Mod Version: 3.8.005
IMPORTANT NOTICE: This hack can only be used by Super Administrators, Administrators and Super Moderators.
What Does This Hack Do?
Do you have a spam problem and have resorted to manual user registration? If so, have you noticed that it is so tedious and wish you could spread the love by getting other people to do this for you, but not give them AdminCP access? If the answer is yes to both questions, then this hack is for you.
This is a hack gives your Super Moderators (and Administrators) the option in the ModCP to now manually approve new user registrations, that before now only Administrators could do from the AdminCP.
This means you can now spread the load of manually approving users with your Super Moderators, leaving you the administrator more time to do other things.
A notification in your welcome block in the navbar is displayed (if the notification option is enabled in the AdminCP) when there are new user registrations to be moderated. This is displayed to both Administrators and Super Moderators. The notification will only generate 1 extra query per page load (only if the notification is enabled, and then the extra query is only for Administrators and Super Moderators, so if you want to save a query then disable the option).
As this has been asked for a few times over the last couple of versions of this hack, all users being moderated by Super Moderators are now set to
Ignore by default, so undesirable users are not accepted by accident.
Also included in this hack, if enabled and a ban usergroup is selected in the AdminCP Options, is the ability to ban users and emailing them to let them know, instead of just deleting them (this new feature has
NOT been included by Jelsoft in the standard vBulletin AdminCP moderate user functionality), as it has also been requested before. So, if the ban feature is enabled, then Administrators clicking the notification link to moderate new registrations will be taken to the ModCP version (this hack) instead.
There is also an AdminCP Option to enable logging of user moderation to the Moderator's log.
What Do You Get?
With all features enabled in this hack, when there is a notification on the navbar that there are new user(s) to moderate, Super Moderators and Administrators can do the following for each individual moderated user:
- Accept User (they are now a member)
- Delete User (delete them from database)
- Ban User (user is banned, username can not be reused)
- Ignore User (leave them as a user yet to be moderated)
Or for all new moderated users, they can do the following:
- Accept All
- Delete All
- Ban All
- Ignore All
vBulletin Version Compatibility
This hack can be used with v3.8.0, v3.7.5 and later versions. This hack should also work fine with earlier versions of v3.7.x.
Install/Uninstall Instructions
There are no file or template changes at all and is fully phrased. You just need to upload 1 file, import 1 product and alter the correct vBulletin Options in the AdminCP, and then it will work from then on.
The
InstallInstructions.txt instructions file is included in attached .zip file.
Version History
v3.8.005 - Wednesday 5th August 2009
-- Updated: Screenshots
-- Changed: user_moderation.php
-- Added: AdminCP Option to enable logging of action applied to each user in the Moderator log
-- Added: 3 new phrases
v3.8.004 - Tuesday 30th June 2009
-- Updated: Screenshots
-- Changed: user_moderation.php
-- Added: Option to send email to users that have been banned
-- Added: 3 new phrases
v3.8.003 - Tuesday 7th April 2009
-- Updated: Screenshots
-- Changed: If both ban user and notification features are enabled, administrators are also taken to the ModCP version of this hack. The AdminCP version does not have the ban user feature.
-- Changed: Redirect in ModCP forces a full page refresh, so that whole ModCP is viewable after moderating new users.
-- Changed: Install/uninstall instructions file
-- Changed: VersionHistory.txt
-- Added: Ban user feature. If enabled extra and a ban usergoup is selected buttons appear when moderating new users.
-- Added: AdminCP Options to turn ban feature on, select ban group selected moderated users are to moved to and ban message.
v3.8.002 - Thursday 19th February 2009
-- Fixed: Form header incorrect, caused problems
-- Updated: Screenshots
-- Changed: File - user_moderation.php
-- Added: Install/uninstall instructions file
-- Added: VersionHistory.txt
v3.8.001 - Wednesday 7th January 2009
-- Initial vBulletin v3.8.x Release
-- Changed: Code re-write
-- Changed: All users being moderated are now set to "Ignore" by default
Thanks
Thanks go out to
Paul M who gave me permission to use some of his install code.
NOTE: Portions of the code are (c) Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Moderate New User Registrations (ModCP Option)
