[Mr. Bigsby]

I have my site restricted from anyone but registered members (logged in) to see. I do not have open registration, there is a password to become registered.

whenever a person hits “register” they are taken inside of the page and have access to the information I’m trying to hide.

I’m hoping someone can help me pinpoint what I need to do before I start “poking” around.

What do I need to modify in order to make the registration page a blank page and not have the layout and links of the main page?

oh and I’m using buddypress as well.

[techguy]

Just make a child theme: https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/ The file you’ll want to edit in your child theme is in the default theme folder under registration/register.php

You may also want to look at this thread which will redirect people to the register page if they go to one of your other pages directly: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/splash-start/

[Mr. Bigsby]

Okay, I’m a little confused. I’m new to all of this, so I hope I don’t sound dumb. I read child theme article and I’m a little confused:

Is a child theme the same as a theme you can download and install? Or is it something different enitrely? Because I currently have a modded installed theme on the site currently that I’m using and want to use (it’s installed in wp-content/themes like a child theme would be …).

So is it possible for me to make some sort of override to the registration template? Because I just want the registration page to load without the theme/css/ any part/links of the site being shown — just the form.

[r-a-y]

@holgria – Are you using a WordPress theme or a BuddyPress theme?

If you want to use an existing WordPress theme, use the BuddyPress Template Pack plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

Then do what techguy stated – modify “registration/register.php” in your WP theme’s folder.

[Mr. Bigsby]

I’m using the avenue k9 theme and there isn’t a register php file in the folder in /wp-content/theme

or is he speaking of /bp-themes/bp-default/registration

[r-a-y]

Copy over /bp-themes/bp-default/registration/register.php to /wp-content/themes/THE_AVENUEK9_THEME_DIR/registration/register.php.

Then open up register.php and make your changes there.

[Mr. Bigsby]

yes, there’s no registration file or folder there.

[r-a-y]

@holgria – Read my post again. I just edited it.

[Mr. Bigsby]

okay, thanks. I wasn’t sure if that’s what i needed to do, because I was reading the override thing and figured it could.

What would X out the theme in that file?

[r-a-y]

What do you want to do? Make the registration page entirely blank? If so, just delete everything in “register.php”.

If you want to keep the header and footer, keep the get_header() and get_footer() lines, and delete everything else.

[Mr. Bigsby]

i want to get rid everything EXCEPt the forms to sign up, I dont want it to keep the theme of the page. So I’ll do the opposite of what you said. Thanks.

[kniftontf]

I am trying to use my index.php file to check if the user is logged in, then display the php code from register.php on the home page if it is not. I can get it to check if the user is logged in, but the registration form will not show up on my index.php if they are not. Is there a way to make this work?