hi there,
We just had some feedback from the authorities that we need to meet in order to start our company.
One of them is that every user that is being created has to be approved by the admin before they can create a camp. The signup form is here: hidden link
Is it possible to make the user inactive until the admin has approved of the new user profile?
The form to register a user specifies the role the new user has.
You can change the form so that it creates a user with a very basic role—e.g. subscriber—that has no rights to anything other than seeing content on the front of the site.
The approval process can then switch the role of such users to the required role.
You could create a pending role rather than the built-in subscriber role.
WordPress doesn't have any concept of draft users.
Simply edit the registration form and change the role of users that the forms create (the setting at the top of the form), which is currently set to author.
Okay but how will they then change to authors that are the role that creates camps? It is only the hosts of a camp that creates users. And they need to be able to create camps so we build up the whole site upon this user role. Does it make sense?
You said somebody needs to approve the users, right?
So that person when approving them changes their status to the relevant author status, while editing their profile in the back end.
If the person approving the users doesn't have access to the back end, you could make a front-end form to edit the user, but that doesn't include the ability to change their role, that would need some custom code to run when the form was submitted.
You would include a generic field in the form, e.g. a checkbox field, to mark the user as approved, and then the cred_save_data API hook to update the role if the field was checked.
If you used a front-end form to change the role of the user (via code triggered by the form submission) the form could include a notification sent to the user, yes.
I am sorry but i am not sure i am following you here.
So:
1) the user fills out the form and signs up
2) the user is now a subscriber
3) Admin logs into backend
4) Admin changes subscriber to author
5) Then what???
If the admin changes the user role in the back end then they would need some means to email the user to advise them. Toolset doesn't have any tool to help send such an email.
In my previous message I was talking about using a front-end user edit form to change the role (although the form itself doesn't permit changing the role, but can trigger custom code which does), because the front-end form can be used to send an email notification.
You can either update the role in the back end, which doesn't require code, but which does require some other solution for notifying the user.
Or you can update the role via the front end, which does require code, but will take care of the notification requirement.
Ah i see!
Sorry i was just confused 🙂 i will take a look at it - maybe there is a plugin that can activate some email notifications when a user role changes?
