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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>
</ul>

Approve New User

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

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Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)

This plugin adds a stylesheet or image to your blog’s html source code. When a browser loads that stylesheet or image a cookie is dropped. If that user then leaves a comment the cookie is checked. If it doesn’t exist the comment is marked as spam. 
The plugin can also check how long it took a user to enter a comment. If it’s too fast it’s probably a spam bot. How fast can a legitimate user enter their name, email, web address and enter a well thought out comment?
For the adventurous, add these lines to your .htaccess and it will block spam attempts before they ever get to WordPress. Replace the Xs with the cookie that was set in your browser after viewing your blog. You can also find the cookie value by examining the page source code and looking for “css.php?k=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX”. Make sure the lines go above the standard WordPress rules.
<pre><code> RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.*$
 RewriteRule ^wp-comments-post.php - [F,L]
</code></pre>
If you use WordPress MU, replace wp-comments-post.php above with wp-signup.php to block spam signups.
<pre><code> RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.*$
 RewriteRule ^wp-signup.php - [F,L]
</code></pre>

Cookies for Comments

If you don't use any other spam filter plugins, then you can rely on this to stop spam comments for sure!

Must have, if you don't use any other spam filters!

I'd been getting a dozen spams a day on two of my sites. We installed "Stop Spam Comments" on one and "Cookies for Comments" on the other. Both worked perfectly. No more spam. Thanks!



very easy and no more spam!

Sets a cookie on a random URL that is then checked when a comment is posted. If the cookie is missing the comment is marked as spam.

Approve New User vs Cookies for Comments