I couldn’t find any existing plugin…obviously;)
DJPaul, is it cool if I test your plugin?
DJPaul, I just saw your comments about this on mu trac. Nice find!
Vida
Email me at djpaul at gmail dot com. I’ve spent sometime shoehorning this into a “proper” plugin – it’s not complete but would appreciate it if you could test with what I’ve got so far.
Hi DJPaul:
So, I created the little plugin and placed it in wp-content/mu-plugin folder.
I then went back to the “welcome” box to make the changes to the outgoing text. No changes were made. Sorry for being slow here. But these are the questions I have right now!
1) I have no idea what to do with this step you mentioned above:
“Sorry, forgot to add. Use these tokens in your update_welcome_user_email function to tell WordPress where to insert the relevant values: USERNAME PASSWORD LOGINLINK SITE_NAME”
2) After I create the file and place it in the Mu plugin, where should I go to customize my final message going to the user.
I really appreciate the help.
Thanks so much;
Vida
life2000: Make a new file in your wp-content/mu-plugins/ folder. Call it what you want but make the extension .php.
Put this tag at the top of the file: <?php
Copy and paste the code from above underneath it
And at the bottom of the file, put this: ?>
Save it and it should work immediately. Make a new test user to see if the message changes.
There has to be an MU plugin already put together for this somewhere no? I am looking now…
Hi DJPaul:
Thank you for your reply.
How do I get to “update_welcome_user_email” at the outset? Or better said, where do I begin to start these changes and filters. BP Core files? WPMU files?
Sorry, still trying to get the hang of it all:)
Thanks so much;
vida
Sorry, forgot to add. Use these tokens in your update_welcome_user_email function to tell WordPress where to insert the relevant values: USERNAME PASSWORD LOGINLINK SITE_NAME
Hi life2000
You need to write a filter to hook into the update_welcome_user_email action, like so:
add_filter('update_welcome_user_email', 'filter_newuseremail_dm', 1, 4);
function filter_newuseremail_dm($welcome_email, $user_id, $password, $meta) {
return "body text of your email";
}
If you want to send an email formatted with HTML, you also need to do this:
add_filter('wp_mail_content_type', 'newuseremail_content_type_dm', 1);
function newuseremail_content_type_dm() {
return 'text/html';
}
Almost solved! Password not a problem.
I just noticed that I can easily change the password using the “settings” on the profile page. It’s awesome!
I won’t be giving them a blog yet. So that won’t be a problem.
So, all set. All I have to do now is change the text on the last activation email sent to users. It looks rather unfriendly with the title: “dear user” and the signature “WordPress”.
Other than that, it’s all cool.
THANK YOU SO MUCH.
All we need to do is to direct them to their profile page withing Buddypress site after they log in. Is there a way to modify the email messages that go out during and after activation process?
This problem has burned a hole in my brain for the last 24 hours.
HELP PLEASE!
disable email activation on new sign-ups. I know it’s more of an MU specific plugin, but there are a LOT of people who could use this (including myself!)
There’s no admin bar in the login form no.
I’m not sure what email link you are referring to. After signing up a user gets an email with an activation link and then a password and then logs in with a temp password to their blog.
To get to the admin backend (dashboard) of any blog you use: myblog.mysite.com/wp-admin/ or after logging in, the user has the option of using the menu bar’s ‘my blogs’ > ‘my new blog’ ><flyout menu> ‘dashboard’
That’s also the admin area of the blog.
There isn’t a ‘bbpress bar’ that I’m aware of. There’s a buddypress bar that has a ‘my account’ menu where you can visit your profile and other options.
Lemme take a look at that area.
Yep, bp does snag the ‘wpmu_signup_user_notification’ event and doesn’t allow mu to do it’s thing. Looks like bp takes over the email to the user with the user’s activation link. Sorry, I just thought bp just added some xprofile stuff.
Wonder why it traps the email activation to the user? Gonna go look.
Hi,
Had the same problem. The I did a fresh install and used an email address on the same domain as the admin’s email: eg. site = mybp.co.za and admin email = admin@myby.co.za
In my first installs I was using my work email during installation and for some reason it would not work.
Hope this helps 
Did you check your mail options settings in mu?
yourdomain.org/wp-admin/options.php
mailserver_login
mailserver_pass
mailserver_port
mailserver_url
They happy?
So here’s the weird thing now. I tried registering on the site with different email addresses; including hotmail, gmail, yahoo, ones I host, and ones hosted at various hosting companies. None of them receive and email. If I grab the activation key from the database and manually type in the activation URL, then that user is activated and then sent the activation email, along with any followup emails.
I had two friends try it, and it worked perfectly for both of them.
I got a hosting account the other day with asmallorange just to play with buddypress, so I’m not able to check the mail logs without submitting a support ticket to their tech support, so I have no clue whether the emails in question are actually leaving the server.
I’ve had a problem similar to #1. The email is actually sent but the recipient’s email server just blocks it. They never get it. It doesn’t get sent to ‘spam’ like gmail or yahoo. They just don’t get it at all.
hotmail
Right? Try complaining to Microsoft.
Thanks apeatling. I downloaded the trunk from svn and #2 is fixed now.
There was a bug with blog signups where they would be private not public. This has been fixed today. That would explain your second problem. The first I’m not sure, has anyone else experienced this?
Does the link in the activation email have the right domain in it?
