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If you have never received an email (and it’s not stuck in a spam or junk folder) then your web host may need an extra plugin to use email with WordPress.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/ ( http://www.callum-macdonald.com/code/wp-mail-smtp/ ) adds extra email settings to wordpress and has a tool to debug smtp / php mail. This plugin has previously been discussed: https://buddypress.org/?s=wp-mail-smtp ….

Alternatively the codex has another suggestion.

Many people are having the same problems registering with my site too. It is not clear in the form that usernames must have lowercase and no spaces in it.
Is there a way to allow registers to use capitals and spaces?
Also, is Is there a way to get the error messages come up in a different colour to the rest of the form e.g. highlighted or red, as currently they are in the same colour and easily missed.

Thank you,

I contact my host, bluehost and they told me that my registration forrm and email confirmation also works fine. But I just created another test user and not received any e-mail.

should I ad this WP-Mail- SMTP plogin as well?

My 3 step solution to this problem is as follows:

1. Install plugin – BuddyPress Pending Activations (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-pending-activations/)
2. Make hack to plugin function bp_pending_activations_admin() so that it sends an email when a user is activated:
$resendusers = $wpdb->get_results( $wpdb->prepare( “SELECT u.ID, u.user_login, u.user_email, m.meta_value FROM ” . CUSTOM_USER_META_TABLE . ” m, “. CUSTOM_USER_TABLE .” u WHERE u.ID = m.user_id AND m.meta_key = ‘activation_key’ AND u.ID IN ({$userids})” ) );

foreach ( $resendusers as $resend ) {

/* Activate the signup */
$user = apply_filters( ‘bp_core_activate_account’, bp_core_activate_signup( $resend->meta_value ) );

/* If there was errors, add a message and redirect */
if ( $user->errors ) {
echo ‘There was an error activating this account, please try again: ‘. $resend->user_login;
} else {
$to = $resend->user_email;
$subject = “Your ?????? Account Has Been Activated!”;
$message = “Your account has been activated. Go to http://??????/ and sign in with the username and password that you created when you signed up.nnWelcome to ?????!”;
$admin_email = get_site_option( “admin_email” );
$from_name = “??????????”;
$message_headers = “MIME-Version: 1.0n” . “From: “{$from_name}” n” . “Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”” . get_option( ‘blog_charset’ ) . “”n”;
wp_mail( $to, $subject, $message, $message_headers );
}
3. Redirect activation email to admin (to use as a noitification for admin instead of automatically sending activition key to user) by adding this to functions.php:
function change_activation_email_to($content) {
return get_site_option( “admin_email” );
}
add_filter( ‘bp_core_activation_signup_user_notification_to’, ‘change_activation_email_to’);

So the when a new user signs up, they do not get any activation email. That goes to the admin instead. You will need to change the wording in your template to let the user know that they have to wait for manual approval. Admin logs in to WP admin and goes to Pending Activitations and activates the user. An email is sent to user to let them know they have been activated.

try deactivating it to see if that’s what is causing the issue

How are you creating the privacy policy field?

have you switched registration on and can you go to yoursite.com/register?

BuddyPress Registration Options is not working with 1.5. I really need this.

I’ve created a plugin to help add friends automatically upon new user registration.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-automatic-friends/

Ehi @rbbp22, thank you so much for your work on this.

Well, I’ve tried your solution, but the only thing I get is view the avatar changed after the cropping process (on the registration).

When my user is going to load his profile after the login, the avatar will not displayed (there’ll be the default one).

Seems something wrong in the ‘save’ process.

I find this completely odd because BuddyPress does not auto create a username on the registration page from the database. Maybe you have mal-ware or something? Also it could be the browser auto filling.

Thanks to Katrina Willis (http://katrinawillis.com), my partner on the UGN site, for figuring out the issue. Here is how she describes the fix:

“On ugnchicago.com, I finally figured out why my name was displaying in the form field.

In the SQL database, I was the default user (the user with the id=0), so that made my first name display as a default string when you installed the BuddyPress forms (which populates a default into the field). I went in and manually removed that from the database, so we’re clean!”

I hope this helps you all. And check out Katrina’s site, while you are at it!

tagged: @PeterHatch, @modemlooper, @JaredGoyette

We are experiencing the same issue. “Katrina” is pre-populated in the First Name field on the registration page at our site, http://ugnchicago.com/register.

It isn’t a local cookie issue; it is showing up across multiple machines, multiple browsers, etc.

Has anyone come up with an answer?

thnx for the reminder… I do vaguely remember reading somewhere that bp screws with the registration of usernames with spaces/characters in the name…

btw
love the site, esp the content, right up my alley.

It appears that you’ve added a container div to hold the registration form, however, you have not added the code for the registration form itself:

You could copy and paste into your #registerForm div the registration form code contained within the .padder div from bp-default/registration/register.php.

This should put an embedded registration form into your home page.

Hope that helps…

It is a great plugin, just testing it,
I wish more people knew about it,

one feature /improvement I would suggest
that after the login, user is not taken to WP backend
but homepage or user profile (in Buddypress)
or at least if there was an option for admin to set where user should be taken after registration

thank you

OK so I’ve had the same problem and have built a very clumsy workaround.

PROBLEM: When the user click the email verification it sends them to verify.php and logs them in to WP but my Buddypress doesn’t know they are logged in and asks them to login. If the user just ignores the login request there is no problem but users don’t do that so they try to login and get the same “error..please provide a valid activation key” message because the account is already active.

MY RUBBISH ANSWER: The only thing that worked for me was to hide the BP admin bar and handle login links manually then change the text on the verify.php to a simple ‘congratulations, you’re in’ message. The downside of this is that I lost the use of my BP-Sliding-Login-Panel which I love. so I would be very grateful for a real solution to this.

I have been working through a similar problem where WP sends an activation email and the new user replies. The user is then logged in to WP but NOT BP…. so if the user tries to login as BP says they should it will generate an error because they are already logged in!

I am having to tell newly registered users to close their browser then re-open and login.

If someone comes up with a more viable option I would be very grateful.