[wp-hackers] Hacking Registration To Allow Users To Specify Passwords

[Alex Andrews]

Thanks for this. So basically I now use add_action to hook into
register_post, writing a function that sets the password to an
additional user field. How would I suppress the e-mail? Is this the
correct way to do it?

 Would the second thing I asked for (user clicks a link and confirms
the account) involve whacking another "switch" in wp-login.php to note
when a randomly generated string confirms the e-mail. This would need
to add another field to wp_users which would potentially hash up
future upgrades, no?

Is all of this in the latest wordpress or is it in the svn only?

Alex

On 31/08/2007, Viper007Bond <viper at viper007bond.com> wrote:
> Ugh, sorry to triple post, but here's the ticket and a patch:
> http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4879
>
>
> On 8/30/07, Viper007Bond <viper at viper007bond.com> wrote:
> >
> > Actually, you could do it now by updating the user's account after it's
> > been created and changing the password to the one they entered. The only
> > drawback however is that they'd get an e-mail with their random password in
> > it.
> >
> > On 8/30/07, Viper007Bond <viper at viper007bond.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > It'd be easy to change the form. I worked it over a few months ago and
> > > added hooks galore to the thing. You should be able to pretty much anything
> > > with it.
> > >
> > > Example plugin:
> > > http://files.viper007bond.com/wordpress/loginformexample.phps
> > >
> > > Then it's just a matter of intercepting the field's submission (there's
> > > a hook for that) and using it to create a new user account. However, it
> > > doesn't there's any place to hook in and change the password to what the
> > > user specified, either in wp-login.php (where the password is generated)
> > > or in wp_insert_user() where the account is actually created.
> > >
> > > I'll go make a ticket. :)
> > >
> > > On 8/30/07, Alex Andrews <awgandrews at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello again all.
> > > >
> > > > What I would really like to do is slightly tweak the registration
> > > > process. Instead of receiving their password in an e-mail, as is
> > > > common to many sites, they will register their e-mail and give a
> > > > password, then have to "confirm" this e-mail as being live at some
> > > > point in, say, the next few hours.
> > > >
> > > > Is this possible? Is this going to require a major re-write or are
> > > > there things to hook into?
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > > >
> > > > Alex
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