Chris Taylor

<p>If you are a WordPress plugin developer the chances are your plugins are available for download from the WordPress plugin repository. As part of that service the nice guys at WordPress show you how many downloads of your plugin you get per day. Very useful, and if you’re like me you check your downloads numbers very often.</p>
<p>However what these stats don’t show you is where your plugin is in use – which sites it is actually being activated on. Seeing that information would allow you to see exactly which sites are using your plugin, when they installed it, and what version the site is running. That is exactly what Plugin Register does.</p>
<p>By including the Plugin_Register class and calling it with some simple code in your plugin, your plugin will prompt the user to register your plugin when they activate it. When they register the plugin, the Plugin Register database on your site will be updated with the name and version of your plugin, and the site name and URL where that plugin has just been activated. A simple call is made to your website to save these details in the Plugin Register table, and you get some great statistics on which site is installing what versions of your plugins.</p>
<p>So, what do you need to put in your plugin? This example code hows you everything you need:</p>
<p>`// include the Plugin_Register class<br />
require_once( “plugin-register.class.php” );</p>
<p>// create a new instance of the Plugin_Register class<br />
$register = new Plugin_Register(); // leave this as it is<br />
$register->file = <strong>FILE</strong>; // leave this as it is<br />
$register->slug = “pluginregister”; // create a unique slug for your plugin (normally the plugin name in lowercase, with no spaces or special characters works fine)<br />
$register->name = “Plugin Register”; // the full name of your plugin (this will be displayed in your statistics)<br />
$register->version = “1.0”; // the version of your plugin (this will be displayed in your statistics)<br />
$register->developer = “Chris Taylor”; // your name<br />
$register->homepage = “http://www.stillbreathing.co.uk”; // your WordPress website where Plugin Register is installed (no trailing slash)<br />
$register->Plugin_Register(); // set Plugin Register to be called when the plugin is activated</p>
<p>The reports you get include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Graphs showing how many registrations have been made for the last 24 hours, 14 days, 12 weeks and 12 months</li>
<li>A list of all plugins registered, with how many unique versions and unique sites</li>
<li>A list of all versions of a particular plugin, with the number of unique sites</li>
<li>A list of all sites which have registered any of your plugins</li>
<li>Details of what plugins were registered on a particular day</li>
<li>A search, so you can see what sites have got version X of plugin Foo_Bar installed</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p>Registering a plugin is completely up to the user who has just activated it. Plugin Register does NOT automatically send any data back to your website without the user manually clicking a link. Some text is displayed which invites the user to register the plugin, by default it says:</p>
<p>“Please consider registering your use of [your plugin name] to tell [your name] (the plugin maker) you are using it. This sends only your site name and URL to [your name] so they know where their plugin is being used. No other data is sent.”</p>
<p>It is possible to override this default text on a per-plugin basis.</p>


Plugin Register

For Wordpress plugin developers: keep a register of when and where your plugins are activated.

tripflex

<p>WP Login Flow is a complete solution to make <code>wp-login.php</code> not suck!  Below are all the features organized by what they relate to.  This plugin is completely open source, and has <strong>NO ADS OR UPSELLS</strong></p>
<h4>Registration</h4>
<ul>
<li>Enhances Registration flow and wording for “Activation” (more below)</li>
<li>Custom notices and wording to match “Activation” instead of “Reset Password”</li>
<li>Allow users to register and set a password (includes password strength)</li>
<li>Auto Login users after registration</li>
<li>Hide Username field and use Email as Username</li>
<li>Loading spinner after clicking Register</li>
<li>Add unlimited custom text fields to Register form (saved to user meta)</li>
<li>Notice shown to user when attempt to login with unactivated account</li>
</ul>
<h4>Permalinks/URLs</h4>
<ul>
<li>Customize Login, Register, Activation, Lost Password, Reset Password, and Logged Out URLs</li>
<li>Custom “Activation” URL permalink for Registration (instead of default Reset Password)</li>
<li>Setting to auto disable using custom URLs if <code>.htaccess</code> or <code>web.config</code> does not exist</li>
</ul>
<h4>Redirects</h4>
<ul>
<li>Custom Login/Logout default login redirect URL</li>
<li>Custom Login/Logout redirects based on User Role</li>
<li>Custom Login/Logout redirects based on specific User</li>
</ul>
<h4>Page Customizations</h4>
<ul>
<li>Background, Font, Link, and Link Hover Colors (with Color Picker)</li>
<li>Custom CSS with Code Editor</li>
<li>Customize Logo URL, and Title</li>
<li>Upload custom Logo</li>
<li>Customize Login Box Font and Background Colors</li>
<li>Custom Border Radius for Login Box</li>
<li>Enable Responsive Width for Login Box</li>
</ul>
<h4>Email</h4>
<ul>
<li>Customize Outgoing WordPress From Name and Email</li>
<li>Customize New Account Activation Required Email (WYSIWYG Editor)</li>
<li>Customize New Account Email (WYSIWYG Editor – when user sets own password)</li>
<li>Customize Lost Password Email Template (WYSIWYG Editor)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Notices</h4>
<ul>
<li>Customize Account Requires Activation Notice</li>
<li>Customize Pending Activation Notice</li>
<li>Customize Successful Activation Notice</li>
</ul>
<h4>Other Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Color scheme matches WordPress admin area color scheme</li>
<li>Fully documented and clean code base</li>
<li>Login Page Spinning Loader</li>
<li>Hide frontend Admin Bar from non-admin Users</li>
<li>Activation status icons on user list table</li>
<li>Works with any plugins/themes that use native WP user registration/login</li>
</ul>
<h4>Default Registration Enhancements</h4>
<p>By default, when a user registers on a WordPress site, they are sent a password reset email which is used for account “activation”, but that also sends the user a URL that is for resetting a password, and even shows “Reset Password” on the page.  This plugin fixes these problems by allow you to customize the activation email sent, adding custom permalink for activations, updating wording to match “activation” instead of reset password, and more … all for a better UX (User Experience).  See screenshots or video for examples of this.</p>
<p>WP Login Flow was intended to be completely bloat free, and integrate with the core of WordPress as much as possible.  Any themes, plugins, or other code that uses the native WordPress functions and hooks for registration, lost password, etc, should be supported.</p>
<h4>Features Coming Soon</h4>
<ul>
<li>Login Limiter based on Limit Login Attempts</li>
<li>Bulk remove unactivated accounts</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/tripflex/wp-login-flow/issues/new" rel="nofollow ugc">Your IDEA!</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>WP Login Flow History</h4>
<p>I originally created WP Login Flow back in 2014 to solve what I considered to be a huge issue .. and that was passwords being emailed to users on registration (email is never secure!).  My original implementation of this plugin added the exact feature that is now default in WordPress, by using the Reset Password handling to add “Activation” for new user registration.  After this was added to core I no longer had a need for this plugin, but in 2019 I decided to take the time to fully revamp the plugin, integrate with the latest versions of WordPress, and add additional features.</p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/tripflex/wp-login-flow" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more about WP Login Flow</a>.</p>
<h4>Documentation</h4>
<p>Documentation will be maintained on the <a href="https://github.com/tripflex/wp-login-flow/wiki" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub Wiki here</a>.</p>
<h4>Contributing and reporting bugs</h4>
<p>You can contribute code and localizations to this plugin via GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/tripflex/wp-login-flow" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/tripflex/wp-login-flow</a></p>
<h4>Support</h4>
<p>If you spot a bug, you can of course log it on <a href="https://github.com/tripflex/wp-login-flow" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a></p>


WP Login Flow

wp-login permalinks, auto login, register w/ pass, login/logout redirects, email as username, bg/logo/color customizations, hide admin bar, and more!

Plugin Register vs WP Login Flow