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Update, I did finally receive at activation email. After I did a resend activation after the first registration activation didn’t arrive after approx 10 mins. But it does not seem very reliable in my early tests. I will tried on few more different email addresses just to get a measure of how well it performs in general. But since it is the first experience one has with the website, failures are going to kill the traffic quick smart 🙁

IMHO, account activation is a core function that needs to be super reliable.

I have the same problem. The lack of community support makes me feel this plugin may not be worth the effort.

When you check the manage signups the new registered user is awaiting to be activated. It shows that an email has been sent. After you try and resend the activation email. It does trigger and add to the count – showing two emails sent. So it would seem most of the functionality is working. If I deactivate the plugin, my wordpress email notifications is working. I’ve checked the spam folder, and even tried non-gmail accounts and still getting no activation emails at all. However, I have received a buddypress notification when another member does a mention. So it appears some kind of small bug is the problem.

Does any of the core developers for BuddyPress check theses support forums?

I have even modified the original message in bp-core-functions.php

There are 4 instances of that string in that file. Did you change all of them ?

As you should know – editing core files is not a good idea.
That string is in the buddypress.pot file.
And it seems to be in the buddypress-fr_FR files.

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/buddypress/dev/fr/default?filters%5Bterm%5D=complete+the+activation&filters%5Buser_login%5D=&filters%5Bstatus%5D=current_or_waiting_or_fuzzy_or_untranslated&filter=Filter&sort%5Bby%5D=priority&sort%5Bhow%5D=desc

So I do not know why you are having issues.
Have you tried using the Repair Tool – …/wp-admin/tools.php?page=bp-tools > Reinstall emails (delete and restore from defaults).

I’d like to be able to do the same thing. I don’t want to skip the activation email, but when the user clicks the link in the email it should activate their account and log them in rather than forcing them to click “Activate”, then click “Log In”, then log in.

if they got an email it has the key. You can look in the database to see if the signup has assigned one.

Under User you can resend them the activation key. currently there is no user side resend option, it requires admin access to do the resend.

I use a request form as a work around to for resend requests.

Doesnt work

all the big people keep posting this link, it doenst work, everything is in order but it wont just work. Why not include the activation code to their email so that they can copy it. I activated someones email by copying it from the address bar, now i have a bunch of users piled up that cant activate i know its because they are not seeing it in the box and dont know that they can activate it via copying from browser address.

add_filter( 'gettext', 'ps_change_activation_message', 20, 3 );

function ps_change_activation_message( $translated_text, $text, $domain ) {

    switch ( $translated_text ) {
        case 'You have successfully created your account! To begin using this site you will need to activate your account via the email we have just sent to your address.' :
            $translated_text = __( 'Your membership account is awaiting approval by the site administrator.', 'buddypress' );
            break;
    }

    return $translated_text;
}

Please add this snippet as well.

Thanks