Multisite sign-up improvements (potential roadmap)

[johnjamesjacoby]

The wp_signups database table has a few things not going for it:

• No _Query class
• No WP_Signup object class
• No user interface for moderating them
• No query or object caching
• A meta database column vs. a wp_signupmeta database table
• wp-signup.php is a pretty gnarly file, as is wp-activate.php

A lack of support for this multisite feature means no one is very likely to use it. Most membership plugins (BuddyPress included) generally wrap around it, but also need to write a bunch of additional code to interface with what's here now.

I took a stab at this last week, and made this plugin for a proof-of-concept:

• ​https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-signups
• ​https://github.com/stuttter/wp-user-signups

Pretty much all of the pieces are there, minus the meta-data table (which would not be very hard at all.)

[Mista-Flo]

This is definitely a must have feature, signups are a no man's land place in Multisite for now. So I'm fully suporting this idea, thanks for your involvement for Multisite.

I like the approach, the signup meta table would be usefull to avoid this serialized array $meta which is not so extensible and could be problematic if it would be overridden by third plugins (like my Multiple Roles plugins, I add multiples roles in a new element of the $meta array).

By the way, I use the plugin of @jamesjohnjacoby for weeks, and it's really usefull for a project I work on with payable subscribtions.

[lukecavanagh]

@johnjamesjacoby

Seems like a very solid potential feature for multisite.