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Next version of Welcome Pack will allow email customisation</plug>

Tried it out… works perfect.

I just threw that code into bp-custom.php, and that’s all it took.

Instead of disabling the email entirely, perhaps you could give options of customizing the welcome mail? Or would that be too much as a core function?

Just be aware that when you hack the core you will lose your changes on every upgrade. So make a backup if you must.

Thanks… Will try that out.

In the activation email, I’ve reworded the text to remove the link, and made it a general “How do you do?” mail.

Added a link to recover username/password, to make the mail slightly useful.

If you put the following code in a plugin then this will disable activation, although the users will still receive an activation email. In any case, they will be able to log straight in and the new account screen will tell them that.

If someone wants to add this to a plugin and release it please do, but I haven’t tested it, so do that first. In the next version I will add an option to disable activation emails too.

function disable_validation( $user_id ) {

global $wpdb;



$wpdb->query( $wpdb->prepare( "UPDATE $wpdb->users SET user_status = 0 WHERE ID = %d", $user_id ) );

}

add_action( 'bp_core_signup_user', 'disable_validation' );



function fix_signup_form_validation_text() {

return false;

}

add_filter( 'bp_registration_needs_activation', 'fix_signup_form_validation_text' );

Theoretically, if we’d like to disable it, is there a way we can define it in wp-config or bp-custom?

We’ve got a workaround, but it involves changing a core file, bp-core-signup.php. We changed this line:

$wpdb->query( $wpdb->prepare( "UPDATE $wpdb->users SET user_status = 2 WHERE ID = %d", $user_id ) );

to set the user_status as 0 (activated)

$wpdb->query( $wpdb->prepare( "UPDATE $wpdb->users SET user_status = 0 WHERE ID = %d", $user_id ) );

Next, we changed a line in register.php, in a child theme, where we changed the conditional

<?php if ( bp_registration_needs_activation() ) : ?>

to

<?php if ( !bp_registration_needs_activation() ) : ?>

This solves the problem, but it involves modifying a core file. Any workaround for that?

You don’t want to do that since then anyone can sign up with anyone else’s or an invalid email address.

This should so become a WP plugin or bpress addon or something.

There’s no admin feature to change the text of the activation email, but you can apply a filter to it.

Put this in your theme’s functions.php:

function my_activation_email($message) {

$message = str_replace('Thanks for registering! To complete the activation of your account please click the following link:','My message is the best message ever.



Really it is.



So I guess you should activate your account now.', $message);



return $message;

}

add_filter('bp_core_activation_signup_user_notification_message','my_activation_email');

THANK YOU @ruthlessbookie. I just set up a fresh install of the latest WP single and BP 1.2.2.1 on bluehost. Tried registering a new user – no activation email sent. Was about to throw something through a wall after spending 3 hours on this and at least it’s working now after using the “mail-from” plugin. Jeez. Shouldn’t have to do that, and I wish I understood the core issue… but thanks again.

so far, I’ve still not been able to get wpmu activation emails to work with buddypress activated – de-activated, wpmu sends all the emails. I’m really confused about this, and a bit surprised that I’m the only one who seems to be experiencing this issue.

I feel like I’m on the verge of solving this problem, but there’s so much deprecated code between my various BP upgrades and my theme that was designed before the switch to parent/child. I have a new theme that works great (based in part on DetoX), but I wish I could just isolate the email activation issue.

The ironic part is I only run a main blog, users don’t get the blog option – so I really would be better off porting this from WPMU to WP, but after tons of attempts, can’t seem to make that happen yet.

so…

I’ll keep trying to figure this out, and hopefully someone else who has solved this issue already will chime in with some words of wisdom.

I was unsuccessful with that.

But the bigger question is: why do the activation emails stop when BP is activated?

I’m thinking that there’s some foul-up over the various upgrades since I installed this back in September 09, as when I do a fresh manual install on the same server/domain in a test directory, everything works fine.

I’m wondering if backing up wp-content folder then deleting everything and re-installing a fresh WPMU/BP to existing database then re-installing avatars, images and various plugins etc. will do the trick.

Unfortunately I have the same problem as the two of you. I am running fresh installations – newest WPMU and BP.

It was running all fine.

Now I (admin) get no email notifications at all – users do not receive any either. The activation emails are not being sent. The WPMU ones are not sent out either.

I am using a catch-all email on my email host to be able to sign up with different emails on the same domain.

First thing I was thinking was whether BP or WP was thinking all this signup from the same email domain was SPAM and therefore closing down signups from my IP or whatever.

I have searched for answers and found this: https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/13039

Apparently some hosts do not allow automated emails to be sent out.

(However, if my host do not allow this, how come it worked fine for two weeks?)

Only plugin I have installed is the cets-blog-defaults. I have tried to deactivate it, but it does not help.

This is really frustrating

ok, here’s the results:

1. created a full mirror of my live site in a test directory, including a separate copy of the database.

2. de-activated all plugins, including buddypress

3. chose a non-buddypress theme in admin

4. ftp’d a fresh copy of wpmu to the directory – surprisingly, this didn’t break anything.

5. Before re-activating any plugins, I successfully registered, all activation / notification emails worked fine.

6. re-activated BuddyPress

7. tried to register a new member, and now I have nothing – no activation / notification emails.

Am I wrong to conclude this is a BuddyPress issue?

in all my test installs of 1.2 on wp and wpmu I’ve never had an activation email for new user signups – I just assumed the feature was removed…it’s still there?

@wowfood3 but activation emails are actually sent out. Why isn’t your install sending them?

anyone knows any simple plugins to use for email activation on new registration?