It seems this is being caused by the WP Email Login login plugin. @r-a-y is an author so hopefully he sees this.
I’ve made a post in its forum here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-email-login-this-plugin-allows-non-activated-users-to-login?replies=1
No. It’s not normal behavior. Check if you have a plugin which auto-activates user accounts.
Hi,
I have been doing some testing and have realised users can login without having verified their email address? Is this normal behaviour? Is it down to BuddyPress or is this a WordPress thing?
I think it is possible the email problem might be due to a hosting problem, we are currently on a Godaddy shared hosting account which has some email restrictions. But i’m still confused as to why there was emails coming before (no emails are going out now) and there was text in the email but just no link.. Would a hosting company remove links from emails like that or ? Strange..
Also, we’re using a foreign language version of WordPress and BuddyPress which both have completely translated mo files but the email came in English. Could this be related or another issue?
It is WordPress 3.3.2 multisite installed in the root directory. We have a custom theme but based on bp-default without many modifications, certainly not any to the mail functionality except we had tried the Welcome Pack plugin but the activation link did not appear in that email either. This problem has occurred even without any other plugins running but BuddyPress.
It seems to be a variable that should be created called $activate_url in /bp-core/bp_core_filters.php . Is there a way to add a filter there or somehow create another email to take precedence over this one?
We’d like to keep email activation but if it doesn’t work we will have to manually re-send emails or disable it? Both seem like bad solutions, such a basic feature should be working without any tweaks to the system.
When I user registers on my website they receive the email which should include the activation link. The text is there but the activation link is not showing.. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Brian
See Registration -> BuddyPress isn’t sending out emails (eg. activation emails, email notifications) https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/frequently-asked-questions/
i have the same problem too with Jloc14, when im registering user they cant find the activation link on their inbox! please help me regarding this problem. thanks.
There are genuinely a lot of reasons why your web server may not be sending emails. The activation key is contained in this email. As a first step — and I’m sure someone will post here with a much more complicated answer soon — contact your web host and ask them if they support PHP’s mail() function; specifically, is PHP configured fully to send emails.
Most web servers can send emails, but the ‘From’ headers are not properly set, so most of the time, they don’t get delivered to the recipient properly.
If they come back and say that the From address in the email doesn’t match the name of your site (quite often this occurs in a virtual server situation), try https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/
If that doesn’t work, or they say you need to specify an SMTP server, try https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/configure-smtp/
I am having the same activation key problems. Members who are trying to register are not receiving an email.
Hello guys,
I need your help on my buddypress themed site, http://ikthus.net
Activation Key
A few friends have tried registering with my new site using our buddypress registration form. After registering, i can see his name on WP’s users registration page (dashboard), but no indication of such in our BP theme settings. He was required to use an activation key, yet he searched his email and waited, but no activation key was sent to him. How and where can new registrants get their activation key then?
Registered Spammers
I have a number of other websites, some are buddypress themed, and others are not. I have observed that every site that i used buddypress theme have the very same sign ups from these spammers. each site has a different url, made for a very different purpose, yet it is these same identities in all of them. I then wonder how they got to know about my buddypress sites, and ignore if not know about the other sites that are simulteanously made, but are ot buddypress themed. For some reason, there seems to be a way thee spammers got into my site through some form of connection with buddypress theme. if i post theses spammers identities here, i wonder if a number of other folks can also identify them as the same spammers they got.
Members Count Disparity
Looking at the WP dashboard, i can see that I have about 24 registered users in my site. this includes even the spammers ive mentioned above. However, buddypress community stats only reflect ive got 16 registered users/members. what is causing this difference? More to this, within buddypress, though i have 16 registered members, i guess all of them are spammers, only 5 of them reflect in my buddypress members widget, even if ive set it to feature a max of 200 members.
I would appreciate prompt help on this concern, thanks.
hi,
i’m getting the same error
user can register, he gets the email with the verification key, so he confirms and can log in
after logging in, the site redirects him to the activate page
copying and pasting the key from the email inside the input text doesn’t work though
he always gets redirected to the activate page
any idea?
Activation key is generate key by wordpress and sended to the email of registred member. The new member must activate his account by clicking in the activation link ( the link contain the activation key)
Activation is used to detect if the email exist and blocking multiple registration by the same email ( spammer), and many others advantage ….
There is any settings for email activation in buddypress,you must add some code in your functions.php to disable sending activation email after resgistration.
i was code for old version for buddypress, im not sure that will work. I will try to update it and i send u.
I set up buddypress. I registered myself as a member. The verification email came with a link to click to activate. I clicked on it and it took me to a page on my site that requires an activation key.
What is an activation key? And why do I need one? And where do I get one?
Hi,
U can try to do like that :
1. disable sending activation link by email, and sending the link of payment insteed
2. after the payment was acomplished, you redirect the user to his activation link
I have been using WordPress for a few month for my new website. And there is one problem that have been troubling me. At first, it don’t really matter to the website, but as more registration came, this problem have become a big problem for me.
User is able to register using the normal way, but the moment they are needed to activate their account, the activation link that they receive from the email is not functioning.
I have tried to register myself, and the link from the email really didn’t do any thing, it just forward you to activation page and said provide a valid activation key.
Any idea what have gone wrong ?
I have provide my website register page below if anyone want to try it by yourself.
aurgame*com/register/
Thank you.
Thank you Paul, I decided to keep the account activation since the email problem got solved with the host change, and yes, disabling it seems a little risky.
And thanks a lot for the second link, I had been adding code to my functions.php and have been wanting to remove the links created in the profiles for a while.
Regards.
I recommend against disabling account activation, but I believe you can do so like this. Put this in your bp-custom.php:
http://pastebin.com/z3ec4Y5F
https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/bp-custom-php/
Thaks for the suggestion Eric, but is not what I was looking for.
About my issue: I changed hosting, it appears that buddypress and banahosting do not get a long as nicely as I would like to. The support people were nice and polite, but could not resolve the issue with the email fast enough.
I also add that the BP-Disable-Activation works but, I deactivated it because I do not want a lot of unnecesary plugins.
Paul, thanks for the quick reply. Regarding why I hacked the core; being perfectly straight with you, it’s probably not so much to do with missing filters or actions as, when I began using bp to accomodate our project, I would say my bp knowledge was at best remedial, and because of the turnaround time of getting the ball rolling I found that I could accomplish my needs much faster by editing the core files vs. trying to figure out how the filters worked. Backwards, I know—now I’ve got some idea of how things work, but I’ve already made so many small changes that I fear it would futile to try and identify them and update. I suppose I could at some point try and diff everything but at the current point it seems a monumental undertaking.
That said, I can confirm that the server is operating properly and emails are getting sent effectively. As previously noted, the activation is taking place via the activation link, but for some reason that small percentage of users is experiencing the aforementioned, where they’re being prompted for an activation key even though they’ve just clicked on the activation link from the email and their user_status has been updated to 0. Also, as of about a week or so ago, we’re now going through sendgrid so I can monitor every email that goes out via wp/bp. The activation issue we’re having was happening well before and after the sendgrid implementation so I also know it’s not the url conversion that takes place from whitelabeling. What I’m going to try and do is keep creating dummy users in a test environment until I can hopefully reproduce the error so that I may provide to you an example activation link that’s failing.
Thanks so much!
Scott
Also, there have been a few posts about activation keys not working. Most of the time, the cause appears to be related to the server not sending emails consistently, and other things outside our control.
But, if you can get an activation key on a clean install that, when you click on the link in the email, it doesn’t work, let us know what the URL looks like (even if you replace the domain) and what the key is. It’s not impossible there’s an obscure bug somewhere.
Running WP 3.2.1 and BP 1.5 — I know these aren’t the lastest versions, but I’ve made enough changes to the core to accomplish my needs that updating would prove problematic. I know I know, bad bad. That said, I know first thoughts to fix any issues would be to update, but this problem has occurred for me on fresh installs as well. I’ve also scoured the forums and various other resources to help try and identify the source of this issue and have found other sites experiencing this problem, but nobody seems to have a clear picture of why this might be happening. The problem is also very elusive as it’s very hard to reproduce due to its randomness. I’ve tried deactivating plugins to no avail.
Here’s the story: A very small percentage of users who register on my site, after completing their sign-up and receiving an activation email—upon clicking on the activation link, they get the :else from activate.php that produces the following: “Please provide a valid activation key.”, even though if I look in wp-users in mysql, I can see that user_status has correctly been set from 2>0. No matter what they do, even by entering the key from the querystring in the activation email, you can’t get passed that page/else. However, and most users couldn’t know this, if they exit activate.php and, for example, return to the homepage where there are login inputs, they can successfully login in with the username and password they just activated, and from there everything is golden.
In other words, for a seemingly random and small percentage of users, activate.php isn’t working properly and they get stuck on “Please provide a valid activation key.”, even though they should never see that due to the successful activation within wp_users. I thought perhaps it might have something to do with creating the profile in one browser, and then when the end-user receives their activation email, their email application is opening a different browser and they’re getting this error, but I’m unable to verify this as the issue because I’ve also tested this and it’s very rarely and randomly reproducible.
The big what-is-going-on-here is, what could be causing a very small percentage of users to experience this while most do not? I have found reports of this happening on other sites but haven’t been able to find a solution or perhaps a reason.
Has anybody experienced this? Any solutions?
Any and all thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks so much!
