Here are a few options I thought of off the top of my head:
1) You might consider using a “membership” plugin. I don’t have a lot of experience with them myself, but I think one of the features of some is the ability to use a “key” to register (think of it as a password). You could give them the “key” at the end of your survey.
2) If you are savvy with code, you can likely pass a query string via the url bar as well if your survey software allows it.
3) Password-protect the BuddyPress registration page. You should be able to do this via the WordPress page editor. You could give all the participants the password.
Thanks! I will try #3. I’ve spent hours looking at different membership plug-ins and they all seem to add complexity that I don’t want my users to have to deal with. As for #2, I am not in the least savvy with code. ; p.
Would still like to remove the words on the welcome page, so will leave this unresolved for now.
Well, for whatever reason, setting a password for the registration page didn’t work. I set a password for the registration page, but clicking “create an account” on the welcome page takes you straight to the registration page – no password requirement pops up.
So this question is still open.
Also, for some reason I am not getting notification of replies from this forum.
@loec By default, you don’t get notification of replies from this group forum unless you have been @ mentioned.
== removing ”create an account” link ==
On your original topic post, simplest way is to just delete it from your theme file/s.
== I want participants to complete a survey and click a link to the registration page. ==
There is no plugin that I know of that can do this at this time. You’d either have to code it yourself or hire a developer to do so.
The manual way is to create a form which includes an email address field and when the answers are acceptable, you’d email the registration page URL to the applicant which could be good for 5 days. That registration URL/slug can be changed after 5 days.
@mercime Thanks for your help. The problem I had is I didn’t know which file the “create an account” would be in. But, I figured it out. It was in the sidebar.php file. I commented out (using // before the command) the offending verbiage. So, not a perfect solution. Someone could still guess how to get to the registration page, but it is not right up front.
As for the survey, I have a link from my consent documents to a survey on Survey Monkey and will put a link to the registration page at the end of that survey. Haven’t tested all of that functionality, yet, but I think it will work.
Thanks again.
