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Hey did you find the answer. I’m having the exact same issue. I had a thought. I’m wondering if the people who aren’t showing up did not go to their email and finish the registration process? But anyway if you’ve figured it out it would be awesome if you post the answer.

Did you look in the documentation section before posting, or use the search?

This has been covered many times in the forums, and there are sections to read in the Codex Documentation on how to check your site is configured properly.

e.g.
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/users-are-not-receiving-mail-on-registration/

have them check their spam folder (and proper host config for sending email – maybe the host has trouble with users sending out spam)

buddypress rules for usernames

`
if ( !validate_username( $user_name ) || in_array( $user_name, (array)$illegal_names ) || $user_name != $maybe[0] )
$errors->add( ‘user_name’, __( ‘Only lowercase letters and numbers allowed’, ‘buddypress’ ) );

if( strlen( $user_name ) < 4 )
$errors->add( ‘user_name’, __( ‘Username must be at least 4 characters’, ‘buddypress’ ) );

if ( strpos( ‘ ‘ . $user_name, ‘_’ ) != false )
$errors->add( ‘user_name’, __( ‘Sorry, usernames may not contain the character “_”!’, ‘buddypress’ ) );

/* Is the user_name all numeric? */
$match = array();
preg_match( ‘/[0-9]*/’, $user_name, $match );

if ( $match[0] == $user_name )
$errors->add( ‘user_name’, __( ‘Sorry, usernames must have letters too!’, ‘buddypress’ ) );
`

As that guide is written b y Boone I guess it must be possible, if it hasn’t worked for you you need to review carefully what you have done and that you have followed all steps explicitly, and yes it might be a case that you need the css in which case test that theory by dropping the adminbar css file into your header for the top level site.

There is a means of deactivating the activation and there will be threads on the forum and – I think – a plugin so have a hunt around.

Don’t do this just to circumvent an issue you are having though; to want to remove activation because as you say “the verification email is being marked as spam most of the time” should be telling you that there is something wrong, email servers only apply filters based on sets of rules, you do have to ensure that when email servers look at incoming mail that they can verify it’s origin in other words perhaps you need associated dns mx records for your domain?

Email isn’t necessarily something that just works or something that WP magically deals with, all WP does is simply use a faux email relay such as sendmail it doesn’t know or care whether your emails report themselves correctly.

Read this:
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/faqs/specific-faqs/#register

In my experience the mail actually gets sent 99.9% of the time. Sometimes it just ends up in the spam folder. Especially with Gmail accounts.

search these forums, this is discussed lots of times.

Can your site send standard WordPress admin emails, e.g. if you create a new user in the admin panel, does it send an email to you as site admin?

If not, you need to configure your WordPress mail correctly, before proceeding with BuddyPress

I don’t know much but I think one nice option would be to comment out or remove the Blog creation details section from the register.php file of your theme.

register.php file residence : yourtheme/registration/register.php

blog creation details section on register.php would be approx : from line no. 169 to line no. 201

or simply comment out line no. 173
or the line with

<?php _e( 'Blog Details', 'buddypress' ) ……

and line no. 175
or the line with

<input type="checkbox" name="signup_with_blog" i …………………….

This may solve your issue with keeping the blog registration open but stopping new people from registering it from the register page of your site.

I have no ideas but I am getting the same type of problem with WP 3.0.1 BP1.2.5.2. When a new user is registered by the admin, via the “add user” option on the users page, an auto email is sent. When the new user clicks on the link they get redirected to wp-login.php. What make this a major problem is that they have not yet been assigned a password so there is no way for them to confirm their existing registration and no way for them to register themselves with the same email address until the first email registration expires (2 days i think).

This wasn’t happening to me at first with the same set up. The new user would enter the site. But I’m unsure if they couldn’t leave without being assigned an avatar and selecting a password?

What’s up with this redirect? Any solutions?

Hi guys,

Great plugin – some very critical registration form elements!

I’m having some trouble with the mailchimp integration. When I enable it via the bp-xtra admin page, I get a 404 error after users submit the registration form, and no address is added to my Mailchimp list. The user still gets the activation email, but the 404 is kind of ugly

I’ve set up the plugin properly: added my API key and the ID for the group… but 404 page remains unless I disable the mailchimp checkbox.

Anyone have this problem? Or any idea how to fix it?

Thanks in advance,
Dave.

I have this problem too. However, I can’t see where to set-up user registration in the BP admin section – these are the options I have under General Settings –

Disable BuddyPress to WordPress profile syncing?: Yes No
Hide admin bar for logged out users?: Yes No
Disable avatar uploads? (Gravatars will still work): Yes No
Disable user account deletion?: Yes No
Disable global forum directory?: Yes No
Disable activity stream commenting on blog and forum posts?:

you have to allow user registration in your BP admin for see the register button.

@jhansensd http://testbp.org/ has the default theme and your users don’t have to go to the backend to log in. As for registration, it’s the “Create an account” in same login panel on the sidebar. You can can easily create a Register Now button in your BP child theme if you prefer. Users do not install bbPress, the Site Admin does.

Recommend that you read the “Getting Started” section in Codex – https://codex.buddypress.org/home/

At the moment, I don’t know a plugin that can do it. A plugin *could* do it, though, by following something like the following setup:
– Modify the registration templates to include Player/Team/Sponsor dropdown
– Hook a function to `bp_core_signup_user` that gets that information out of the $_POST global and saves it with update_user_meta()
– Hook into some of the profile display load_template functions (such as `xprofile_template_display_profile`) to swap out the templates based on the usermeta, which you’d load with get_user_meta()

Such a plugin would take some time to build well, but would be really useful to a lot of people. Good luck!

@djpaul

You once mentioned having a proprietary solution for user lists using xprofile fields.

In redesigning my organization’s website I need to 1. display certain users (organization members in various departments) in a directory and 2. limit certain kinds of content creation to these lists (group creation only for organization members). We still want the site open to the public and use it to recruit new staff so I can’t just close down registration. Also, I can’t use wp roles because write permissions don’t line up with our organizational groupings (eg, some organization directors will be contributors while others are editors).

I’d be interested to know what you’ve come up with and would be willing to purchase it if it meets our needs and fits our budget.

What BP/WP versions are you on? WP Single or multisite? BP installed in root or secondary blog? Hosting company? Hosted on Windows or Linux? Any BP/WP registration plugins turned on?

You just need to replicate the whole section after the `if(function_exists(‘bp_has_profile’)) :` but pass the parameter for the group required i.e ‘profile_group_id=2’

I’ll warn you in advance the trick is going to be working through the mire of if/elses there’s a mess of them, tha whole page should have could have been written better!

There’s a plugin to deal with the links in profiles, look through the plugin list .

And did you try it with the BP default theme?
You’re not logged in to the site and trying to activate a registration using the same browser are you?

Nice looking site. Has a fresh feel to it. I like it.

A few simple comments. On the main page the “Lost your pasword” and “register” links are so close together they look like one. Seems like you’d want to drive registration, but as is I don’t think they’ll see that link at all.

The social network page is nice, but it doesn’t have a very good call to action as far as joining the social network or giving me the option to start doing the things that it lists. There’s one link at the top to join which I pretty much missed at first glance and only realized later that it was there. Although, if I didn’t know web design and BP I might not have ever found it. Then, there’s the link on that page to start a blog. I’d suggest adding some nice big buttons on that page which invite people to join and know clearly where to click to join.

I hope this is helpful.