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Registration Process: Give message to new users to check email for confirmation step

Hiya!

My first user just signed up (with me on the phone with him).

He was able to signup and then saw the avatar upload process. Upon uploading his avatar, and saving it, he got a message “avatar uploaded successfully”.

..but that’s it.

He had no idea what to do next, and assumed that the signup process never worked.

There was no message clearly telling him to “Check your email now to complete registration! You cannot log in until you’ve confirmed your registration by clicking on the link we sent you to your email address.”

How can I create such a message?

* Can I create a page that he would be redirected to upon signup?

* Can I simply implement a message on the page that shows the avatar upload process?

Thanks so much!

It’s been a lot of fun building the site with your themes, plugins and WPMU / BP. All your help has been invaluable.

Todd

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 4:07:59
  • Tammie
    • WordPress Wizard

    @toddfarmer: I just did a comparison between scholar and the default buddypress theme and it’s giving the same message at the page to upload your avatar:

    Sign Up Complete!

    You have successfully created your account! To begin using this site you will need to activate your account via the email we have just sent to your address.

    This is not a theme issue therefore.

    I’m not sure how you create a message like you are saying perhaps by editing the text that is shown you could do so or by adding another page to the process (there could be a plugin to do that but unsure).

  • toddfarmer
    • Design Lord, Child of Thor

    Thanks Tammie. Not sure how I don’t get that message, but since it works for you, I guess I’m stuck.

    Any idea where I what function I’d look into for adding another page to the registration process?

    Anyone know of a plugin that does this? ( I haven’t found anything. )

    Thanks so much.

  • James Farmer
    • Founder & Chair (honest)

    Yeh, I don’t know of any plugins that do that – customizing the rego outside of adding in little extras is tricky, adding in another page would definitely be a developers job I think.

    However, like Tammie says, you should get messages like that by default (and emails too) when signing up regardless.

    What’s your setup?

    (also, if he uploaded an avatar, surely he had already signed in?)