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No, not impossible. You’ll have to write your own plugins.

Whenever a new user registers he get an email saying click this to activate.

And when I click it it takes me to a wierd place to crop avatars

Okay, I’m a little confused by what you are reporting:

1. So, are you just testing a new BuddyPress installation? Why else would you be clicking on a new user’s registration.
2. If that is the case, have you tried using two different browsers–one for each user?
3. Have you cleared old session cookies before registering a new user?
4. Which version of BuddyPress are you running?
5. There should only be one confirmation email sent. It is the one with the activation link. Are you using different emails for each account? Be default, WPMU makes sure that there are no duplciate accounts.
6. Are you using a custom themes, or the default themes?
7. Do you have any other plugins, besides BuddyPress, installed and activated? If so, have you tried deactivating them to check if they might be causing a conflict?

will this deactivate the activation email process?

I believe any registration whose activation link is not clicked on within 2 days (maybe 3) is automatically deleted. You can test this be trying to register two accounts using the same email address.

Assuming the first registration’s activation email has not be acted upon, when you try to register another account right away with that same email address the signup process will inform you that the email address is already in use. However, if you wait until 48 hours have passed, it will allow you to use that email address because the previous inactivated registration has been deleted.

Again, it might be 72 hours. Either way, any registration that is not activated does get purged from the system.

has anyone found a solve for this? it’s causing me massive problems – for some reason although the activation link emails are being sent, the password email is not, so users register, forget their password and are stuck

if they could just set their own password at signup things would be a lot easier

1) wrong forum – this is nothing to do with buddypress

2) I think you get that message if a logged in user visits wp-activate.php or follows the email reactivation link a second time.

However if I register using an email on another one of my domains (however the emails are still hosted on google apps), I don’t get the activation email. I checked the spam folders but its not their either.

Are you running this on localhost–your test server environment?

Are you providing valid email addresses, or fictitious email addresses?

what if we wanted to collect all the active=0 (non activated emails/users) and resend an activation email?

is there a way to easily resend the activation email to non activated users?

why dont you just get a catch all email address its way better

then you can make up email addresses on the spot and know where the mail is coming

its so useful that everyone should do it – you have infinite addresses because it always appears in your inbox

try it ,,

ANYTHINGHERE@hyrxx.com

This question is about wpmu and not buddypress. anyway, those nonactivated users are deleted after 3 days (as far as I remember). There’re also plugins to enable the same email address registrations.

Ok, the sign up form on the front page was directing to domain/register which does not work (the registration process shows success but does not send an activation email). I used domain/wp-signup.php instead and that worked fine (thanks TheEasyButton)

I have the same problem. I am running 1.0 on a fresh install. The new user registration goes off successfully, but the activation email is never received. The buddypress install is at http://theindianstartup.com

It sounds to me like a bot is hitting your registration hard, and keeps attempting to refresh a page or is getting stuck on the creation reload or activation email, and is overloading the server with requests.

It’s kinda one of those situations now, where all those plugins start to muck up our ability to figure out if this is BP’s fault or not. Usually the recommended plan of attack is to disable all plugins now, try to create a test user yourself, and see what happens.

Even if you upgrade to the most recent trunk, and a bot or an unruly plugin are to blame, rather than creating tons of new tables, you’re still getting the overload of requests which is causing all sorts of havoc.

I only want real full names in my site. I want to eliminate the anonymous \”username\” as much as possible.

This excellent plugin makes it possible to login with just email address and password, but you still get that stupid username in activation emails etc. At the moment I\’m struggling to find out how to replace it.

Just my 2 cents. Please don’t make Buddypress entirely username centric. They’re childish…

Interesting mod. Thanks.

The mod redirects the activation email to the admin’s email address then the admin clicks the activation URL to “approve” the request.

Is there a way we can include the user’s info in the activation email (full name and other extended profile info) for the admin to decide whether to approve it or not?

My challenges are as follows –

1. Import the old data & other fields to corresponding WPMU database fields

2. Convert their passwords to encrypted passwords.

3. Send activation mail to all the users [handled by your plugin]

how many users do you have?

can you not simply enter them by hand and let WPMU generate a “new/temporary” password

yourcurrentuser|theirfirstname theirlastname|theiremail@email.com

that would

– Hash/encrypt their password (they still have to login and change it)

– import them into the DB

– send activation email/username + password

just a thought