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If your server sends no emails, and you’ve tried one of these SMTP plugins and it doesn’t, you need to ask your host for advice.

What does the link in the email look like?
Are you using multisite or not?
And is your site set up to use custom permalinks? Do all the other BuddyPress pages work properly? (e.g. groups, member profiles)

I was having similar issues with a Linux install. Now the registrant is not even getting the email.

The latest buddypress ( with bp-default theme ) can use the default wordpress menu, which is under appearance section of admin.

Some web hosting requires an extra plugin for email. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/ has a useful feature that displays debugging information when sending a test email. Another plugin is suggested in https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/frequently-asked-questions/

hey even i am facing the same problem…
user gets the email with the activation link but after clicking on the link, he/she gets redirected to the activation page where the user is asked to enter the activation key.

how can i resolve this?

“First, i would like to thank the creator of his wonderful plugin that is free”
First, let me mention that their is no ‘creator’ – buddypress is an excellent product by the entire community. But you can read about the core team over here – https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/help-us-help-you/

As for your issue, Just to clarify: Users can register but after recieving and clicking the activation email their account does not activate, correct?

If the emails were not picked up by spam or junk mail filters, then your webhosting may need an extra plugin.

See: BuddyPress isn’t sending out emails (eg. activation emails, email notifications) in https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/frequently-asked-questions/#register

and / or: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/ (which has a useful debug feature)

The activation email is not being sent out for my members registering. There is no resend button and members cannot be activated.

I just installed WP3.3 & buddypress. Now when a new user register, he/she could receive an email activation link, but when they click, they were just directed to the “blog” page and not login.

So I have to activate their user status manually … anything wrong?

If they were not picked up by your spam or junk mail filter then your webhosting may need an extra plugin.

See: BuddyPress isn’t sending out emails (eg. activation emails, email notifications) in https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/frequently-asked-questions/#register

and / or: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/ (which has a useful debug feature)

I had a similar issue weeks ago and nearly gave up on BuddyPress because of it. Today I tried a fresh [1] install of BuddyPress 1.5.2 with WordPress 3.2.1. I did have to wait about five minutes, but the email did come through.

Are you getting any error messages?
Try to log in with the new username and see if you get the error “you need to activate your account” (not verbatim) (Update: The error reads, “Your account has not been activated. Check your email for the activation link” in WordPress, I’m sure the BuddyPress error message is very close)

[1] I didn’t change any settings from their default expect (“Anyone can register”). The only other plugins that are activated are AutoChimp and JetPack, which shouldn’t have anything to do with this issue.

Hang in there! BuddyPress is a young project. If you persist, I’m sure you’ll figure it out.
James

@r-a-y : after installing the email login plugin, i was able to login using my email address without activating my account. I need the activation thing.. is there a solution for it?

Hi guys im new to Buddypress and i want to know were do i sign-up or register to get the Activation Key.

thanks

I am having the same problem and I tried to do a test registration today. I have checked the spam folder to see if I get any activation key, but no we don’t, just the account activation mail. I activated my account using the link in the email.I was redirected to the activation key page too. Copy pasting the key from the activation link does not work. I tried to play a trick, I logged in using the username and pwd I used during the registration and it worked. I could open my profile page and upload avatar and add friends without entering the activation key. I don’t know why this is happening, and this can be a turn off for people trying to register on the site and something should be done about this. Thanks in advance for any helpful tips!

It’s actually pretty simple. It’s explained very briefly in the plugin’s installation page: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-export-users/installation/

Step-by-step:
1. Download the plugin to your computer.
2. Unzip it and open the file bp-export-users.php in a text editor (notepad, notepad++, gedit, etc.)
3. Find these lines:
$this->wp_fields = array(
'ID',
'user_login',
#'user_pass',
'user_nicename',
'user_email',
'user_url',
'user_registered',
#'user_activation_key',
'user_status',
'display_name',
'spam',
'deleted');
4. Add the names of any custom WordPress user fields you want in ‘inverted commas’ before the closing bracket ) making sure you put a comma in between the fields. E.g. ‘deleted’, ‘custom field’, ‘custom field2’)
5. Find the lines:
$this->bp_fields = array(
'Name',
'Telephone',
'Job Title',
'Organisation',
'Region',
'Primary Discipline',
'Grade',
'A bit about you',
'twitter',
'flickr');
6. Add the names of any custom BuddyPress (xProfile) fields you want to export in the same way.
7. Save the file.
8. Zip the folder.
9. Install the plugin in your WordPress installation using the upload method.
And you should be away.

@WebEndev,
did that issue get fixed yet? I also would like to see the activation email working with the user registration add-on. I cannot access GF’s user registration add-on forum…

Check out the `groups_record_activity()` function located in /bp-groups/bp-groups-activity.php.

You’ll want to hook into the registration or activation actions.

If you want to hook into the activation action when someone activates via email, check out the “bp_core_activated_user” hook located in /bp-members/bp-members-signup.php.

For a primer to WordPress action hooks, check out this tutorial:

Introduction to Custom Hooks and Pluggable Functions

Hi there,

I am having a major issue in that the registration is not populating the fields in the user database. Can anyone help? intooutside.org/sign-up

Somehow the fields are not inputting the data into the user profile (ie: first, last names are required and they are nowhere in the database). This happened after I installed Buddy Press

Help!

PS I am not a coder and know conceptually, so speak laymen if possible in your response

Several ways, but check out this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/unconfirmed/

To disable activations (I would strongly recommend against this – it’d let spammers access your site much more easily), put this code somewhere, maybe in bp-custom.php:

`add_action( ‘bp_core_signup_send_activation_key’, ‘__return_false’ );`

No. By default, they need to activate their accounts.