Something which regular readers might be aware of is that Wordpress has taken up most of my attention for the last year or so. It seems a very flexible Blogging engine come CMS that can almost deal with anything… almost. When you begin to use it you think wow great flashy AJAX everywhere but when you take a look at getting it work with a site you start to see where it’s downfalls lie. I am, however, not a Wordpress hater. In fact it’s the opposite, I love it! Wordpress really comes into it’s own with it’s fantastic plugin API. It means that anyone can write their own noddy (technical term 
) bit of code and get it to do something in no time. Or so I thought…
One of the least customisable parts of Wordpress is the Login/Register process. The register page seems unmoveable without a bit of copy and pasting of the code and the email you get when you register is very dire indeed. There are no hooks for editing the welcome email text or Wordpress admin page for updating the from address or headers.
Well, as it stood I needed to be able to edit the welcome email and registration process for work so I went about writing a standalone registration system (to follow) and Welcome Email Editor. Unfortunately the copy/paste method was required for the registration widget but the Welcome Email Editor is done properly.
As there were no hooks for the welcome email I had to override the wp_new_user_notification function and write my own then simply converted it to use Options and wrote a nice admin page for it. Let me know if I can extend it at all or if you find any bugs..
Download Wordpress Welcome Email Editor (14.03 KB)
Admin Email Received
Admin Page for Plugin
Email Received By User
