BuddyPress

wp_options is a database table.

I couldn’t recreate this at the time, I believe. Are you viewing the email on a windows or a mac? (no idea if it would make a difference but I don’t have many ideas)

It’s not going to be addressed for some time. It will require a lot of effort to re-work this particular issue.

Just to let everyone know I am aware but haven’t looked at this yet.

So, I’ve made some changes, but still not receiving a link in the activation email. Email arrives, but it’s blank.

Deactivated: Welcome Pack & Member Access.
Installed: s2member (discovered certain pages […]

Not running multisite nor have I done anything to the BP_ROOT_BLOG setting.

Plugins are (a bit numerous):

Ad Codes Widget
Akismet
Another Wordpress Classifieds Plugin (AWPCP)
Basic Google Maps […]

Are you using multisite, or have you set the BP_ROOT_BLOG setting anywhere?
What other plugins are you running?

Sorry for not making a new topic. I noticed mwbarker posted a month ago w/ a similar problem & hadn’t received a response yet. I thought I was helping him by bumping it up… :-/

I am using Buddypress 1.5.5, […]

Can you make your own topic in future please? These two issues may have different causes. You two are using BuddyPress, right? Are you running any translations for BuddyPress on your site?

I am having a similar problem. The activation email sent is NOT the custimized email that I created. It appears to be the standard WP email; however, it lacks any activation links. My users are not able to […]

Most third-party authentication plugins don’t follow exactly how WordPress’ user authentication works, internally (missing filters, usually, to be precise). Welcome Pack uses some of these filters to hook in and […]

Put this word into your email: USERNAME

And it’ll be replaced

Correct, it won’t work with plugins that don’t fully (and properly) implement extensions to WordPress’ user authentication. I can’t really produce bespoke fixes for each of these plugins, because there are a lot of them.

Yes. WP is triggered when a user activates their account; you’re slipping that step by creating users in the backend.

Are you running any plugins that handle user login or authentication?

Also, try adding a trailing slash to the end of the URL

Current version should work. Let me know.