I noticed the current answers are plugin based only. You can use wpmu_signup_user_notification to achieve this without installing a plugin. Add to your functions.php – this will disable user signup notifcations completely. add_filter( ‘wpmu_signup_user_notification’, ‘__return_false’ ); You can read more wpmu_signup_user_notification here: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wpmu_signup_user_notification/
Current versions of WP allow creation of a user without creating a password. Just leave password area blank, and verify no password if prompted. But, best practice might be to create user with a random password, but not tell the user the password. Have them do the ‘lost password’ thing to set up their own … Read more
One step is to use the editable_roles filter to remove roles from the dropdown but this doesn’t prevent the user from modifying the select value and create a user with “not allowed” role. Yes it does. This filter is not just for the dropdown. Modifying editable_roles does in fact prevent users from assigning a role … Read more
The action wp_login_failed fires when there’s a failed login due to a faulty username/password combination. So that’s a good place to start. This is a super simple example that just redirects to the home page. <?php add_action( ‘wp_login_failed’, ‘wpse25628_login_failed’, 10, 1 ); /** * Catches all failed logins and redirect them to the * websites … Read more
Yes there are plugins that do this, for example, http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/restrict-usernames/
If you want this for all future users then hook into the user_register event and update it there. Pull the WP_User using get_userdata and wp_update_user info with the new display name. add_action( ‘user_register’, ‘wpse_20160110_user_register’, 10, 1 ); function wpse_20160110_user_register ( $user_id ) { // get the user data $user_info = get_userdata( $user_id ); // pick … Read more
Found out the issue, for some reason beautifying the code before save messed with formatting. By downloading a fresh wp-login.php I was able to resolve this
Probably your local setup since Wamp does NOT come with mail server. But you can configure the STMP settings of PHP to point to another server in your LAN which runs an SMTP server, or to the SMTP server of your ISP. this thread has an example of how to set it up: http://www.wampserver.com/phorum/read.php?2,31302,70969
You should hook into the user_register action. I did something similar on a recent site (not involving having to fill out profile fields, but involving having to renew a membership). I will propose a multi-part solution (let me know if any of it is confusing, it’s been a long day and I might not explain … Read more
How about using get_users()? You probably don’t even need parameters for it, default behavior should be just what you’re looking for.