I’d like anybody to be able to create an account, access the forums, and be able to create groups.
Really I just want to understand why, when someone not involved with the site, creates an account (and their role is set to “member”) they don’t appear under the members list.
Is that any help?
http://www.nathanielrenton.com/ministicks/
And you cant set up catchall on your email account?
In theory you could make up an email address, as it would never need to be used, wouldn’t work any way, and you added new users from the backend checked ‘don’t send email notification’ then edited their created user profile in the backend to suit.
How ever I can’t really get my head around you having users who are going / are using the internet and yet do not have email addresses that doesn’t really stack up -if they have an a connection to the net via an ISP then they have an email address whether they know it or not.
== I think that mercime was just asking for a user and login plain text will do and a basic account not admin. ==
hnla is correct. You mentioned “I can allow any person assisting me have free access.” I assume you have a testuser or demouser account/s to view your site as a non-admin user. Or create one so we don’t have to go through the process of registering to help you out. After the issue is resolved, you can always delete that testuser account.
In addition, open up your theme’s page.php file, copy all content and paste it at http://pastebin.com/ and click on Submit button. The post the URL generated from that submission here.
@hnla and mercime
I see. I just tried to create a demo account but for some reason buddypress has threw a wrench into things. Before, people where able to just click the register link and choose a username and login which would then direct people to a paypal page before they could access the site.
Now, for some unknown reason, there is no way to access the site at all! You go to register, it comes up with the a buddypress from instead of the wordpress login page. Once you fill it out, it sends an email to you with an activation link. Once you do that, it takes you to the site but it is just as restricted as if you where a non-member and it doesn’t seem like there is any way to actually become a member like there way before. I’ll take some screen shots and post links.
@Twistedangels what hnla said.
Create an ordinary demo member account – post username and password here
They will be listed there. You’re not using multisite, are you? In 3.1, new users aren’t automatically assigned to a blog so they appear in a different place than you might expect from new users created in 3.0.
i experienced same thing with wp fb autoconnect thank you @partyfrikadelle for narrowing it down …worked great on a theme that uses buddypress template pack…but when i used it on a buddypress default child theme no luck …it worked sometimes meaning eventually it did create an account but did not transfer the user avatar image. andy peatling built a plugin facebook buddypress connect that worked with the buddypress default theme
Don’t hardcode the BP files, use child theme to make changes
The POT file is the catalogue. You have nothing to change in it.
The PO file is the work file
The MO file contains the PO compilated datas who will be read by WP
If you want to modify BP messages or different text, you have to edit a PO (without T) file. Use poEdit (or equivalent)
When you save the file, poEdit creates automaticaly a compilated mo file Your modification will be in this file, and this file had to be in the right folder on your site !
Also, if you use BP 1.2.8, your buddypress-xx_XX.mo should be in wp-content/languages folder, no more in buddypress/bp-languages 
I have tried changing the text in the .pot file as you suggested but I still get this original message:
Sign Up Complete!
You have successfully created your account! To begin using this site you will need to activate your account via the email we have just sent to your address.
QUESTION: Any suggestion on where I can change this message? I also tried to change it in wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/registration/register.php, line 225 BUT also that did not work to change the message.
These automated bots are usually just that, automated that are programmed to look for specific strings in search engines that return a list of buddypress sites and then harvested. I was getting hammered with 20+ blogs getting created a day that was spam. I tried ever plugin and .htaccess tricks known to man and none of them worked. I was tired of all of the spam I was getting so I put on my tin foil and went to war. I was determined to win this war and to stop 99.9% of automated spam dead in its tracks.
First I went to cpanel and under the “Website Traffic” on the left side of the page and clicked “View all traffic” then clicked on my domain name.
When the statistics page for that domain loaded I looked on the left hand side of the page for “Search Keyphrases”, this will show me a list of the keyphrases that was used to find my site.
I found all the keyphrases that was used by the spammers to find my site in the search engines and here is the list of the keyphrases.
1. intext create an account username required email address required blog details inurl register
2. to start connecting please log in first. you can also create an account. .cr. blogs
3. allintext create an account account details profile details blog details yes i d like to create a new blog
4. yes i d like to create a new blog
5. “blog url required ” inurl /register
6. “yes i’d like to create a new blog”
7. intext create an account blog details inurl register
8. to start connecting please log in first. you can also create an account. .be.blogs
9. inurl register yes i d like to create a new blog
10. intext blogs create an account username email address blog details inurl register
11. to start connecting please log in first. you can also create an account. .de.
What I did was I went downloaded the buddypress to my desktop and open every file with NotePad++ and started searching for “create an account; blog details; yes i d like to create a new blog” Once I found those strings, I changed the name to something else and on the registration page I removed the “yes i/d like to create a new blog” along with its checkbox completely and i searched everything with the word “blog” and changed it to something completely different. I Also renamed the “bp-blog.php” and the /bp-blog/ folder.
Make sure to search through the other files in the buddypress folder for anything calling the “bp-blog.php” and the /bp-blogs/ and rename it accordingly.
It has been a week since I done this and I have yet to be spammed. I went from 20 a day to zero overnight by doing this.
few more thing i have been trying
When i create activity , members , groups pages from dashboard they work even i created register page takes me to Create an Account form where i can create an account and receive an email to activate my account which does not work
when i click Create an Account link on the side bar it does not work
i dont know what i am doing wrong
now i have 2 of each link on the nav
“If you make a new user account, does it work ok?”
Well, yes and no. The user information is saved to the database, but as mentioned earlier, in two’s. I’m getting two of everything.
1. When I submit the form field, and if there’s an error, I get two error messages for the same error (per field).
2. I get two activation emails per user.
3. I have two wp_users with same username
4. Then when I click the members link, I have two members with the same name, avatar..etc. (at least this is consistent with wp_users 
)
And I just began to notice that my avatar uploads isn’t working either….do I need to start over? or create a DB hack where it deletes duplicate rows before sending an activation email?
Some things are working, like when someone signs up, and activates their account, the cookies are saved and the login status is active. This is why I’m not sure if I just need to delete and re-create everything.
@xxxxx Please dont @mention quite so many people it’s not going to get you any faster attention and likely to just annoy
Mine is working again.. not sure what changed. I also went ahead and updated to WP 3.1 and BP 1.2.8
you say: stay single WP installation,
but other than my main blog, brand new install? hence my main blog if for it purpose…
I do not want users create a blog/site of their own.
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It’s not working for me either… any solutions??
Go multisite (create a network) and install BuddyPress if you want to allow your users to create a blog/site of their own in your installation. Otherwise, do not create a network, stay single WP installation.
== required wordpress.com account for this to WordPress.org? ==
No, WP.com account is not required to install WordPress. You should know this as I’ve seen some of your posts at WP.org
=== multi-users functionality of WordPress 3.1 is similar to multi-blogs(multi-sites)? ===
Not exactly. A single WP site can have multiple users. When you https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network, you can create many sites with one WP installation. [edit] And each site in the network can have a single user or multiple users, it all depends on the set up.
For more information, post in Multisite forum at WP.org – https://wordpress.org/support/topic/welcome-to-the-multisite-forum?replies=2
Good luck.
PJParticipant
It definitely is a BP issue to some degree.
@meini , I haven’t found an answer yet. I created a ticket at https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/3098
Easy way, On wpms 3.0.x
Disable the blog signup from SuperAdmin->Options ->Registration Settings
and select the second option (User account may be created). If you are on the wpms 3.1, you will have to go to NetworkAdmin->settings->Registration Settings and do the same.
On your users request, you can still create an account as you are the site admin.
I am definitely interested in this too. Taking it a step further, it would be nice to make users complete a full profile for the site after logging in through Facebook. Right now the WP-FB-autoconnect works great, creates the user and logs them in – but then it brings them back to the homepage without filling out the rest of their profile.
When you create an account in BP without logging in through facebook, the BP registration page asks users to complete all the required and optional fields in the profile – but I haven’t found a way to do this with Facebook, it just gives them a user name and logs them in. So I think what would need to happen is that after the facebook connect, the registration process isn’t complete – it points them back to the BP registration page (or something like it) where they can finish entering other required and optional fields.
Any ideas on how this might work?
A workaround might be that on the *first* login only, the user is redirected to the edit profile page, and on subsequent logins they’re redirected to the homepage and logged in normally.
This always works for me.
http://interconnectit.com/719/migrating-a-wordpresswpmubuddypress-website/
also – change the name of your beta folder so that links going there are easier to see
@gunju2221 yep, did that, but all it does is add “To view this activity – please log in first. You can also create an account.” after showing the activty, it does not hide it for unlogged users. Using 1.2.7 with 3.0.5
Well…
I figured that I can have a register page with the register fields that is independent of login status. The purpose of the register page is to “save data to the database”.
Ever since I began this forum post, I solved some things. I created my join page (I’d have to really break it down how I did it). When a new user registers, his/her information gets saved to the database. Then the screen reloads saying that an “email was sent and to activate the account, click the email”.
The email was sent to the make-believe user I created. When I clicked the email, it redirected me to the activation page where it encouraged me to login. HERE AT THIS POINT (step 1), I figured that I can run some conditional, where if someone else is logged in, the new user logging into his/her account would log the active user out. (step 2) At this point, once the new user logs and the active user is logged out, the avatar load process and the rest of the completion of the new account can take place.
As long as all of the needed info is supplied to the db for a new user, it looks to me like this is the most important thing in establishing a new user. I shouldn’t be breaking anything (correct me if I’m wrong here).
So..it sounds possible to me…
