Hey Gabriel,

I definitely haven’t covered any of the registration portion of the check out process with this. I think I would try to keep the two separate if I could (ie: two levels of customers; normal customers that don’t need to be approved and wholesale customers or something like that). I say this because a customer that just completed a payment probably shouldn’t be blocked from logging in, even if they’re limited to certain pricing or certain areas of the site because of this.

Isn’t there an option in the user approve plugin to disable outgoing emails for registration? I thought that was added in a more recent version of the plugin.

Amazing solution you have right here!
Thank you very much for the code and keeping this thread active!
I have added the code and most of it works just fine besides the below:

• We have 2 Approval emails being sent. Both the new woocommerce email as well as the User Approve plug-in default.
• We are still testing the check out etc.. but it seems a bit glitchy on the “Registration on Check out form”, shoukd it work the same or this solution just doesn’t cover the check out registration?!

Once again thank you very much… I spent literally for ever trying to sort this out!

No problem Katrina! Happy to help 🙂

It shows the approved=false in the URL and refreshes the page but the text line doesnt change.

Can you please assist.

Thanks

(From the section: if ($approved == ‘false’) echo ‘Registration successful! You will be notified upon approval of your account.’;
else echo $not_approved_message;
}
else echo $not_approved_message;
}

Thank you for this, it works like a dream. My only problem is that the admin does not receive notification of new users for approval. Is this easily done?
Thanks
H

No problem! Happy to help 🙂

Thanks for the code. I’ve got it working but now my admin email isn’t receiving new user registrations anymore.
Could there be an issue with this?

Cheers
J.

THANKS!!

Anthony, the updated code above should fix this by using a hook that runs before header info is output to the browser. Enjoy!

Thanks! I’ve updated this in the code above as well.

Hey ANerdsWorld, change $current_user = get_current_user(); to $current_user = wp_get_current_user();. It worked for me.

This solution works for the initial login but once I navigate away from the account page, I’m logged out again. Any ideas?

Fatal error: Call to undefined function login_header() in /home/strutla/public_html/wp-content/plugins/new-user-approve/new-user-approve.php on line 538

after a user registers.

any thoughts?

Thanks for the tip Elle! It certainly sounds like it should do the trick 🙂

I then added the following:

remove_action(‘init’, ‘woocommerce_process_registration’);
add_action(‘init’, ‘wp_approve_registration’);

I created the function wp_approve_registration() and copied the code from the woocommerce_process_registration() function found in the file woocommerce-functions.php

I removed the following code from my new function:

// set the WP login cookie
$secure_cookie = is_ssl() ? true : false;
wp_set_auth_cookie($user_id, true, $secure_cookie);

And replaced it with the message code from Klang:

$woocommerce->add_message( ‘Registration successful! You will be notified upon approval of your account.’, ‘woocommerce’ ) ;

And voila! I think it’s working…

This is the code that I used:

/if the user hasn’t been approved yet by WP Approve User plugin, log them out immediately
if ( empty($approved_status) || $approved_status == 0 ){

//get the nonce value
$nonceUrl = wp_logout_url(get_bloginfo(‘url’));
$noncePos = strpos($nonceUrl, ‘_wpnonce=’) + strlen(‘_wpnonce=’);
$nonceVal = substr($nonceUrl, $noncePos);

//set request headers
$_REQUEST[‘action’] = ‘logout’;
$_REQUEST[‘redirect_to’] = home_url();
$_REQUEST[‘_wpnonce’] = $nonceVal;

//code from wp-login
check_admin_referer(‘log-out’);

wp_logout();
$redirect_to = !empty( $_REQUEST[‘redirect_to’] ) ? $_REQUEST[‘redirect_to’] : ‘wp-login.php?loggedout=true’;
wp_safe_redirect( $redirect_to );
exit();
}

Thanks Klang! I really appreciate the input as I haven’t had a lot of time to play with this and get the guide updated 🙂

Doesn’t removing the wp_set_auth_cookie then cause issues later when people are approved and trying to log in via the WooCommerce login page?

For the problem with a lot of “Cannot modify header information” errors, I’ve figured it out.

The hook “woocommerce_before_my_account” is inside the my account page which already been output some code to the browser, so that the function wp_logout() will NOT work.

My quick dirty solution is to change some code in woocommerce-functions.php. (you should do this as a hook instead, but I don’t have time)

In the function woocommerce_process_registration(), comment out this line:
wp_set_auth_cookie($user_id, true, $secure_cookie);

Boom! No more auto-login.

For the custom message, add this line after the one we just comment out:
$woocommerce->add_message( ‘Registration successful! You will be notified upon approval of your account.’, ‘woocommerce’ ) ;

Hope this help!

Any update on this?

Thanks!