[@andrea_r Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

Did someone turn off registration? Go check and make sure it;s turning on under Settings.

[@andrea_r Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

If you only have a single site install of WordPress, the extra blogs should be off already. If you turned on multisite (created a network) you can either turn that off or disable blog creation under network settings.

[@andrea_r Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

Change your registration slug and everywhere you’ve linked to the signup page make sure it has a nofollow on it.

[@andrea_r Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

Have you tried going to the BudyPress settings in the admin area and disabling the extended profiles?

[@andrea_r Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

Colors would be done via the style.css in the theme.

[@andrea_r Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=theme+switcher&sort=

dozens here.

[@andrea_r Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

they only need to copy/paste that info if for some reason the key in that URL does not show in their address bar.

[@andrea_r Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

For example, this is the email that is sent:

“Thanks for registering! To complete the activation of your account please click the following link:

http://example.com/activate?key=5570d3e7b263884f2b63ed6d096571cb”

See where it says KEY? And all those letters and numbers afterwards? THat is the activation key.

[@andrea_r Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

“But where is the activation code that its asking me to enter…”

In the email with the link you just clicked. it’s part of the link itself.

“Clicking the link doesn’t add the activation code in the input field does it?”

Yes, yes it does.

[@andrea_r Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

Yes, you DID receive the activation key. it was in the link that you just clicked on. CLicking the link verifies your new account.

[@andrea_r Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

Can you post a link to your site?

[@andrea_r Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

The activation email is one email. It has the activation key in the link it sends.

Do you mean when you click the link you get, it shows “activation key not found” o your site? Because that is a different issue.

[@andrea_r Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

The email isn’t being received because some email places think it is spam.

[@andrea_r Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

Switch your theme to the default one included with buddypress and then try those tasks again.

[@andrea_r Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

nearest I can think of is a theme switcher widget (yes, they exist all over the plugin repo) and t won’t be labelled buddypress-specific.

this will get you close. you’ll have to test because you might get wonky results. And tell the client he’s not gonna get all he wants. ;)P

[@andrea_r Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

Yes, it’s just a section of your website. You can display ads in sidebars.

[@andrea_r Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

Don;t use rss feeds to do it.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-sitewide-tags/

[@andrea_r Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

Cool beans! Thanks, luvvy. I’ll give it a try and let you know.

[@andrea_r Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

If something stops working suddenly it’s often due to a change on the host side. Did you do any updates? did your host restore any backups?

Have you gone through and resaved any of the settings?

[@andrea_r Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

Start upgrading your plugins too, and turn some off to see if they are interfering.

also get firebug to look at the styling on those boxes and see where it’s coming from.

[@andrea_r Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

@josephisready please start a new thread for your issue. most people have probably missed it.

[@andrea_r Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

Those are general multisite questions.

“- Where is the code? Is it replicated, or pulled from a single location?”

One codebase. pulled from one spot.

“- Should I be worried about the load?”

by just turning on multisite? no.

“Can I keep it from loading on select sites?”
that admin bar? yes.

“- Can my messing about with BuddyPress somehow affect my other sites?”

depends. edit the files directly and whitescreen something and maybe it will show up everywhere. generally, no.

you read my blog now, right? http://wpmututorials.com

[@andrea_r Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

There’s built in hooks to change slugs and other things.

BuddyPress Codex

[@andrea_r Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

Would be the same as moving a WordPress site. because that’s what you have. Your new host will probably even move it for you. Good ones do.

[@andrea_r Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

You need to create a network within WordPress. It’s built in, you just enable it.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network