Please stop by and visit! And, if you see a current web page with our old/wrong address, we’d love a reminder to get it changed. Our new headquarters address:

ICTA
5555 Erindale Dr., Suite 205
Colorado Springs, CO 80918 USA
(tel) 1-719-785-0120

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Please comment on this post if you have any trouble… we want to know!

After tearing out a few more of my dwindling collection of hairs, I think site registration is now working for everyone. Had to create a plugin to fix it; tech details below!

For now, we’ve enabled comments even if you can’t register. Please tell us…

• Is registration working for you?
• Does the blog site look ok?
• Is anything hard to navigate?
• Do the private and/or public RSS feeds work?

Thanks!

Tech Details

This blog is built using WPmu – multiuser WordPress. There are settings that allow new user registration and even new blog creation. Unfortunately, what they don’t tell you is this: there’s no way to enable the setting that allows users to register themselves!

I’d love it if software designers put more effort into serving the needs of blog administrators, as well as you the blog readers. We’d call that a SLTy perspective: serving well.

Bottom line: a bit of web searching revealed the issue and the code I needed. Moments later, I had created a plugin that does what we need. It’s short and sweet:

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: ICTA WPmu Registration Setup
Plugin URI: https://blogs.icta.net/plugins/
Description: Decipher users_can_register from WPmu registration setting
Version: 0.1
Author: Mr Pete
Author URI: https://blogs.icta.net/plugins/
*/

global $user_ID;

function wpmufrl() {
     $registration = get_site_option('registration');
     if ($registration == 'all' || $registration == 'user') {
         return true;
     } else {
         return false;
     }
}
add_filter('option_users_can_register', 'wpmufrl');
?>