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Using the plugin’s administration panel, you may customize the content of the email messages that are sent by the plugin.
Note: only the emails relevant to your settings will display in the admin panel. For example, if you are not moderating registrations, the email for an admin approved registration will not display since you do not use it.
In order to keep things on the front end of the site where things are wrapped in your theme (as opposed to the WP back-end), the plugin allows you to set an area for registered users to manage their settings, change their password, and also reset a forgotten password.
Setting this page up is exactly like setting up a registration page, covered in the section on Registration.
The User Profile is a page where logged in users can update their profile information and change their password. Also on this page, a logged out user can have a forgotten password reset. Create a new page and place the following shortcode in the body:
[wpmem_profile]
Note: If you have set the plugin to block pages by default, you should set this page to be unblocked.
Once you create the User Profile page as outlined above, it is available as a page in your WP installation to be added to menus in the same way you handle other pages. This is dependent upon you and your theme, and whether you display all pages in a default menu.
In the plugin’s main options tab there is a setting for you to select the user profile page. This tells the plugin where the page is and uses this to generate a “Forgot Password” link in the login forms. It is also used to generate the return link in the password reset.
The plugin can be run without using the registration forms.
For users that might have some other method of registration, up to and including private blogs that don’t want anyone registering and thus sending invited users login information. In this case, complete the following based on your specific setup needs:
This is not the same as turning off registration for WordPress itself. That is a separate issue. This is simply a setting to remove the WP-Members registration forms from display.
If you would like a specific registration page to direct users to register, create a new page with the following shortcode in the body of the page:
[wpmem_form register]
Note: If you have set the plugin to block pages by default, you will need to set this page to be unblocked.
Once you create the registration page as outlined above, it is available as a page in your WP installation to be added to menus in the same way you handle other pages. This is dependent upon you and your theme, and whether you display all pages in a default menu.
WP-Members™ has an option setting for you to enter the URL of your registration page. This is optional and does not effect the functioning of your registration page. It merely provides the plugin with knowing where the page is and uses this to generate a “Register” link in the login forms.
The Emails tab is where you would go to manage the email messages that are sent by the plugin. It is important to note that the only messages that are displayed in the tab are the ones that are used based on your plugin settings under the “Options” tab.
Under this tab, you may also set an email address to change the default address that WordPress® sends from (wordpress@yourdomain.com). Note: you do not need to use this setting if you already have a plugin or some other filter to do this.
Email content can be customized (and it is expected that you will customize it). There are a variety of shortcodes specifically for email content and custom fields and shortcodes can be added in.
There are a number of filters for customizing emails, their content, and the email process.
See additional documentation if you wish to send HTML formatted emails.
Having trouble with emails going out? The plugin uses the WordPress wp_mail() function for sending email. It is generally unlikely that the issue is the plugin or WordPress. But there are a lot of other possible factors. Check out this section of the FAQs for more information on troubleshooting email issues.