The owner of the site I’m working on wants to be able to approve new members before giving them access to Buddypress features (and certain other pages) and I think/hope I can make the Buddypress Registration Options work for me in that respect however… implementing this does not prevent the new user from being sent an activation link by separate email and this is proving confusing to users who are effectively receiving TWO emails ie. one telling them that their membership is pending approval and the other telling them to activate their account.

I understand that the activation link is a useful check to stop random users/bots from signing up to site itself, whereas Buddypress Registration Options only handles whether or not they have access to Buddypress features so I’m reluctant to completely disable either option but thinking there must surely be a better way.

I guess I can at least make the activation email a little more informative (ie. please click this link but you’ll still have to wait for your account to be approved by admin) but is there a better way (settings/plug-in/code?) of handling things which I may not have considered?

With many thanks in advance for any thoughts.