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Sounds like a defect in BuddyPress. So your saying after you click activation link in email and try to login using sidebar login form it says activation key is invalid?

Exactly the same problem.

Emails have been sent most end up in spam boxes of new registrants. Clicking on link goes to site and produces “invalid activation key” .

If new registrants had then gone to home page to log in they can access their accounts but all stop at “invalid activation key” ,very frustrating!

Any answers?

I have a theme that is buddypress ready, however when users go to register they are emailed an activation key. When clicked on OR imputed into the Activation spot on our website, it says Invalid and requests for the user to enter in their email to reset password.

Once the user does, a new password is emailed. When the user then goes to login, it claims there is no such user.

Can anyone offer a solution to this? Our website is hosuewivesmag.com. I also have ANYONE Can register checked in the settings.

@thecrow72 basically, BuddyPress uses the WP email functions for its registration process. Deactivate BuddyPress, bbPress and other plugins then check your WP registration/activation emails, etc. If it’s not working, then please resolve your issue at https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting

Before activating BuddyPress, read https://codex.buddypress.org/user/before-installing/

Good luck!

Great 🙂 Many thanks @_dorsvenabili and @bukrie to share a way to do it but it doesn’t work for me, with WP 3.5.1, BP 1.7.2, TwentyTwelve 🙁 then do you know if now something is new about this, thank in advance

at wp-login.php page, there is the following “ERROR: Your account has not been activated. Check your email for the activation link.”

This is something that is happening to my activation emails also… This post seems to help but I have yet to follow the steps to confirm it.

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/activation-email-goes-to-users-spam-folder/

It’s on my list of things to do, I’ll let you know if it works

The activation page is used to activate a member’s account manually (as an alternative to automatic activation after clicking the link sent in the activation email).

Both the member and site admin are able to enter the activation key manually. Useful if the member is having problems receiving the activation email.

Hope this helps

I’m certainly not an expert but this sounds like server side issues.
I came here hoping to find the answer to my install not sending activation emails. I get other wordpress emails but BP activation emails seem not to be working at all.

Regarding the error establishing DB connection, I was getting that on an underpowered server and had to set up a swap file to help the server cope.

@asnakea3 No trolling. If you need help, ask for it and we’ll try to help. As I mentioned in your topic, there are plenty of happy BuddyPress campers. Closing this topic.

buddy press never worked, and will never work. do you think facebook is going to seet around let you create social network all over the web. it is not happning and this people work for facebook and they just looking how stupid we are trying to make our own social network while there is facebook out there.
so let just give up, buddypress never work

hello
I have the same problem
I have deactivated bb and I receive the classic mail (user and admin)
With bb I don’t receive any mail or notification.

I add that the new user exist is created but if I try to login in with it the message is
ERROR: Your account has not been activated. Check your email for the activation link.

Deactivate BuddyPress and BP plugins then check if users can receive activation email.

Hi,

1) Mybe the code source of Welcome Pack plugin (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-pack/ ) can help you in dev.

2) or check this link :
http://bp-tricks.com/featured/creating-a-custom-email-template-for-your-buddypress-emails/

3) Check this code (from bp-members-functions.php line 1353). function bp_core_signup_send_validation_email

`
$to = apply_filters( ‘bp_core_signup_send_validation_email_to’, $user_email, $user_id );
$subject = apply_filters( ‘bp_core_signup_send_validation_email_subject’, $subject, $user_id );
$message = apply_filters( ‘bp_core_signup_send_validation_email_message’, $message, $user_id, $activate_url );
`

With some filters i think you can change email, subjet of activation email, or the message.

i edited the core file – bp-members-functions.php – worked like a charm… tho i am loathe to edit the core files… i tried doing a child functions file but that didn’t work (tho i might have just put it in the wrong place to get found… )

would be GREAT if this were an admin function with html editing capability, AND if it sent html email with a nice logo etc…

any coders out there need a project?

I am also having this issue and I think I have narrowed it down to certain email providers and how they deal with links. Yahoo for instance opens the activation code page while at the same time the account is activated so you do not need to enter any code while gmail and hotmail link straight to a page that says the account is activated. This is indeed a problem.

@binutz re time active -> use UTC +/- in Settings rather than city name and change to BP Default theme. Are you using a cache plugin by any chance? If so, which one?

re members count -> What do you mean that it’s wrong? Is this an installation which had registered members prior to installing BuddyPress? Then members have to log in at least once to be “counted”

re users’ avatars missing -> You mean the only the mystery man is showing up or that even the mystery man is not showing up? Are you developing locally or online? Change to BP Default theme, are the avatars showing up?

re email activation issue -> Are you sure that your installation is sending those activation emails in the first place? Or, have your users checked in their email spam folders? Where are you hosted?

And you have tested a plain WP view of your site? i.e have you first tested that all aspects of primary functions work under your initial install of WP before moving on to activating BP and then testing it’s registration process – this is important to help you establish that your site works and if issues arise at what stage they did e.g. on activation of BP or of Welcome pack ( fyi Welcome Pack might not be quite current with latest BP)

You now need to narrow down the issue!

fwiw this sort of issue is nearly always one of a server configuration and/or of your MX records rather than an issue with either WP or BP both process and foreward emails quite happily without fail.