No — BuddyPress is just a WordPress plugin, so if you disable user registration, it’s off, everywhere. User accounts are shared across all plugins.

Concentrate on the bp default theme for the moment, Mingle is – I suppose – a BP compatible theme and as such should have all the files necessary contained within it’s own theme folder. You can come back to the mingle theme, I would just concentrate on BP for the moment, but first disable BP as well and just establish that WP is working correctly, finds posts/pages , and allows registrations.

Every time I hear of this I have to say before anything else disable all plugins except for BP then try a test registration/activation. Even If it sends it to a spam folder in your email then you have used a process of elimination to find the culprit. Most of the time if you are getting your test activations in a spam folder on your email then setting up an email on your host from your domain cures the issue. Something like “admin_yourusername@yourdomain.com” in your cpanel webmail or whatever you have usually fixes this. You may also need to change the email in your dashboard/settings/general E-mail Address to reflect the email you created on your host depending on the host and how they handle mail. Hopefully this will help you. “My advise to anyone is after installing any plugin after BP is to do a test registration/activation each time.” That way you don’t have to sort through 20 plugins to find the one that breaks activation. Oh yeah, and if it activates go ahead and log-in with the username and password you created or the test registration/activation member you created will not show up in the members directory.

What about if you disable account registration, and manually create accounts for your students? That way only they will have access and it saves fiddling about with code, which doesn’t sound like the right solution for this.

In short yes, this is my first buddypress setup so first thing I did was to test out registration
This was both in the custom-community theme and the default theme. No other plugins, except bbpress which I disabled to test, still no go.

I am on a timeline so I have reverted to 1.5.0 and the activation step worked in one go. Unfortunately I am having problems as site-wide forums arent available in that version but that would be another topic. If none of the other posters sites are still available for testing, Id be glad to set up a vanilla wp, and buddypress install and provide you with the login and password…

Something in the code has definitely changed. I guess I could do a diff between 1.5.0 and 1.5.4… If someone finds the answer before I get the chance to do that, even better, let us know.

Yes, @ mentions usually get emailed by default. Didn’t know if you disabled that in your settings like I did
a) is Good choice

If you’ve changed any of the BP template files in your theme folder, replace all of them for a clean slate by deleting the 6 BP folders in server – /activity, /blogs, /forums, /groups, /members, and /registration – then re-run Appearance > BP Compatibility.

A. Copy your theme’s header.php and Save As > header-buddypress.php

Open up header-buddypress.php and at the bottom of the file, below all other code, add this:
[UPDATED – 3/2/12]
`

Registration is disabled by default in any WP/BP installation. You need to enable registration in your dashboard menu Settings > General panel and save.

If you’re using bp-default theme, you’ll see a register link appear in the right sidebar under the login form.

@Craiglovelock – you will have to figure out how to insert a custom textfield into the wordpress registration page and then insert a “name” field (sorry, cant help more since i have never touched the wordpress registration form)

Since you have disabled the buddypress registration form and you have given wordpress back control over it, you may get better answers on the wordpress.org forums.

As someone said here, I disabled e-mail activation with an autologin plugin called: “BP Autologin on Activation”. I hope this will be fixed soon anyway.

@junglejinge you need to wrap your code within backticks (`) the symbol between the parentheses for short blocks of code. But for large blocks like the page.php source code, use pastebin.com as aces mentioned above

I gathered additional information from WP.org forums
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/where-have-my-sub-menus-gone?replies=3
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/buddypress-theme-knocks-out-my-navigation-structure?replies=2

BP compatibility process for Graphene Theme

A. After you activate the Graphene theme, install and activate BP Template Pack

B. Go to Appearance > BP Compatibility and go through the process till you click Finish. Do not disable the Template Pack’s CSs nor JS. You’ll see this in frontend [before you make the changes, the regular page and the component page]

It’s totally unlike what you have currently at http://www.meetinbradford.org/

Note: this theme has many options which may or may not work with the modifications placed below. In case the following exercise does not work, please contact the graphene theme developer and refer him/her to this post.

C. Download the 6 BP folders which were transferred to your graphene theme folder in server down to your computer hard drive. Because of your theme’s HTML structure, you will need to use the first method for fixing alignment on 16 files within the folders you downloaded. Those 16 files listed here https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/#tplfiles

Starting with activity/index.php open it up with text editor
At the very top, replace:
`

`

Save file. Then do this for the remaining 15 files listed in link except for registration/register.php where you do the same for the top portion of the file but at the bottom of the file, replace:

`

jQuery(document).ready( function() {
if ( jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).length && !jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).hasClass(‘show’) )
jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).toggle();
jQuery( ‘input#signup_with_blog’ ).click( function() {
jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).fadeOut().toggle();
});
});

`

with:
`

jQuery(document).ready( function() {
if ( jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).length && !jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).hasClass(‘show’) )
jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).toggle();

jQuery( ‘input#signup_with_blog’ ).click( function() {
jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).fadeOut().toggle();
});
});

`

Save files and upload the six folders with modified template files to your theme folder in server.

D. Styling modifications – you’d most probably want to tweak some styles that come with bp.css. Check out style.css mods used in twenty theme as guide https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-dev-bp-template-pack-walkthrough-twenty-ten-bp-1-5/3/

I’m also interested in turning off the registration process.

I saw this snippet (to be put into functions.php):

if ( bp_core_is_multisite() )
remove_action( ‘wp’, ‘bp_core_wpsignup_redirect’ );
else
remove_action( ‘init’, ‘bp_core_wpsignup_redirect’ );

from this thread:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/sign-up-redirects-to-registration-which-goes-nowhere/

But its not working yet for me.

That file mostly lives in bp-members-signup.php now, but it contains stuff used in more places than just the registration screen. You could try unhooking everything in a plugin.