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@Brooker Maybe this could help you come up with something custom… http://blog.etiviti.com/2010/02/buddypress-hack-remove-new-member-registration-from-activity-stream/

@Brooker Hmm, I’m running wp3.1.1/bp 1.2.8 and it seems to still be working fine. I’m blocking blog posts and new member registration without a problem. Obviously the plugin won’t continue to be supported and hasn’t been updated in some time.

Ok—EventPress creates events under a post type ep_event and registrations under post type ep_reg; just in case that proves useful.

@beraike22, do u have a working example we can see? also I’m having issues with that plugin, when I enabled it, it seems like I would have to indeed modify it to show some plugins when i’m signed in. The problem with that is for troubleshooting purpose I can’t not be logged in, thus I want to test this out when asked to register or join. can you give me a bit more detail on how to achieve multiple profile types upon registration?

Usually add to the functions.php file of the active theme. So if you’re using a WP Theme with BP Template Pack, then it would be referring to your WP theme’s functions.php

Aha just found a solution from Cindy Otty hanging around in Google cache, see below.
It’s only on line 40 instead of line 25 in bp_core_settings now.

—- solution—-

Okies, this problem is now fixed! Half of my issue was I forgot to turn on error display in php.ini so I could actually see if there were any. (Duh.)

So, when I did, voila!

Warning: require_once(wp-includes/registration.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/blahblah/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-settings.php on line 25

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘wp-includes/registration.php’ (include_path=’/home/blahblah/public_html/includes’) in /home/blahblah/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-settings.php on line 25

So, I opened up bp-core-settings.php and took a peek at line 25 to see why it wasn’t including what it was supposed to be and the line says:

require_once( WPINC . ‘/registration.php’ );

So I changed it to:

require_once( ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/registration.php’ );

And now things are running perfectly. Yay!

Try the following:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-make-a-private-community/?topic_page=2&num=15#post-44616

Or:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-make-a-private-community/?topic_page=3&num=15#post-44729

Add the code to your theme’s functions.php.

Make sure that you have member registration turned on in your wordpress installation, it will be located at in your wordpress backend dashboard under Settings > General > Membership.

Hope this helps

I’m having the same problem. My site is set as UTC. The Birthday plugin works and puts the right date in the widget. When editing, it says the right date. But in the public profile, it is one day earlier. (ex. July 10 is showing as July 9) Using latest version of Buddypress, BuddyPress Corporate 1.3.4 Theme, and WordPress 3.1.1.

Also, when requiring a date on registration, the date field acts as if it’s not filled out. Keeps showing red and saying “Required Field.” I was putting in a date of January 1, 1970.

Thank you @hnla

@magcindy you place the import line in your WP theme’s style.css file.
The registration page is now by default at http://yoursite.com/register

Am attempting to implement some of the ideas from this forum, particularly those from the post https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/buddypress-spam/?topic_page=3&num=15#post-69499
Would really appreciate some guidance in order to do this correctly. Some of this may appear stupid –

My Set up is the following-BuddyPress installation on a subsite.

a) Multisite with subdirectories http://examplesite.com/ – http://examplesite.com/subsite1 – http://examplesite.com/subsite2 – http://examplesite.com/subsite3 etc etc.
b)BuddyPress installed on a subdirectory. say on http://examplesite.com/subsite3
c) So that there is a consistent signup interface I have redirected the signup of http://examplesite.com/ from http://examplesite.com/wp-signup.php to http://examplesite.com/subsite3/register via a plugin Quick Page/Post Redirect. Before doing this the signups at http://examplesite.com/ were going to http://examplesite.com/wp-signup.php and from anywhere else were going to http://examplesite.com/subsite3/register.

Question 1
With regard to
1)# BEGIN ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION
2)RewriteEngine On
3)RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
4)RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .wp-signup.php*
5)RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.examplesite.com. [OR]
6)RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
7)RewriteRule (.*) http://examplesite.com/goaway.html [R=301,L]

A) In line 4 what do I replace .wp-signup.php* with ? Is it .register.php* ? or is it .subsite3/register.php ?? or is it something else ???
In line 5 do i replace !.examplesite.com. with anything ? say !.examplesite.com/subsite3. ???

Question 2
With regard to “changing the register slug”
A) does this mean changing the name of the file register.php ??? or something else ??? and inserting define( “BP_REGISTER_SLUG”, “your-registration-slug” ); with the new name replacing “your-registration-slug” say retsiger.php or with some other name?
Would it then be necessary to go into the plugins like say Buddypress Humanity and change any references to register.php to whatever its name has been changed to or is that taken care of by the define( statement )) ??

Question 3
If the site was http://www.examplesite.com/ instead of http://examplesite.com/ would there be any changes to your advice ?

Question 4
In my .htaccess file there is already a line “RewriteEngine On” . Do I still include line 2 of the above?

Question 5
Is there any particular place in the .htaccess file where the above code should be inserted ?

Many Thanks

I am trying to use my index.php file to check if the user is logged in, then display the php code from register.php on the home page if it is not. I can get it to check if the user is logged in, but the registration form will not show up on my index.php if they are not. Is there a way to make this work?

A barrier or not, I’ve got a client requesting this feature and am at odds with how to do it. Ideas?

You can restrict which pages a non-registered member can see, if thats any help? For example I have restricted all the pages for non-members, apart from the registration page, terms and conditions and my blog posts?

== but there is no new member sign up, only a log in ==

@godcix go to dashboard > Network Admin > Settings > Settings > Registration Settings — either “user accounts many be created” or “user and blogs may be created” should be chosen. The default setting is closed registration so you have to change the setting.

Hate to say it, but I am having the same issue using WP 3.1.1 and BP 1.2.8

This is using the BP Default Theme.

Same behavior too, as it redirects after registration to the main site url. This is NOT in the root of the web server, but a sub direction if it matters (domain.com/_news/)

There seem to be issues surrounding this all across the forums with mixed updates. Anyone definitively have the solution for this as it seems people either post and figure it out or post and give up?

Thanks in advance!

Are you using the Block Activity Types plugin by chance?

Could also be an object caching problem if you have such a plugin activated.

If you want to completely disable public registrations, and only want to set up a invite only BuddyPress community, check out this plugin as well: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-secure-invites/

Should work in combination with the plugin Mercime mentioned