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Putting new members into a moderation queue

MJ Michael Jones
Michael Jones
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Member since Nov 2013
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Dec 5, 2013 · 4:42 am · Edited

Like many forum owners I’m bedevilled by vast quantities of spammers trying to join my forum. 

I’m currently converting from vBulletin 4 to SimplePress and I like the way that vBulletin allows me to place new signups into a moderation queue for me to look over before granting them membership and posting status (only about 0.5% of new members are genuine). 

I’d like to implement a similar system for my SimplePress install and would appreciate some thoughts on best practise.

I’ve created a new user group (“New”) and made that the default user group for new members that are in the moderation queue. I see permission sets and understand the whys and hows of them.

But what I can’t comprehend is how to assign a permissions set to a user group. I’ve poked around the admin settings and looked at the codex and am stumped. Any help please?

Also, I’d appreciate any thoughts on moderation queues.

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YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
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Dec 5, 2013 · 4:56 am

Let’s do the second question first. A User Group and a Permission Set are ‘married’ when you create a forum. You can set up the User Group/Permission relationships when you create a Forum Group which will then be used for each NEW forum you create within that group by default. And/or you can be more granular and specify for each individual forum the relationships. In this way you can tailor the overall user experience based on which forums individuals can access and what tasks they can carry out within them. I hope that all makes sense!

Now to the first question. User registration along with login/logout and basic user profile data is all carried out by your WordPress site. Simple:Press just sits in top of that and makes use of, and extends, the WP data created. So Simple:Press does not, itself, institute any new user controls. Nor does WordPress. For this you will need to look to other plugins like – for example – ‘Theme My Login’ – which will, I understand, allow for email address verification before allowing a user to register and, I believe, full moderation by the administrator. There are also a plethora of membership type plugins that you may like to take a look at which will offer even greater levels of control.

MJ Michael Jones
Michael Jones
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Member since Nov 2013
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Dec 8, 2013 · 8:59 pm

Thanks for your thoughts on this.

The “Theme Your Login” plugin has issues with locking the admin out of the site – as I found both in reading and personal experience! Deleting the plugin via FTP solved that issue. 

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
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Dec 8, 2013 · 9:32 pm

really?  odd… I use it on multiple sites…  glad we could help…