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If you are logged in as an administrator, that is normal.

Create a subscriber account to see the difference.

Thank you very much for this.

I have just created 2 new members of different types.
Interestingly the members are visible in the backend (under Users), but do not show up in members directory under neither of the tabs.
The 3 tabs (one for each type) are displayed but all show 0 count.
What makes me more perplexed is that those 2 new members are not even accounted for in the members count.
They are present in backend but totally invisible in frontend.

Hi @bibblehead

Clicking on ‘Register’ on site, when I am logged out, brings up ‘Create an Account’ but ’email address’ field required is already populated with my user name ‘bibblehead’ and ‘Password’ field already populated with password in usual dots!

It is your browser doing this. Try clearing your browsing data and you’ll see these dots and your username will be removed.

Read your host documentation and FYI here.
Or create an FTP account and upload WP/BP via FTP as recommended.

it doesn’t reflect the topics this account has created.

It should normally !
When on a profile, the forum item leads to this user forum activity. Any type of forum: groups and global forum.

Verify your settings. What you should get with defaut settings:

Forum link on profile:
your-site/members/username/forums/

On a group forum
your-site/groups/group_name/forum/

On the global forum
your-site/forums/forum/forum_name/ (forum_name is a page title you must create, on this page you add bbpress shortcodes to show up the global forum only).

Group forum is the first forum you create (in admin) if you want group forums, and as forum attribute you assign “category” (see right column on create forum page).
Then you have to set this group forum as parent page for all group forums in forum settings.

Better detailed here:

Installing Group and Sitewide Forums

htaccess is normaly in the site root folder. If none, create it and add this:
(this is only for a single default install). Even if it has nothing to do whith password registering.

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

When you register a user from front end and enter the password, do you see dots when typing it ?
Once saved, is this new user figuring in wp_signup AND wp_user tables with a password ?

wp_signup is a temporary table where the new user is stored as long as he didn’t use the activation key. Once done, this entry is cleared and the account status of that user is changed in wp_user table.

Hi!

I recently upgraded my site with a new theme (BuddyBoss Boss. theme) and am running WP 4.1.1 and upgraded from BuddyPress 1.9.2 to 2.2.1.

I have a setup where I redirect the activation e-mail to the site admin to be able to manually control new members and verify their information before activating them and letting them log in. This is a cruical function for my site since it’s a private network.

After the upgrade I noticed that some spam users were automatically activated and able to log in without my manual activation. The users are automatically activated, the same issue as @RussAdams is experiencing. I’ve tried deactivating a few plugins (BuddyPress Pending Activations, BuddyPress Auto Group Join) but this issue persists. In BuddyPress 1.9.2, everything was working as expected.

Browser sessions doesn’t seem to be the issue since clearly people on other computers have been able to create accounts which were automatically activated as well.

This is a very serious issue for my site since I no longer have the control over new users and spam users can log in after activating. Did you get this sorted out?

I found with one site on one server – any emails sending via php had a weird return header thing from my server that did not get through some of this big three email clients no spam lists..

a plugin similar to https://wordpress.org/plugins/postman-smtp/

may change your wp to send via an smtp account on your server instead of php using a weird default server header.. you may need to create an smtp account for that work.. and even so there are other factors that could limit your email getting through.. (some shared servers are on backlist, some web hosting companies are given minus points, even if your web site is on the up and up)

There are a lot of things that could cause it to fail the ‘real mail’ test at some of these services..

Is it WP 4.1.1 and BP 2.2.1 and Multisite. If so go to …/wp-admin/network/settings.php
Registration Settings – Select radiobutton for
Both sites and user accounts can be registered.
and save.

If there is a Page created via Add New Page with title “Register” but no content
and you have chosen this via ..wp-admin/network/admin.php?page=bp-page-settings
as Registration page, things should work.

After doing the above log out as admin, and visit the “register” link.
Thanks.

@tinabeansy,

first of, required pages for buddypress such as registration cannot use custom template as an usual WP page.

“Create an Account” can be modified by using the language file, even if the site is in english.
Read here

BP comes with a pot file where you find ALL strings used by the plugin AND the file/line where they are used. Very handy for searching “create an account”. 😉

For now:
bp-core/bp-core-filters.php:487 bp-members/bp-members-screens.php:517

Also found scratchhouse.co Is this your site ? BP seems to not be installed.
Have you setup the pretty permalinks ? Could explain why you have trouble with some pages.

And don’t forget: codex is your friend. 😉

hi @daethian,

if you’re using BP 2.2, don’t use the “old” bp-default theme.

If you have FTP access, your wordpress should be at the site root if you want to use BuddyPress. If it’s you who created the /wp/ folder and if you haven’t any other site on the same account you don’t need it. Install wordpress directly at the root ! Mostly in a folder named www or htdocs (ie. htdocs/wp-admin, htdocs/wp-content/, htdocs/wp-include/)

But let’s say it’s correct for now.

Connect to your site and go to admin
On WP dashboard> General ensure you entered WP URL and site URL correctly (hxxp://your-site.xxx) without trailing slash (normally the same URL)
Then dashboard > Appearence>Theme and activate Twenty Fifteen
Then dashboard > Settings > Permalinks > anything but default
Then dashboard > plugins and deactivate/reactivate BuddyPress
Then dashboard > Appearence > Menu > screen option (top right), check buddypress and add the BP menu to Twenty 15

See if it works.

If not, you’ll have to setup WP correctly at first.
Return to FTP, move WP to the root, erase htaccess and wp-config and restart the installation

your-site.xxx/install
Re enter your DB name, psw and all other information needed for installing WP.
Your DB and actual content won’t be erased (but you can make a dump before, in case of).

5mn install later, you are invited to login. And you have to do what i’ve explained previously.

Yes you can create a single members page that exist at say the same level as standard WP pages and into that bring various elements from the user account to create a sort of single user landing page, doing this will depend on how comfortable with coding you are, as you are starting to get into the realms of custom work here.

BuddyPress certainly is a good fit for many sites along these sorts of lines, but out of the box it can only go so far and has to present a default setup that suits the majority, extending this to provide more custom requirements is possible, but you will need a certain level of skills – the codex is your friend though we have quite a few articles and guides there that will help.

I joint the list of non-faqqers, from now on I will be the mother-faqqer that reeds the faq out of all faq’s

Installed your plugin again and logged out, logged in with demo account…removed existing Avatar…and voila, my identicon is created and in place.

Only had to change the 10px padding that made all avatars and identicons tiny.

I will go and give the 5 stars it deserves, thanks @henrywright

See it in action here

Peter Hamilton

@henrywright,

good idea really.
I have same issue as @peter-hamilton
Local single install, WP 4.1.1, 2012, php 5.5.12 with only BP 2.2, bbPress and bp-default-data

Admin use gmail, and also all dummy users created with BDD plugin.

– first time i activated BI, all users showed the mystery man. And plugin works, as i see the border.
– changed profile photo of admin: custom picture appeared.
– removed the picture: identicon appeared on the admin account.
-tried to do same thing with a dummy user. Nothing happened.
– create a new user from back office, with gmail address, identicon showed up
– all other dummy users comes with mystery man.

– manually created a identicons folder in /uploads/

– modified all dummy user mail address. Mystery man still showing.
– applied a custom picture to one, ok, then removed. Mystery man again.

– tried global settings to “empty avatar”. Nada ! Reverted to default MM setting and still no identicon.

By default, members that haven’t uploaded a profile photo are given a mystery-man avatar. This BuddyPress plugin automatically replaces default avatars.

BI seems to work only for newly users, with a big exception for the site admin.
gmail icon has no priority, even if it is not a “default” picture.

But it is not uploaded, which may probably be the logical disturbing point of this issue ?

On a dev site, using this plugin would really help to avoid calling an external avatar service.
Would also be true for a prod site, where specially gravatars are mentionned to be optimized as they slow down page speed.

Implementing some options to the existing WP avatar settings to allow/disallow gravatar, gmail, etc , or to let BI playing alone OR aside existing settings, would be a huge improvement.

😀

@gina go to go to /wp-admin/network/settings.php
and select “Both sites and user accounts can be registered.”
Then do what you did – I guess things will finally work.

Though ideally it would have been logical if it created the Register page and then said “No, you cannot register with current settings. Please contact site admin”

@agentswall If I input a dummy email then I wouldn’t be able to activate the account… unless you have a plugin activated which allows anyone to join without activating. Create something like username: test, password: test123, for example and I will delete it from your post here.