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If BuddyPress is activated sitewide, I guess BuddyPress should prevent access to any non-root site’s registration page. If it doesn’t, please would you make a ticket on http://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org so we can get it looked at in a future release. Thanks

“well, I think I will really back to my phobia of plugins! this plugin just ripped me of 20 $ of google adwords advertising my website, and it caused any user who tried to sign up with creating blog in registration to tell them please check your activation e-mail! (theopposite of what it should do!) and this time it’s not sending e-mails at all even after long time because the plugin did it’s job at this side only!”

I actually tested this plugin last week – it worked for me and did none of the things you mentioned.

The only way I was able to surmount the same issue (emails not being sent, i.e. new user notification, password reset emails) was to disable the following plugin:

“BP Disable Activation”
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-disable-activation/

Once I disabled this plugin, the missing emails flowed again.

As such, I returned the site to its default state of requiring new users to confirm their accounts.

I’m having the same problem as Tonyone, and it goes away when Buddy Press is disabled. The first problem stated in this thread, the forgot password feature is not sending emails, is different than what the “me toos” are describing.

With BuddyPress enabled
A new user who creates an account gets their account notification email
The Fast Secure Contact Form works and sends email
The Email Users plugin works
BUT
The Bulk Password Reset plugin does Not work, neither does the ‘Get New Password’ on wp-login.php. Both of those trigger this error:
The e-mail could not be sent.
Possible reason: your host may have disabled the mail() function…

This may not be a mail problem but a password rest problem pulling the wrong error message out of … someplace

I’m on a Bluehost server, running WP 3.1.3 and BuddyPress 1.2.8

ok try this :

use this plugin to manually active users that are not activated yet : https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-activate-users/

and use the below code in your functions.php .to disable email activation.

function disable_validation( $user_id ) {
global $wpdb;
$wpdb->query( $wpdb->prepare( “UPDATE $wpdb->users SET user_status = 0 WHERE ID = %d”, $user_id ) );
}
add_action( ‘bp_core_signup_user’, ‘disable_validation’ );
function fix_signup_form_validation_text() {
return >false;
}
add_filter( ‘bp_registration_needs_activation’, ‘fix_signup_form_validation_text’ );

If you want to completely disable public registrations, and only want to set up a invite only BuddyPress community, check out this plugin as well: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-secure-invites/

Should work in combination with the plugin Mercime mentioned

Disable bbPress registration on your external install:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/howto-disable-registration

Easy way, On wpms 3.0.x
Disable the blog signup from SuperAdmin->Options ->Registration Settings
and select the second option (User account may be created). If you are on the wpms 3.1, you will have to go to NetworkAdmin->settings->Registration Settings and do the same.

On your users request, you can still create an account as you are the site admin.

Make sure you have turned on registration in WordPress.

if you’re on single WordPress, navigate to “Settings > General” and check “Anyone can register”:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_General_SubPanel

If you’re on WP multisite, navigate to “Super Admin > Options” and under “Allow new registrations”, make sure registration is not disabled.

Then, in your sidebar, use “ to get the signup url.

I simply use the facebook connect. and have disabled any other form of registration or login.
and i only get 1 user unless they have multiple facebook accounts and i get the benefit of avoiding the need for any other authentication

since facebook spend millions confirming its users i get to use that development for free.

I do know however that 99.9999 % of my users will be facebook users

So when i look at yoru delema i wonder why you want to offer all those ways and in turn CREATE your own problem

If you want to disable BP’s registration and user account activation pages: In your functions.php or in a custom plugin:

`remove_action( ‘wp’, ‘bp_core_screen_signup’, 3 );`

i don’t know what’s causing it, and i don’t know the solution

but until you know, you can avoid the problem with this plugin: http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-auto-activate-auto-login/
with this plugin verification mails are disabled

Wpmu? There’s WordPress with multisite now a days?

And no you can’t use the native register page with BuddyPress.

There’s a “Sign Up” link notice in adminbar if you allow registration, beside the “Login” link see http://testbp.org/

Registration is disabled by default, so if you’re not seeing the Sign Up link, you should go to admin dashboard > Super Admin > Options – Registration Settings – Allow New Registrations – check any other than default “Registration is disabled”

Edit- for single WP install, go to dashboard > Settings > General Settings – Membership – Anyone can register and below that, you can choose Suscriber role.

“WOW, I did the above mentioned items and I am still getting hammered with spam blogs. I have no idea what to do now, I am already making a sacrifice by taking away blog creation during signup. “

Start looking at access logs. If you have no way to check how they are getting in, then you have very little luck in stopping them.

have you DELETED the exisiting spam users? Because if you;re just deleting the blogs they create and leaving the spam users…. they just create more.