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If I use the plugin BP Disable Activation

Everything it´s okay. But the native system it´s more useful!

I am helping Kathryn with this issue, here are the details for the installation.

The original programmer for the site vanished, so the configuration is the way it is. Not asking anybody to solve the problem on our behalf, just opening the issue to more eyes. All help and all input is greatly appreciated.

Wordpress: 3.5.2
Buddypress: 1.7.3
PHP: 5.3 (I suspect this might be the culprit.)

Installed Plugins
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Legend – (A)Active, (-)Deactivated
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BUDDYPRESS PLUGINS
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(A)BP Auto Login on Activation 1.0.1
(A)BP Export Users 1.1
(A)BP Group Announcements 1.0.2
(A)BP Group Hierarchy 1.3.9
(A)BG Group Management 0.6
(A)BP Group Organizer 1.0.7
(-)BP Labs 1.3

(A)BuddyPress 1.7.3
(A)BuddyPress Activity Plus 1.5
(A)BuddyPress Auto Group Join 2.2.1
(A)BuddyPress Docs 1.4.3
(A)BuddyPress Docs Wiki add-on 1.0.3
(-)BuddyPress Edit Group Slug 1.2
(A)BuddyPress Group Email Subscription 3.3.3
(A)BuddyPress Groups Extras 3.5.7
(A)BuddyPress Like 0.0.8
(-)BuddyPress Live Notification 1.0.3
(-)BuddyPress Usernames Only 0.6
(A)bbPress 2.3.2
(A)bbPress reCaptcha 1.1
(A)bbPress Search Widget 2.0.0
(A)bbPress Threaded Replies 0.4.3
(A)GD bbPress Attachments 1.9.2
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OTHER
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(A)Akismet 2.5.7
(A)Automessage 2.3.1
(A)BackWPup 3.0.12
(-)Blog Categories for Groups 1.0.4
(-)Confirm User Registration 2.0.4
(-)Disable Comments 0.9
(-)downML – Download Media Library 0.3.1
(A)Email Users 4.4.4
(-)Fundraising 2.3.6
(-)Invite Anyone 1.0.21
(-)Live Stream Widget 1.0.4.2
(A)New RoyalSlider 3.0.93
(-)P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) 1.4.1
(A)Plugins Garbage Collector 0.9.12
(A)Revolution Slider 2.3.8
(-)Scheduled Content 1.1.1
(-)Select Language At Signup 1.0.4
(A)SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam 2.7.6.4
(A)Sidebar Login 2.5.3
(A)Simple Badges 0.1-alpha20120703
(-)Snapshot 2.3.3
(-)Tweet Blender 3.3.15
(A)Ultimate Maintenance Mode 1.5.0
(-)W3 Total Cache 0.9.2.11
(A)WordPress Importer 0.6.1
(A)WP-DBManager 2.63
(-)WP-reCAPTCHA 3.1.6
(-)WP Htaccess Editor 1.2.0
(-)WP UI – Tabs accordions and more. 0.8.7
(A)Yoast Breadcrumbs 0.8.5

@mercime – I have been reading the codex for BuddyPress, Event Manager and WordPress core. It’s just hard to keep it all straight. My only point above was that it literally would take one extra sentence when answering questions to say something like, “put it in bp-custom.php (which is a file you’ll have to create…here’s the codex link”. That’s all. OTherwise, the approach above totally worked for me too! It disabled the completely non-fuctioning registration page (I’m using a BP friendly theme, but not the default) and now I let S2 Member handle the user registration/login process. I don’t how I could ever use BP as a stand alone so there are many things in it that are clearly buggy that consistently get blamed on using any other plugin or theme. My real wish is that the wonderful devs who made BP happen make a non-buggy Pro version and make some money for themselves (while we get better docs/examples/support).

No help is ever urgent on voluntary free help forums! 🙂

This sounds like an issue with woocommerece if as you say it providing some form of registration, so have you also contacted their support & asked whether they have a notion of why this happens?

Not sure what you mean by go into the editor of the register php it tells me that buddypress registration is disabled Can you elaborate on the ‘editor of the register php’ and what is telling you buddypress registration is disabled, WP handles enabling / disabling registration, BP just provides a page/form that can be navigated to if a blank registration page is setup.

@mercime

mu-plugins folder? Perhaps I’m not hip to the lingo. Where is that folder?

I’ll try again with the basic troubleshooting and see where that gets me since I don’t recall what the outcome was. I remember disabling everything and going to the twentytwelve theme with no change in the results.

So.. here are the results, I remembered correctly.

I disabled the theme, tried both TwentyTwelve and BuddyPress Default Theme. The results:

Activity Streams are blank.
Site Tracking shows no blogs, all were created via the admin console.
No User Groups, Creation isn’t possible.
Members page shows members.
Registration page is functional.
Activate page is functional.

When I reactivate Pagelines Framework, I get certain content on the page that shouldn’t be seen since these aren’t regular pages, they are BuddyPress pages so the content of the page is empty, but Pagelines Framework is showing this oddball line [Viewing archives for “”] at the top of the page, as well as the by-line and the “read more” link at the bottom of the pages that were created.
Everything else remains the same. No groups, can’t create groups. No blog list, no stream.

It’s very odd to me. I’ve spent a ton of time on getting this operational and would hate to start over since I don’t know of a last-known-good backup at this point. I’m not even sure when the glitch presented itself. It had been working fine until I upgraded to 1.7.2, there wasn’t a hiccup in the upgrade either.

Thanks.

@wpbp 1. Disable registration in Settings > General.

2. Disable group creation in Settings > BuddyPress > Settings > Groups.

3. Disable album creation/uploading of images in the plugin’s settings or are you referring to native WP image galleries?

You can enable group creation and registration after you’ve done some general housekeeping and adding some spam/spammer prevention.

@chase8705 disabling and enabling a plugin shouldn’t cause any problems, some save settings permanently however. Anyway, the fact you have “lots” of plugins, is probably the issue and the quickest solution is to disable them and check to see if the problems fixed.

@chase8705 disable plugins, default theme and check if it’s still greyed out

I would love this as well but i need a more detailed explanation of how to disable it.
Thanks!

Nevermind! Solved it.
I accidentally had the code in functions.php AS WELL as having it in bp-custom.php

Sorry!

I used this and attempted to register.
The result was a Internal 500 HTTP Error.

Manually disabled all the plugins and when i attempted to re-enable BP
I got this error:

Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare my_disable_bp_registration() (previously declared in /public_html/wp-content/themes/detube/functions.php:35) in /public_html/wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php on line 8

I believe there is an issue when attempting to activate an account via e-mail that the fix does not cover up.

Sorry about that! Forgot the other hook.

Try this:
https://gist.github.com/r-a-y/5578432

Paste in your /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php file

The hook changed.

Use this instead:
remove_action( 'bp_init', 'bp_core_wpsignup_redirect' );

There is no perfect solution other then to disable registration entirely but i have had a good experience with WangGuard. FYI a good chunk of these “bots” are actually humans (at least at some point) believe it or not.

Ok, you can disable sending activation email to new registrant in WP multisite + BP installation by adding code below into your theme/child theme functions.php

`
// Change the text on the signup page
add_filter( ‘bp_registration_needs_activation’, ‘__return_false’ );

function my_disable_activation( $user, $user_email, $key, $meta = ” ) {
// Activate the user
bp_core_activate_signup( $key );

// Return false so no email sent
return false;
}
add_filter( ‘wpmu_signup_user_notification’, ‘my_disable_activation’, 10, 4 );

//Disable new blog notification email for multisite
remove_filter( ‘wpmu_signup_blog_notification’, ‘bp_core_activation_signup_blog_notification’, 1, 7 );
add_filter( ‘wpmu_signup_blog_notification’, ‘__return_false’ );

// disable sending activation emails for multisite
remove_filter( ‘wpmu_signup_user_notification’, ‘bp_core_activation_signup_user_notification’, 1, 4 );
add_filter( ‘wpmu_signup_user_notification’, ‘__return_false’, 1, 4 );
`

Cheers! 😀