[sam brown]

Hi, I would like to let our newly registered members know that we sometimes play a game of email hide and seek and to check their spam folder for their activation email. The text they currently see after registration is:

Sign Up Complete!
You have successfully created your account! To begin using this site you will need to activate your account via the email we have just sent to your address.

I have tried altering the text under /buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/registration/register.php line 259 but nothing is changing. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

Thanks

[Matthew K Gold]

Hi Sam —

I’ll let others chime in on how to alter the registration page text. I did want to alert you to a plugin developed by the CUNY Academic Commons that might help — Unconfirmed – http://wordpress.org/plugins/unconfirmed/

We’ll explore adding that and other community management tools to a future CBOX release.

Best,

Matt

[sam brown]

Hi Matthew, I’m using unconfirmed and it’s invaluable for pulling up the list of members who have taken the time to fill out the registration fields but have not responded to their activation email and for activating at our end if they contact us to say they haven’t received the appropriate link. It is also great if they make an obvious typing error with their email address because we can take a guess at correcting it and inform them that their account has been activated but they need to correct this in their profile settings. The problem is if the mail has gone into spam and we just take a punt on resending, it appears that so do all our subsequent efforts to nudge them in the right direction. Am I right in thinking that if we manually activate at our end we still need the member to sign in again before they appear on the members list? Finally is there a way to track who has been activate by us. We made the school boy error of not recording who we had manually activated – fortunately at the time we didn’t have so many members so we could just cross reference the members list in the front end with our backend list but it’s a bit of a laborious process. Either way your plugin is great so thank you very much.

[Matthew K Gold]

> Am I right in thinking that if we manually activate at our end we still need the member to sign in again before they appear on the members list?

Yes, that’s correct. The only way I can think of to find out whom you’ve activated manually is that if you know the dates on which you activated accounts from Unconfirmed, you might be able to go into the database and cross-reference those activation dates and find those accounts.

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