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Sorry, I am interested in the same topic. Have you been able to solve the problem of the multi-step registration??
kind regards
Ciro

In wp settings allow user registration

In bp settings in pages section select correct page for specific bp component

By the way how did you get https working on your site home page?

Heyho,

Thank you for this – it works.

But what to do if I want the sidebar to be displayed on activity and members, but not while registration?

Just wanted to chime in that WebDevStudios’ “BuddyPress Registration Options” plugin is nearing, but not quite there yet, its 3.4 release which will offer both BuddyPress and bbPress support. We’ll use user meta to check if approved, and if not, prevent access to everywhere but the unapproved user’s profiles.

Willing to take feedback from anyone wanting to help beta test.

Is there an easy way to do this?

Yes. You can do this quite easily.

1. Choose a Facebook login plugin from the WP plugin repo:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/

Maybe try searching for 'social login'

2. Hide the BuddyPress registration form

WangGuard is a great plugin. I had about a dozen spam registrations every day before installing it. With it installed, I haven’t yet gotten a spam registration.

sem101 – I use two plugins that ask questions before signup

Buddypress Humanity
and
Good Question

This prevents most of the bot sign ups that we plaguing us for some time with those group creators.

This does not stop the manual spam signups, so we have delete a few accounts each week, but it has prevented the tons that we were dealing with before.

We used to have good luck with /bp-registration-options/

but we started having some issues around bp1.7 I think. Other people say it works now (https://buddypress.org/support/topic/feature-request-new-user-moderation/ ) – but I don’t have time to play with half baked / half working solutions. Your experience with it may be fine.

We do not use si captcha any longer as we had issues with some multisite problems. I do think it slowed down some of the spammers, and certainly cost them time and a little money to get around it – so it’s cool.

I use one of the blog defaults type plugins to auto set new blogs/(sites) to have settings like ‘users must be logged in to comment’ – and “discourage search engines from indexing” – this has helped a bunch for us.

Of course the manual spammers will still need to be manually deleted – you will never stop the manual spammers, if you did, then you would stop regular people from signing up. Unless of course you went for one of those “invite only” buddypress setups.

I recently donated to a plugin author to create a new plugin that allows superadmins to force certain settings on sub-site/sub-blog users.. like forcing only allowing registered / logged in users to comment. That plugin is working, but it is not quite polished enough for wp repository release I think – but that is another kind of spam blocking issue.

Hope these tips help you, they have made a huge difference for me.

arg – tried to post a reply and I think it got akistmetted for having two links…
/wonders why they do not whitelist links to wordpress org / buddypress org here for that setting somehow.. sheesh

sem101 – I use two plugins that ask questions before signup

Buddypress Humanity
and
Good Question

This prevents most of the bot sign ups that we plaguing us for some time with those group creators.

This does not stop the manual spam signups, so we have delete a few accounts each week, but it has prevented the tons that we were dealing with before.

We used to have good luck with https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-registration-options/screenshots/

but we started having some issues around bp1.7 I think. Other people say it works now (https://buddypress.org/support/topic/feature-request-new-user-moderation/ ) – but I don’t have time to play with half baked / half working solutions. Your experience with it may be fine.

We do not use si captcha any longer as we had issues with some multisite problems. I do think it slowed down some of the spammers, and certainly cost them time and a little money to get around it – so it’s cool.

I use one of the blog defaults type plugins to auto set new blogs/(sites) to have settings like ‘users must be logged in to comment’ – and “discourage search engines from indexing” – this has helped a bunch for us.

Of course the manual spammers will still need to be manually deleted – you will never stop the manual spammers, if you did, then you would stop regular people from signing up. Unless of course you went for one of those “invite only” buddypress setups.

I recently donated to a plugin author to create a new plugin that allows superadmins to force certain settings on sub-site/sub-blog users.. like forcing only allowing registered / logged in users to comment. That plugin is working, but it is not quite polished enough for wp repository release I think – but that is another kind of spam blocking issue.

Hope these tips help you, they have made a huge difference for me.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/

Above plugin is the only plugin you will ever require to stop spam. Donate to plugin author if it stops spam on your site to keep the plugin alive

https://wordpress.org/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/

Above plugin is the only plugin you will ever require to stop spam. Donate to plugin author if it stops spam on your site to keep the plugin alive

https://wordpress.org/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/

Above plugin is the only plugin you will ever require to stop spam. Donate to plugin author if it stops spam on your site to keep the plugin alive

Sounds like the murderer is in the house. Don’t go upstairs. 🙂

You could optionally just block sign-ups from your own IP. If you’re running a multisite installation, there’s a convenient UI for this. We’ve yet to incorporate that into single-site BuddyPress yet, but we have considered it.

Worth pinging @messenlehner or @tw2113 about the registration options plugin, and @bungeshea about the security check plugin too.

Seems u got your wish answered by the plugin author..check this:

For those who are interested, I have a beta of what will be 4.2.0 available at https://github.com/WebDevStudios/BuddyPress-Registration-Options/archive/alpha-revamp.zip

Hi @plinth

It isn’t possible by default. You could set up a new page and direct member’s to it on successful registration. That page would have a form on it which lets the member add profile info. Then when that page’s form has been processed successfully the member is taken to the third page and so on.

template_redirect is the hook you’d need to use and wp_redirect() will enable the page ‘hopping’.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_redirect
https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/template_redirect

Note: You’d need to be comfortable with PHP to do it.

Use this plugin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-registration-options/screenshots/

free plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/login-with-ajax/
premium plugin http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-ajax-registration/

>it would be possible to make friends, groups, posts, etc in a full interactive way without a registration?

No.
Everything is dependent on knowing who the person is, iow. their id
Assignment of an id is done during registration.

@eddieb12180 glad you resolved styling of the registration form to your satisfaction 🙂
Marking this as resolved.