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Customize the entire user management experience to your own liking!. Now you can have all user management features in one plugin! Includes New User Approve and Email Verification Features new in 1.5.3.0 and optional lost password security questions. Also allows you to add additional fields of any input type to registration form and profile for better user management and control. Customize the Default WordPress Registration Form & Login Page CSS & Messaging. It also helps reduce unwanted spam registrations. Has anti-spam built in, customize default WordPress login/registration forms both in design and messaging, adds agreement policy and link to policy to registration form for members, can create custom redirects after login and registration, templates for password change and lost password and email verification, custom password strength options, and password update management. Can limit amount of time between password changes and the number of times before duplicate passwords allowed, set minimum password length and also require special characters, upper and lower case letters and numbers so your site is made more secure. New templates allow you to use custom password strength for both lost password and reset password options.
WordPress User Registration Aide allows you to require more fields when a new user registers. This not only can help to stop spammers, but it can also increase your user management capabilities and services for your user base. All the new fields that you add also are added to existing users profiles, but the users will have to fill them out of course, but any new users will be required to fill out these fields if they are included in the registration process. The new fields can be any variety, select, text, radio button or checkbox, and all the standard html input types, and optional if you like.
New in 1.5.3.0 
New User Approve Feature 
New User Email Verification Feature 
Lost Password Reset Form Security Question for added Security. 
All user features are added to the all users table for easy access to approve, deny, resend emails, activate, and delete denied users.
Another important option is that you can also add new fields to the users profile page but not require them for registration, so you can increase you user management capabilities. This is an exciting new feature for Web-masters that wish to increase contact options, communications, and information obtained from your user base.
Plugin Features:
<pre><code>Easy to use
Quickly and easily add new fields to user registration
Add your own custom fields or existing fields like First Name, Last Name & Nickname to the registration form
Reduce bots and spammers with additional fields on the registration form
Get better control over your user base
New fields are added to existing WordPress User Profiles!
Increase your knowledge of, and interaction with your customers & users!
Add Custom Logo & Messages to Registration & Login Pages!
Add Custom Background Image or Background Color to Login & Registration Pages!
Anti-Spam Math Problem
Password Strength Meter
Custom Password Strength Options to Create Your Own Password Strength Definition
Choose custom display name fields for users by roles or for all users
Force New Users to change password after getting password from email
Force Existing Users to change password after specified amount of time
Not allow same password to be used for specified number of times
Optional fields on registration form -- Use or don't use * for required fields
Different input types for fields like checkbox, select, radio buttons, numbers
New User Approve/Deny/Delete Feature
New User Email Verification
Lost Password Reset Security Questions
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Read more: http://creative-software-design-solutions.com/wordpress-user-registration-aide-force-add-new-user-fields-on-registration-form/#ixzz22CCABfOx
Instructions: http://creative-software-design-solutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/USER_REGISTRATION_AIDE_INSTRUCTIONS.pdf
Instruction Video for using new filters to fix URA custom page template styling issues: https://youtu.be/nar71ttdjVg

User Registration Aide

Adds custom user fields to better manage users & members & customize login-registration page css & messages. Lets you customize the entire …

Konstantin Obenland

This plugin lets you approve or reject user registrations. 
While a user is unapproved, they can’t access the WordPress Admin.
On activation of the plugin, all existing users will automatically be flagged Approved. The site admin will never experience restricted access and does not need approval. 
This plugin is probably not compatible with WooCommerce.
<h4>Translations</h4>
I will be more than happy to update the plugin with new locales, as soon as I receive them! 
Currently available in:
<ul>
<li>Dutch</li>
<li>Deutsch</li>
<li>English</li>
<li>Hebrew</li>
<li>Persian</li>
<li>Russian</li>
</ul>
<h4>Plugin Hooks</h4>
<h3>Actions</h3>
wpau_approve (int)
<blockquote>
User-ID of approved user.
</blockquote>
wpau_unapprove (int)
<blockquote>
User-ID of unapproved user.
</blockquote>
<h3>Filter</h3>
wpau_default_options (array)
<blockquote>
Default options.
</blockquote>
wpau_update_message_handler (string)
<blockquote>
Allows to return custom update messages.
</blockquote>
wpau_message_placeholders (array)
<blockquote>
Filters the placeholders in approve/unapprove emails.
</blockquote>

WP Approve User

The plugin is not working as promised, so

1. No Settings
2. It didn't display Custom Menu for each user


Thanks, but need to uninstall.

Not Working!

This site has over 360k registered users. Upon activating the plugin, it timed out as it tried to add >720k user meta keys. Not sure why it doesn't just meta select only users who do not have the fields (which would have still timed out, but at least it would continue on the next time Activate was attempted). I "fixed" that by adding them with my own script and then uncommented the activation hook. It appeared to be working fine after that, but then I discovered (via Query Monitor) that it was adding over 6 seconds (with Redis caching!) to every admin page load because the constructor pulls a list of all unapproved users.

It would also have been nice if there was a checkbox like "Delete plugin data when uninstalled" or whatever so I didn't have to re-add over 720k meta fields to my dev box after deleting the plugin to move it as a submodule (obviously, I should have just deleted the directory, but I didn't look at the code and realize that it was going to asplode everything on my dev instance).

I get it - 360k+ users is a lot, but for plugins (plural: the others failed too, for the same reason) that assume a site is soliciting registrations from anon, you'd expect them to handle a lot of registrations. If you don't have many users/registrations, you don't really need a plugin to manage them, right?

I'm assuming that it loads a list of every unapproved user on every admin page load solely for the unapproved user count badge on the admin menu (I didn't look - I stopped trying to hack it and just decided to tell the users to manage it manually, which was unpopular).

+3 stars because it's free and doesn't use Freemius.

EDIT - Also, you can change the instantiation because I don't think it needs to run during cron or Ajax requests:
if( !wp_doing_cron() && !wp_doing_ajax() ) new Obenland_Wp_Approve_User();

You can probably check for is_admin() before running code in various places, too.

Does Not Scale


We are looking for a way to minimise the amount of emails which we send out to dead addresses (often Gmail) via fake bbPress signups to our forum. The first step is user approval.



Konstantin's plugin is simple and focused, with straightforward settings in a settings panel. There's no top level left column item (frankly any plugin which wants to put its settings in the main left window should require approval from the plugin moderation team, if in the plugin directory, the left top-level menu is now hopelessly cluttered on most WordPress sites). The main interface are simple text additions to the existing user table Approve | Unapprove.



Frankly user approval should be built into WordPress. But until it is, thank heavens for simple solutions. No adware, no pro version, no bloatware frills, native interface.



I like the idea of a previous reviewer to allow unapproved users to be kept in the database to prevent additional signups with the same address. We'd also like an improved workflow where no email goes out to users until admin approval, at which point the signup email would arrive.



What would happen to a new user is that s/he would be auto-logged in at the time of signup with very limited privileges until approved or unapproved but no email would be sent without approval. This would allow simple comments to be left on a weblog post or bbPress without sending out emails to dead addresses (and damaging sender reputation).



We can add these features fairly easily ourselves, but it would be great to see them in the core functionality of WP Approve User.



Thank you Konstantin for your hard work on WP Approve User and for making it free.


Nice, simple and focused

Adds action links to user table to approve or unapprove user registrations.

User Registration Aide vs WP Approve User