Okay, thanks to Nato’s research my church’s website now has the Disclose-Secret plugin installed, which will let me restrict posts and pages to registered users.

The only problem is, the standard user registration feature is automated - ie anyone can type their details into the rego form and get a password emailed to them by the Wordpress software. Why does this suck? Because it adds a level of complexity to the registration process. If anyone from my church actually does register, they’ll still need me to change their user permissions before they can read restricted posts and pages. Which means I’d have to try and explain this to everyone. Which I could do, but I don’t want to. It’d be much less hassle if, when someone submitted the registration form, I received an email to confirm or deny his or her registration. Then I could make the restricted posts accessible to people at ’subscriber’ level.

So… any plugin suggestions?