BuddyPress.org

You can login to your WordPress dashboard using your admin credentials.

Once inside the dashboard, Please visit Network Admin->Settings. There you will see “Registration Settings”.

Select “User accounts may be registered” and that will disable the new blog creation but allow registering new user account.
Hope that helps.

Have you looked at Auto Group Join? also Registration Groups? These could help you do what you achieve. Auto Group Join includes a handy admin page where you can arrange who is in what group.

Hiding the Group Activity (Home) page is a bit more involved, but one option could be to simply disable activity?

RESOLVED [ANSWER]:

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-disable-the-registration-function-of-buddypress/

Thank you Paul for commenting. I wish I was clearer.

I was referring to the Log In and Register buttons on the admin bar (which is Buddypress) in the top left.

Im using this to disable BuddyPress’ registration process and fallback to WordPress. I want to merely change the link of the Log In button so it goes to my custom login page. How do you go about doing it?

<?php

/**
 * Disables BuddyPress' registration process and fallsback to WordPress' one.
 */
function my_disable_bp_registration() {
  remove_action( 'bp_init',    'bp_core_wpsignup_redirect' );
  remove_action( 'bp_screens', 'bp_core_screen_signup' );
}
add_action( 'bp_loaded', 'my_disable_bp_registration' );

?>

Hello @djpaul,
I tried to create in folder wp-content → plugins the file bp-custom.php with this code:

function my_disable_bp_registration() {
  remove_action( 'bp_init',    'bp_core_wpsignup_redirect' );
  remove_action( 'bp_screens', 'bp_core_screen_signup' );
}
add_action( 'bp_loaded', 'my_disable_bp_registration' );

add_filter( 'bp_get_signup_page', "firmasite_redirect_bp_signup_page");
    function firmasite_redirect_bp_signup_page($page ){
        return bp_get_root_domain() . '/iump-subscription-plan/'; 
    }

Ensures redirect to my subscription plan (/iump-subscription-plan/). I have a registration after the membership plan has been selected. It looks like it works. Well thank you.

@jonleesky hmm, try this

/*disable registration bp */
function my_disable_bp_registration() {
  remove_action( 'bp_init',    'bp_core_wpsignup_redirect' );
  remove_action( 'bp_screens', 'bp_core_screen_signup' );
}
add_action( 'bp_loaded', 'my_disable_bp_registration' );

add_filter( 'bp_get_signup_page', "firmasite_redirect_bp_signup_page");
    function firmasite_redirect_bp_signup_page($page ){
        return bp_get_root_domain() . '/wp-login.php?action=register'; 
    }

Let me know bud

@jonleesky I posted the solution to this nearly two years ago, I have not tested this code recently but you can try it out.

function my_disable_bp_registration() {
  remove_action( 'bp_init',    'bp_core_wpsignup_redirect' );
  remove_action( 'bp_screens', 'bp_core_screen_signup' );
}
add_action( 'bp_loaded', 'my_disable_bp_registration' );

add_filter( 'bp_get_signup_page', "firmasite_redirect_bp_signup_page");
    function firmasite_redirect_bp_signup_page($page ){
        return bp_get_root_domain() . '/wp-signup.php'; 
    }

What you will need to do is first create a bp-custom.php file (make sure you add the opening and closing tags at the top and bottom ) and put it in your plugins folder, then paste the code between the PHP opening and closing tags and save.

This should disable BuddyPress registration and let you use WordPress registration as default, hope this helps.

I was able to resolve the problem of no emails being sent after registration by disabling Extended Profiles.
Trying to resend notifications through Manage Signups still failed though. To work around that I had to disable Account Settings.
Making both those changes seemed to fix my email problems.

Hi Ozy,

I’m sorry to hear about the user registration spam…that’s a pain.

Just a thought…but if you have used 5 major plugins to stop spam, you might want to look at any other plugins that might be interacting/conflicting and disabling the anti-spam capability. For example, one we ran into that disables anti-spam is “New User Approve”…are you using that by chance? (There are some others that accidentally do the same thing.) Or do you have any other plugins that interact with the registration process? If so, try disabling them.

If you haven’t yet, you may want to try installing WP-SpamShield…it’s got very robust registration anti-spam. If you still have any issues after that, you can submit a support request and we’ll be happy to help you troubleshoot the issue and figure it out.

– Scott