The registration process can be made easier by eliminating some of the steps. One such step is the email activation.

The email activation is a secure way to ensure that you are dealing with a human being, and not a script that could result in spam or even compromise your website. You can eliminate the email activation step, and still keep the website secure and avoid spam, by installing a Captcha application to the registration form.

Here's how you go about eliminating the email activation step:

• In your Joomla! website's Global Configuration, under User Settings, Select No for New User Account Activation.
• Next, edit the file /components/com_user/controller.php as such

Around line 282, comment out the line

$this->setRedirect('index.php', $message);

and add the following lines

$usersipass['username'] = $user->get('username');

$usersipass['password'] = $password;

$mainframe->login($usersipass);

$mainframe->redirect( 'index.php' );

When the visitor clicks on the submit button, the username and password are automatically filled in and logged in.

Furthermore, you can redirect the user to a specific page by editing the line $mainframe->redirect( 'index.php' ); and changing index.php to the page of your choice.

e.g. $mainframe->redirect( 'index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=71&Itemid=39' );