Manual approval of free membership

[Rosie-L]

Hi.

I have installed S2Member (free), watched most of the videos, and done some configuration.

However I can't see how to implement one feature I need and I'm wondering if it's at all possible

I need only free membership and I need to manually approve registrations.

The site I'm building is for a school reunion and although membership is free, I only want to approve membership for people who actually attended the school.

In other words, I need to personally assess each application and approve it before the username/password e-mail is sent out.

Is this possible with S2Member?

Thanks in advance for any tips/advice on how to achieve this functionality.

[Cristián Lávaque]

Hello Rosie.

First, you'd protect your content at Level 0, which is the level your members will be at with the free account. WP Admin -> s2Member -> Restriction Options

You could have registrations open, but also have a plugin that'll keep the account inactive until you approve it. Maybe this plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/register-plus/ but it may not work with the current WordPress, you may need to search for another one.

Or you could try this:

Disable open registrations so you create the accounts manually. WP Admin -> s2Member -> General Options -> Open Registration

You could have people request the account by email (have a contact form for this or give an email address), and they should include the information you need to create the account yourself. WP Admin -> Users -> Add New

You can create a temporal password for the person to change after logging in, or you could not tell him the password you used and have him use the lost password form to get a new one by email. /wp-login.php?action=lostpassword

I hope that helps.

[Cristián Lávaque]

Here's another idea: let them register at Level 0, no approval needed, but your protected content (even if free) is restricted at Level 1, the approval process would then consist of changing the account's level from 0 to 1 in their profile.

[Rosie-L]

Thanks for your suggestions Cristián.

Is there a way I can be notified by e-mail of each new registration?

Thanx,
- Rosie

[Cristián Lávaque]

I'm pretty sure WordPress already does that. WP Admin -> Settings -> General -> Email Address

This address is used for admin purposes, like new user notification.