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Hi there,

This is happening because the Nouveau register page will not submit without an email being entered into the field. There’s a number of possible solutions to this, all of them pretty hacky. So for example you could use JavaScript to remove the required status of the email field. However you mentioned overloading the register page and I’ll give you my more hacky solution. Be warned you will probably need to do more work to get your register page looking right. My solution is to replace that section of the Nouveau registration form with the Legacy content.

So you’d replace this:

<?php bp_nouveau_signup_form(); ?>

with this:

<label for="signup_username"><?php _e( 'Username', 'buddypress' ); ?> <?php _e( '(required)', 'buddypress' ); ?></label>

<input type="text" name="signup_username" id="signup_username" value="<?php bp_signup_username_value(); ?>" <?php bp_form_field_attributes( 'username' ); ?>/>

<label for="signup_email"><?php _e( 'Email Address', 'buddypress' ); ?> <?php _e( '(required)', 'buddypress' ); ?></label>

<input type="email" name="signup_email" id="signup_email" value="<?php bp_signup_email_value(); ?>" <?php bp_form_field_attributes( 'email' ); ?>/>

<label for="signup_password"><?php _e( 'Choose a Password', 'buddypress' ); ?> <?php _e( '(required)', 'buddypress' ); ?></label>

<input type="password" name="signup_password" id="signup_password" value="" class="password-entry" <?php bp_form_field_attributes( 'password' ); ?>/>

<div id="pass-strength-result"></div>

<label for="signup_password_confirm"><?php _e( 'Confirm Password', 'buddypress' ); ?> <?php _e( '(required)', 'buddypress' ); ?></label>

<input type="password" name="signup_password_confirm" id="signup_password_confirm" value="" class="password-entry-confirm" <?php bp_form_field_attributes( 'password' ); ?>/>

Like I say it’s not the prettiest solution but it should get you moving forward.

Thank you! I appreciate your help with this. Works great. Now I can start enjoying all those nifty Nouveau enhancements.

That’s because this was a solution for a specific issue, one where the user already had code to input to get around the fact that the email is needed for the form validation. Removing the email field is not enough, you’ve got to input a pseudo email into the data before the form is validated.

Not sure if this will work but your syntax is clearly wrong, the correctway to write it would be:

add_action( 'bp_nouveau_get_signup_fields', 'venutius_remove_email_signup_field_required' );

function venutius_remove_email_signup_field_required( $fields ) {
    $custom_fields = array('field_2', 'field_15', 'field_4', 'field_6','field_13', 'field_7');
    foreach ( $custom_fields as $field ) {
        $fields[$field]['required'] = false;
    }
	return $fields;
}

Yep tht function works for the main WordPress signup fields, not the extended profile fields. However, thinking about it what this would do would make all those fields options, so why don’t you make all the fiedls optional in your settings, then you would not get the error, obviously it means making fields you want filling out optional but the way Nouveau works there’s not really an alternative if you are going to hide them for some member types.

The alternative would be to create a multi-stage signup form where the first page takes in the basic signup information and member type then the second page displays the extended profile info specific to the member type.

BP Better Registration splits the form into sections, I wonder if that could be used to create such a signup form?