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Thanks @modemlooper. This is doable but will the account remain deactivated as usual? The user might justchoose to ignore the second email with activation link since they can already login. What do you say? I’d like to sort of force a user to fill the second form and I don’t want them logging in if they haven’t filled the second form.

Cool, awesome, wicked.
As with everything BuddyPress over the last four months I figured it out myself.

If anybody cares or is intrigued, I pulled out the “signup_id” from the wp_signups table and created a link with that, of the form:

<?php
	//== Setup variable for use in the activation email body.
	$user = get_userdata( $user_id );

	//== Get the signup_id for a user
	global $wpdb;
	$signup_id = $wpdb->get_var( "SELECT signup_id FROM wp_signups WHERE user_login = '" . $user->user_login . "' LIMIT 1" );

	$user_path = "users.php?page=bp-signups&signup_id=" . $signup_id . "&action=activate";
	$activate_user = admin_url( $user_path );
?>

This link is a part of the filter for the activation email body, whilst the email itself was also filtered to be sent to the site admin instead of the user.

If anybody is interested I’m happy to share the full solution which involved filtering the activation email recipient, email subject and email body, whilst giving the admin a link to activate the user and then sending a confirmation email to the user once they’ve been authorised.

Found it. This action fires when the user clicks the activate link from the activation-email.

do_action( 'bp_core_activated_user', $user_id, $key, $user );

Further investigation shows that the following added to functions.php will run if the “activate” button is clicked from the wp-admin by an existing admin. It will not run from the activate link in the user activation-email.

I must be looking for a different action.

The goal is to login the user and redirect them after they have clicked the activate link from the activation-email.

add_action( 'bp_core_signup_after_activate', 'bp_autologin_on_activation', 1 );
function bp_autologin_on_activation( $signup_ids ) {
	print_r($signup_ids); die('bp_autologin_on_activation');
}

Hi danbp, thanks for your reply.
But this is not exactly the same problem that I am having.
I did read both topics but they are not really helpful for me, I still don’t know what to do now to fix this problem.

I get the activation email but when I click on that link, nothing really happens. It redirects me to my homepage. So I dont even get a message if the activation failed or succeeded.

Can someone please help me with a clear explanation what I need to do to fix this.
THANKS

Still happening. It’s adding a second iteration of sending activation email before it finally works at login. Different message too when you do it a second time.

I see you have registered.

Some info from the “signups” table for your account.

“Registered” column: 2015-05-24 08:30:56
“Activated” column: 2015-05-24 08:30:59
“Active” column: 1
“Activation_Key” column: –The activation key–

And you can now login despite the “Invalid Activation Key” you saw when you clicked the email link.

This is excactly whats happening with all emails I’ve tried so far except two.

If I register with info@myotherdomain.com, before I click the email link then the “signups” table is as:

“Registered” column: 2015-05-23 21:17:24
“Activated” column: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
“Active” column: 0
“Activation_Key” column: –The activation key–

and is only activated after I click on the email link, which is what we want.

Could there be a problem with my email setup on the server level? Should I talk to my hosting company?

I was getting a lot of those entries before I got email registration activation working. turns out there was a conflict with another plugin and that’s why I was getting the invalid activation key error. Since I got that working I have not gotten any more spam signups but I’ll keep an eye out. I only have the live site – no local install.

I have another question about formatting profile pages – Mine look terrible. Maybe I did something along the way to break them. I have been working feverishly at this for days but I will start another thread for that new topic 🙂

Hey danbp,

Ok, I’ve tested with removing a period and reloaded the page and I saw an error message show up saying something wrong with the line 112 or something and I corrected it and saved again to see an error message but I didn’t see any errors..

– Sorry, i don’t use MAMP so i can’t give you any advice how to use it. – I think everything is functioning properly and setup properly.. unless there someone here who has tips on Mamp =)

– If you can register a user from the dashboard, i guess the registration is working. Can you also change a password from there ? Tought the problem is elswhere. – Yes, I can change the user’s password in the dashboard.

Is mod_rewrite enabled on the server ? See your htaccess and httpd.conf in apache. Just in case of. – Yes, mod_rewrite is enabled in httpd.conf but I don’t see any .htaccess in apache nor my root folder for the website.. should I make one?

Now the unknown part: when you register a new user and enter a password and save, you say the page refresh and password is not showing. OK. But do you have a message telling about a missing data ? – I’ve pressed the sign up button without inputting any password but it doesn’t give me any errors.. maybe this is a clue!?!? fingers crossed!

GO to DB and check the wp_user table. Look about this new user and see if a hashed password is in the table. See also wp_signup table. – The user I made in the dashboard, yes, it has the password field filled in and has the activation key filled too. I only see admin (original me) and this test user nobody else here. Also, when I go into wp_signup table, it’s empty.

Also, do you use a single or a multisite install ? – It’s single.

Last but not least, did you allowed user registering ? (wp-admin/options-general.php – checkbox just after the site admin email) – Yes, everyone can register is checked in the settings.

@henrywright Thank you for your answer.

I tried to test what I had on 1&1 and registration works. It confirmed that MAMP is the one causing the problem.

I think I found where the problem is : it’s all about emails. The email that should be sent for activation can’t be sent so nothing happens and the registration fails.

MAMP (and other web hosts) doesn’t support sending email. I tried to find a solution to it with no luck until now :
– first, by getting MAMP Pro free trial, where you’re supposed to be able to configure PostFix to be able to send emails but I couldn’t figure out how to set it up properly and couldn’t find anything useful on the internet to do so. This http://blog-en.mamp.info/2009/09/how-to-sending-emails-with-mamp-pro.html did NOT help. If anyone knows how to make that work I’d love to see how.
– Then I tried that http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-receive-wordpress-emails-from-localhost/, and I do receive the test email, but it doesn’t fix my BuddyPress problem.

I am not sure how to work on BuddyPress without being able to register a user.
An example of what I’m working on : I want to add a long form in a tab in people’s profile page, which then generates a graphic element, a map (that will be part of their profile).

I could either :
– bypass the code that is used to send the email for activation and activate the users manually as an admin.
– go to the database and enter the new user manually.
I’ll try to bypass the sending of the email first.

Please let me know if there is an easier way to work on what I intend to program.

Also, if anyone knows how to set up MAMP to support sending emails, I’m interested !

If that plugin doesn’t work, does Buddypress allow us to change this notice you receive after clicking on the activation email link:

You’re almost there! Simply enter your activation code below and we’ll take care of the rest.

(there was no activation code needed, so I’d like to edit this content out)

Thank you for that plugin! I’ll use that for now 🙂

What would be great is a plugin that helps with that AND editing the activation email AND changing the register/login page to not look like WordPress.

For instance, this is a wordpress website and has this register/login page: https://www.ziibra.com/signup/

Any suggestions for a workable plugin that accomplishes all of this?

I mean the “activation” email.

Also, is there a way to change the notice you receive after clicking on the activation email link:

You’re almost there! Simply enter your activation code below and we’ll take care of the rest.

(there was no activation code needed, so I’d like to edit this content out)