Timeline for Create WP account from an external email form submission?
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| Mar 23, 2015 at 15:25 | vote | accept | VirtuallyCreative | ||
| Apr 12, 2013 at 11:41 | comment | added | Ralf912 |
A 500 Internal Server Error is normally not a path problem, it's normally a misconfiguration of the server. It seems you have a problem with your .htaccess, look inside the server logs to find out what the exact problem is. But you can also try to include your wp-confifg.php with require_once '../wp-config.php'; (in the first line of your script) to setup ABSPATH correctly.
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| Apr 11, 2013 at 21:40 | comment | added | VirtuallyCreative | So I tried to implement the answer above but I can't quite get it to run. I keep getting a 500 Internal Server Error. I updated the form action to point to the new file. I created the php file and placed it inside a /reg/ subfolder inside WP root folder so it's website.com/wpinstallfolder/reg/form_file.php What should I send the path to wordpress too? Am I missing something? Thanks! | |
| Apr 11, 2013 at 16:13 | comment | added | Ralf912 | Use a double option in system. First create a hash from the email, create a link with this hash to your script and send this to the new user instead immediately registering. The user have to visit the link, if the hash (key) is present, registering the user. Spammer normally does not answer on emails, so they do not visit the link and do not automatically registering. | |
| Apr 9, 2013 at 12:39 | vote | accept | VirtuallyCreative | ||
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| Apr 9, 2013 at 12:37 | comment | added | VirtuallyCreative | thank you for the well written answer! I'm going to implement it and see how it works. I realize this is a bit risky now that you mention it as it does leave it open for quite the amount of Spam.. however I was looking for a way to simplify the WP account creation process (even more so :P) from outside of WordPress... Is there a better way of securing this style of signup while still getting the result I'm looking for? | |
| Apr 4, 2013 at 21:36 | history | answered | Ralf912 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |