Update:
I think it’s the template pack. If I remove the registration template folder from my template, then it works. While registration folder is there, login does not work. Do I really need this folder? Registration, login, and activation work without it on the old wordpress system… right?
Thank you! Yes I know… but this one is not a real solution for my problem!
Using this PlugIn (during the registration) my users still have to fill out three mandatory fields (Full Name, First- and Last Name)… and this doesn’t make sense…
still cannot figure this out. Can we please go 1 by 1? I have a single installation WP+BP and i have buddypress registration on, so everybody is becoming a member through BP. Let’s say that i want to create a simple widget “About me” and echo what the author’s filled in *this* profile field. The profile field would be called “About me
.This will appear only in author’s posts. I say again my wordpress installation is not MU but it is multi authors write in the same blog. this plugin does exactly what i want, but it echos the WP’s core “About me” and i want to modify it with buddyopres’s field!
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/author-profile/
Please help 
yes im using the evolved chat now….actually like it…i have a whole chat site which i could add that to my WP site along with the phpbb i have. i was offered alo of applications to use for my site from my hosting. i want to have them all together so people dont have to make separate registrations for everything
Every morning I wake up, delete about 30 blogs and then delete the users. I will just learned how to check the access logs (I have my own server and just figured out how to check them lol) so I will pay attention to them and see what I can find out.
“WOW, I did the above mentioned items and I am still getting hammered with spam blogs. I have no idea what to do now, I am already making a sacrifice by taking away blog creation during signup. “
Start looking at access logs. If you have no way to check how they are getting in, then you have very little luck in stopping them.
have you DELETED the exisiting spam users? Because if you;re just deleting the blogs they create and leaving the spam users…. they just create more.
@lilyo Thanks for your help 
I really like the idea of editing the plugin to make blog registrations require a password. I will take a look at the code but I already know its out of my league as well. Perhaps I will contact him on the main WP site and see what he thinks. That seems like it would be a useful plugin on its own.
@jwack
– Yep
– Yes, it’s not the most accessible-friendly way to prevent splogging but we do require people use the code in order to register at all, instead of a captcha. And we haven’t had a single spammer since. But for the few who don’t know it, we also provide the link where they can easily find out what it is, especially if they feel too lazy to look it up (I would be, heh).
Since our targets are mostly local people or former residents, they tend to know what the zip code is. If you have a genre-specific site, perhaps a similar technique could be applied? Or maybe a developer here could help you to modify the code so it applies only to the blog registration? I’m more of a front-end user/designer so altering other dev’s code is way out of my league >_<;
@lilyo
Thanks for the response.
– I already changed the reg. slug in wp-config.php (this would do the same thing correct?
-That plugin would be awesome if it only allows blog creation with a special password, I want anyone to be able to register. You actually limit people to register on your site if they have a password?
@jwack
hi, I had similar issues… even after removing the blog signup at registration, spammers would sign up, activate their accounts, and then create a new splog. to help cut down, I tried these steps:
– changed my registration slug in bp-custom.php:
define ( ‘BP_REGISTER_SLUG’, ‘join’ );
– also added a redirect of wp-signup.php inside bp-custom.php:
function register_redirect() {
if (strpos($_SERVER, ‘wp-signup.php’) !== false ) {
$url = ‘http://www.mysite.com/join’;
wp_redirect($url);
exit;
}
}
add_action(‘init’, ‘register’);
those two helped but didn’t completely remove the issue, this plugin really nailed it for us though:
– installed this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/invitation-code-checker/ (since we have a local comm site, we just used a zip code as the invite code)
Not sure how your site is set up but perhaps you can find a way to use it too, may even allow you to re-enable blog sign up at registration. It says Tested up to: WordPress MU 2.8.4 but I have WP 3.0.3 with network enabled and BP 1.2.6 and still seems to be working just fine.
Most of these suggestions were pulled from helpful posts on BP, hopefully they help you out a bit
WOW, I did the above mentioned items and I am still getting hammered with spam blogs. I have no idea what to do now, I am already making a sacrifice by taking away blog creation during signup.
Any ideas of what I can do?
I think the site looks great! Is that a plug in that allows the registration drop down or did you code it out? I’m less than 24 hours into buddypress so I know nada!
jamie
Oh so emails are being sent then!
As mentioned work in just WP ensure that option to allow user registration is set and test again and send to an account that you has no issues i.e accounts like hotmail can be problematical as they implement iirc SPF records and will likely reject emails coming from a domain they can’t verify so ensure the sending address is real. There are quite a few threads on the support forum on this subject that cover most of what I can suggest and more, so they are worth tracking down although I admit searching can be awkward.
I didn’t notice the wp-signup.php, I am hopeful this will solve the problem, thanks!
Thanks so much mercime I was looking for something like that. The journalists blogs is something I already knew how to do it, but the style in forums and buddypress related things was killing me. Time to CSS!
Blogs: You have to enable multisite in your WP install first before you can let journalists create their own blogs. Read how to https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
Template Pack: Here’s a BP Template Pack walkthrough which could shed some light on how to add styles – https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/
Basically, you copy some styling from bp-default theme and tweak it to taste.
And how can I do that? Because it’s not in the buddypress options, I infer I should do a lot of coding.
Now I’m testing with a wordpress installation in my root xxx.com and a WordPress Magazine theme made compatible with @AndyPeatling Theme Pack plugin. But the tricky bussiness is that now, although it works fine, I don’t have a style in the buddypress things, as the theme is not designed to work with it, and I’m a bit lost of how to stylize these parts.
Either they;re getting in via the bbpress signup, or they are using exisitng logins.
Have you got “allow users to add exisiting users” checked in the super Admin -> Options menu? If so, UNcheck it. that’s one way we know they were getting in.
Also – you did nothing to the default multsite signup page, whcih is yoursite.com/wp-signup.php. Change that to a .txt file, then NOBODY can sign up for a blog on the front end.
Yep.
Buddypress does not make the blogs, though. WordPress does with multisite enabled. Buddypress just does the user profiles.
@KatieBen what have you tried to fix it? Does the wp-signup.php page work with BP turned off?
Can you give a link to your site so others can look?
Check out the following network plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmu-new-blog-defaults/
It doesn’t add a field on the registration page, but it gives the super admin the option of adding users to specific blogs in the admin area.
Sorry are you looking for a way to add this through a plugin or code or are you suggesting it as an enhancement to BuddyPress?
Hey Nick, I’m having the same problem now. Did you ever fix this? How did you solve this? Thanks. (:
