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What I’m asking is, is a user suppose to get a separate email with the activation code that they copy paste into?

When a user completes registration, the user should get an activation email which looks like this:

Thanks for registering!

To complete the activation of your account, go to the following link: example.com/activate/XXX/

XXX is the activation key. When the user clicks on this link, the activation page should show a form with the activation key already populated. The user has to submit the form to activate their account.

For those with custom themes, that activation key might not be automatically populated into the form. This has caused a few support forum threads like this one to pop up.

The fix for custom themes is noted here:

BuddyPress 3.1.0 is now available!

If you are not using a custom BuddyPress theme, then you can also try changing your theme to a WordPress default one to see if your problem still exists.

In v3.0.0, we changed the activation procedure because security clients can scan and follow links in emails, causing the user’s account to be activated unintentionally. To address this issue, account activation now requires the user to do a form submission.

We’re looking to improve the activation email content to make this clear in v3.2.0.

If you want to avoid the activation process entirely, there used to be an auto-activation plugin, but it might be outdated. Haven’t tested it in awhile.

The activition email that you are sending out has the link formatted exactly the same as I would expect. On my test system when I click that link it automatically populates the input box with the activation key, on your system is does not fill the input box and it needs to be manually pasted in place. Seems to point to something different about your activate.php file. I don’t suppose you’ve made changes to this, or maybe your theme has?

Well… interesting. Not sure if I’m going crazy but after inserting that record and then one last try at Tools > Buddypress > Reinstall Emails– activation emails seems to be working now.

Not exactly sure why it works now but just happy it’s working.

Try Activation email problems here

BuddyPress 3.1.0 is now available!

I then deleted the register page, created a new one, saved my permalinks…and it was working about a month ago when I tested it, but I just got an email yesterday from someone who had the activation link error ????

What is the “activation link error”?

Sounds like this isn’t related to the ticket that Venutius linked to on Trac.

Read through the first two issues of the following link and see if it sounds like your problem, particularly the second one:

BuddyPress 3.1.0 is now available!

Did you try reinstalling the BP Emails? There’s been some recent issues with the activation email but upgrading on it’s own would not solve it.

Its probably related to a bug in version 3.0 where the activation email template did not install. There is a fix in the latest version, 3.1, but you have to do the following:

Activation email problems

If you did a fresh install of BuddyPress 3.0.0 on a single-site install, the activation email would not be sent out because the activation email was not properly installed.

To fix this, upgrade to BuddyPress 3.1.0 and in the WordPress admin dashboard, navigate to “Tools > BuddyPress” and select the “Reinstall emails” option.

BuddyPress 3.0.0 “Apollo” is now available!

Upgrade to BuddyPress 3.1.0 and view the section under “Activation email problems” for more details:

BuddyPress 3.0.0 “Apollo” is now available!

Did you look at this? https://buddypress.org/support/topic/activation-emails-are-not-being-sent/

Hello

In my case the activation email is sent with the link embedded in the email, a new user would click the link and then be diverted to a page asking for the activation code they never received. This is so frustrating.

See https://buddypress.org/support/topic/activation-emails-not-sent-not-able-to-add-the-patch-should-i-stay-or-go/

The next release is scheduled for next week.

In the meantime, replace bp-core/bp-core-functions.php with the following:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/buddypress/BuddyPress/master/src/bp-core/bp-core-functions.php

Then, go to the admin dashboard and navigate to “Tools > BuddyPress” and check the “Reinstall emails” option and the activation email template should be installed.

Thanks a lot @sharebophar for your solution. I had to do a little of adjustment but it was right on the spot!

PROBLEM:
buddypress nouveau not sending activation email but buddypress nouveau sending correctly emails to user for notifications on manually activated users. So in my case the problem was ONLY that the validation email was not sent. I say ‘only’ from a technical perspective but from the user perspective was a VERY BIG issue. Again thanks @sharebophar for your solution
Also note that I am not running a wordpress multisite.

SOLVED:
Here are the steps I have employed:

STEP 1
a) browse to “/bp-core/bp-core-functions.php” in buddypress plugin directory
b) replace the code for ‘core-user-registration’ and ‘core-user-registration-with-blog’ with the following one

	'core-user-registration' => array(
			/* translators: do not remove {} brackets or translate its contents. */
			'post_title'   => __( '[{{{site.name}}}] Activate your account', 'buddypress' ),
			/* translators: do not remove {} brackets or translate its contents. */
			'post_content' => __( "Thanks for registering!\n\nTo complete the activation of your account, go to the following link: <a href=\"{{{activate.url}}}\">{{{activate.url}}}</a>", 'buddypress' ),
			/* translators: do not remove {} brackets or translate its contents. */
                        'post_excerpt' => __( "Thanks for registering!\n\nTo complete the activation of your account, go to the following link: {{{activate.url}}}", 'buddypress' ),
		),
		'core-user-registration-with-blog' => array(
			/* translators: do not remove {} brackets or translate its contents. */
			'post_title'   => __( '[{{{site.name}}}] Activate {{{user-site.url}}}', 'buddypress' ),
			/* translators: do not remove {} brackets or translate its contents. */
			'post_content' => __( "Thanks for registering!\n\nTo complete the activation of your account and site, go to the following link: <a href=\"{{{activate-site.url}}}\">{{{activate-site.url}}}</a>.\n\nAfter you activate, you can visit your site at <a href=\"{{{user-site.url}}}\">{{{user-site.url}}}</a>.", 'buddypress' ),
			/* translators: do not remove {} brackets or translate its contents. */
			'post_excerpt' => __( "Thanks for registering!\n\nTo complete the activation of your account and site, go to the following link: {{{activate-site.url}}}\n\nAfter you activate, you can visit your site at {{{user-site.url}}}.", 'buddypress' ),
		),

STEP 2

a) go to wordpress dashboard, settings, buddypress
b) select and run the ‘repair email’ option

STEP 3

all now works. I have been testing it with dummy users. I hope the whole explanation helps.
Regards