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but I want to add more users for testing … I looked at the ‘Demo Data Creater’ plugin

@simple-man check out https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-default-data/
The number of users and groups created are limited so it’s much easier to delete test users by batch in wp-admin/users.php later

@simple-man you might want to read the release docs more carefully 😉
https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-components-and-features/member/pending-users-admin-screen/

@simple-man the next step is to check that an activation key is being set. considering you don’t have access to your database, are you comfortable with PHP? Can you add this to page.php

echo get_user_meta( $user_id, 'activation_key', true );

and replace $user_id with the user ID of the member you want activated.

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@simple-man if the activation key is in the database and the link in the email is right then the problem must be elsewhere.

1. instead of clicking on the link in the email, are you able to copy the link and paste it directly into the browser address bar? It could be the click-through that is causing the problem. Just a thought.

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@simple-man what’s the link in the email? Can you copy and paste an example here?

@simple-man BP’s default style for the Member and Group widget avatars have been superseded by your theme’s style where it changed the avatar’s width to auto in one area and in another area, changed it to max-width: 100%. You can add the following to the stylesheet of your child theme

.widget.buddypress ul.item-list img.avatar {
width: 20px;
}