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@njones7 you can check https://buddydev.com/plugins/buddypress-user-contact-form/

This plugin is awfully close to what you’re trying to do. You might try modifying it to show groups in a drop down instead of the options offered:

BuddyPress Registration Groups

I doubt that any plugin is going to support group creation at registration; group creation is a multi-step process, and is too much to ask a new user to do at the same time as registration.

I’d say if you’re worried about people creating groups (which is a reasonable thing to worry about), your safest bet is to uncheck the checkbox “Enable group creation for all users” (or something like that) at wp-admin > settings > buddypress , and restrict group creation to site admins only. Then, add a group request form or similar, and you can either create the group or not.

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/resolved-removedisable-hidden-group-creation/

Yes, you can do any amount of extra validation on the hook bp_signup_validate.

Something like this would probably do what you are trying to do:

add_action( 'bp_signup_validate', function(){
	$allowed_users = array( 'user1@domain.com', 'user2@domain.org' );
	if ( isset( $_POST[ 'signup_username' ] ) && ! in_array( $_POST[ 'signup_username' ], $allowed_users ) ) {
		$bp = buddypress();
		$bp->signup->errors['signup_username'] = 'Sorry, your email address is not able to register with this site.';
	}
} );

There are several examples on the web for doing things on that hook. (BuddyPress Registration Options does some things, for instance.)

HI @baccoeur-

The best way to troubleshoot is to deactivate as many plugins as feasible, ideally leaving only BuddyPress active and using a common theme like Twenty Seventeen, to test the behavior. Then, check to see if the problem is resolved. Reactivate plugins and re-check to see which one is causing the conflict.

It only takes a few minutes to do this test, and will help you figure out where the problem actually is.

After posting this, I found CSS that works to remove the menu items, if it helps anyone else.

https://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/how-to-customize-or-delete-buddypress-standard-menus

For the site CSS I set:
a#user-notifications {display : none !important}
a#user-invite-anyone {display : none !important}
a#user-settings {display : none !important}

BP adapts to any theme you use. If you’re looking to customize specific aspects, you can take advantage of the BP template hierarchy:

Theme Compatibility & Template Files

Are you using BuddyPress member types, or something else?

Member Types

Hi, there are a lot of reasons that email fails. There’s a current issue with non-SSL domains and Outlook.com for instance: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-emails-not-going-out/

If you’re not receiving any emails from your WordPress site, start by testing your site setup with this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/check-email/

In any case, we’ll need more detail, like what the user’s email address domain is, to help you troubleshoot.

Hi @jcrr-

Please open a ticket about this issue: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/

Sounds like you’ve gathered some useful/interesting/disturbing info about the underlying issue.

Thanks!

-David

Hey Kristjan,

Congrats on the success of your community!

BuddyPress is designed and architected to scale quite elegantly, so long as the underlying hardware can also support it. It’s a bit of a non-answer, but is ultimately what it boils down to.

(For example, WordPress.org has about 13 million registered user accounts, and on any given day they are active across the various connected properties, but there are a few dozen web servers handling the constant database reads & writes, API calls for software updates, caching various parts, etc…)

Group creation (and subsequent user memberships) all eventually just bubble down to a singular and easy to use function call, so depending on your parameters, and with a small custom plugin, could be automated pretty easily. Nothing exists in BuddyPress itself to facilitate the automation part, but there’s nothing preventing it either.

Perhaps to more directly answer your question, there is no technical limitation to the number of users or groups or group members your community could have, beyond the limitations of MySQL, PHP, and modern computing itself (maximum 32 bit integer value, etc…)

Hi, it looks like there is a potential issue with the unsubscribe header (at least causing unexpected behavior from Outlook.com ):

BuddyPress New User Activation Emails & Resends not working

Sounds like your address should be https, and there are ways to improve your server’s setup to handle mail:

8 Best Practices To Improve Your Email Deliverability