{"id":1302,"date":"2015-09-17T18:20:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T01:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tipsandtricks-hq.com\/wordpress-membership\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2016-10-28T16:34:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T23:34:08","slug":"manually-approve-members-on-your-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tipsandtricks-hq.com\/wordpress-membership\/manually-approve-members-on-your-site-1302","title":{"rendered":"Manually Approve Members on Your Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have a business that requires you to review the membership application. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tipsandtricks-hq.com\/wordpress-emember-easy-to-use-wordpress-membership-plugin-1706\">WP eMember plugin<\/a> has a feature that allows you to manually approve each member account (so you can review their application before giving access).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to Manually Approve Your Members\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eXpkihpG0zY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>How to Enable Manual Approval<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Step 1)<\/strong> Go to the settings menu of the eMember\u00a0plugin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2)<\/strong>\u00a0Check the <strong>Manually Approve Member Registration<\/strong>\u00a0field.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1304\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tipsandtricks-hq.com\/wordpress-membership\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/enable-manual-membership-approval-option.png\" alt=\"enable-manual-membership-approval-option\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tipsandtricks-hq.com\/wordpress-membership\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/enable-manual-membership-approval-option.png 500w, https:\/\/www.tipsandtricks-hq.com\/wordpress-membership\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/enable-manual-membership-approval-option-300x54.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3)<\/strong> Save the changes by clicking the update button.<\/p>\n<p>Your members will be set to a &#8220;Pending&#8221; account status after they register for an account. So they can&#8217;t log into the site until you edit their profile (from the admin side), review the details, and set the account status to &#8220;Active&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h2>Email Notification<\/h2>\n<p>The &#8220;<strong>registration complete<\/strong>&#8221; email is the one that gets sent to the members automatically when they successfully submit the registration form. So that email is a good place to explain to them what to expect next.<\/p>\n<p>You should change the &#8220;registration complete&#8221; email notification message so it explains to the users that their account will be active after you review the application.<\/p>\n<p>You can customize this email message from the following interface:<\/p>\n<pre>WP eMember Settings -&gt; Email Settings -&gt; Registration Complete Email\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>A message like the following should do the job:<\/p>\n<pre>Your application is being reviewed. You will be able to access the protected content after an admin approves the account.\r\n<\/pre>\n<h2>Send Email When Account is Approved<\/h2>\n<p>You can send a notification email to the user when you approve the account.<\/p>\n<p>When you review the user details and set the account status to &#8220;<strong>Active<\/strong>&#8220;, you can additionally check the &#8220;<strong>Send a Notification to the User<\/strong>&#8221; checkbox and enter an email message. This email will be sent to the user when you save the profile.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1305\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tipsandtricks-hq.com\/wordpress-membership\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sending-account-approval-email.png\" alt=\"sending-account-approval-email\" width=\"500\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tipsandtricks-hq.com\/wordpress-membership\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sending-account-approval-email.png 500w, https:\/\/www.tipsandtricks-hq.com\/wordpress-membership\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sending-account-approval-email-300x190.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have a business that requires you to review the membership application. WP eMember plugin has a feature that allows you to manually approve each member account (so you can review their application before giving access). 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