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In all honestly, I wouldn’t recommend disabling email verification. In fact – you actually should not only use that, but use it with Gravatar to double verify members. My BP communities are brand new, in dev stages right now. I’ve already been subjected to spammers which is why I support use of Gravatars – because not only will your users be verified in your community, but globally and this is a big step in spam prevention.

If you want to customize the registration page, many of them can be through your theme framework. However, too much code will slice your page & overall framework right down the middle and break your site.

Does this also work with the BP Compatibility plugin or would there be an extra step? I have no problems getting this hack to work with single user WP + BP. However, when I try it with WPMU, it doesn’t work. I thought perhaps it was due to the fact that I’m using the Compatibility plugin in conjunction, but even when that is deactivated the hack isn’t working. Thoughts?

sometimes it depends on your host too. emails from my default bp install on dreamhost tend to make the junk/spam folder (yahoo, gmail, etc)

I have the same issue. Tried installing plugins, changing email to a “legit” one rather than the standard noreply@xxxx.xxx, tried sending through SMTP rather than mail()

Nothing works.

Most likely Hotmails spam filter reacts to the activation link, that would be my guess at least.

I have a lot of problems with BuddyPress user registration in general. It seems:

– no emails are sent to the user for activation

– there is no “forgot password” feature

– there is no ability to (re)send the user an activation link, either from the user or the admin’s area.

On the emails, when I create a new user or blog via the admin area, I get a notification email, so it’s not a setup issue with the mailserver. The server is my localdomain/localhost dev box anyway. No webhost involved.

Ugh this may seem a small part of BP % wise but it seems without these features it’s really not usable. What is the deal? Can this fundamental stuff really be missing/so buggy?? It’s hard to believe.

Extremely interesting but I’m a bit hesitant to do modding that needs to be at core. I’m hoping that Andy_P will see this! This have to get to core if it work! I’ll check the trac.

I’ve tried to sign up for your test website but I’m not getting any activation email.

I had the same problem a few seconds ago. A newly registered member didn’t recieved the activation email but was listed in WordPress>Backend>Users

I asked the user to check spam inbox twice but there was stil no activation mail

It would be great if admins could manually acivate such users or resent the activation email.

I’m getting several spammers signing up, I have the Anti Splog plugin (here) and the reCAPTCHA is turned on.

Email Activation is turned on.

AND I’ve blocked all of the emails on this list (here)

HOW ARE THEY GETTING THROUGH!

I have the same problem. users can register but they don’t receive a activation email and cannot login.

There was a thread which touched on the subject of plugin activation, I hadn’t really clearly understood the difference between ‘Site Wide’ and basic activation, or why sometimes activating a plugin using the plain link on left side actually activated the plugin sitewide placing the plugin into the list at the top of the page reserved for sitewided plugins that users cannot deactivate .

There is a configuration option in the plugin primary file hat should ensure that the plugin is activated sitewide regardless, it doesn’t always work and must be only half the issue, but I raised that on the other thread.

My approach to BP plugins is NOT to upgarde them automatically but manually deactivate, remove old folder to safe area outside doc root; upload new plugin reactivate using sitewide link, even though most BP plugins should or even ought to activate sitewide; there’s no reason for any general member to have access to BP or any of it’s plugins, and I don’t want to chance to having people access and deactivate a BP plugin

There was a thread which touched on the subject of plugin activation, I hadn’t really clearly understood the difference between ‘Site Wide’ and basic activation, or why sometimes activating a plugin using the plain link on left side actually activated the plugin sitewide placing the plugin into the list at the top of the page reserved for sitewided plugins that users cannot deactivate .

There is a configuration option in the plugin primary file hat should ensure that the plugin is activated sitewide regardless, it doesn’t always work and must be only half the issue, but I raised that on the other thread.

My approach to BP plugins is NOT to upgarde them automatically but manually deactivate, remove old folder to safe area outside doc root; upload new plugin reactivate using sitewide link, even though most BP plugins should or even ought to activate sitewide; there’s no reason for any general member to have access to BP or any of it’s plugins, and I don’t want to chance to having people access and deactivate a BP plugin

I found this mail sended in 2007 on wp-hackers, while searching for error message stuff at plugin activation

It seems to be be already the same situation in 2010… so devs, you know…

wp-hackers] Plugins : return proper error on activation faliure

Omry Yadan omry at yadan.net

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Some complex plugins may fail during activation (creating database

tables or what not).

currently there is no way for plugins to return an error signal + error

message in such cases: only thing they can do is to print the error.

this is problematic as the error does not fit well into the wordpress

admin page, and can also cause problems if for some reason the someone

tries to set an http header after the plugin was activated.

I suggest that we allow plugin to return error message back to wordpress

on activation.

Could someone please kindly turn this into a plugin?

Gian,

Do you have a diff slug set for registration?

I am a massive Cure fan btw. Love the name of your site. I’ll never forget seeing them, pave fainted like Robert Smith, in Leipzig (What was then) East Germany right after the wall came down in 1989.

Mike

ps On your site, after activation, there is no login form present. Also, you aren’t clearing your username/pw placeholder text so I have to select all and clear myself when entering the login info

Just tried registering on your site and it works.

Received activation email and was able to login and post an activity update.

Don’t see any errors or problems.

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

This appears to be a problem with certain web hosts (Bluehost primarily).

Members of the BP community have had success using the “Mail From” plugin:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/

Try this and reply in the following forum thread if it doesn’t work:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/email-notification-not-working

I totally agree with this. It’s quite confusing. I think more than a rewording of the text is needed.

Perhaps you can give people a series of simple steps they should go through to complete setting up their membership?

Step 1: Activate your membership

You give them instructions to visit their email account then click on the activation link in the email.

When they click on the activation link they’re taken to the next step page…

Step 2: Customize your avatar

They do this then press the button to complete, then they’re taken to the final step…

Step 3: They’re then directed to the activity page, at the top of this page could be a message to tell them their account is now active and they can start posting.

This 3 step process gives people a clear path to follow taking them to the page where they can then see what’s going on and begin taking part.

Each step page is nice and simple.

What do you think?

I have similar issues, and I have been pondering possible reasons this occurs.

I take the time to copy domain names that spammers com from, and add them to the mu-options as domains that are not allowed to create an account. I find that even after doing this, sometimes I get several more members with those email addys.. sometimes not.. the past week has seen a lot.

There was a time a few months ago when it was a known bug for this, but I am guessing it’s been fixed in mu by now – (I’m using 2.92 I think).

This is what I am thinking MAY be happening, and I’d love a way to update MU to close this loophole, if indeed it exists.

I am thinking that the spammers actually created a dozen or more accounts, and only activated one at a time. I am thinking that perhaps by the time I add the bad domain to the list of no-signups-allowed, they have already created several others – and simply activate them later.

If this is true, I would love for MU / Buddypress to do a check, when a member actually does this activation, and tell them sorry – the email domain is now on the bad list, and they can not activate.

Not sure if this is true, just a thought.

I have almost 100!!! (yes 100) buddypress instalations and all work fine with activation.

Try to use this plugin if you have problems with sendmail on your host: “Cimy Swift SMTP” dont forget to put the plugin on mu-plugins and not on “plugins”.

Check also if you can send emails from a mail client with the email you setup on wordpress.

@pdreissen Creating users from the backend doesn’t require activation, so there’s no need for an activation email.

I am running version 1.2.2.1, which is the latest per this site. I deactivated all Buddypress plug-ins, then deactivated BuddyPress and the activation email gets sent. As soon as I activate BuddyPress again and attempt to create a new account, no e-mail is sent. Any help is greatly appreciated.

With BP 1.2 a new user doesn’t get the welcome mail that I set in the admin options. That’s bad, because it contains important information for the user.

Is there any chance to send an activation-mail (which at the moment causes an error) and, after activation, the first mail that’s set in the options?

I had to add this module to my WP 2.9.2 setup (I’m not using WPMU) to get the user activation emails to work

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/

After configuring this module, things worked like a charm.