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The Approve New User plugin automates the user registration process on your WordPress website, adding a layer of approval to ensure better control over who can access your site.
Typically, registering users on a WordPress site is straightforward. When a new user registers, their information is added to the website’s database, and they receive an email with their login credentials. While simple, this process offers many opportunities for customization.
Introducing Approve New User – a new way to register users on your WordPress website. Here’s how it works:
User Registration: A new user registers on the site, and their ID is created. 
Admin Notification: An email is sent to the site administrators. 
Approval Process: An administrator can either approve or deny the registration request. 
User Notification: An email is sent to the user, letting them know if their registration was approved or denied. 
Login Credentials: If approved, the user receives an email with their login credentials.
Users will not be able to log in until they are approved. Only approved users will be allowed access, while those waiting for approval or who have been rejected will not be able to log in. This process is simple, straightforward, and effective.
Additionally, user status can be updated even after the initial approval or denial. Administrators can search for approved, denied, and pending users. Also, users created before the activation of Approve New User will automatically be treated as approved users.
Compatibility 
It works seamlessly with <a href="https://woocommerce.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce</a>, <a href="https://memberpress.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">MemberPress</a>.
Custom Actions & Filters 
For developers, Approve New User offers several actions and filters to modify messages and functionality. This makes it highly customizable.
Filters 
– anuiwp_user_status_update – modify the list of users shown in the tables 
– anuiwp_approve_new_user_request_approval_message – modify the request approval message 
– anuiwp_approve_new_user_request_approval_subject – modify the request approval subject 
– anuiwp_approve_new_user_message – modify the user approval message 
– anuiwp_approve_new_user_subject – modify the user approval subject 
– anuiwp_approve_new_user_deny_user_message – modify the user denial message 
– anuiwp_approve_new_user_deny_user_subject – modify the user denial subject 
– anuiwp_approve_new_user_pending_message – modify message user sees after registration 
– anuiwp_approve_new_user_registration_message – modify message after a successful registration 
– anuiwp_approve_new_user_register_instructions – modify message that appears on registration screen 
– anuiwp_approve_new_user_welcome_message – modify welcome message that appears on login page 
– anuiwp_approve_new_user_pending_error – error message shown to pending users when attempting to log in 
– anuiwp_approve_new_user_denied_error – error message shown to denied users when attempting to log in 
– anuiwp_pass_create_new_user’, $user_pass – modify the password being assiged to newly created user
Actions 
– anuiwp_approve_new_user_after_approved – after the user has been approved 
– anuiwp_approve_new_user_denied – after the user has been denied 
– anuiwp_approve_user – when the user has been approved 
– anuiwp_deny_user – when the user has been denied
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Automated User Registration: Simplifies the user registration process by adding a layer of approval.</li>
<li>Admin Notification: Sends an email to site administrators whenever a new user registers.</li>
<li>Approval/Deny Option: Allows administrators to approve or deny registration requests.</li>
<li>User Notification: Sends an email to users informing them if their registration has been approved or denied.</li>
<li>Secure Login Credentials: Provides login credentials to users only after approval.</li>
<li>Access Control: Ensures that only approved users can log in to the site.</li>
<li>Status Updates: Allows administrators to update user status (approve or deny) even after the initial decision.</li>
<li>User Search: Enables administrators to search for approved, denied, and pending users.</li>
<li>Backward Compatibility: Automatically treats users created before the plugin’s activation as approved users.</li>
<li>Remove Plugin Stats from Admin Dashboard: Ability to hide plugin statistics from the WordPress admin dashboard.</li>
<li>Customize Login Form Welcome Message: Personalize the welcome message shown above the WordPress login form.</li>
<li>Pending Error Message Customization: Modify the error message shown to users when their account is pending approval.</li>
<li>Denied Error Message Customization: Change the error message displayed when a user’s account is denied approval.</li>
<li>Customize Registration Form Welcome Message: Set a custom welcome message above the WordPress registration form.</li>
<li>Registration Complete Message Customization: Edit the message shown to users after submitting their registration form.</li>
<li>Send Notification Emails to All Admins: Ability to notify all site admins when a new user registers.</li>
<li>Notify Admins of Status Updates: Admins receive notifications when a user’s status is updated.</li>
<li>Disable Notification Emails to Site Admin: Option to turn off notification emails for the current site admin.</li>
<li>Customize Admin Registration Emails: Edit the email sent to admin(s) when a user registers on the site.</li>
<li>Customize Approval Email to User: Personalize the email sent to users when their account is approved.</li>
<li>Customize Denial Email to User: Modify the email sent to users when their account is denied.</li>
<li>Suppress Denial Notifications: Option to disable email notifications when a user is denied.</li>
<li>Use Template Tags in Emails and Messages: Implement different template tags for customizing notification emails and other messages.</li>
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Approve New User

Approve New User plugin automates the user registration process on your WordPress website.

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Anti-Spam

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The best anti-spam protection to block spam comments and spam in a contact form. The most trusted antispam solution for WordPress and WooCommerce.
Akismet checks your comments and contact form submissions against our global database of spam to prevent your site from publishing malicious content. You can review the comment spam it catches on your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.
Major features in Akismet include:
<ul>
<li>Automatically checks all comments and filters out the ones that look like spam.</li>
<li>Each comment has a status history, so you can easily see which comments were caught or cleared by Akismet and which were spammed or unspammed by a moderator.</li>
<li>URLs are shown in the comment body to reveal hidden or misleading links.</li>
<li>Moderators can see the number of approved comments for each user.</li>
<li>A discard feature that outright blocks the worst spam, saving you disk space and speeding up your site.</li>
</ul>
PS: You’ll be prompted to get an Akismet.com API key to use it, once activated. Keys are free for personal blogs; paid subscriptions are available for businesses and commercial sites.

Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection

Nice

Great Plugin

Does the job

It's really good


There are many better ways to handle spam than this garbage. Indeed i with the false positive rate this plugin has it is worse than nothing


Worst antispam plugin


Akismet has been with me since I've been on WordPress and really doesn't miss when compared to other solutions. Keep up the great work!


Doesn't miss a shot


Works very well for basic users so they do not have to buy a paid one just to protect a small site.


Works very well for basic users

The best anti-spam protection to block spam comments and spam in a contact form. The most trusted antispam solution for WordPress and WooCommerce.

Approve New User vs Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection