Hi, all the forum members will need approving, so is it possible to change this text please. It is on the page people see as soon as they have signed up:

“Create An Account
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.”

also, can I change the email that is sent out automatically? It is confusing.

“Thanks for registering!

To complete the activation of your account, go to the following link and click on the Activate button:”

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 6 months ago]

I’m not sure where this message is coming from.

It is not in bbpress, and bbpress just uses WordPress registration.

It may well be WordPress (I haven’t got auto registration on any of my test sites so can’t say)

Or are you running and registration plugins, or does your theme do this, or is it WordPress.

You’ll need to do a bit more digging.

[@tumptyteapot Participant 4 years, 6 months ago]

Thank you, I wonder if it is from Buddypress? I’ll ask on there.
I don’t have any registration plugins running.

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 6 months ago]

great – it may well be buddypress or WordPress.

If you give me a link, I’ll register and might be able to tell from the code sent to the browser

[@tumptyteapot Participant 4 years, 6 months ago]

you superstar! thank you
http://www.mizantalk.co.uk

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 6 months ago]

yes it is buddypress

you can change the text as per below

//This function changes the text wherever it is quoted
function change_translate_text( $translated_text ) {
	if ( $translated_text == '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.
' ) {
	$translated_text = 'new text';
	}
	return $translated_text;
}
add_filter( 'gettext', 'change_translate_text', 20 );

so just put what you want in place of ‘new text’

Put this in your child theme’s function file – or use

Code Snippets

[@tumptyteapot Participant 4 years, 6 months ago]

you are my favourite person of the day! Thank you so much!

[@tumptyteapot Participant 4 years, 6 months ago]

it didn’t work though 🙂 Maybe it needs time or something.

Do you know of a plugin that would stop the automatic email and make this easier?

[@tumptyteapot Participant 4 years, 6 months ago]

aha! I found all the emails from BuddyPress, there is a section in the sidebar where they can be edited. So that is the first problem solved.

[@tumptyteapot Participant 4 years, 6 months ago]

apologies, it is not letting me delete messages.

I think I have disable the emails to new members with the Manage Notification E-mails plugin

I am still trying to change the text on the ‘Create an Account’ page
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.

[@tumptyteapot Participant 4 years, 6 months ago]

STOP PRESS 🙂
All sorted! https://buddypress.org/support/topic/disable-automatic-account-activation-and-manually-approve-it/

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 6 months ago]

great – glad you are fixed