You might need to scan your website for vulnerabilities using a security scanner such as sucuri, wordfence or wphackedhelp. just search them by name on google and you will get them
Email should work but much can go wrong including things connected to plugins, themes and functions.php or bp-custom.php files.
Presuming the email didn’t go into spam, and WordPress sent emails before installing BuddyPress, then one thing that can be tried is disabling all plugins except except buddypress and the ( un-customised ) bp-default theme.
If this is a localhost/dev site then php / server has to be correctly configured and/or upgraded for email. Alternatively WP Mail SMTP may be useful in this situation…
The main email address is set on the wordpress Settings > General page.
I would advise you check you have correct PTR record for your IP address, and also set a SPF record along with your MX records doing these two things can drastically affect how mail servers receive your mail or reject it if not happy these two items exist and check out as valid.
There may be other issues in some situations. For more info see: How to fix WordPress Not Sending Email issue
Email should work but much can go wrong including things connected to plugins, themes and functions.php or bp-custom.php files.
Presuming the email didn’t go into spam, and WordPress sent emails before installing BuddyPress, then one thing that can be tried is disabling all plugins except except buddypress and the ( un-customised ) bp-default theme.
If this is a localhost/dev site then php / server has to be correctly configured and/or upgraded for email. Alternatively WP Mail SMTP may be useful in this situation…
The main email address is set on the wordpress Settings > General page.
I would advise you check you have correct PTR record for your IP address, and also set a SPF record along with your MX records doing these two things can drastically affect how mail servers receive your mail or reject it if not happy these two items exist and check out as valid.
There may be other issues in some situations. For more info see: WordPress Not Sending Email – Mail SMTP Not Working
overwriting an existing default profile field (i.e. Facebook, Snapchat) seems to stay permanently., I noticed that the function only kicks in when the user literally clicks ‘Edit’ and changes the data in her/his profile from the front end.
