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**SOLVED**

Thank you @Aces for answering and being helpful. All seems to be working now. I will post the solution below for those, like @Whisprr, who have the same problem:

Basically, the “WP Mail SMTP” plugin method from the link Aces provided worked. I just think the link is very vague and doesn’t explain at all how these plugins are supposed to help or what exactly you are supposed to do with them–it just says ‘most people found these helpful’. So I had to watch this youtube video, which explained how to solve the issue using the WP Mail SMTP, step by step: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GsHbf4Gitw

Watch it! I would just skip the part about using the FTP to finish installing the plugin (skip 3:00-6:20). The plugin should install perfectly fine.

Essentially, anyone who has the activation/registration email problem needs to download the “WP Mail SMTP” plugin and then enter the correct settings, as described in the video. I ran into a problem (mentioned earlier in this post) because GMAIL does not allow the plugin access to the account and labels it as suspicious activity–this kept returning an error message in the debug (test email). I also didn’t feel comfortable putting my real email’s username and password, un-hidden, into the username and password form, so I created a new YAHOO account especially for sending emails from my wordpress blog instead of my normal account, to use for this plugin.

It worked! The debug/test email did not return an error and when I tested the registration for my site, I finally received the activation email–albeit buried in my spam folder.

Hopefully this helps others because BuddyPress and Word Press do not make it clear that this needs to be done in order to SEND (rather than receive) email from your account or for member registration to work–this is why many people who are Word Press novices can become confused when site registration doesn’t work.

ok i didn’t realize anyone had this same error or that error was the same thing do i need to do anything more? thanks @mercime !

Thanks a bunch @mercime….Blessings. Can’t wait on the new, but will upgrade when it comesout. However, for now I’ll just try looking at another template like Salutation or Something else. Just hope making changes to everything thats formatted in the Continuum theme, won’t give me too much of a problem when I change themes…lol…Praying on that one…

Thanks so much for your suggestion, Chouf1, but, as far as I can tell, I’m afraid neither of those code blocks …

`printf( __( ‘Submitted on %2$s at %3$s‘, ‘buddypress’ ), bp_get_root_domain() . ‘/’ . bp_get_activity_root_slug() . ‘/p/’ . $item[‘id’] . ‘/’, date_i18n( get_option( ‘date_format’ ), strtotime( $item[‘date_recorded’] ) ), date_i18n( get_option( ‘time_format’ ), strtotime( $item[‘date_recorded’] ) ) );`

or

`<?php printf( __( '%1$s in %2$s’, ‘buddypress’ ), get_the_date(), get_the_category_list( ‘, ‘ ) ); ?>`

.. yielded anything I can use.

`get_the_date()` echoes the logged in user’s most recent activity (I think), and this modified string, based on the top block, outputs the UNIX epoch:

`date(“m/j/y”, strtotime($item->date_recorded))`

I wouldn’t mind coding it myself, I just want to know what functions I should use to create groups. Then I could just use some conditionals / loops to create posts for each custom post type post. @mercime

@mercime

Thank you, I was able to fix this through updating the theme as well 🙂

The Template packed link you posted is just whay it seems that I need, but there is ALOT of Code on that article. Do I have to Add ALL of that code in the places specified? WOW, hope not. I thought it would just be a few places to change some of the code to make it compatible with BP. I’m still stuck, can’t launch a membership/artist community without membership features. Thanks @mercime and Hugo. I’ll keep trying. Using another template right now…is NOT an option becaus eall of the content would have problems that I would have to go in and fix, and make look right. I wish it was as easy as leaving every page, category, tag with content AS-IS…and then pick a new template that works with buddypress, and activate it….and EVERYTHING would display as it should…without a hitch in the new Compatible template. Is that possible, or I should just use the above mentioned option in the link you gave me? Thanks, Blessings.

I am new to BuddyPress and creating a site using WordPress.com

Any idea as to what address/program sends the activation email? That is, what defualt email address do the activation emails come from? And is it WordPress, BuddyPress or my host that sends out the email?

Should I have done some configuring to this address first?

Paul,

I noticed on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/roadmap that BP 1.6.3 is due to be released in 3 weeks with only a couple of tickets involved. However, after reading the ticket (which is closed) https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4713 regarding this issue, it seems as though the common understanding is that this is a WP 3.5 Requirement issue. Whereas, I’m running 3.5 and still having the issues.

Don’t know if this helps or not.

Hello,

Sorry, i meant that, it dosent looks good with the type of site I am having, it looks like something extra, and unwanted. Status theme is working fantastic and every part of it, is resolving seamlessly. I am new to the wordpress and buddypress, infact, newbie in creating sites, and without any knowledge of codes, it sometimes becomes frustrating. Thanks @hugo @chouf1 i will try it, and revert back with the result.

regards