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Strange indeed. Troubleshooting …

== I tried to create a new subdomain site. ==

Where did you create this from – the dashboard or in front end (yoursite.com/blogs/create)?

Did you enable blog creation in Network Admin > Network Settings > Registration – with either “Logged in users may register new sites.” or “Both sites and user accounts can be registered.”?

Eric – if you have a bbPress-specific problem, your best bet is to post at http://bbpress.org

Darren – Can you provide a list of steps that we can copy to recreate this problem? Preferably if you start from the point of registering a new user account…

Upload Failed! Error was: Unable to create directory /avatars/8421926. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

This is the error I get when I try to add a plenty small image for my avatar… plus, buddy press says that they can use my gravatar, and when I click on that link and log into my gravatar account, buddy press does nothing… so, apparently this software is not very effective at creating profiles for social networks if its very own program has basic error messages… I guess you get what you pay for!!!!!!! free = sucks

An old version used to bypass WordPress registration process, so logins via Janrain could create accounts on my wordpress/buddypress. But latest versions fixed this problem (since It’s sort of a security hole). Since then I stopped using it.

If the plugin works for WordPress, so does BuddyPress.

@fernmacho This plugin allows you to activate users https://buddypress.org/community/groups/wp-activate-users/

It sounds like you also need to consider a way of blocking those bots that are signing up!

Try deleting user from admin and sign up again. They could also be getting the confirm email in their spam folder.

My 3 step solution to this problem is as follows:

1. Install plugin – BuddyPress Pending Activations (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-pending-activations/)
2. Make hack to plugin function bp_pending_activations_admin() so that it sends an email when a user is activated:
$resendusers = $wpdb->get_results( $wpdb->prepare( “SELECT u.ID, u.user_login, u.user_email, m.meta_value FROM ” . CUSTOM_USER_META_TABLE . ” m, “. CUSTOM_USER_TABLE .” u WHERE u.ID = m.user_id AND m.meta_key = ‘activation_key’ AND u.ID IN ({$userids})” ) );

foreach ( $resendusers as $resend ) {

/* Activate the signup */
$user = apply_filters( ‘bp_core_activate_account’, bp_core_activate_signup( $resend->meta_value ) );

/* If there was errors, add a message and redirect */
if ( $user->errors ) {
echo ‘There was an error activating this account, please try again: ‘. $resend->user_login;
} else {
$to = $resend->user_email;
$subject = “Your ?????? Account Has Been Activated!”;
$message = “Your account has been activated. Go to http://??????/ and sign in with the username and password that you created when you signed up.nnWelcome to ?????!”;
$admin_email = get_site_option( “admin_email” );
$from_name = “??????????”;
$message_headers = “MIME-Version: 1.0n” . “From: “{$from_name}” n” . “Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”” . get_option( ‘blog_charset’ ) . “”n”;
wp_mail( $to, $subject, $message, $message_headers );
}
3. Redirect activation email to admin (to use as a noitification for admin instead of automatically sending activition key to user) by adding this to functions.php:
function change_activation_email_to($content) {
return get_site_option( “admin_email” );
}
add_filter( ‘bp_core_activation_signup_user_notification_to’, ‘change_activation_email_to’);

So the when a new user signs up, they do not get any activation email. That goes to the admin instead. You will need to change the wording in your template to let the user know that they have to wait for manual approval. Admin logs in to WP admin and goes to Pending Activitations and activates the user. An email is sent to user to let them know they have been activated.

Eventpress works great to me in WP 3.2.1 multisite and BP 1.2.9. I have used the plugin Multisite User Management to mange all the users roles and to change them to the Event creator role in the main site.

By the way, the only bug that I have found is that the link created in the admin bar in: My account -> Events and My acoount -> Events -> My events don’t work propertly, if I click them, they go to the site_url

Anyway, great plugin, congrats!

another thing you could try is just create the user accounts in the admin for the page slugs and then not login with them and it won’t activate those accounts

@frizzo – sounds like you are looking to implement WPMU (multisite)

Here is a link to help get you started: https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

The way I’m doing it, our main buddypress site is the master domain, all users from that site can use their accounts around any of our sub-blogs or domains. There’s even a premium plugin for domain name support so you’re not just limited to a subdirectory.

Hope this helps!

@n_sane I had the same issue. A quick check of the wp database showed new users were being created with user level 2, which, in this case, means that they have not confirmed their registration. Also I realized i had not received any of my dummy account registration conf. emails.

I found a workaround for this by changing the user status to 0 in the wp_core_startup file, but that was an inadvisable way of fixing the issue since it totally deactivated the email registration system, which i really don’t didn’t want to bypass, and that file will get overwritten in any bp update.

The fix was to install the ‘Mail From’ plugin by andrew hamilton. this apparently allows the registration emails to go out, and then user_status and registration can be handled the way it was designed to. I’m hosted with bluehost and have a hunch their mail system isn’t playing nice with bp and this plugin seems to allow it to do that.

I found issues with Custom Post Types and page titles with the current Buddypress. Page Titles wouldnt display correctly so I needed to create a custom function.

‘function bpcustom_get_page_title() {
global $bp, $post, $wp_query, $current_blog;

if ( is_front_page() || ( is_home() && bp_is_page( ‘home’ ) ) ) {
$title = __( ‘Home’, ‘buddypress’ );

} else if ( bp_is_blog_page() ) {
$pt_label = ‘Blog’;
if($post->post_type != ‘post’){
$pt = get_post_type_object($post->post_type);
$pt_label = $pt->labels->name;
}
if ( is_single() ) {
$title = __( $pt_label . ‘ | ‘ . $post->post_title, ‘buddypress’ );
} else if ( is_category() ) {
$title = __( $pt_label . ‘ | Categories | ‘ . ucwords( $wp_query->query_vars ), ‘buddypress’ );
} else if ( is_tag() ) {
$title = __( $pt_label . ‘ | Tags | ‘ . ucwords( $wp_query->query_vars ), ‘buddypress’ );
} else if ( is_page() ){
$title = $post->post_title;
} else
$title = __( $pt_label, ‘buddypress’ );

} else if ( !empty( $bp->displayed_user->fullname ) ) {
$title = strip_tags( $bp->displayed_user->fullname . ‘ | ‘ . ucwords( $bp->current_component ) );

} else if ( $bp->is_single_item ) {
$title = ucwords( $bp->current_component ) . ‘ | ‘ . $bp->bp_options_title . ‘ | ‘ . $bp->bp_options_nav[$bp->current_component][$bp->current_action];

} else if ( $bp->is_directory ) {
if ( !$bp->current_component )
$title = sprintf( __( ‘%s’, ‘buddypress’ ), ucwords( BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ) );
else
$title = sprintf( __( ‘%s’, ‘buddypress’ ), ucwords( $bp->current_component ) );

} else if ( bp_is_register_page() ) {
$title = __( ‘Create an Account’, ‘buddypress’ );

} else if ( bp_is_activation_page() ) {
$title = __( ‘Activate your Account’, ‘buddypress’ );

} else if ( bp_is_group_create() ) {
$title = __( ‘Create a Group’, ‘buddypress’ );

} else if ( bp_is_create_blog() ) {
$title = __( ‘Create a Blog’, ‘buddypress’ );
}

if ( defined( ‘BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG’ ) ) {
$blog_title = get_blog_option( $current_blog->blog_id, ‘blogname’ );
} else {
$blog_title = get_blog_option( BP_ROOT_BLOG, ‘blogname’ );
}

return apply_filters( ‘bp_page_title’, $blog_title . ‘ | ‘ . esc_attr( $title ), esc_attr( $title ) );
}’

Hi, I’m also keen to know the answer to this question – I want to run BuddyPress as a client portal for a small business, so clients can log in and create an account, then communicate with staff, but they can’t message each other (or see each other’s profiles, ideally).

I’d rather not be forced to use my Twitter login for WP authentication. It’s nice when it’s an option, but to force it might raise privacy concerns, among other things. I would prefer to have the option at registration: use a Twitter login for authentication and get my Twitter account synced automatically, or create a standalone WP login, which can later be linked to my Twitter account if I so wish. (This has the added bonus of allowing me to associate with a different Twitter account at a later date if I want to change.)

I recently set up a site for baby pictures, and managed to give users the choice between FB login and a dedicated WP login. Maybe it’d be helpful? http://teleogistic.net/2011/07/building-a-baby-photo-site-with-wordpress/

No, there is no “Create Group” in the dropdown under “My Account” link. I don’t believe there ever was. The My Account link in BP Admin Bar shows all links available when you go to your profile page.

Sticking to bp-default theme with all plugins deactivated except BuddyPress,
– go to dashboard > BP components – disable Groups, save settings then log out.
– log back in again, enable Groups and save settings, see how Group creation goes now.

You’ll most likely want to create a replacement function for the function that adds the “My Account” section in the nav bar (see `bp_adminbar_account_menu()` in bp-core directory) and override it with your own custom function with the logout section removed using a `bp-custom.php` file.

This help page provides a good overview of what to do:

https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/modifying-the-buddypress-admin-bar/