I'm trying to change the message users see after creating an account. It currently says:
Thank you for applying for an account. Your account is currently pending approval by the site administrator. In the meantime, a welcome message with further instructions has been sent to your e-mail address.
What's the best way of changing this? Would the String Overrides module help? A Rule, perhaps?
Many thanks.
This is exactly what the String Overrides module is for.
If you only need just a couple strings, you can also use settings.php. See this section:
/**
* String overrides:
*
* To override specific strings on your site with or without enabling locale
* module, add an entry to this list. This functionality allows you to change
* a small number of your site's default English language interface strings.
*
* Remove the leading hash signs to enable.
*/
You don't want to use Rules, because although you can add a new message with a rule, the old message will still be there as well (which isn't what you want, I assume).
I solved this with Rule module because this module was already used in my application but as Patrick Kenny said we can set new message with a rule but the old message will still be there as well. This problem I solved with the help of CSS (hiding message div with display:none property).
You can change those messages in Configuration>Account settings (admin/config/people/accounts). There is E-mails section where you can change messages used during account registeration process.
