Hi Matt, thanks for jumping in here, I appreciate it.
I gather you do not want the activation email sent out...
That's true. The activation email would be bypassed. There would be no need for it if I could manually approve all registrations. After being manually approved, the user would only get the new user email that contains their username and password. <---as an aside, I am also looking at adding a "create password at signup" plugin, but am still looking for the one that will fit best. I know I can get that at the premiumdev site, but I have also emailed the creator of the Register Plus plugin to ask if he has any plans to update his plugin or to make it available to wpmu. The features of this plugin are a lot of what I am looking for all in one. http://skullbit.com/wordpress-plugin/register-plus/
You also want a batch mode?
This is probably specific to my needs more than anything else as I am using an import plugin to import around 1500 users all at once. This large import should only happen once or twice though. Although this option may be useful in the case that several dozen requests came in over a weekend or something. Although, now that I think of it, if I had a new user moderation plugin installed, I could just uninstall it before I import this large batch to avoid having to approve all 1500. Sorry, sometimes it helps to write things out;)
It also sounds like you want to assign user roles during the activation process?
I'm doing this already with the plugin mentioned above.
http://www.uk-experience.com/2009/01/26/wordpress-mass-account-import/
Moving past this initial user import, I have a need for users to be able to register themselves, receive an email telling them they need to be approved, then held for moderation until an admin approves them.
My desire is really leaning toward a full featured registration plugin similar to Register Plus and User Extra Fields especially with the ability to add extra fields during registration and to choose what fields to display to the user upon signing in, etc.
I am willing to fund as much of this development as I can, but if I can just get New User Moderation working now, I would be grateful.
...a boy can dream...:)