S2Member) instead of 2, but hey, it’s WordPress. I’ll still use S2Member for the login form and user profile customization and editing.

Very good!

Any chance you could give me a heads up on how you got Gravity and S2 working together? I would really appreciate it. Not much help out there…

That is assuming you are using Gravity to register the user (as that is what I’m hoping to do, just don’t know how to tie the Gravity form to the S2 registration). Thanks again.

John

Hi rvs,

Keep in mind I do not have this completely finished, but this is essentially what will happen for me (keep in mind, I am not using S2Member for its full purpose – I don’t use it for paid memberships, I only use it for customized log in, front-end profile editing and custom profile fields, and content restriction based on user level. I also have S2Member Pro): users will register for the site through a GF user registration form. Now they’re a user in the system. I don’t use S2Member for user registrations. I have custom profile fields set up through S2Member. Once they have completed the GF user registration form, they are redirected to the profile editing form, where they enter any more required information (because I haven’t figured out how to map fields in a Gravity Form to the custom user profile fields created through S2Member). They complete their profile as needed and save it. I now have everything I need for the purposes of this site. When they register, they are automatically set at level 0 (default). Once their supervisor has approved them to have full access to the site, they are then promoted to level 1, when they can then access all of the site’s content.

It’s a little bit convoluted, I know, but it’s what we need, lol. I hope that helps! Feel free to let me know if you have any further questions.

Hey thanks for the info, I really appreciate that. Looks like that is pretty different from what I am trying to do.

Glad it is working for you though. S2Member is not the easiest to work with, but I think it will do what I need eventually!

Thanks again!

John