Hi @b2hstudio
Welcome to the Auth0 Community!
As a possible solution for the issue that you are facing regarding redundancy, I would advise to set up Auth0 as IdP for your WordPress site in order to send the user who registers a password reset prompt from our side as per this Knowledge Article. This way, you will force the users to “reset their password” when they register and only send a verification email. However, the user will be stored only on Auth0’s side and you will need to sync the users with WordPress if you wish to have them stored on both platforms.
Otherwise, without disabling the Verification with Link email template, you will not be able to prevent the emails from being sent. I believe for your use case, it is not a bad approach since you actually send an email to the user to create their password and another one to verify their email address upon registration.
If you have any additional questions regarding the matter, feel free to leave a reply on the post.
Kind Regards,
Nik