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I had the same problem. Odd, my sign up link didn’t even show up??? But I did what windHamDavid said and I went here /wp-admin/wpmu-options.php

Note: because I have MU installed maybe different for regular wordPress

I disabled registrations saved and re-enabled, and it worked.

Thanks windHamDavid

I’m somewhat at a loss as to why people debate this issue or try and state it’s a WP issue as logically that doesn’t make sense?

As jfigura posts this is an inherent problem, I have it on a production install and it must be hugely confusing for users, and yes the only approach so far has been to modify the text and remove the WP password from the confirmation emails.

Further testing points to the initial blog registration as being possibly the issue:

Clean install of WP MU 2.9.1 & BuddyPress 1.2 no significant further plugins activated.

Test Condition 1:

WP MU with BuddyPress disabled – admin options -> Allow New Registrations ->’Only user account can be created’

Register new user

Receive confirmation email of new registration along with Activation key

Activate registration

Receive second email with account username and pass

All as expected!

Test Condition 2:

WP MU with Buddypress activated – admin options for registration still set as ‘User Account only’

Register new user

Receive confirmation and activation key

Activate registration – screen message stating ‘you can now login with user name and password you set’

No further emails sent!

Test Condition 3:

WP MU BuddyPress still activated – admin options -> Allow New Registrations -> ‘Enabled. Blogs and user accounts can be created.’

Register new user as well as a blog!

Receive confirmation and activation for account and new blog

Activate registration – screen message ‘you can now login with password you set etc etc’

Receive further email from WP! (copied below)

Dear User,

Your new *********.co.uk Blogs blog has been successfully set up at:

http://eggs.********.co.uk/

You can log in to the administrator account with the following information:

Username: eggbert

Password: 5f112917

Login Here: http://eggs.**********.co.uk/wp-login.php

We hope you enjoy your new blog.

Thanks!

–The Team @ ********.co.uk Blogs – Sent via Site Admin options email

So having new accounts and new blogs enabled at initial registration triggers the sending of the ‘Welcome Email’ noted above.

clearly this is confusing as it contains the WP generated password.

Why is it that BP registration doesn’t disable / override the WP registration completely? To my mind this IS a BP issue, but I may very well be wrong on that score as I don’t profess to have a deep understanding of the core coding involved here.

On a sidenote:

Testing this and the slightly odd behavior of ‘Allow New Registrations’ where option for ‘only logged in users can take a blog’ actually seems to prevent all registrations. It occurred to me that on a social community ,and from our experience, blogs are not necessarily what users register for and that I would prefer the option to have a blog be only available for registered users from their account options. what actually happens is that registration is disabled completely! Not the effect I desired. I realise this IS a WP MU issue but is simply daft behavior and that set of options needs to be re-worded to be a lot clearer as to what it really does.

It would be great to be able to restrict blog signup to users already with account set up and remove, completely, the option to take a blog on initial signup, I have done this by simply scripting out the option / section for registering a new blog in BP register page but feel it’s not the best approach?

this doesn’t sound good. I would disable all registrations immediately, clean out all of the users whom have been added, delete all of your wp and bp files and reinstall to make sure that you don’t have any modified files. And you might examine the db tables closely to see if they need may need repair.

https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/trunk/bp-core/bp-core-activation.php#L79

There are two ways for this email to still get sent:

1.) Your active theme does not have either /register.php or /registration/register.php in it.

2.) You are an admin that has just added a user to your site.

If either of those things are true, the email will get sent out.

If you are hard pressed to make this issue go away, try adding this to your functions.php or bp-custom.php.

/* Unhook BuddyPress wpmu email blocker */

remove_filter( 'wpmu_welcome_user_notification', 'bp_core_disable_welcome_email' );



function block_wpmu_email() {

if ( is_admin() && $_GET['e'] )

return true;



return false;

}

/* Rehook custom function */

add_filter( 'wpmu_welcome_user_notification', 'block_wpmu_email' );

The above routine doesn’t help us test this issue any, but it does stop the email from going through unless you add a user yourself.

This is a problem with WPMU and spammers simply wanting to register spam blogs. I’ve not really seen the problem on standard WordPress, and with blog registration disabled.

@snark, I simply removed the function bp_core_disable_welcome_email() from bp_core_activation.php. But then the password in the welcome email is wrong, as discussed here. Haven’t been able to come up with an explanation/solution for that…

Re #1:

Sorry I forget that you need to hook the filter to an action.

Try this:

function snark_reenable_welcome_email() {

remove_filter( 'wpmu_welcome_user_notification', 'bp_core_disable_welcome_email' );

}

add_action('init', 'snark_reenable_welcome_email');

The file is /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php

1) By default, an email isn’t sent to the user because the user password is sent via plain text (not a good thing security-wise).

You can re-enable this welcome email by adding the following code to /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php (create this file if you don’t have one – be sure to add PHP open and closing tags as well):

remove_filter( 'wpmu_welcome_user_notification', 'bp_core_disable_welcome_email' );

2) Please post the avatar bug on BuddyPress Trac:

https://trac.buddypress.org/newticket

Login with the same credentials you use on buddypress.org.

3) WP-reCAPTCHA is not compatible with BuddyPress.

BuddyPress uses a different registration mechanism.

You might want to try one of these solutions listed here:

http://www.bp-tricks.com/tips_and_tricks/stopping-the-sploggers/

Did you disable new user registration?

I wholeheartedly agre with @andy. It’s an age old debate between making it as simple as possible to register and become a member and requiring some unique information that not only serves your purpose well but adds an extra layer to the process that fights spam.

We have been running our prod site since BP was in alpha (Nov ’08 – crazy, I know) but have had only 2 spam registrations. Both were from Russia and both seemed pointless. But we banned the domain in the WP backend and have had none since. We have not even changed our signup slug.

That said, we require 5 fields on registration, 3 are drop downs and we don’t allow blog registration (we’re building a community not a blog network)

On a side note: We ran reCaptcha flawlessly for 6 months. We disabled it as an experiment to see if we could avoid that extra step (plus reCaptcha words are damn hard to read) and have not had spam since. fingers crossed.

Which registration emails do you mean? The WPMU welcome email is disabled in BP; see function bp_core_disable_welcome_email() in bp_core_activation.php. It’s a feature…

“limit blogs plugin is set to 1”

That’s where it goes awry. Remember that your members already have 1 blog – even as a subscriber to the blog where your BuddyPress is installed, that is counted. So increase Limit Blogs to 2 so that in addition to main blog as subscriber or whatever role you made them to be, they can create one new blog for themselves.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/when-asking-for-support

I would like to bring up this topic again, as it is very crucial to the development of my website and I want to see if there have been any updates in the 10 months since this was posted. Right now I have blogs disabled, the main purpose of the site is to have different types of users interact on the site, and be able to search the site based the different details in their profiles..

Multiple profile types:

For my website I would like to have 4 profile types, all profiles have the same permissions, they just have different details listed in their public profile. These details can be defined during the registration process.

2-Stage registraion:

When the user decides to register, they are prompted with a page where they will select their profile type. Upon selecting their profile type, they will be taken to a second part of the registration process where they will fill in their profile information, each type of profile having a different form to fill in.

This should go along the lines of what Dev posted, minus the permissions. This is a huge hurdle for me to overcome, and if I can there will be one more addition to the Buddypress Community. Any help or direction is appreciated.