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Ah hah. Just to confirm: with bbPress active, your BuddyPress “Active user” like in the emails don’t work?

Of course it works. You’re redirected to home page when you click on the register page while you’re logged in. As for activation key/emails what’s your BP/WP version? Have you changed to bp-default theme and have you deactivated other plugins to check if issue is resolved?

The problem with the activation email link not working is known, but I don’t think the core team have ever been able to recreate it, so we’ve not been able to fix it. The relevant logic starts in bp_core_screen_activation().

Well most likely its a plugin that is interfering with the activation problem. Disable all the plugins you have and try it. Try the bp default theme and see if that works. try a different theme.

look for this plugin,it somewhat helps BuddyPress Pending Activations

I been having this problem for weeks maybe even months now which is killing me. I think it has something to do with an update they made or maybe the theme. I have tried to disable all the plugins and it don’t work. I tried to go back and use the default theme and still nothing. I hope one of the main guns can instruct us with this issues because its a big deal.

Have you tried BuddyPress isn’t sending out emails (eg. activation emails, email notifications)

At least you receive an activation link, mine does not work even to send an activation to the user email.

This is a bug see https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4622#comment:8 That comment has suggested work arounds.

Alternatively:
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/66204/showing-the-users-username-in-registration-email-or-activation-page-with-buddyp

no one have solved this problem?

@wpnewbie69 – Have you tried the troubleshooting steps I mentioned above?

I haven’t tried it but it may help: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/66204/showing-the-users-username-in-registration-email-or-activation-page-with-buddyp

also the following alternative might be useful: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4622

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4622#comment:8 ?

http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/66204/showing-the-users-username-in-registration-email-or-activation-page-with-buddyp

Same problem here.

User registers, user gets email with an activation link, user clicks on the link and it leads to the activation page telling the user to enter a key.

Activation link looks like this: `http://domain.com/activate/?key=c30b42bea81091b523b0993c35f7ed8b`

I’ve also tried copying the key from the link and pasting it into the activation code input box but no dice.

Seems like a lot of people have this problem. There’s no solution? I have to use another plugin for this?

I would start troubleshooting this from the ground up as follows:

1) set up an exact copy of your site in a development environment (and preferably on the same server)
2) deactivate all plugins
3) switch to the Default BuddyPress theme

Does the problem persist?

The goal with the above method is to eliminate possible culprits.

I am using it on that setup, and it works fine.

BuddyPress requires that users activate their accounts after registering. The activation link is sent via email to the registrant. It is likely that either your php mail configuration is messed up or that the email in question went into the user’s spam folder.

In any case, you can use this plugin to manage activations: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-pending-activations/