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You need to update your theme. The upload during registration option was removed in BuddyPress 1.5’s default theme.

Would be great to have a working plugin like this — with classrooms you don’t want just anyone logging in and accessing student information

There’s no captcha and logic human tests in BuddyPress. You must have added a plugin which needs to be updated to be compatible with BP 1.5

I have the same problem. New users cannot register after the latest bp update. The activation is sent via email and once you click on the link you are redirected to the new activate page where this error shows: ‘There was an error activating your account, please try again.’
I tried using the key # by itself on the text field but it does not go through.

When you say can’t send out emails are you on a server that has been set up to email? I ask this as you may not be.

Also what happens on activation does it just not send out?

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/registration-not-working may also help you.

@acurran – This does not work for me. Please test.

No rush i understand well i was working with the profile search plugin and bp xtras sign up plugin.
But haven’t actually gotten them to display age. just date of birth. the profiles search plugin lets you set an age range but still not show the actual age and there was just an update. Maybe i should try contacting them to see if they can make that an option.

Thanks for your help. the bp xtras signup lets you set the age allowed during registration. Bp xtra signup allows you to set the age lets say 13 the youngest etc. But hopefully there is a solution…
So if i make a dropdown age field will it show the users birth date internally?

Oops, forgot about that one. For the bottom part of registration/registration.php, replace:
`

jQuery(document).ready( function() {
if ( jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).length && !jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).hasClass(‘show’) )
jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).toggle();
jQuery( ‘input#signup_with_blog’ ).click( function() {
jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).fadeOut().toggle();
});
});

`

with
`

jQuery(document).ready( function() {
if ( jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).length && !jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).hasClass(‘show’) )
jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).toggle();
jQuery( ‘input#signup_with_blog’ ).click( function() {
jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).fadeOut().toggle();
});
});

`

@fswd
‘bp registration options’ is definitely the culprit. I’ve added the plugin you suggested even though it says it’s not been tested on the Current WP. I’ll see how it goes. Thanks for the link too as it now explains the new pages within BP as I thought it had something to do with my friend who is redesigning my site.
I’m still very reluctant to add any plug-in that have not been tested on the current WP.
Many thanks for your help in the mean time.

@PaulGibbs
Would be interested to know if Firefox is best browser to use when updating.

@Lynn,

I had major issues recently and isolated the offending plugin to ‘bp registration options’. See this for more info: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/any-one-using-buddypress-please-help

We use ‘Block Spam by Math’ which seems to have cut down on robot reg’s quite a bit.
Get it here: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/block-spam-by-math-reloaded/

Hope that helps?

I have a similar problem. Since the upgrade my system crashed. A friend deleted the BP registration option Plugin for me which seemed to bring the dashboard back for me to use. But crashed the site when I reinstalled it. I know it wasn’t fully compatible with WP in the first place but it did a half decent job.

I’m getting robots joining as members and I’m having to delete them one at a time. The ‘User pending’ never worked, all captchas don’t work either or are not compatible with latest WP.
My theme (BP columns 1.2) has also changed from 3 columns to 2.
My friend is working on changing the look of the site, but if I cannot get any of the important widgets to work I shall be spending most of my time dodging the robots.
Any suggested help is appreciated. Even if it’s possible to go back to the previous BP until it’s sorted out.
Thanks in advance.

An old version used to bypass WordPress registration process, so logins via Janrain could create accounts on my wordpress/buddypress. But latest versions fixed this problem (since It’s sort of a security hole). Since then I stopped using it.

If the plugin works for WordPress, so does BuddyPress.

@walid3 – This is a valid concern. Please post a ticket – https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/newticket/

BuddyPress currently checks if alphanumeric characters are inputted for the username during registration validation.

Unless there’s a valid reason for the alphanumeric check, it might be wise to just piggyback off of WP’s username validation functions.

Hi folks sorry, coming back to this after a while.

I submitted my findings/questions to bp trac. They say that avatar upload during registration is going to be discontinued in bp 1.5 default theme. So, it may be a good idea to think about doing avatars after registration.

Personally, I can see their thinking.

1) Why let people who aren’t yet committed users get access to your file system?
2) registration is really complicated by the fact that you don’t yet know the user’s user id.

Still, I may be looking at this some more …

Thank you, looks like I got a modification of your social sharing links working on my side, using Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Great look – thank you!

Now if I could get FB Auto Connect plugin working on registration, haha.

No, you should not be editing files at plugins/bp-template-pack/. During the BP Compatibility process, 6 folders with BP template files were transferred to your active WP theme folder in server – activity, blogs, forums, groups, members, and registration folders.
– Download above-mentioned folders from your WP theme folder in server into your computer.
– Make the revisions in the files specified in Step Three https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
– Upload revised files to server.
– Done.

I think the file you need it registration > activate.php
You can edit that file as you like