New User Approve
🚀 Go Pro | 📘 Documentation | 📱 Mobile App | 💬 Contact Us Running a WordPress site is exciting but it also means you’re constantly battling spam registrations, fake accounts, and unwanted users. New User Approve works as a default WordPress registration system that does not let anyone sign up and instantly gain access. Because its your responsibility as a site owner as exactly who’s allowed into your site before any user log in. New User Approve comes is a powerful WordPress user approval plugin that puts you in full control of your community, membership site, online store, or private portal. With this manual user approval plugin, you can moderate user registration, protect your content, and keep your website free from unwanted registration requests. Whether you want to restrict user access before approval, prevent fake user signups, or simply make sure every new member is legit, New User Approve makes it easy, professional, and efficient. ⭐ New User Approve Offers Mobile App for Faster User Approvals ⭐ New User Approve also includes a dedicated mobile app that lets you manage registrations without opening your WordPress dashboard. It gives you quick access to every pending user and keeps your site protected even when you are away from your computer. With the mobile app, you can: ⚡ Review complete user profiles in a clean, mobile-friendly layout ⚡ Approve or deny registrations with single tap ⚡ Verify identities with clear, mobile-friendly user profiles ⚡ Keep full control of who joins your site without logging into WordPress ⚡ Stay updated with instant push notifications for every new signup This feature ensures you never miss an approval request and keeps your site consistently secure, responsive, and easy to manage from anywhere. ⭐ Why You Need New User Approve ⭐ Imagine running a membership site, community forum, or private business portal where quality and security matter. The last thing you want is spam bots flooding your database or strangers sneaking into confidential areas. New User Approve helps you: ⚡ Stop spam registrations and fake accounts before they ever log in ⚡ Verify user identities by reviewing each signup manually ⚡ Maintain complete control over who becomes part of your community ⚡ Create a safe, trusted space for your members or customers Unlike generic WordPress plugins that simply hide login pages, New User Approve adds a true user verification before approval process. It gives you confidence to grow your site without worrying about who’s lurking behind those new user accounts. 🛠 How It Works Here’s how New User Approve, your go-to member approval plugin, transforms your registration flow: When someone registers on your WordPress site, you’ll receive an email alert. You can then decide to approve or deny their account. The plugin automatically emails the user to let them know the outcome. 👁If approved, the user receives their login details and can access your site immediately. 👁If denied, they’ll be kept out—and can’t even log in. 👁Pending users stay locked out until you make a decision. This makes it simple to restrict user access before approval and ensure only the right people become part of your online community. Already have users on your website? No problem. Existing users stay approved automatically when you install New User Approve. You can also change someone’s approval status at any time, with easy search tools for managing pending, approved, or denied users. **⭐ Built-In Role Editor ⭐** New User Approve includes a built-in role editor that lets you control what each user role can do without installing another plugin. With the role editor, you can: Create custom roles with your own name and slug Edit existing roles, including core WordPress roles Assign or remove capabilities with simple checkboxes Add custom capabilities for your own workflows Use human-readable capability labels for easier scanning Core WordPress roles are protected. You can rename them, but they cannot be deleted and their slugs cannot be changed. This helps keep your site stable while you manage access for members, clients, and staff. ⌛ Save Time with Zapier Automation Want to work smarter? Connect New User Approve to Zapier to automate routine tasks. For example: Trigger a Slack message when a user is approved Add approved users to a Google Sheet Send emails through Gmail when someone’s denied With Zapier, you can integrate the plugin with thousands of apps without writing a single line of code. It’s perfect for businesses looking to streamline their processes while maintaining strict user verification before approval. 🤝 Invite Trusted Users Instantly Sometimes you want trusted people—like staff, VIPs, or clients—to skip the approval queue. With New User Approve’s invitation codes, you can: 📜 Generate unique codes manually or automatically 💳 Give those codes to users so they’re auto-approved upon registration 💻 Manage, edit, or disable codes anytime 🛒 Seamlessly integrate codes with WooCommerce registrations This feature makes it easier than ever to onboard important members without sacrificing security. ☀ A Fresh New Interface New User Approve has been redesigned with a crisp, modern look that’s clean and user-friendly. The updated interface is intuitive for admins and gives users confidence in your website’s professionalism. Whether you’re a WordPress beginner or seasoned WordPress user, managing new user approvals has never been easier or looked this good. ⭐ Compatible with Top Plugins New User Approve integrates beautifully with popular WordPress plugins, including: WooCommerce MemberPress WP-Foro LearnDash Ultimate Member BuddyPress So, whether you’re running a store, a membership site, or a thriving online community, this user approval plugin fits right in. 🖍 Customize Everything For those who want complete flexibility, New User Approve lets you customize nearly every step of the user approval process: Tailor the welcome message above the login or registration form Personalize messages for pending or denied users Craft unique notification emails for users and admins Suppress denial notifications if preferred Use HTML formatting in emails for a branded, professional look There’s even a commercial add-on available at New User Approve that unlocks additional powerful features for businesses and growing sites. 📌 Documentation Need help getting started? View the detailed technical documentation here. It walks you through every step of installing and configuring New User Approve, plus troubleshooting tips if you get stuck. 🔥 New User Approve Pro Features Upgrade to the premium version for advanced features like: ✔ Customizable Email Notifications ✔ Invite-Only Registration ✔ Bulk Invitation Code Generator ✔ Email Invitation Codes ✔ Import Invitation Codes ✔ Auto-Approve Trusted Email Domains ✔ Blacklist Generic or Suspicious Email Domains ✔ Registration Deadlines ✔ Auto-Approve Selected User Roles ✔ User Role Change Requests ✔ Extended Zapier Triggers ✨ Translations New User Approve is already available in many languages thanks to an amazing community of translators. You can help expand translations further with tools like Poedit. Current supported languages include: Belarusian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish. New User Approve isn’t just a plugin. It’s your ultimate solution for user verification before approval, helping you moderate user registration, prevent fake user signups, and stop spam registrations for good. If you need a reliable manual user approval plugin for WordPress, get it now!
UpdraftPlus
The UpdraftPlus Backup & Migration Plugin is trusted by the WordPress community to backup, restore and migrate their WordPress websites. UpdraftPlus is actively installed on more than 3 million websites around the world. Backup with UpdraftPlus UpdraftPlus is the world’s highest ranking and most popular scheduled backup and migration plugin. Backup to your preferred storage location and restore in just three clicks. Backup to Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3 (or compatible), Rackspace Cloud, FTP, DreamObjects, Openstack Swift or email. The paid version also allows you to backup to Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Backblaze B2, SFTP, SCP, pCloud, WebDAV or UpdraftVault, our integrated storage option for UpdraftPlus. Backup manually or schedule to run every 2, 4, 8 or 12 hours, daily, weekly, monthly or fortnightly. Restore with UpdraftPlus Your WordPress website is vulnerable. Your site may get hacked. Something could go wrong with an update or your server could crash. You might need to reverse a change made or a mistake caused by human error. Whatever the reason, you can restore your WordPress website in just a few clicks with UpdraftPlus. Choose which components to restore (e.g. plugins, themes, database etc.), click again to restore, then click again to return to the main screen. Migrate with UpdraftPlus It’s easy to migrate your WordPress website to another web host, server or domain with this free version of UpdraftPlus. To migrate, simply download your database, plugins, themes etc. from the source site, then upload them into your destination site. When migrating, a built-in search-and-replace engine identifies old strings and replaces these to reflect the new location. UpdraftPlus saves you time and reduces the risk of broken links or missing files associated with manual migrations. Why UpdraftPlus? Writing a reliable backup and migration plugin that ‘just works’ consistently across millions of different WordPress deployments is hard. UpdraftPlus is relied upon to do exactly that. We’re trusted and actively deployed on more websites around the world than any other WordPress backup and migration plugin. UpdraftPlus: Backs up, migrates and restores Offers a huge number of remote storage locations Allows you to schedule backups, so you can ‘set and forget’ Is comprehensive and easy to use Is proven to work on over 3 million sites. UpdraftPlus Premium The free version of UpdraftPlus will back up and migrate your website perfectly well. However if you need more features and options you can purchase our Premium version. Backup and Migrate with UpdraftPlus Premium, and: Get automatic backups before updates. Restore the very latest version if a WordPress or plugin update breaks your site. Backup Incrementally. Changes are added to the master, saving server resources vs repeatedly backing up in full. Get more remote storage options including Microsoft OneDrive, SFTP, Microsoft Azure, WebDAV, Google Cloud, SCP, Backblaze and pCloud. Get 1GB of integrated storage with UpdraftVault for 99.999% reliability, redundancy and scalability. Get more control over how many backups are stored in a specified interval. Restore from other backup plugins including BackWPup, BackupWordPress, Simple Backups and more. Run backups at set times e.g. during periods of low traffic. Backup to more than one location for added protection. Get detailed reports. Includes cryptographic checksums so you can verify the integrity of the backup files and more. Get Premium migration. Migrating to the destination site is more direct and can be done from the source site. Get Multisite / multi-network compatibility. Backup non-WP files and databases e.g. tables belonging to your e-commerce store or customisations to WordPress core. Get database encryption. Manage your backups and migrations from the WP-CLI. Get Premium Support. Find out more on our comparison page. UpdraftPlus Premium is available for purchase here. Managing multiple websites? UpdraftCentral is a powerful remote control dashboard for WordPress that allows you to manage your backups, as well as updates, users, pages, posts, plugins and themes from one central location. Choose between: UpdraftCentral (free, self-hosted) UpdraftCentral Premium (paid-for, self-hosted) UpdraftCentral Cloud (paid-for, fully-hosted) Optimize your sites centrally by combining the power of WP-Optimize and UpdraftCentral or manage your backups centrally by combining the power of UpdraftPlus with UpdraftCentral. Need to create a temporary clone of your site? UpdraftClone makes it quick and easy to create a temporary sandbox for changes you want to try out. Simply select the versions of WordPress and PHP that you want, and we’ll do the rest. More about UpdraftClone The full suite of plugins from Team Updraft and friends UpdraftPlus. Backup, migrate and restore. Rated 5* on the plugin directory and trusted by more than 3 million WordPress website owner WP-Optimize. Clean the database, compress images and caching. Optimize your WordPress website. 5* user rating. 1 million + active installs. All-In-One Security (AIOS). Secure your WordPress website. Comprehensive, feature rich and easy to use. 5* user rating and 1 million + active installs. WP Overnight. Quality Extensions for your WooCommerce store. 5* rated invoicing, order and product management, customer management solutions and more. Easy Updates Manager. Take control of updates. Lots of features for free, and a Premium version with even more – over 300,000 users. Internal Link Juicer.Boost your SEO. Automate internal links within your WordPress website. Save time and rank higher in the search engines. For other useful, free plugins see our lead developer’s profile, here. Are you multilingual? Can you translate? Do you want to help people that speak your language to backup, migrate and restore their WordPress websites? The UpdraftPlus backup, migration and restoration plugin is ready and waiting. The translation process is easy, and web-based – please go here for instructions: https://updraftplus.com/translate/. Or, if you’re already an expert WordPress translator, just pick out the .pot file from the wp-content/plugins/updraftplus/languages/ directory – if you scan for translatable strings manually, then you need to get these functions: _x(), __(), _e(), _ex(), log_e(). Many thanks to our existing translators. License Copyright 2011-26 David Anderson This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA Non-English translators are provided by volunteers, and wordpress.org does not give plugin developers control over their translations; thus relying on them is at your own risk; UpdraftPlus cannot guarantee that translations from the original English are accurate. We recognise and thank those mentioned at https://updraftplus.com/acknowledgements/ for code and/or libraries used and/or modified under the terms of their open source licences.
