I’m having the same thing happen… just tried twice. Used gmail addresses… emails never arrived to either account (yes, I checked SPAM).
Frustrating, don’t think I can launch until this is fixed now.
I just installed BP 1.2.3 over WP 2.9.2 and have the same initial problem…. Activation Mails are not being sent… Anyone knows how to solve it?
You might want to join this group for part of what you’ve requested (the admin resend of activation emails/activating manually): https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/over-1000-not-activated-users-what-do-you-suggest-we-do-with-them/
Seems like he could add the redirect to the plugin as well. I don’t think it would be too hard.
My problem: No confirmation/activation email is sending via Buddypress. Now all new users going to “spammer” status. As admin i can set them to “normal”, but how can i set them to staus “active user” ???
p.s.: There is only a problem with sending confirmation/activation email at registration – other notifications working well. I disabled all plugins (only BP and akismet is running)
I hope someone can help me !!!
Had someone turned this into a plugin ?
Hi, is there a solution for this problem ? I had the same problem.
thanks for your advice and replies
my fear re being blacklisted was a bit exaggerated, I have checked lost lists and our domain/ip is OK (only one place has one blacklisted)
in April overall for every 5 users, 1 did not activate the account
I am sure at least half of them are not spammers, I had a look at their email addresses,
so, I can only guess, users are not computer savvy.. and did not look at their junk email box for activation email etc..
I have change the form, so it tells them now to check junk folders. maybe this will help!
something else occurred to me
where do I change the default email address the activations email are sent from?
maybe this will help and emails won’t land in spam folders..
kind regards
Kris
We have buddypress blog setup and it works fine. I am having little issue with new users activation. When new user joins community, they receive an activation email along with the activation link, so flow works fine here. However, if they click on activation link accidentally second time they reach to activate page where they are asked to enter activation key manually. This confuses all my users.
Can we change flow on this.
This plugin might also be worth a look?
http://epicalex.com/new-user-email-set-up/
I originally used this to get round a problem of needing to manually add some new users to the system but didn’t want emails/activations being sent out immediately. It provides two very customizable sections one sent to admin one to new user, I simply swapped it round so that admin received the sign up email to a specially set up email account and the user got sent a “changes are afoot you will receive your login details shortly” type message, worked quite effectively.
Memory exhausted would explain why things suddenly stop working. Try putting this in your .htaccess file:
define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');
If that doesn’t seem to work, contact your host and ask them to do it for you
You don’t want to just activate random accounts. You might be activating a bunch of spam accounts for emails that don’t exist.
Seems like these are the functions you’d need:
-Resend activation email (possibly customize the email to admin’s desires)
-Manual activation for individual users (for those that contact you directly about activation)
-Clear users that haven’t activated (filtered by date)
Boone there is this plugin which is really for dev setups where passing emails through the dev network is awkward so allows you to register a user normally then go into backend and manually approve using the activation id
WPMU Manual Member Approve:
http://mattkern.com/wpmu-manually-approve-new-members-on-local-install/
Would you believe though I just tried to run it on my local site and it’s broken! at least it’s throwing an undefined function error bp_page_title()
Haven’t time to look into that but it doesn’t look to much of an issue.
Of course this doesn’t get round the issue of letting those users know they have been activated and not really sure one wants to simply activate a bunch of accounts when the users are never going to know about it.
Of course once activated and once you have established you are sending emails correctly you might be able to work some means of adding everyone to a group and posting an update to that group that will send a notification out to email addresses?
@DJPaul I just got my web host to send me the log. It looks like I was getting a lot of memory size exhausted errors and a database table error wp_2_options’ doesn’t exist. I am guessing that I need to upgrade to a VPS. Not sure about the database error however. Any feedback?
Yes! Please
This is really the essentials when it comes to registration.
of course, my fear is that our email address has been blacklisted by some servers, so there is probably nothing we can do, but
many other users simply.. have no idea they have to activate anything, and may have missed the email or the activation ,ink has already expired when they found it..
kris
This problem is so host specific it’s hard to say. However, if you’re on bluehost, a few solutions have been posted in this thread (read both pages): https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/email-notification-not-working/?topic_page=1&num=15
Signups (including non-activated users) are stored in wp_signups table. I have looked briefly but have never found a plugin for WP admins to manage these signups (activating accts from the Dashboard, resending activation emails, etc). Hard to believe, actually, as it seems like this is an area of great need.
Maybe this is something I’ll write myself, as I’ve had need of such a thing on multiple occasions and I’ve usually had to dig directly into the db to find the activation keys.
that’s the thing, I don’t want to loose them..
what if the activation email was in their junk folder or never reached them..
Hi!
After using wordpress/buddypress for almost a month
and its activation system ..
we have over 1,000 users who never activated their accounts
i am sure over 50% of these are valid registrations,. but users probably are careless or never found the activation email etc..
our site is not really for computer people, and many users may not be aware..
so, what do you do with them?
do I manually activate them? Is there an option in wp-admin settings anywhere?
it’s a bit tedious to change things manually line by line in the database…
do I send them another activation email? (I assumed after 2 days.. the activation link expires..)
anyone has bright ideas?
thanks!
Do non-BuddyPress specific emails get sent OK from your WordPress install? i.e. disable BuddyPress and get WordPress to send you a password reset email, or something.
when creating an account everything goes fine until,they hit complete then
No email gets sent and no profile gets set up. i see there in the admin user but cant do nothing else
please help i need to make a deadline an this is the only thing stopping me
thanks
White page usually means a PHP error. What’s in your web server error log?
I could really use some help here. I have re-installed the latest versions of WPMU – BuddyPress & BBpress on my server three times. Everything seems to be working fine but when I try signing up a “test user” I start having issues.
When I sign up as a “testuser” I am good to go until I click on my activation email. At this point I get a blank white page. When I refresh the browser I get a page that asks for the “Activation Key.” I put it in and still no luck.
Here is what I know:
It creates a user in my database
It creates a subdomain although I just get a Red Hat Test Page
The user shows up in my Site Admin
Any help would be appreciated.
Also, I would love to have a go to person who really knows this stuff. ($) for (?)
Thanks
I have a default install of BP and when I sign up as a new user I get the activation email and when I click on the link, using default BP theme, it takes me to the activation page but a text box comes up saying please enter valid activation key. Even if I goto the email and copy and paste the key into the text box it still says ‘please enter validate’. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled all I have installed is the latest WP MU from the MU site and from plugins I install BP nothing else.
Suffice it to say if I don’t install the BP plugin acivation works fine and the user blog comes up with no problem. Can someone please point me in the right direction? I don’t feel like reinstalling a 3rd time. This is just a default install no plugins besides BP and it works. I also checked the ‘wp_signups’ table and the activation key matches what comes in the email. It just thinks the key is invalid both as a link and when entering the key in a box. And when I deactivate BP activation works fine.
Thanks for any help this is frustrating.
the hack adds “the new users’ e-mail address to the e-mail with the activation link. This way you’ll know which activation link belongs to which user.” This is really needed!
Is there another line to add to functions.php that will add the email address?
Actually what we need is a plugin that creates a pending membership panel in the admin so you can go in and active or mark as spam… just like comments!
