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@jwack

hi, I had similar issues… even after removing the blog signup at registration, spammers would sign up, activate their accounts, and then create a new splog. to help cut down, I tried these steps:

– changed my registration slug in bp-custom.php:
define ( ‘BP_REGISTER_SLUG’, ‘join’ );

– also added a redirect of wp-signup.php inside bp-custom.php:
function register_redirect() {
if (strpos($_SERVER, ‘wp-signup.php’) !== false ) {
$url = ‘http://www.mysite.com/join’;
wp_redirect($url);
exit;
}
}
add_action(‘init’, ‘register’);

those two helped but didn’t completely remove the issue, this plugin really nailed it for us though:

– installed this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/invitation-code-checker/ (since we have a local comm site, we just used a zip code as the invite code)
Not sure how your site is set up but perhaps you can find a way to use it too, may even allow you to re-enable blog sign up at registration. It says Tested up to: WordPress MU 2.8.4 but I have WP 3.0.3 with network enabled and BP 1.2.6 and still seems to be working just fine.

Most of these suggestions were pulled from helpful posts on BP, hopefully they help you out a bit

Either they;re getting in via the bbpress signup, or they are using exisitng logins.

Have you got “allow users to add exisiting users” checked in the super Admin -> Options menu? If so, UNcheck it. that’s one way we know they were getting in.

Also – you did nothing to the default multsite signup page, whcih is yoursite.com/wp-signup.php. Change that to a .txt file, then NOBODY can sign up for a blog on the front end.

I tried BP Registration options based upon this post and the plug-in has some serious bugs. While it does the things it says it does, it also disables admin editing of any of the WPMU blogs posted. I also have a contributor blog going and it disallows contributors from posting media, it cancels out the permissions function I used to allow media publishing. Registration also does not prevent the spammers from posting blogs all over your site. And they do not respond very soon to any type of support questions asking how to fix these problems. I really wish I could use this plug-in.

deactivate the buddypress and then network activate it, make sure you followed all those steps given in readme came with buddypress @Chris O’Brien you have disabled the registration and there seems to be no way to contact you try ND’s solution if you are using si captcha “”Found the cullprit; the ‘SI Captcha’ plugin was preventing it because of a wrong set file permission.
Check the plugin settings page and it will say what is wrong””
there was this problem with the last version of buddypress i don’t think this still exists someone if you still face it do tell wp ver buddypress ver and if possible your site address

You came here seeking help from those more experienced!

BTW, I’m a total newby at both WP and BuddyPress and came to the forum to find help, not to get dumped on

Where have you been dumped on?

It doesn’t help to get snippy about “generally not the done thing to do on forum

There is a very deliberate reason old threads are not raised again, and yes sorry but forums rules in general frown upon this action and do ask that people start their own threads. You claim this thread mirrors your own issue, but I’ll point out that your stated inexperience in matter leaves you not best placed to judge that.

I don’t think starting lots of new threads about the same problem will help anyone

Again let us worry about that.

Please set aside the attitude it doesn’t help. Once again you have come here for help, that help often comes from experienced professionals that earn their living coding and developing, please respect the fact that there is no obligation to help and that this help forum and the project itself is maintained by volunteers – unpaid!

You really needed to have followed my advice earlier about testing with bp-default and plugins disabled if you had lurked on the forum you would have noted that this is a very common and important request.

Now as to your concern as to losing work you wont! it is perfectly safe to change themes that is the nature of the WP themeing side of things, disable your custom theme and activate bp-default also deactivate any BP related plugins except BP itself nat and also any custom functions that you may have created in your themes functions file.

Test the registration process in this default state if it works then you now know you have an issue with either your custom theme or a plugin; if it still doesn’t work then you might consider checking that you have in fact told WP to allow registrations in the WP options screen, if that is set confirm whether WP itself can accept registrations – helps to make sure WP is set up correctly and working before moving on to adding further layers like BP.

When that is done please report back and let us know what the outcomes were and we can then proceed from there.

You can disable plugins and themes temporarily without losing work. WP and BP content is stored in the database and shouldn’t be affected by what themes and plugins you do or do not have activated.

It’s important that you test whether the problem arises with bp-default, the BuddyPress Default theme that comes with BP. If registration works with that theme but not with your custom theme, then we’ll know that your problem is theme-related. Most likely, your theme is missing the template files that BP expects to find when someone visits the registration page, and for some reason the fallback template (which should be wp-signup.php) is not being found either.

Please test with the default theme and report back.

Clearly something is very much not correct is it (the error isn’t just with registration link but all links)? have you taken any steps to rectify the issue that we ought to know about that might help us help you or that we can rule out as potential causes?

There are some pretty standard stock responses given in cases like this to troubleshoot issues that you will see in many posts here.

Fist and most importantly disable BP your site must first work correctly with WP i.e permalinks, when that is established then activate BP but BP only! check if problem is manifest if it is then navigate to the permalinks page doing so flushes caches so check again , still not working? revisit permalinks page change settings and save confirm that you can actually write to the .htaccess file do you see instruction that WP could not save to .htaccess and then list the details that need to go in the file?

if WP and BP work as expected start activating any plugins one by one checking every time to see if problem arises so that if it is a plugin you know which one caused the issue.

I suspect that this is a plugin issue, but those steps above should help you narrow down where the issue is if not correct it.

I too, am looking to simplify/modify the registration page. I would like to control the fields, is there a plugin for this? I would like to remove the email as a required field. I’m running the default BuddyPress theme. Can anyone help with this? I just want username and password. I have used CIMY Extra Fields, but it seems to not appear in BuddyPress installations, and it does not allow for removing the default fields. If anyone can also tell me how to force avatar or photo uplaod at registration, please post. Much appreciated, everyone.

Hi guys,

Great plugin – some very critical registration form elements!

I’m having some trouble with the mailchimp integration. When I enable it via the bp-xtra admin page, I get a 404 error after users submit the registration form, and no address is added to my Mailchimp list. The user still gets the activation email, but the 404 is kind of ugly

I’ve set up the plugin properly: added my API key and the ID for the group… but 404 page remains unless I disable the mailchimp checkbox.

Anyone have this problem? Or any idea how to fix it?

Thanks in advance,
Dave.

I have this problem too. However, I can’t see where to set-up user registration in the BP admin section – these are the options I have under General Settings –

Disable BuddyPress to WordPress profile syncing?: Yes No
Hide admin bar for logged out users?: Yes No
Disable avatar uploads? (Gravatars will still work): Yes No
Disable user account deletion?: Yes No
Disable global forum directory?: Yes No
Disable activity stream commenting on blog and forum posts?:

I spent some time yesterday to try to stop the constant flow of spam users and blogs being created on my site. Here is what I did…
1- deleted extra registration.php in bbpress folder
2- changed reg. slug
3- installed humanity
4- installed Si Captcha
5- added code from above to htaccess

I am still get about 20-30 per day.
Is there a way to tell if these are humans or bots creating these accounts and blogs?
I don’t know what else to do, any ideas? ( I really don’t want to disable blog creation during registration)

Then explain exactly what you can’t do. You say you have enabled registrations, then what happens when you are logged out and try one of the register links? do you not get the user new user form? if you have the form what happens when you complete and submit it? see where I’m going? we need as much detail as you can supply , we can’t necessarily guess at what may be wrong.

One thing to do is disable BP and ensure WP is working as expected in all respects before proceeding to add the BP layer to it, and also disable any other plugins that may be running and that are not necessary.

? Disable the plugin!

Check the plugin group for answers or ask the question about the error in that group

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-registration-options/home/

However I would think that this plugin hasn’t been updated to work with WP 3.0 or BP stable but I might be wrong.

I should have been more literal .

In WP set up to run as Multi Site you have a Super Admin set of links one of which is ‘Options’ if running as single WP then that isn’t available and you need to use the Settings > General link as Paul described.

Worth bearing in mind BP is a registration/member led application it is nothing without ability for members to sign up but traditionally WP was a single bloggers tool and probably most never allowed or wanted people to sign up to the blog but simply place comments to posts so default state is registration disabled.

You sure you haven’t installed a plugin somewhere down the line? Wasn’t there a plugin to disable the activation key process?

Only on one blog, though it will aggregate user registrations and blog/comments posts from across the entire site (unless you disable that option).

And I was wondering just the opposite: is it possible to disable the uploading of avatars until the account is confirmed via the confirmation email? It seems whack to allow file uploading before someone has confirmed their registration.

One thought: use plugin: BP Disable Activation, to remove the step of email activation altogether. You should still be able to get users’ emails when they sign up. I use SI CAPTCHA at registration to filter spam. My site is still in development, no users, so I can’t speak to these issues for you. Just a though as I said. Good luck.