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YES!!! Only yesterday after ages of research I found a plugin: Unconfirmed.
Gives you access to Pending users:

Unconfirmed creates a Dashboard panel under the Users menu (Network Admin > Users on Multisite) that shows a list of unactivated user registrations. For each registration, you have the option of resending the original activation email, or manually activating the user.

Robert

Cross posting !

There is no problem with sending emails, the problem is around the activation key or perhaps a wrong message output due to language file…

Forgot to tell you to revert site language to english while testing.
Make a register test in english, if ok, change the language and re-test.

What is the sample email activation link that your users are receiving?

Hi @russadams,

on any WordPress site, once a new user registers, the user is created in
the database. That’s why site admin can see him in the control panel. This is normal.

Here default WordPress registration process:

1. User registers.
2. User is shown message to check email.
3. Login credentials are sent to new user in an email.
4. User logs in to site using login credentials.
5. Admin is notified of new user sign up via email.

This doesn’t change when BP is installed, as BP doesn’t handle registration.

Guess your issue is due to browser session. Make the following test.

Create a new user from frontend.
Close the browser or clear cookie and nav history.
Don’t use activation key yet.
Reopen the browser, and see if the user can login. Normaly he can’t as he hasn’t use the activation key.

@jessiewordpress
I would assume they are listed as pending because they did not get click an activation in email yes.

Now does that mean that your server sent an email correctly and they actually recieved the email? Who knows.. sometimes my bp emails get auto-blackholed for some email services and users will never get an email from my bp site if they have say “gmail” or yahoo or something… (there are different methods for sending email via wordpress, some are less “flagged-as-spam-automatically” than others.. sometimes users do get the emails but they end up in a junk folder..

sometimes it’s spammers trying to setup a fake account and they never will click on activate…

if you start to get a lot of these, you might want to look into how your wp install is sending emails, what the headers look like, and see if you can adjust with something like a “wp mail via smtp” plugin or something.. and if you need to manage a bunch of pending users you might want to see if https://wordpress.org/plugins/unconfirmed/ is working with current bp version..

random thoughts, hope they help.

@jessiewordpress in a way yes. Either because the activation email got caught in their spam folder, or they have not clicked on the activation link, or they did click on the activation link but did not log in yet.

I guess something is not translated, but in this case, the email text should come in english.

If yo use an “old” translation from a previous version, it is possible that something is missing in your translation.

After checking both portugese version on GlotPress, (pt_PT and pt_BR) it appears that pt_PT is not translated for 2.1.x and to 38% for pt_PT in the dev version – the one actualy used by BP 2.1.1

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/buddypress/dev

If you use an email plugin, ensure it is matching with WP’s mail action. Or if your theme has is own mail function, check that he uses the same wording as BP (and particulary the $s var) who fires the link.

Code in 2.1.1 looks like this

%1$s,\n
\n
\n
\n
Thanks for registering! To complete the activation of your account and blog, please click the following link:\n
\n
%2$s\n
\n
\n
\n
After you activate, you can visit your blog here:\n
\n
%3$s

It’s only kept there until the user clicks on the link in the activation email. At that point, the user gets taken to your website, and the activation key is deleted.

I have used Henry’s method to customize the activation link email, but now I want to tweak the registration email. That’s the email that goes out after the user clicks on the link. How can I filter that?

Hey @wikicopter, I think I may be running into the a similar issue. My site isn’t sending out activation emails but somehow manages to send emails when a friendship is established and other activities…I just can’t get the activiation email to work! hopefully someone can help us out 🙂

So if you want to edit also the headers and/or attachments you have to edit the BP core file adding the parameters and the corresponding filters

There is a way around that (you don’t have to edit core files).

Step 1: Filter bp_core_signup_send_validation_email_to so the default activation email isn’t sent

function filter_bp_core_signup_send_validation_email_to( $user_email, $user_id ) {
    $user_email = '';
    return $user_email;
}
add_filter( 'bp_core_signup_send_validation_email_to', 'filter_bp_core_signup_send_validation_email_to', 10, 2 );

Step 2: Send your own activation email

function my_custom_activation_email( $subject, $message, $user_id, $user_email, $key ) {
    // Create your $headers and $attachments here

    // Send the email.
    wp_mail( $user_email, $subject, $message, $headers, $attachments );
}
add_action( 'bp_core_sent_user_validation_email', 'my_custom_activation_email', 10, 5 );

Notes: I haven’t tested

@rohitkatke, @rathodsuraj1
sorry to answer this, but here are 25 pages of topics from people having “the same problem”.

If you don’t use X theme, if you don’t use woocommerce and if you don’t use BP 2.0.1, you have NOT the same problem as @jlent14 ! 😉

It seems to be, looks like, but most probably isn’t. And generally, jumping in others topic or old topics is not a good idea on this support forum.

To all readers

When encountering a registration problem, first thing to do is to test your install without any plugins and one of WP’s Twenty default theme. Ensure that your site send correctly emails. Before activating any plugin, your base WP install must work.

Once WP is OK – you can install BuddyPress and check your permalinks. Pretty permalinks must be activated to get the plugin working correctly.

This point is important, especially if you have redirection issues after BP is activated.

Second point to check is your theme installation.

Proceeding like this will help you to isolate easely the culprit. If:
– WP install: OK
– BP install: OK
– theme activation: problem

So you know here the problem comes from.

While testing your install, you can activate wp_debug (set to TRUE) in the wp-config file. This can give you a lot of information about conflict and/or errors.

Just keep in mind that these information have 2 levels of importance: notice and warning.
While notice are generally harmless, warnings should be taken seriously in account and solved.

If WP is the problem, see first the wordPress support
If it’s BuddyPress, see the BP support
If it’s the theme, see the theme support
If it’s any other plugin, see first the plugin support.

Thank you for you attention. 😉

Sure you can change that link as well as content of confirmation email by adding the following code in you function.php;

add_filter( 'bp_core_signup_send_validation_email_message', 'custom_buddypress_activation_message', 10, 3 );
 

function custom_buddypress_activation_message( $message, $user_id, $activate_url ) {
    $user = get_userdata( $user_id );
    $activate_url = 'http://www.domain.de'; // change this link to what ever you want.
    return "Hi $user->user_login,
Thanks for registering! To complete the activation of your account please click the following link:
$activate_url 
Thanks,
Jesin";
}

For more details you can visit the following link;
http://jesin.tk/custom-buddypress-activation-email/

hi @ideasdesigninc,

can this be done by editing a language file ?

Yes, this is also best practice and the easiest way to do that, even if your site is in english.

Customizing Labels, Messages, and URLs

And here a somehow recent tutorial about filtering such messages.

Also to be clear, when it’s time to use, we all made errors. So “it’s not working” is mostly because we did something wrong. 😉