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WordPress Begin User Registration at a Specific Date and Time

Cristian Antohe

Last Updated: 24/03/16

Sometimes you want to begin user registrations in your WordPress site at a particular date and time in the future. Luckily it’s simple enough and it requires just a small plugin.

There’s no UI and you’ll have to modify the $open_registration_time variable with your time and hour, but it’s as simple as it gets:

create a new file auto_start_registration.php
copy the code from this page in it
modify the $open_registration_time variable with your time and date similar to the format
copy the file via FTP in your /plugins folder and activate the plugin

The plugin checks for the WordPress local time, so make sure you setup registration start based on it, not your local time or UTC time.

<?php
/**
 * @package Auto_Start_Registration
 * @version 1.0
 */
/*
Plugin Name: Auto Start Registration
Plugin URI: http://www.cozmoslabs.com
Description: Registration can begin at a specific date and time. This is using the WordPress current time, not UTC time. 
Author: Cristian Antohe
Version: 1.0
Author URI: http://www.cozmoslabs.com
*/
 
 
//we're running this on init and not in a cron job since crons run hourly and don't offer enough control. 
// also it's quite lightweight. 
add_action('init', 'asr_auto_start_registration');
function asr_auto_start_registration(){
 
    // This is using the WordPress current time, not UTC time. 
    $open_registration_time = '24 March 2016 9 hours 1 minute';
    if( ( get_option('asr_stop_check', '0') == '0' ) && ( current_time( 'timestamp' ) > strtotime($open_registration_time ) ) ){
        update_option('users_can_register', '1');
        update_option('asr_stop_check', '1', true);
    }
}

You can also use this with our Profile Builder plugin since our registration forms checks if “Anyone can register” is set or not.

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WordPress Begin User Registration at a Specific Date and Time

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