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mu-plugins folder? Perhaps I’m not hip to the lingo. Where is that folder?

I’ll try again with the basic troubleshooting and see where that gets me since I don’t recall what the outcome was. I remember disabling everything and going to the twentytwelve theme with no change in the results.

So.. here are the results, I remembered correctly.

I disabled the theme, tried both TwentyTwelve and BuddyPress Default Theme. The results:

Activity Streams are blank.
Site Tracking shows no blogs, all were created via the admin console.
No User Groups, Creation isn’t possible.
Members page shows members.
Registration page is functional.
Activate page is functional.

When I reactivate Pagelines Framework, I get certain content on the page that shouldn’t be seen since these aren’t regular pages, they are BuddyPress pages so the content of the page is empty, but Pagelines Framework is showing this oddball line [Viewing archives for “”] at the top of the page, as well as the by-line and the “read more” link at the bottom of the pages that were created.
Everything else remains the same. No groups, can’t create groups. No blog list, no stream.

It’s very odd to me. I’ve spent a ton of time on getting this operational and would hate to start over since I don’t know of a last-known-good backup at this point. I’m not even sure when the glitch presented itself. It had been working fine until I upgraded to 1.7.2, there wasn’t a hiccup in the upgrade either.

Thanks.

@wpbp 1. Disable registration in Settings > General.

2. Disable group creation in Settings > BuddyPress > Settings > Groups.

3. Disable album creation/uploading of images in the plugin’s settings or are you referring to native WP image galleries?

You can enable group creation and registration after you’ve done some general housekeeping and adding some spam/spammer prevention.

@chase8705 disabling and enabling a plugin shouldn’t cause any problems, some save settings permanently however. Anyway, the fact you have “lots” of plugins, is probably the issue and the quickest solution is to disable them and check to see if the problems fixed.

@chase8705 disable plugins, default theme and check if it’s still greyed out

I would love this as well but i need a more detailed explanation of how to disable it.
Thanks!

Nevermind! Solved it.
I accidentally had the code in functions.php AS WELL as having it in bp-custom.php

Sorry!

I used this and attempted to register.
The result was a Internal 500 HTTP Error.

Manually disabled all the plugins and when i attempted to re-enable BP
I got this error:

Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare my_disable_bp_registration() (previously declared in /public_html/wp-content/themes/detube/functions.php:35) in /public_html/wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php on line 8

I believe there is an issue when attempting to activate an account via e-mail that the fix does not cover up.

Sorry about that! Forgot the other hook.

Try this:
https://gist.github.com/r-a-y/5578432

Paste in your /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php file

The hook changed.

Use this instead:
remove_action( 'bp_init', 'bp_core_wpsignup_redirect' );

There is no perfect solution other then to disable registration entirely but i have had a good experience with WangGuard. FYI a good chunk of these “bots” are actually humans (at least at some point) believe it or not.

Ok, you can disable sending activation email to new registrant in WP multisite + BP installation by adding code below into your theme/child theme functions.php

`
// Change the text on the signup page
add_filter( ‘bp_registration_needs_activation’, ‘__return_false’ );

function my_disable_activation( $user, $user_email, $key, $meta = ” ) {
// Activate the user
bp_core_activate_signup( $key );

// Return false so no email sent
return false;
}
add_filter( ‘wpmu_signup_user_notification’, ‘my_disable_activation’, 10, 4 );

//Disable new blog notification email for multisite
remove_filter( ‘wpmu_signup_blog_notification’, ‘bp_core_activation_signup_blog_notification’, 1, 7 );
add_filter( ‘wpmu_signup_blog_notification’, ‘__return_false’ );

// disable sending activation emails for multisite
remove_filter( ‘wpmu_signup_user_notification’, ‘bp_core_activation_signup_user_notification’, 1, 4 );
add_filter( ‘wpmu_signup_user_notification’, ‘__return_false’, 1, 4 );
`

Cheers! 😀

The last function has a bug, it activate the user after registration, but it’s still sending the activation key email using WP multisite, so it can be very confusing for the users, because they’re already active.

Any ideas to stop sending the activation key email?

Thanks

Hi!

If somebody still need to disable activation email, the following function works fine for me:

`
// Change the text on the signup page
add_filter( ‘bp_registration_needs_activation’, ‘__return_false’ );

function my_disable_activation( $user, $user_email, $key, $meta = ” ) {
// Activate the user
bp_core_activate_signup( $key );

// Return false so no email sent
return false;
}
add_filter( ‘wpmu_signup_user_notification’, ‘my_disable_activation’, 10, 4 );
remove_filter( ‘wpmu_signup_blog_notification’, ‘bp_core_activation_signup_blog_notification’, 1, 7 );
add_filter( ‘wpmu_signup_blog_notification’, ‘__return_false’ );
`

Thanks to @cnorris23 for it! https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3443

Hope it helps to someone 🙂

@jcollier if you’ve selected “User accounts may be registered” then you should not be seeing that in your registration form. Could be that the JS to hide blog creation when it is disabled is missing in your theme’s /registration/register.php file. What theme are you using? If you change to BP-default theme, is the issue corrected?

quote from @SeriousDon

users are submitting their info and the register page just simply reloads with no error.
created a locally hosted test server ………. got the website to function 100%

Have had similar experience but in the reverse

created a local site (though with a lot of customization) all well locally with registration 100%

put it up on a host and registration page just reloads with no errors.

Have no great experience but could it be version differences of php, or mysql etc. ???
or more likely as modemlooper suggests left over tables from a discarded plugin maybe a disable or auto activation plugin.

I think (though will not name as i’m not 1000% certain) one wp managed hoster had a reports of a similar type problem from a few clients and they eventually fixed it.

Stumped! there are a few results on google search terms —> buddypress register registration reload reloads refresh and a buddypress ticket (now closed) #4477

At first all registration was disabled regardless of theme.

Then as suggested in one of the google results I removed an anti spam addition from htaccess and i got back registration in bp default and the other themes.

but no registration yet for the theme that “caused” the problem

The first issue is fixed by a 1.6.3 update, which we will be releasing very soon.

I am not aware of any bugs with your second issue; if the current user is a member of that private group, they have access to see its activity items on any page on your site.

Third issue is a WordPress setting; see http://www.agentwp.com/enable-or-disable-user-registration-in-wordpress