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I tried BP Registration options based upon this post and the plug-in has some serious bugs. While it does the things it says it does, it also disables admin editing of any of the WPMU blogs posted. I also have a contributor blog going and it disallows contributors from posting media, it cancels out the permissions function I used to allow media publishing. Registration also does not prevent the spammers from posting blogs all over your site. And they do not respond very soon to any type of support questions asking how to fix these problems. I really wish I could use this plug-in.

=== it’s not showing a link for people to click on to register at my site ===
You should enable Registration in dashboard > Super Admin > Options – Registration Settings

I’m closing this topic as the most reply is off-topic and was duplicated from https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/wpml-org-bp-multilingual-plugin-support-1/, which is a better thread for that discussion.

So let them know sounds like something in the initial registration/initialization routines is falling over due to changes but plugins already installed and running have got past that point

Hi, thank you for your reply. Please explain to me how to shout with out using caps? Anyway I do contribute to many open source projects. We can’t do everything ourselves. The thing about this is that it seems to have been left out to die…so-to-speak. You may also notice that the post before mine was 5 months ago…so how long should we quietly wait.

deactivate the buddypress and then network activate it, make sure you followed all those steps given in readme came with buddypress @Chris O’Brien you have disabled the registration and there seems to be no way to contact you try ND’s solution if you are using si captcha “”Found the cullprit; the ‘SI Captcha’ plugin was preventing it because of a wrong set file permission.
Check the plugin settings page and it will say what is wrong””
there was this problem with the last version of buddypress i don’t think this still exists someone if you still face it do tell wp ver buddypress ver and if possible your site address

===i have never seen any menu item for “blog”===

Do you mean a blog directory which lists all blogs in the BP install? You must enable multisite first – create a network. Then:
1. Go to dashboard > Super Admin > Options – Registration Setting – Allow site creation
2. Go to dashboard BuddyPress > Component Setup – Blog Tracking enable
3. For users’ blogs to be listed in blogs directory, Settings > Privacy must be public.

Or do you mean just the “blog” section of the main site?

@hackcafejapan there’s nothing stopping you from doing it. Perhaps you should stop using ALL CAPS, and contribute to the open source project before you criticise it?

I can’t believe there is no multilanguage plugin for buddypress this is 2010 almost 2011 everything is multilingual nowadays. GET IT DONE…YESTERDAY!!! Multilingual should be core on everything!

Definitely try the basics of narrowing down the root of your problem. First, I’d probably download the maintenance mode plugin and let all your users know beforehand that you’ll be doing some testing in the wee hours of the late night. Then, deactivate all your plugins. Run the Default BP theme that shipping with your BP plugin, and update BP, too, if you’re not running the latest version. If everything works — registrations/postings/uploads/etc., you’ll know that it’s a plugin(s). To figure out which one(s) is the culprit, activate one by one and keep testing one by one — very labor/time intensive, but that’s usually how troubleshooting goes. Most likely, you’ll be able to figure out what’s wrong and contact the plugin developer for some pointers

Sounds maybe like a plugin conflicting?

Even I was having the same problem. But realized that lowercase users always work…

I would like to know which file to edit to add that bit of information in the registration page.

Thank you

Try this: http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-enable-multi-site-option-in-wordpress-3-0/

Be sure to back up your site before you do it.

Did you check your permalinks to make sure that they’re enabled?

I am facing the same problem. can anyone help us.? please.

If you are using WP MU (multisite…or whatever you like to call it), then you can do this easily at: http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/ms-options.php Things like this is why I’ve installed my BP on WPMU even though I don’t use more than one blog. The good thing is that since WP 3.0 you can switch to MU easily. Just be sure to test it first and do a good backup.

I want to say there was some way to hack WP single install, but I can’t remember.

I’d love to do this too.

Have you checked out any of these?
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ttc-user-registration-bot-detector/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ttc-wordpress-security-plugin/

You came here seeking help from those more experienced!

BTW, I’m a total newby at both WP and BuddyPress and came to the forum to find help, not to get dumped on

Where have you been dumped on?

It doesn’t help to get snippy about “generally not the done thing to do on forum

There is a very deliberate reason old threads are not raised again, and yes sorry but forums rules in general frown upon this action and do ask that people start their own threads. You claim this thread mirrors your own issue, but I’ll point out that your stated inexperience in matter leaves you not best placed to judge that.

I don’t think starting lots of new threads about the same problem will help anyone

Again let us worry about that.

Please set aside the attitude it doesn’t help. Once again you have come here for help, that help often comes from experienced professionals that earn their living coding and developing, please respect the fact that there is no obligation to help and that this help forum and the project itself is maintained by volunteers – unpaid!

You really needed to have followed my advice earlier about testing with bp-default and plugins disabled if you had lurked on the forum you would have noted that this is a very common and important request.

Now as to your concern as to losing work you wont! it is perfectly safe to change themes that is the nature of the WP themeing side of things, disable your custom theme and activate bp-default also deactivate any BP related plugins except BP itself nat and also any custom functions that you may have created in your themes functions file.

Test the registration process in this default state if it works then you now know you have an issue with either your custom theme or a plugin; if it still doesn’t work then you might consider checking that you have in fact told WP to allow registrations in the WP options screen, if that is set confirm whether WP itself can accept registrations – helps to make sure WP is set up correctly and working before moving on to adding further layers like BP.

When that is done please report back and let us know what the outcomes were and we can then proceed from there.

You can disable plugins and themes temporarily without losing work. WP and BP content is stored in the database and shouldn’t be affected by what themes and plugins you do or do not have activated.

It’s important that you test whether the problem arises with bp-default, the BuddyPress Default theme that comes with BP. If registration works with that theme but not with your custom theme, then we’ll know that your problem is theme-related. Most likely, your theme is missing the template files that BP expects to find when someone visits the registration page, and for some reason the fallback template (which should be wp-signup.php) is not being found either.

Please test with the default theme and report back.