Profile photo join form

hi

I wanted to make it possible to upload a profile photo from the join form without auto activating the account. For various reasons i don't want the profile to be automatically activated but I do want a profile photo to be mandatory at join up. How can I do this? Everything I have searched for so far has been from 2010-2013 so quite old and most likely not relevant.

 Thanks in advance

Voni xx

I believe if you Go to > Builders >>> Profile Fields you can add the photo from the inactive items at the bottom of the page by dragging it into the position in the active items section.

Not sure how to make it mandatory, or if it is mandatory after placement in the active items section.

Then go to > settings >>> Advanced >>> Moderation and deselect "Auto-Activate Profiles After Joining"

This may help make the photo mandatory:

https://www.boonex.com/forums/topic/How-do-I-make-adding-a-profile-photo-be-required.htm

Hope that helps.

yeah i know, but the profile photo doesn't upload when the site is set to "NOT auto-confirm Profile Without Confirmation Email." I have set this because i don't want lots of spammers to descend on my site and fill it up with crap. But because the profile is not automatically verified the profile photo won't upload. So i am in a catch 22.

I was having a similar issue with spammers. What I did was install  a mod called "Delete Unconfirmed" accounts (not sure how great it actually is as I havent fully tested) and also made the membership approve automatically.

I gave absolutely no rights the the new signups - Instead they have to upgrade to silver membership after signing up to post anything. (I added some language strings to the message after signup with a link to upgrade their free account to the next level and made it look like I was giving them a paid account) (real members)

That eliminated the autosignups/tools posting crap on the forum. I am not sure about the Delete Unconfirmed module/changes though as I haven fully tested as yet.

You could do something similar. 

I will most likely buy a better captcha mod later?

Sorry couldn't be of more help.

The Delete Unconfirmed  was free but now its $5. https://www.boonex.com/m/delete-unconfirmed-members

thanks for the advice, I may do something similar myself. For now I removed the upload a profile photo in the join up because of the problems with the small profile image suddenly becoming the profile cover which looks really weird and if people join and just log into seeing that they are going to think the site is pretty amateurish. 

It's exact and we lose a lot of members because the photos don't appear during join.

Member don't understand and leave the site

We would like the same system than Una.io. That would be better

 I haven't actually done anything about that but will... as you say it looks terrible. I think I will actually add some tutorial within the first registration process to walk them through the steps.. ie. Image cover, description etc. Sort of a "Build A Great Profile" free report download or a walkthough video available possibly from the message after signup. I believe AntonLV or Modzzz does a messages plugin after they login and could possibly use something similar. Or as I suggested just add a video to the language key after registering. I will heve to think about its implementation before I actually do anything so cant really coment more. But thanks for the heads up/poke.