I will definitely try this code out although the “Check Your Email to Activate Your Account” notification could still pose a problem. It just sounds like the kind of thing that wouldn’t bother me at first but then I would quickly become nitpicky about. Either way, I’m happy to just have a nice, easy way to override the activation email without the use of a plugin.
I do wonder if the users that had already registered prior to me using this override will be able to now log in just fine without still needing the activation email. I did a few test runs using the plugin I mentioned above and found that users who registered prior still needed the activation code to log in.
Finally, the help tour is a custom plugin built on top of twitter’s bootstrap 3 framework. I found the code for it here: http://bootstraptour.com/
It was very easy to install and only worked because the theme I’m currently using is built on the bootstrap framework.
