Moderators Functions - Moderate New User Registrations (ModCP Option)

Hack Support

This hack is now discontinued - this means that while it will remain available for download and use, there will be no further updates, nor will support be provided as the thread is no longer monitored. You can now check out the 3.8.x version of this hack, which is supported for v3.7.x. as well as v3.8.x.

Please click Mark as Installed if you are using this hack.


vBulletin Version Compatibility

This hack can be used with both vBulletin v3.6.x and v3.7.x. But it is highly recommended that you use the new hack with v3.7.x.


What Does This Hack Do?

This is hack gives your Super Moderators the option in the ModCP to now manually approve new user registrations, that before now only Administrators could do from the AdminCP.

This means you can now spread the load of manually approving members with your Super Moderators, leaving you the administrator more time to do other things.

This hack was created because I liked the idea of the request in this thread, and seems to have been requested quite a few times over the years.

There are no file or template changes at all and is fully phrased. You just need to upload 1 file, import 1 product and alter 2 vBulletin Options in the AdminCP.


Installation Instructions

1. Unzip product-jd_20070831.zip
2. Upload /upload/modcp/user_moderation.php to your <forum root>/modcp folder (overwrite existing uploaded file if upgrading).
3. Import product-jd_20070831.xml into vB using the AdminCP Product Manager (set Allow Overwrite to Yes if upgrading).
4. Under the User Registration Options section of vBulletin Options in the AdminCP:
   • Ensure Moderate New Members is set to Yes
   • Ensure Verify Email address in Registration is set to Yes

Version History

v1.1.0 - Friday 7th September 2007
-- Final Release
-- Fixed: File Access permissions

v1.0.1 - Friday 7th September 2007
-- Fixed: Link Access permissions

v1.0.0 - Friday 31st August 2007
-- Initial Release


NOTE: Portions of the code are (c) Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.


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[djilou]

Thanks

Originally Posted by djilou

I do make some change to this MOD to avoid this!

[ski diva]

Followed your instructions, but can't seem to find Moderate New Users in VB Options in the AdmnCP. Did I do something wrong, or am I looking in the wrong place?

Edited later: Oops, I just found it in the User Registration Options, and I already had it turned on. So no problem after all.

[dagummit]

works like a charm! Installed!

[m1thr0s]

thank you soo much jdsinclair! I had nearly given up hope anybody was even listening to this issue...

I'll give this a spin immediately and get back to you with any pertinent results although I am guessing it's going to work just great...

passing it onto Supermoderators instead of moderators was a smart call btw and no skin off of anyone's nose who really wants to implement this protocol on a regular basis...
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followup: piece of cake...works perfectly. marked as installed, rated excellent and voted MOTM. Thanks again for taking the time to attend to this. It may not be the glitziest mod of all time but it's going to make a big difference to some of us...moreso as time goes on I think...

m1thr0s

[imahawki]

I've had a consistent glitch with this. Often I'll see a couple registrations come through and I'll go to this area of the mod panel and it will say "no matches found". When I go to the usergroup manager and select "Users Awaiting Email Confirmation" it shows me the users Ids that have registered. What's the issue?

[Mosh]

Originally Posted by imahawki

I've had a consistent glitch with this. Often I'll see a couple registrations come through and I'll go to this area of the mod panel and it will say "no matches found". When I go to the usergroup manager and select "Users Awaiting Email Confirmation" it shows me the users Ids that have registered. What's the issue?

That is because it is actually the (COPPA) Users Awaiting Moderation group that is moderated, you are looking at the wrong usergroup.

If you require anymore help or support, then click Mark as Installed as you are obviously using this hack.

[imahawki]

That doesn't make sense though, because it works part of the time. I have COPPA registration system set to disabled. Do you think it would fix the issue if I enabled that? BTW, I clicked on mark as installed. Thank you.

[Mosh]

Originally Posted by imahawki

That doesn't make sense though, because it works part of the time. I have COPPA registration system set to disabled. Do you think it would fix the issue if I enabled that? BTW, I clicked on mark as installed. Thank you.

Verify Email address in Registration has to be set to Yes, as well.

You do not have to enable the COPPA Registration System.

[imahawki]

That was already set to yes as well. Any way, I'm not sure I'm clear on what you were saying. Today I had two new users register. Both emails came through to my account before I had a chance to check in. So I go to the link that leads to the moderator control panel and click on "new user registrations". It says "no matches found". If I then go to the admin control panel and go to usergroup manager, I can see that there are two users in the usergroup "Users Awaiting Email Confirmation" There are no users in the usergroup "(COPPA) Users Awaiting Moderation" If I view the primary users of the awaiting email confirmation group, it is indeed the two new registrants. But they don't show up in the mod control panel under "new user registrations". And perhaps what isn't clear is that this is not consistent. Sometimes the "new user registrations" DOES work. Its completely random.

[Mosh]

Originally Posted by imahawki

That was already set to yes as well. Any way, I'm not sure I'm clear on what you were saying. Today I had two new users register. Both emails came through to my account before I had a chance to check in. So I go to the link that leads to the moderator control panel and click on "new user registrations". It says "no matches found". If I then go to the admin control panel and go to usergroup manager, I can see that there are two users in the usergroup "Users Awaiting Email Confirmation" There are no users in the usergroup "(COPPA) Users Awaiting Moderation" If I view the primary users of the awaiting email confirmation group, it is indeed the two new registrants. But they don't show up in the mod control panel under "new user registrations". And perhaps what isn't clear is that this is not consistent. Sometimes the "new user registrations" DOES work. Its completely random.

It just means that they had not clicked the confirmation link in their confirmation emails, as they when they do, they will be moved to the (COPPA) Users Awaiting Moderation after that. That is when your mods can also approve registrations.

If you are moving people from the Users Awaiting Email Confirmation usergroup to the Registered Members usergroup, then you do not know if they have valid email addresses.

It may be that you do not understand how registration is meant to work, once you do, you will realise that this hack works exactly the way it should.

What I would advise you to do is register a test user yourself and follow through from signup to being a registered member.

How it works:
When you signup using the registration form, you are sent an email to the email address that you registered with. At this point your user is in the Users Awaiting Email Confirmation group. Once you have clicked on the confirmation email link to confirm your email address is valid (with this hack he is now added to the (COPPA) Users Awaiting Moderation group, without it they are now a registered member). Once they are in the (COPPA) Users Awaiting Moderation group, then you and your super moderators will have Users Awaiting Moderation, and not before then.

That was a quick lesson on how this hack works, I wrote this for my forum, and my staff (admins and super mods) have been using for months without any problems at all, and it runs succesfully for over 25 other sites.