Spam bots will always try to register. They basically just input data into any form they can find in hopes it will pull their URL on to your page so they can build trackbacks and score higher in Google rankings. There are a couple of things you can do to prevent this: If you don’t … Read more
You can try out Profile Builder: http://www.cozmoslabs.com/wordpress-profile-builder/ The free version will solve almost all your problems. As for member access try out Members: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/ These two plugins should be all you need.
Hook into login_form_register and throw people to your registration page with wp_redirect. <?php add_action( ‘login_form_register’, ‘wpse45134_catch_register’ ); /** * Redirects visitors to `wp-login.php?action=register` to * `site.com/register` */ function wpse45134_catch_register() { wp_redirect( home_url( ‘/register’ ) ); exit(); // always call `exit()` after `wp_redirect` } You can also hide the “register” link on that page by hijacking … Read more
Sabre is great plugin, it allows me to block dozens of spam user registration per week. It has also many useful features to control the style and captcha’s complexity.
I would definitely not advise you to enforce this policy. For example, I can enumerate through your list of authors by simply entering yoursite.com/?author=1, yoursite.com/?author=2, etc into my browser. This will take me to your author pages. If your users were savvy enough, they might have set their public display name in Users/Your Profile to … Read more
To add fields on user profile page,there are some filters for displaying them and some filters for saving them and another action for updating personal options.
You need to create your own hook for registration_errors filter: add_filter( ‘registration_errors’, ‘wpse8170_registration_errors’, 10, 3 ); function wpse8170_registration_errors( $errors, $sanitized_user_login, $user_email ) { if ( /* something happens */ ) { $errors->add( ‘myexception_code’, ‘This is my message’ ); } return $errors; }
This is a basic version of your code above which seperates the registration logic (handled on init) from the form output done by the shortcode. It will basically work, but is missing any validation so just to show the concept. $wpse_email_exists = null; function registration_form_shortcode() { global $wpse_email_exists; $output=”<form name=”registration” action=”” . esc_url($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’]) . ‘” … Read more
How to customize wp_signon()
You should read the codex page re wp_create_user. You don’t describe the context in which your code runs. You shouldn’t need all those require_once calls. Anyhow, in this line wp_new_user_notification ( testuser8,null,’both’ ); what is testuser8 ? It’s not a variable, it’s not a string, it’s just some text that probably throws an error. Try: … Read more