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.
Hi,
Currently my Buddypress’ Activation message links the login to ordinary wp-login which I need it to go to http://mydomain.com/my-account/ where I have all my new registration and login.
I have gone to: /plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/registration/activate.php
…and on line 23:
<p><?php _e( 'Your account was activated successfully! Your account details have been sent to you in a separate email.', 'buddypress' ); ?></p>
<?php else : ?>
<p><?php printf( __( 'Your account was activated successfully! You can now <a href="%s">log in</a> with the username and password you provided when you signed up.', 'buddypress' ), wp_login_url( bp_get_root_domain() ) ); ?></p>
Can somebody please help me to incorporate my link in this code?
Thanks very much.
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.
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?
So ive created a website using wordpress and buddypress, i have email activation active, users are getting the emails but when they click the link there accounts go in to pending mode, then i have to go into users and activate them myself is there anyway for it to automatically active it when they go through the link ?
any help is appriciated
Hello,
I’m using WordPress 4.2.2 with BuddyPress 2.2.3.1. and the issue occurs even with the default themes.
The problem is when a user registers on my website he gets activated immediately, without going through the regular email activation process.
When I try to register a test user, I see the notice to check my email for the activation code. The email is sent with an activation code and when I click on the link it says “Invalid Key” (of course the user is already activated so I think this is normal).
I checked the database at the “sign-ups” table and I noticed that a user registers at say 22:10:10 and gets “automatically” activated one or two seconds later.
What could possibly be causing this? I deactivated all other plugins besides BuddyPress and this still happens.
Since we have to follow the law of several European countries, we are not allowed to collect PII and that means email addresses.
How can we remove the email requirement on sign up (right now its required and we want to make it optional). Since we won’t be needing the email address of our memebers, and right now, we are only going to register whom we want, we are looking to replace this with an activation code that we will personally give to certain people to join (then later, move to open registration, but still no email requirement).
Yes I know that email is needed in case people lose their passwords, but due to policy, we will be handling that manually.
When a user signs up to my site, they fill the registration form in and press submit. They go to their email to activate their account. But when they click the link they end up on the ‘/activate’ page with no activation key and the message ‘There was an error activating your account, please try again.’ displayed. I need help solving this problem fast!!!!
Hello,
After a BP update to 2.2.2 i have the following problem.
When a someone does registrar at the site and received the conformation email and clicks on the link it leads to a 404?
The activate page still exist and one can go over and fill in the activation code and gets accepted.
I did uninstall 2.2.2 and reinstalled 2.2.1 but now i get the same exact problem with this previous version.
Thanks in advance,
Hank
Hi all
I’m fairly new to buddypress so please be patient!
I have installed buddypress on to my site. On a test registration everything works and it redirects to the an activation email has been sent. However no email is received to the mailbox put in but the user can sign in anyway without activation!
I’m using buddypress with minimosity theme from themeforest.
Hope someone can help!
Hi there,
I have an issue where activation links are directing to a page not found. For example, I was given a link that looks like this: http://kingstonnexus.ca/community/my-stuff/activate/c182046a8ed1db20520f0d7a403e4e64/
And it directs to a page not found error
I’ve looked into the matter and most forum topics seem to be followed up by “oh, I figured it out” – so they don’t actually say what the fix was!
I have in my buddypress settings page a separate page for registration and activation. The registration works just fine, and it sends an email, and the link /community/my-stuff/activate/ is correct. I’ve checked permalinks and tried resaving. I’ve tried disabling all other plugins. I’ve tried using Twenty Fifteen.
There seems to be a ticket here that seems similar, but I don’t understand it
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4820
Hi,
I have been having a long term issue with my buddypress activation email being filled with incorrect information, after a user creates a blog on my multisite install.
After you activate, you can visit your blog here:
http://1/
I have tried everything listed here: http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/remove-email-verification-breaks-buddypress-activation-email-after-uninstall
Any ideas on how to fix this?
Cheers,
Johnny
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.
I registered as a new user and received the registration email but when I click the link in it I get an error on the page that says “Invalid activation key.”
What should I try next?
Thanks,
-M
What is the sample email activation link that your users are receiving?
@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 !
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:
- User registers.
- User is shown message to check email.
- Login credentials are sent to new user in an email.
- User logs in to site using login credentials.
- 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.
I am experiencing a weird problem with new registrations on my BuddyPress site. When a user creates an account their account is already authorized. They receive an email saying they need to authorize their account, and when they click the link it displays “Invalid activation key.”.
Course of events as follows…
1) user registers
2) user info immediately shows in the user control panel as a subscriber (this is before the email is even opened)
3) user is able to login to site with user name and password (this is also before the email is even opened)
4) When the activation link is clicked it takes the user to the Activate page and displays “Invalid activation key.”
5) User is unable to activate the account with link or activation key because the account has already been activated.
In researching this problem, I’ve found plugins and workarounds to allow immediate activation. I haven’t installed any plugin or put any work around in place. How can I make this work the way it was designed.
I am running a new install of WordPress (version 4.1.1) and BuddyPress (version 2.2.1). All plugins except BuddyPress are turned off.
Thank you for your help!
@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.
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)
I had two users in the backend sitting under “users > manage signups” and I didn’t even know they were there. I didn’t receive a notification.
Were they “pending” because they didn’t click the activation email link?
After users register, it says “Just fill in the fields below and we’ll get a new account set up for you in no time!” at the top of the page.
But no fields are shown, just some text saying, “ou 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.”
THEN, when they click the URL from the email to activate the account, it says, “You’re almost there! Simply enter your activation code below and we’ll take care of the rest.”
BUT no fields are shown below to enter any code.
But it does say below that, “Your account is now active! Your account was activated successfully! You can now log in with the username and password you provided when you signed up.”
How do you edit this text that doesn’t apply?
Thanks!
(with login link)
