[@okamiokami Participant 12 years, 5 months ago]

@sharmavishal; @bp-help
thank you for your reply.

I installed BuddyPress Registration Options (latest stable release), and left it as the only Registration plugins.

Apparently everything is working fine: I get an email for every new user request, and I can veto the application if necessary.

I’d like to thank everybody for the help; I’ll post a follow-up in a few weeks.

[@okamiokami Participant 12 years, 5 months ago]

@modemlooper; @sharmavishal
thank you both for your reply

I didn’t mean to suggest that BP Registration Options wasn’t working, I was just speculating about development being abandoned in the future. I understand that a plugin does NOT necessarily need to be updated if it keeps working, but the latest update date of a given plugin sometimes indicates its dereliction; that does not appear to be the case here.

Is it safe to try BP Registration Options 4.2.0 Alpha (link posted by sharmavishal)? [read: would you suggest it to someone unable to devote too much time to dealing with-possible-bugs in an alpha version?]

@OC2PS
there is indeed a new option in the Users panel: “Authorize” below each user’s details, but I wonder how to make my WP/BP installation keep new users on hold until approved. At the moment, when a new user (or more frequently a new bot) passes the gauntlet, it is enabled by default. Might that problem be caused by WangGuard?

[@okamiokami Participant 12 years, 5 months ago]

@sharmavishal
thank you for your suggestion. I installed the plugin, however it has not been updated in the last 8 months, and that’s the reason I am asking for a BuddyPress feature. Personally, I’d rather use the fewest possible plugins and rely on integrated functions.

I’m having problems with slow-updating plugins on a different blog, and WP’s auto-update feature is not helping.

Back to the topic, I’ll give the plugin a chance, but I’m afraid that sooner or later it might be deprecated, and I’d be back at square one

[@okamiokami Participant 12 years, 5 months ago]

At least I’d like to be able to put new registrations on hold pending admin approval.

As it is now, I have to delete 5 or 6 users a day, and the double humanity check is probably scaring off genuine users (not that I’ve got many of those…).

[@okamiokami Participant 12 years, 5 months ago]

at the moment I have 2 “humanity check” plugins: SKT Nurcaptcha and Buddypress Security Check, plus WangGuard.