New User Email Setup

I have just completed and finished testing my first WordPress Plugin, ‘New User Email Set Up’. The function of the plugin is to provide a basic interface so that admins can define a custom email that is sent to users when they first register. Subject, Text Body, From Address, Admin Subject and Admin Text Body can all be defined, to allow for a more personalised feel to your blog, that doesn’t have such a generic ‘welcome’ email.

I set about writing this plugin after I saw a few users in the forum asking about how to define their own welcome email, and also it didn’t seem logical to me to have to hack a core file, that on upgrade would be replaced, especially if the user had no specific PHP knowledge.

I am aware that this plugin is not entirely unique, as James Kelly’s Themed Login demonstrates. However, that plugin incorporates a lot more than is sometimes necessary (why have to change the login page if all you wanted to do was change the welcome email?).

You can grab the downloads here:
New User Email Setup (850)
Installation

1. Download and Unzip newuseremailsetup.zip
2. Upload to your wp-content/plugins directory
3. Go to the Plugins page of your admin screen and look for ‘New User Email Set Up’ and press ‘activate’
4. Now go to Options>New User Email and change the default text to what you want, remembering to use the variables!
5. Now make sure to test your new email, and you’re done!!

I shall add more to this page when I get some feedback, so please feel free to suggest improvements!

You can also donate a small amount on the plugin option page to say thank you, and to keep me interested in updating this plugin!
Change Log

* Version 0.2.5 - March 24th 2008 - Admin page style updated ready for WordPress 2.5 release.
* Version 0.2.1 - November 20th 2007 - Fixed some HTML issues by adding stripslashes()
* Version 0.2 - November 14th 2007 - Added HTML email functionality and removed plugin conflicts by renaming of variables.
* Version 0.1 - September 29th 2007

Plugin Conflicts

Any other plugin that sends emails to new users when they register will conflict with this one because of the use of the function wp_new_user_notification. There is no work around for this as that is the function used in all the registration files.

From: http://epicalex.com