Title: Approving users outside wordpress
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Approving users outside wordpress

 *  Resolved [KingBull](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kingbull/)
 * (@kingbull)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/approving-users-outside-wordpress/)
 * Hello.
 * In conjunction with my WordPress site I also run a standalone system that I have
   written – completely independent of wordpress files and functions, however it
   does allow the user to perform certain tasks on wordpress.
 * What I want to do now is to allow a user to approve or reject a pending user 
   from this system, but I am unsure of how to do this.
 * I have tried editing the dr_usermeta in the database by setting the pwe_user_status
   from “pending” to “approved” but this doesn’t seem to do the trick.
 * So my question is: how can I manually approve/reject a user that’s pending from
   a non-wordpress platform?
 * Thanks.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/new-user-approve/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/new-user-approve/)

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 *  [Zain Sohail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zainsohail19/)
 * (@zainsohail19)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/approving-users-outside-wordpress/#post-5825485)
 * Hey, I am trying to do the same thing here. I need to create a Administration
   page inside wordpress from which a user can approve and deny users. I was trying
   to use the current plugin classes in a custom template. Any other idea’s anyone?
 *  Thread Starter [KingBull](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kingbull/)
 * (@kingbull)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/approving-users-outside-wordpress/#post-5825552)
 * [@zainsohail19](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zainsohail19/),
 * what you want to do is not exactly what I’m doing. I’m doing an external system
   while you are doing an internal. There would be different solutions here so I
   would advise creating your own topic instead.
 *  [Josh Harrison](https://wordpress.org/support/users/picklewagon/)
 * (@picklewagon)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/approving-users-outside-wordpress/#post-5825606)
 * The only thing that is happening when a user’s status gets updated is the user_status
   user meta field is updated and an email is sent. That is how it is done from 
   within WordPress. I’m not sure what I can do to help you update a user from a
   non-WordPress platform.
 *  Thread Starter [KingBull](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kingbull/)
 * (@kingbull)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/approving-users-outside-wordpress/#post-5825675)
 * Hey Josh,
 * Thanks for your reply. I’m unsure why this doesn’t work then because I am updating
   that field correctly.
 * Whenever manually updating the pw_user_status field of the user, from “pending”
   to “approved”, the dashboard doesn’t seem to respond to neither the “Approve”
   or “Reject” buttons. To make it work again, I have to change the value in the
   database back to “pending” and then click on “Approve” on the dashboard.
 * Here is a screenshot of user with id=58 that demonstrates this: [http://i.imgur.com/t1JMTCq.png](http://i.imgur.com/t1JMTCq.png)
 * It really seems as if there is something else that needs to be updated as well.
 * UPDATE: I asked this user to try and login (after me setting the db-field to “
   approved”) which he could. His account still shows up as unapproved in the dashboard
   though. Ideas of how to fix this?

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 * Last reply from: [KingBull](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kingbull/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/approving-users-outside-wordpress/#post-5825675)
 * Status: resolved