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When you say can’t send out emails are you on a server that has been set up to email? I ask this as you may not be.

Also what happens on activation does it just not send out?

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/registration-not-working may also help you.

My 3 step solution to this problem is as follows:

1. Install plugin – BuddyPress Pending Activations (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-pending-activations/)
2. Make hack to plugin function bp_pending_activations_admin() so that it sends an email when a user is activated:
$resendusers = $wpdb->get_results( $wpdb->prepare( “SELECT u.ID, u.user_login, u.user_email, m.meta_value FROM ” . CUSTOM_USER_META_TABLE . ” m, “. CUSTOM_USER_TABLE .” u WHERE u.ID = m.user_id AND m.meta_key = ‘activation_key’ AND u.ID IN ({$userids})” ) );

foreach ( $resendusers as $resend ) {

/* Activate the signup */
$user = apply_filters( ‘bp_core_activate_account’, bp_core_activate_signup( $resend->meta_value ) );

/* If there was errors, add a message and redirect */
if ( $user->errors ) {
echo ‘There was an error activating this account, please try again: ‘. $resend->user_login;
} else {
$to = $resend->user_email;
$subject = “Your ?????? Account Has Been Activated!”;
$message = “Your account has been activated. Go to http://??????/ and sign in with the username and password that you created when you signed up.nnWelcome to ?????!”;
$admin_email = get_site_option( “admin_email” );
$from_name = “??????????”;
$message_headers = “MIME-Version: 1.0n” . “From: “{$from_name}” n” . “Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”” . get_option( ‘blog_charset’ ) . “”n”;
wp_mail( $to, $subject, $message, $message_headers );
}
3. Redirect activation email to admin (to use as a noitification for admin instead of automatically sending activition key to user) by adding this to functions.php:
function change_activation_email_to($content) {
return get_site_option( “admin_email” );
}
add_filter( ‘bp_core_activation_signup_user_notification_to’, ‘change_activation_email_to’);

So the when a new user signs up, they do not get any activation email. That goes to the admin instead. You will need to change the wording in your template to let the user know that they have to wait for manual approval. Admin logs in to WP admin and goes to Pending Activitations and activates the user. An email is sent to user to let them know they have been activated.

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-disable-activation/

OK so I’ve had the same problem and have built a very clumsy workaround.

PROBLEM: When the user click the email verification it sends them to verify.php and logs them in to WP but my Buddypress doesn’t know they are logged in and asks them to login. If the user just ignores the login request there is no problem but users don’t do that so they try to login and get the same “error..please provide a valid activation key” message because the account is already active.

MY RUBBISH ANSWER: The only thing that worked for me was to hide the BP admin bar and handle login links manually then change the text on the verify.php to a simple ‘congratulations, you’re in’ message. The downside of this is that I lost the use of my BP-Sliding-Login-Panel which I love. so I would be very grateful for a real solution to this.

I have been working through a similar problem where WP sends an activation email and the new user replies. The user is then logged in to WP but NOT BP…. so if the user tries to login as BP says they should it will generate an error because they are already logged in!

I am having to tell newly registered users to close their browser then re-open and login.

If someone comes up with a more viable option I would be very grateful.

You can check the time stamps of the emails to get an idea of when the mailsender sent them. That might give you a better idea if it is your mailsender on the server, or something else delaying the emails.

The email delay could be your mailsender, it could be the receiver, or anything in between. Most of the time email is relatively instant, except the times when it isn’t.

” ( preferably not a plugin, Is there some code edits can achieve this)?”

It’s basically the same thing.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-disable-activation/

And your emails not getting sent out in time is a server setting.

First, ask users to check if activation email went to spam folder. If not, wome webhosts have problem with WP mail. Some have used this plugin successfully https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/

I have a similar issue where users sign up, get the activation email but are sent to a page asking for an activation key to be entered in an input field. One member on this site told me the key is the in the url. Sure, I realize that. But how do the users know that?

they only need to copy/paste that info if for some reason the key in that URL does not show in their address bar.

For example, this is the email that is sent:

“Thanks for registering! To complete the activation of your account please click the following link:

http://example.com/activate?key=5570d3e7b263884f2b63ed6d096571cb”

See where it says KEY? And all those letters and numbers afterwards? THat is the activation key.

“But where is the activation code that its asking me to enter…”

In the email with the link you just clicked. it’s part of the link itself.

“Clicking the link doesn’t add the activation code in the input field does it?”

Yes, yes it does.

Yes, you DID receive the activation key. it was in the link that you just clicked on. CLicking the link verifies your new account.