I have been working with a few people that sell their wares on third party sites and services. These services usually come with some sort of email notification when someone coughs up for your product and then you have to spend that time faffing adding users to your WordPress site manually. Using this plugin, assuming they have a pseudo API, you don’t need to! In effect you can do the following

http://www.yoursite.com/?sb_rs_action=user_register&sb_rs_email=example@test.com&sb_rs_first_name=Test&sb_rs_last_name=User&sb_rs_username=test_user&sb_rs_password=anicepassword

In fact the minimum you can send would be

http://www.yoursite.com/?sb_rs_action=user_register&sb_rs_email=example@test.com

Yes it’s that simple. It will generate a random username, password and set the default role and send out the welcome email as normal. You can suppress the welcome email centrally or suppress it on a per call basis. If you don’t want just any random person (or bot) signing up then use the API key functionality and then no request will be actioned unless another argument is added to the URL.

The URL Keys are configurable so you can bin the sb_rs_ prefix if you like (only for the userfields, the action and supplementary fields must remain, for now).

Take a look and let me know what you think. I am going to be using this in many of my applications from now on and would love to hear what people think of it!

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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