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@mercime @thealchemist

@pcwriter … Actually, the post may be old, but I just posted the other day … so thanks for your fast response! And, yes, @mercime is correct – we now learn more and can use the plugin more effectively.

I’d double-check that the admin email is correct at yourdomain.com/wp-admin/options-general.php

Then, make sure that the emails aren’t being zapped by your SPAM filter.

Do you get regular BuddyPress notifications (friend requests, private messages, etc.) to the admin email?

Is your email hosted on the same server as your site? You might try switching the admin email to gmail or whatever to see if the emails go to that other account. Because if your email account is the same as your website domain but you host your email elsewhere (ex. Rackspace, Google Apps), your server might be trying to send the message locally.

Hello,
I have stumbled to this topic while searching how to change the time of activation link before it expires.
So, @kriskl how much time it takes before activation link expires when registering to your site?
I have similar problem. The default time of 2 hours looks like very insufficient for users. We have almost no spam registrations and still there are many abandoned registrations.
On the net there is no easily reachable info how to change this configuration. I have posted two threads on WP.com, still no news. Hope some of you people can help or give an idea where is that php that sets the time period.

10x

@pcwriter even though you answered a 5-month-old question, the information you gave is still valid and will help others who would like to know how to use s2member effectively

Oops! Just noticed this thread is 5 months old

@thealchemist

Make sure registration is enabled for your site.
For single WP install, go to ‘Settings’ > ‘General’ and check ‘Anyone can register’.
For a multisite install, go to ‘Super Admin’ > ‘Options’ and select an option at ‘Allow new registrations’.

@cdragin

There is actually a rather easy way to accomplish what you want done.with s2member.

New users are redirected to the homepage upon activation of their account. Using s2member’s API/Scripting, it’s quite simple to set up a page to display different content to not-logged-in visitors and logged-in members whose subscription level=0 (free membership).

1 – Create a page and assign it to ‘Front page displays’ under ‘Settings’ > ‘Reading’. That’s your new homepage.
2 – Under ‘s2member’ > ‘API/Scripting’, go to ‘Using Simple Conditionals’ and study the example codes given. You can customize the content on your frontpage to display the PayPal buttons ONLY to registered members with a level=0. You can also set it up for incremental upgrade prompts according to the current membership level (s2member is really cool in that regard!).
3 – Under ‘s2member’ > ‘General Options > ‘Login Welcome Page’, you can redirect users to their BP profile when they login with this: http://YOUR-SITE.com/members/%%current_user_login%%/profile/

Now create your register page the way you want it, and have your users sign up in the usual way. (Perhaps include some info on that page informing them that will have the opportunity to select their membership options after activating their account.) They will be redirected to your frontpage upon activation and will then see your PayPal subscription button(s) displayed prominently, all the goodies that come with paid membership, and a hearty prompt to “pay their dues”.

Hope this helps!

I have an even more basic problem at the moment … I can’t get the registration page to work.

Every time you click on it you get redirected to the home page. Have I simply missed something in the configuration? Sample at xtreme.transmutationsciences.com

Been messing around with adding custom usermeta data at signup and have come up with the following:

`function bp_custom_user_signup() { ?>

<?php
}

add_action(‘bp_before_registration_submit_buttons’, ‘bp_custom_user_signup’);

// Add field_name from sign-up to usermeta on registration
function bp_user_activate_field( $signup ) {

update_usermeta( $signup, ‘name_of_field_in_template’, apply_filters( ‘get_name_of_field_in_template_value’, $_POST ) );

return $signup;
}
add_filter( ‘user_register’, ‘bp_user_activate_field’ );
`
Note that this data is put into the database at the point of registration, not at user activation as the original example suggested – but I couldn’t get that to work.

And what are your registration settings under Super Admin -> Options?

Try to put the plugin: si-captcha-for-wordpress, this works on buddypress.

It’s not caused by the BuddyPress registration process, I can tell you that much

Yeah, exactly. But I suggested a widget as that’s probably easier for most people to use rather than creating custom page templates.

This issue is one that has been discussed at length in various threads over the months here, and many approaches to tackling the issue are given.

Please do a search for these threads and have a detailed read through and implement a few of the suggestions they provide.

Hi,
I had the same problem I have commented from line 174 to line 199 in the
registration/register.php (in child theme)
Here the code

<div id="blog-details"class="show">

	<span class="label">
		<input type="checkbox" name="signup_with_blog" id="signup_with_blog" value="1" checked="checked" /> 	
	</span>

	<label for="signup_blog_url">
		<input type="text" name="signup_blog_url" id="signup_blog_url" value="" />
		<input type="text" name="signup_blog_url" id="signup_blog_url" value="" />
	</label>

	<label for="signup_blog_title"> 
		<input type="text" name="signup_blog_title" id="signup_blog_title" value="" />
	</label>
	
	 <label>
		<input type="radio" name="signup_blog_privacy" id="signup_blog_privacy_public" value="public" checked="checked" /> 
	</label>

	<label>
		<input type="radio" name="signup_blog_privacy" id="signup_blog_privacy_private" value="private" checked="checked" />
	</label>

</div>

Put your theme’s “register.php” over at http://pastebin.com then post link here. I’ll take a look at it.

The <div content Wrapper could be missing

@Mouchoirs Do a search for “Private Buddypress site” or something like that and you’ll find lots of threads on how to redirect non-logged in users to the login or registration page.

@djpaul,
Seems like you should be able to just replicate the user account creation calls on another page right? This is something I was considering doing for my project. Basically, someone could upload a list of email addresses and names, and it would create the person’s account, email them a temp password and they’d be good to go. Yes, I know WP use to do temp password and took that out, but in this case it might be useful to do.