I fixed my email sending issue by installing WP-Mail-SMTP plugin,
The old plugin I was using is broke: WP Mail From II
WP-Mail-SMTP
I set it to Send all WordPress emails via SMTP.
I ticked Set the return-path to match the From Email.
I’m using cPanel email so I logged into my cPanel email and clicked Set Up Mail Client link.
You’ll see the username and password and port you need to put in the WP-Mail-SMTP config.
SMTP Port: local
SMTP Port: the outgoing port
For encryption I selected use SSL as I have free autoSSL installed for cPanel.
Yes: Use SMTP authentication.
Username: your email address
Password: Email password
And that’s it.. tested send email to another email address, all good.
Newly registered account are getting the activate email, well I did anyway.
Thank you for the pointer, I fixed my email sending issue by installing WP-Mail-SMTP plugin,
I set it to Send all WordPress emails via SMTP.
I ticked Set the return-path to match the From Email.
I’m using cPanel email so I logged into my cPanel email and clicked Set Up Mail Client link
You’ll see the username and password and port you need to put in the plugin config.
SMTP Port: local
SMTP Port: the outgoing port
For encryption I selected use SSL as I have the free SSL installed for cPanel.
Yes: Use SMTP authentication.
Username: your email address
Password: Email password
And that’s it.
Now new users who register an account are getting the email to activate their own accounts.
Jesus why didn’t I notice this earlier but the old plugin I was using is broke: WP Mail From II
I created a test user account on my site,
If I go to Users > manage signups, I see the new user account,
So I click the email link to resend the activation email,
It sends the new account activation email
Why doesn’t it send it when the user created the account?
And I need to know is Buddypress forcing new members into that pending list?
Meaning it’s not automatically registering new accounts or sending them their activation email when they sign up.
I also noticed if I sign up as a new member I get to the page that says success and an email
has been sent to verify your account, but the email never comes.
If I activate the member accounts manually an email is sent saying there is a new member,
So I know my email is working on the server side right?
I don’t know where the mail settings are in wordpress or if it’s some setting in Buddypress?
I need to allow new registrations to be approved automatically, I thought there was an option for this.
Hardly paranoid considering we’re talking about a piece of software.
What I meant was, the toolbar is belong to wordpress, as you mentioned.
It’s strange that they add a feature and don’t include any options to remove different
elements of the toolbar, like it didn’t matter or they left it up to someone else to deal with.
I thought I added the two links myself actually with some customizer plugin, not the case.
Ah no luck, I tried it in firefox also,
If I search page source I can see bp-admin-component-submit
But I can’t see it when I inspect it in chrome or firefox
BTW I just noticed, hitting ENTER saved the Components settings,
But that doesn’t work for the Pages tab.
Under the Pages tab I can see a new field for Groups, clicking View shows the Groups page,
However the other 4 fields, activity, active, members, register, can’t view those pages.
It takes me back to the BP settings page instead, no save button at the bottom.
I have just created the 4 pages, Members, Activity Streams, Activate, Register
No luck yet, I’ll delete, reinstall BP and see if it recognises my 4 new pages.
the first time i installed BP it had the 4 pages already filled in, not this time…
Reinstalled, no save button, pages not selected under page tab.
