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Hi @icaroferreira

1. The registration form is usually at somewhere like example.com/register/

2. You can add the following to your theme’s functions.php file should you wish to remove the admin bar:

add_filter( 'show_admin_bar', '__return_false' );

We don’t have our own option for that. Use WordPress’ “allow registration” option which I think is in wp-admin > Settings > Reading.

Regarding the bar, no. Again, it’s WordPress’ bar, and there are probably helper plugins which will turn it off for you (or code snippets); you should be able to find something on Google pretty easily.

Great, glad that fixed it! You can see the list of WP actions here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference.

To limit this redirect just to the home page update it to something like this:

add_action( 'template_redirect', 'redirect_visitors' );
function redirect_visitors() {
    if ( !is_user_logged_in() && is_front_page() ) {
	wp_redirect( site_url() . '/my-site-registration' );
        exit;
   }
}

@tobiasforsell The red button does link to the registration page. Congratulations on resolving the issue on your own 🙂

Try deactivating all plugins and then check if this issue still continues.

Explanation:
Mostly it happens if some plugin is interfering in registration process because the way BuddyPress registers a user is a bit different then what happens in WordPress by default for which usually plugins are designed.

Can you please explain what you did to solve it. I desperately would like to know how to let members choose their user roles on registration.

I have created a new xprofile group called ‘User Role’, with the following values (‘Editor’, ‘Contributor’, ‘Admin’ and ‘Subscriber’.

After this I pasted the following code into “bp-custom.php”:

function register_role($user_id) {
    $user_role = strtolower(xprofile_get_field_data('User Role', $user_id));
    switch($user_role) {
        case "Editor":
            $new_role = 'editor';
            break;
        case "Contributor":
            $new_role = 'contributor';
            break;
		case "Admin":
            $new_role = 'admin';
            break;
		case "Subscriber":
            $new_role = 'subscriber';
            break;
    }
    wp_update_user(array(
        'ID' => $user_id,
        'role' => $new_role
    ));
}
add_action( 'user_register', 'register_role');

What more do i need to do to make it work?

After lots of searching I finally got round the problem of BP/WP not taking you to the registration page by adding the following file into wp-content/plugins/

bp-custom.php

<?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’ );

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’;
}

This dispenses with BP’s registration system and falls back to the standard WP registration.

Members are the heart of BuddyPress. When a user register on a BP activated site, this user is automatically a “member”.

So i guess “they are not registering for the site, just the members area” is just impossible. Don’t know what you already did to get a “private” member area, but if you have an issue, it’s mostly because you did something wrong. 😉

To confirm to readers what you already get to work:

To modify the registration page, on which appears the login fields belonging to WP (user, username, email & password), BP adds his own additionnal fields, under condition you activated the xProfile component.

By default, BP add only one field in the mandatory field group “Base”: NAME.

When the admin add a new field, he can choose between different field status, and depending this status, you will see phrase such as “This field can be seen by: “.

These settings are avaible in Dashboard > Users > Profile Fields

hi @tac28,

as you’re a first timer, i would suggest that you read attentively the Codex, and try to understand how BuddyPres works.

I am using a child theme based on Headway Base and have no need of a bp theme.

You can use any theme you want with BuddyPress.

Modifying the registration page is explained here.

xProfile fields settings is explained here.

It’s probably because you’re using WP New User Approve which may not work with BuddyPress. See author comment and check the recent update changelog. BP problem seems not be solved yet.
Deactivate the plugin and give a try.

Or consider perhaps this plugin.

@lolapentagrom

What actually doesn’t work? What happens / doesn’t happen?

@diywwf

your case https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-preventing-registration/ is different…

@lolapentagrom
I would start troubleshooting by deactivating Buddypress multilingual 1.5 and WPML 3.1.7.2
and testing registration against each one as you reactivate them. I would venture to say one or both of these two plugins is likely causing your registration issue.

hi @ahd904,

behind your tech question, two things need some clarification at least.

First:

I just want to hide some of the group creation steps as these might make the users think too complicated to join the community.

Register process doesn’t include group creation, nore joigning a group, so i guess you are thinking about a problem that doesn’t exist at this stage.

If you allow your users to create groups, they have to follow the 3 creation steps, because it is intended so in BuddyPress. Thinking that this might be to complicated, implies that you think that your users are not able to do this. Mabe you’re right, but maybe not. Anyway in this case, simply deactivate group creation for users and create users groups yourself.
Assuming that you don’t think it’s too complicated for the user to click on “join group” ! 🙄

As @bphelp said with reason, what your question implies needs some extra coding and much more as a simple snippet. You can do many things with BuddyPress, but not everithing or anything. 😉

Second:
Core simplification is a hard work (see Trac), so don’t expect that your goal could be reached easily, as BP will never be a “one click” tool. IMO this plugin is already very easy to use as is.

That said, you could imagine your project differently and perhaps apply another strategy.
For example, the ability for users to join automatically a group at registration. 2 plugins can do that actually.

• This one allows a new BuddyPress user to select groups to join during the registration process. You create the group, user choose his group.
• This one create a new Group when a new user sign up. But what will happen when you have 50 registration by day, spammers included ?

In both case, pros and cons have to be considered.

if you love the snippets and sweat on your site, here are two other options.

• Snippet: automatically add new user to a group
• Snippet: allow new user to be auto joined to groups you select from the admin (from core dev @imath). Explanation in french, coded in english – of course ! 🙂 )

I have the same problem.
I use BP + Polylang plugin.
My registration url is “http://www.captionpost.com/en/register&#8221;.
My registraion page and member page is empty.
I think BP ignores Polylang’s language option.

Anyone have good idea?

Thanks.

hi @jaysmith1112

ensure first you setup correctly WP and BP before turning off something you can’t remember…
Deactivate all plugins and your theme and use Twenty thirteen to test the whole login process.

You use event registration plugin. Maybe something goes wrong at this level or this plugin is not compatible with BP ?

Also, your charter page is not accessible (404), but the register page charter pop-up works.

I had a look on your registration page where you have a few countries for members to select, but when I choose one, the same dropdown menu appears.

Yes, a better solution I do not have for the moment.

the only way I can see to do it is to add, UK, then a list of counties. USA and then a list of states, and so on which would mean I would have a list a mile high of all the different countries and local areas.

Yes – if you do not trust in the old plugins, which @noizeburger recommands:

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/resolved-different-profile-types-and-different-user-roles/ –

or trust in them, but find (like me) no way, to make them working as they should.

A less elegant, but working solution regarding locations within states you can find on my registration page (section: ‘Profile Details – Teil III: Geographisches’):

http://1a-spielwiese.de/registrieren/

You can ask at first:

• In which state (USA or UK?) do you live?

and then:

• In which US-federal state respec. in which UK-county to you live?
• and finally you can introduce the names of the federal states of the USA with ‘US-‘ and the names of the counties of the United Kingdom with ‘UK-‘.

(You can ask this questions within the ‘base group’ of your xProfile fields – then they get displayed on your registration page automatically. Or you can make your further xProfile fields displayed on your registration page as well:

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/reshaping-the-registration-page/#post-203615 [section 2nd].)