@stars4321 yeah, BP Nicey is a child theme of bp-default and most probably wouldn’t have cause the registration glitch. Change to bp-default theme, deactivate recaptcha and plugins other than BuddyPress and see if /register/ still goes to home page.
got it. had to point the action
PJParticipant
Alright, that makes sense. Thank you @djpaul .
Yes, actually I did open a ticket about this but they didn’t answer while they answer all my other tickets instantly. I’ll open another ticket adding what you’ve told me and try again.
Thanks for the help after me admitting how few I know about WP 
I have too little knowledge on this matter.
Well you said it 
Email is a deep and complicated subject however setting up servers to be able to forward mail relatively trivial how that mail is dealt with though once it is actually in transit around the net is where the problems start.
With your lack of admitted knowledge you are best advised to take the issue to your host to resolve really. This isn’t so much a BP or WP issue as a server one and the use of these plugins is a hack to avoid addressing the real issue as far as I can tell, I have encountered all manner of issues setting up LAMP servers and email but have always resolved by correctly installing and configuring mail functions at the server level.
I have a feeling that you simply haven’t configured the plugin with a proper smtp server url to use, I use Gmail for domains on a regular basis configuring the MX records with the main DNS for the domain and have generally no problem using the sendmail programme with WP/BP
You might also be running a mail server and the mx records might not have been set correctly?
Also I must add that of all the many threads reporting issues with email the majority are with bluehost.
Open a ticket with Bluehost as their continued issue are tending to become a PITA and they are supposed to be a WP friendly host.
and, hnla ..
I wouldn’t know that – I have too little knowledge on this matter.
I wouldn’t know WP and BP are using the same email routines..
I hoped something useful from the longest entry on my topic but – you deceived me
I just tried the SMTP plugins you suggested but no matter what I do with it’s settings, it just keeps giving errors…
The below error for example;
Test Message Sent
‘The result was:
bool(false)
The full debugging output is shown below:
object(PHPMailer)#878 (45) {
[“Priority”]=>
int(3)
[“CharSet”]=>
string(5) “UTF-8”
[“ContentType”]=>
string(10) “text/plain”
[“Encoding”]=>
string(4) “8bit”
[“ErrorInfo”]=>
string(36) “Could not instantiate mail function.”
[“From”]=>
string(23) “noreply @www.sevenos.net”
[“FromName”]=>
string(5) “81300”
[“Sender”]=>
string(0) “”
[“Subject”]=>
string(44) “WP Mail SMTP: Test mail to sevenos @gmail.com”
[“Body”]=>
string(68) “This is a test email generated by the WP Mail SMTP WordPress plugin.”
[“AltBody”]=>
string(0) “”
[“WordWrap”]=>
int(0)
[“Mailer”]=>
string(4) “mail”
[“Sendmail”]=>
string(18) “/usr/sbin/sendmail”
[“PluginDir”]=>
string(0) “”
[“Version”]=>
string(5) “2.0.4”
[“ConfirmReadingTo”]=>
string(0) “”
[“Hostname”]=>
string(15) “www.sevenos.net”
[“MessageID”]=>
string(0) “”
[“Host”]=>
string(9) “localhost”
[“Port”]=>
int(25)
[“Helo”]=>
string(0) “”
[“SMTPSecure”]=>
string(0) “”
[“SMTPAuth”]=>
bool(false)
[“Username”]=>
string(0) “”
[“Password”]=>
string(0) “”
[“Timeout”]=>
int(10)
[“SMTPDebug”]=>
int(2)
[“SMTPKeepAlive”]=>
bool(false)
[“SingleTo”]=>
bool(false)
[“smtp”]=>
NULL
[“to”]=>
array(1) {
[0]=>
array(2) {
[0]=>
string(17) “sevenos @gmail.com”
[1]=>
string(0) “”
}
}
[“cc”]=>
array(0) {
}
[“bcc”]=>
array(0) {
}
[“ReplyTo”]=>
array(0) {
}
[“attachment”]=>
array(0) {
}
[“CustomHeader”]=>
array(0) {
}
[“message_type”]=>
string(5) “plain”
[“boundary”]=>
array(2) {
[1]=>
string(35) “b1_1470c9ad82e79af6f6f5232da168c73a”
[2]=>
string(35) “b2_1470c9ad82e79af6f6f5232da168c73a”
}
[“language”]=>
array(13) {
[“mailer_not_supported”]=>
string(25) ” mailer is not supported.”
[“provide_address”]=>
string(55) “You must provide at least one mailer is not supported.”
[“execute”]=>
string(19) “Could not execute: “
[“instantiate”]=>
string(36) “Could not instantiate mail function.”
[“authenticate”]=>
string(35) “SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.”
[“from_failed”]=>
string(35) “The following From address failed: “
[“data_not_accepted”]=>
string(30) “SMTP Error: Data not accepted.”
[“recipients_failed”]=>
string(56) “SMTP Error: The following SMTP Error: Data not accepted.”
[“connect_host”]=>
string(43) “SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.”
[“file_access”]=>
string(23) “Could not access file: “
[“file_open”]=>
string(33) “File Error: Could not open file: “
[“encoding”]=>
string(18) “Unknown encoding: “
[“signing”]=>
string(15) “Signing Error: “
}
[“error_count”]=>
int(1)
[“LE”]=>
string(1) “
“
[“sign_cert_file”]=>
string(0) “”
[“sign_key_file”]=>
string(0) “”
[“sign_key_pass”]=>
string(0) “”
}
The SMTP debugging output is shown below:’
The only thing I need to change now is the redirect URL for registrations, when a non logged in user writes a subdomain URL incorrectly:
nonexistingblog.mysite.com
right now that function points me to “/register”, which results in 404 error. I wanna change it to “/registrera”.
Problem then is people can upload graphics without having an activated account. We’ve taken out the pre-activation upload avatar step out of the BP-Default 1.3 (will be shipping in BuddyPress 1.3) theme, but it’d be trivial to put back in or re-order as PJ suggests.
PJParticipant
+1
The user registration process could be refined. It confuses most users who aren’t Buddypress savvy.
Combining the username/email entry page with the avatar uploading at the bottom would make things a lot easier. That way the following page would simply say to click the confirmation email and login to get started.
@stefrusso The heck with it — I just went into the database and hand-edited the description field in table wp_bp_xprofile_fields.
Bump. Looking for this myself.
You can modify the registration template to remove the blog creation checkbox.
If you’re using the bp-default theme, create a child theme and then copy over /bp-themes/bp-default/registration/register.php to your theme.
Change this:
`
<input type="checkbox" name="signup_with_blog" id="signup_with_blog" value="1" checked=”checked” />
`
to:
“
Next, change:
`
@MrNiceGuy2 unfortunately the page you linked to in first post now goes to required registration page. Looking back to your first post == How do I edit these pages!? ==
When you go through the BP Template Pack process, 13 files in 6 folders are transferred to your active WP theme and those are the files you need to revise, and not the template files in BP Template Pack itself.
If your site has open registration like you say, then users shouldn’t be redirected to the register page when they’re trying to read a post.
Do you have any redirection or private BuddyPress plugins installed?
This is why it’s so important to provide as accurate a picture as possible:
Initially you stated:
system is not sending..
Prompting my response for more detail but later you say:
but I have no problem in my wordpress blog.. this only occur in buddypress one
A vital piece of info that changes the nature of responses and needed to be provided from the outset.
@DJPaul Can you elaborate a little on this, is there in fact a possible issue between BP and WP when it comes to email sending? BP after all does have greater requirements for sending emails than WP, but I’ve never encountered an issue that was directly related to BP where email was concerned – as far as I’m aware! If there is a possible conflict is it something that can be flagged to look further into?
BuddyPress uses the WordPress mailing routines. It’s probably due to a higher quantity of emails that your BuddyPress site is trying to send, vs WordPress.
but I have no problem in my wordpress blog.. this only occur in buddypress one 
Depends on your webhost actually. Some had to use a plugin to make mail work https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/ and I’ve read others use this https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/
can anyone explain how do I solve this server/hosting related problem?
The register page uses a BP template:
/registration/register.php
You could add some verbiage before the registration form in that template, perhaps a link to your blog post?
If you’re currently using the bp-default theme, create a child theme, copy /registration/register.php to your child theme and modify the template anyway you like (just don’t break anything
It seems like a lot of people are urging Janrain engage to make their plugin compatible with buddypress. Maybe you can add your vote too.
http://feedback.janrain.com/forums/62331-janrain-engage-formerly-rpx-/suggestions/147536-make-a-buddypress-plugin
hey Colage, did you have any luck resolving this issue?
To clarify, do these plugins work as expected when used with just wordpress, but not when integrated with buddypress?
