Double optin for Free subscribers/members

I wish to implement double optin for free subscribers (whether at level #0 or higher), but there appears to be no way of doing this.

This is not a new query – see http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/mailchimp-double-optin/, which does not really offer a solution.

You are collecting email addresses, and I do not want members to register with invalid email addresses, that is I do not wish to have members registration succeed until they have confirmed their email addresses. It seems that there is no way to achieve this?

Hi Marius.

Well, this is the way WordPress handles registrations, and s2Member doesn’t change it.

What you can do, though, is not allow custom passwords, so WordPress will email a random one to the user after registration. He won’t be able to login to his account unless he successfully gets the email with the password. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Registration/Profile Fields -> Custom Passwords[/hilite]

There may be other plugins that add this feature. I know that BuddyPress adds an account activation step. http://buddypress.org

I hope that helps. :)