Title: Activating existing users
Last modified: June 28, 2021

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# Activating existing users

 *  [heather1202](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heather1202/)
 * (@heather1202)
 * [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-existing-users/)
 * Hi
 * I would like to use the option Moderate registration so I can accept users based
   on their details.
 * I have an existing woocommerce store, so I can see via this article I need to
   active all my other users – [https://rocketgeek.com/plugins/wp-members/docs/registration/moderating-registration/](https://rocketgeek.com/plugins/wp-members/docs/registration/moderating-registration/).
 * My question is though what happens when I customer orders something and they 
   create a normal “wordpress/woocommerce customer account” – do I then need to 
   activate this user as well?
 * I had a play about with the settings, once I had ticked moderate registration
   and then went and created a new customer account for woocommerce, I still needed
   to active that user. Is there a way around this? Does setting the utility script
   in the function.php file make any newly created “customers” as active automatically?
 * Hope that makes sense!
 * Thanks
    Heather

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 *  Thread Starter [heather1202](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heather1202/)
 * (@heather1202)
 * [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-existing-users/#post-14611597)
 * hi, really just wanted to say I’ve had a play about with this and activated all
   my users with the code in functions.php.
 * Then I created a user account for use in the woocommerce shop, but this user 
   needs to be activated by me. So thats not really going to work for me unfortunately.
 * As I want anyone wanting to use the membership area to not be activated straight
   away as I want to approve them, but I don’t want to have to approve my shop customers.
 * is there any way around this? So that subscribers need to be approved but customers
   don’t?
 * Thanks
    Heather

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