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I uploaded a Screenshot on tinypic

link: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=24fy0qu&s=6

I’ll delete the account that you created when you looked at the site. Thanks again.

@modemlooper I ditched as many of the option tables as I could find, it didn’t solve the problem. I was wrong about it being a database problem it seems. Thank you — I found a solution for me; hopefully it hepls other users

@valuser – I figured out a very simple solution that completely saved my website this morning, try it out: on the sidebar where buddypress came with the built in login widget (top right of your sidebar), you’ll notice “Please create an account to get started”.. For me, this link takes you to yoursite.com/register-2/

register-2 being the slug for my registration page

.. If you try to sign up in here there are 0 issues across the board.

So I went into my wordpress – settings – reading and removed “registration” from my homepage and instead made a static homepage “start” which contains a brief about my website, a link (Sign Up Here) that takes you to yoursite.com/register-2. and the shortcode for login

(I found the login shortcode can be found here http://justintadlock.com/archives/2011/08/30/adding-a-login-form-to-a-page).

You don’t have to go about it the same route I did, but short and sweet do not use the registration page you created for buddypress as your home page.. add the SLUG to your website url.. yoursite.com/slug (probably register or registration). problem solved.

Let me know how that goes.

Hi,
Yes, I have a page for registration, /register. This is the page I use to create the new accounts. (Which then have the incorrect activation links)
Is that what you mean?

**SOLVED**

Thank you @Aces for answering and being helpful. All seems to be working now. I will post the solution below for those, like @Whisprr, who have the same problem:

Basically, the “WP Mail SMTP” plugin method from the link Aces provided worked. I just think the link is very vague and doesn’t explain at all how these plugins are supposed to help or what exactly you are supposed to do with them–it just says ‘most people found these helpful’. So I had to watch this youtube video, which explained how to solve the issue using the WP Mail SMTP, step by step: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GsHbf4Gitw

Watch it! I would just skip the part about using the FTP to finish installing the plugin (skip 3:00-6:20). The plugin should install perfectly fine.

Essentially, anyone who has the activation/registration email problem needs to download the “WP Mail SMTP” plugin and then enter the correct settings, as described in the video. I ran into a problem (mentioned earlier in this post) because GMAIL does not allow the plugin access to the account and labels it as suspicious activity–this kept returning an error message in the debug (test email). I also didn’t feel comfortable putting my real email’s username and password, un-hidden, into the username and password form, so I created a new YAHOO account especially for sending emails from my wordpress blog instead of my normal account, to use for this plugin.

It worked! The debug/test email did not return an error and when I tested the registration for my site, I finally received the activation email–albeit buried in my spam folder.

Hopefully this helps others because BuddyPress and Word Press do not make it clear that this needs to be done in order to SEND (rather than receive) email from your account or for member registration to work–this is why many people who are Word Press novices can become confused when site registration doesn’t work.

I think my question is not coming across as I want it to.

First, I did do as you suggested when I built a test site. Even then, I didn’t see any option for users to create their own blog during or after account creation.

Either way, my question is more along the lines of asking if both types of sites can co-exist as one single site.

My “current” test users work with bbpress active but I created a test user before I actived sitewide forums. I tried creating a new test account and I’m not able to activate account. The user shows up on the user list but they’re not able to do anything until they can activate account. With the test user account I try setting up, it says please go and active your account by going to your email and clicking on your activation link or something like that. It asks to enter an activation key. I tried clickin active to see if it would work but nothin, I also tried copy and pasting the key #’s I get in the link and nothing worked.

Once I deactivated bbpress I was able to click on the activation link and my test account would activate.

All I had to do was change
$ HEAD -PSU -H 'Cookie: buddyorg_logged_in=jidanni...efd6' https://codex.buddypress.org/ to
$ HEAD -PSU -H 'Cookie: buddyorg_logged_in=jidanni...efd5' https://codex.buddypress.org/
and I could get in fine. Same results no matter if my IP is via the USA or TW.

So perhaps: create a new account, login, then try to connect to https://codex.buddypress.org/
Then logout, and try again.

First function adds code to meta in wp-signups works fine.

Second function should get this meta which is does however i cant access anything inside it using the likes of $signup[‘meta’] or $signup[‘$user_id’]

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Any ideas?

When i output $signup i get an array within ‘WP_Error Object’

That’s the problem, I tested again with “User accounts may be registered” setting – not “Both sites and user accounts can be registered” enabled – and I’m getting the page not found since it’s looking for /blogs/create/ and somehow not directing to /register/. Again, this is via the wp meta widget > register link.

I’m also getting the same error when trying to click the “register” link attached to the login screen on a site other than the primary.

I found a filed bug from 10 months ago, it says that it’s fixed, but I am somehow recreating that same issue…today! lol

Here’s a link to ticket # 4032 on trac: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4032

So do you think those 3 errors I posted above regarding the user login key and the message “The indexes user_login and user_login_key seem to be equal and one of them could possibly be removed.” found in the phpadmin panel, there is no correlation and I shouldn’t be concerned with either message?

[RESOLVED – for some reason when I enabled the other theme it disabled the default bp-theme in the network. Once it was re-enabled it, no Cheatin Uh? message] Lastly, not related to this same topic, but I thought I resolved the Cheatin Uh? message after reinstall, only to discover when changing to a different bp theme, then trying to switch back to the default bp-theme, I get that dang message again! [/]

Thanks again.

@mercime Thanks for your help. The problem I had is I didn’t know which file the “create an account” would be in. But, I figured it out. It was in the sidebar.php file. I commented out (using // before the command) the offending verbiage. So, not a perfect solution. Someone could still guess how to get to the registration page, but it is not right up front.

As for the survey, I have a link from my consent documents to a survey on Survey Monkey and will put a link to the registration page at the end of that survey. Haven’t tested all of that functionality, yet, but I think it will work.

Thanks again.

Well, for whatever reason, setting a password for the registration page didn’t work. I set a password for the registration page, but clicking “create an account” on the welcome page takes you straight to the registration page – no password requirement pops up.

So this question is still open.

Also, for some reason I am not getting notification of replies from this forum.

Thanks! I will try #3. I’ve spent hours looking at different membership plug-ins and they all seem to add complexity that I don’t want my users to have to deal with. As for #2, I am not in the least savvy with code. ; p.

Would still like to remove the words on the welcome page, so will leave this unresolved for now.