Can somebody at least tell me whether this is possible? Or am I wasting my my time?
Does anybody know how to get bp_get_current_signup_step to work on a page other than register.php?
Now that there are several hundred more students registered, feedback has prompted a few more “tiny” updates to the theme:
Number 1
The members area has been simplified. No sidebar shows and the member-header has been widgitized. The simplification helps with the slow performance of the site.
Number 2
The tutoring area is now sorted by groups, alphabetically. The latest five posts show and buttons are available for creating a new topic in that particular forum.
Number 3
Pagination is now available in the activity stream. Rather than rely on the ajax “load more” – pages are available.
Number 4
Registration page changed to a single page, without sidebars. This stops the “cramped” feeling during registration.
Number 5
Microsoft Translator added to the footer. EL students are now able to change the page to load in their native language.
Still waiting for the BP Media to be out of nightly builds so that the latest photos become available site wide.
I’m still debating about a “faster” loading /start page. While the page provides explanations, too many kids are not reading the information. It’s probably a waste of bandwidth. But the jury is out on that one …
Site URL: http://www.thechembook.com
@travel-junkie
Just been having a play around, although can’t yet see an approach to change the mismatch notice when > 0 characters I did add in a stronger warning on username password matches.
I changed //password1 == username to return ‘badPassUsername’ leaving ‘badPass’ to work for the score < 40
Added a new var badPassUsername = 6
added new ‘case 6’ to the switch and made relevant adjustments to the var pwsL10n in bpxs-core.php
so now on my copy a username == password1 match informs the user the password is insecure as username matches password, that’s the polite version anyway 
What I wanted to work further on is to then halt the process until user had made a change as at the minute despite the warning the registration will still submit that numpty password.
I’m experiencing the same problem – but I’m definitely using a BuddyPress enabled theme. I’m trying to enable registration on my home page by using a template, but nothing is being returned by bp_get_current_signup_step(), so nothing is displayed between
. Is there a way of working around this? @thomallen Did you get this working eventually?
I’m having trouble. The form is empty, because bp_get_current_signup_step() is not being returned as equal to ‘request details’ on line 12. I don’t think anything is being returned for bp_get_current_signup_step(), because I’m not on register.php. Any idea how to fix / work around this? You can see what I mean at languagecollective.org. ( @pcwriter)
I now understand from my test user registration that all users must reply to an authentication email that they receive after registering to be a user on a BuddyPress site. If a user for any reason does not respond to that automated email to authenticate their registration, that user will be marked as a “spammer” and thus they will be unable to participate in that BuddyPress site.
Perhaps this procedure should be explained directly in the BuddyPress documentation somewhere so that administrators will understand what to expect with BuddyPress?
I tested the BuddyPress registration process by registering as “test” but using an actual email address of mine. This “test” user was also automatically marked as a “spammer” and that automatic marking of any user as a “spammer” is a problem. BuddyPress should look into why this automatic marking of a user as a “spammer” happens, and also provide clear and specific instructions for administrators to undo the marking of “spammer” whenever (as in this case) the marking of a user as a “spammer” is clearly an error.
Thanks @pcwriter. I’ll give it a try and let you know if it works.
Hey Roger – as I said above I used the BP Template Pack and followed their instructions exactly – so my file structure would mimic their setup. The theme is my own (hence the reason I used the BP Template Pack Plugin) and placed the “activity” “blogs” “members” “groups” and “forums” folders inside my theme root. When I try to edit any of the files the template pack designates (see below) nothing is updated on the site:
* /activity/index.php
* /blogs/index.php
* /forums/index.php
* /groups/index.php
* /groups/create.php
* /groups/single/home.php
* /groups/single/plugins.php
* /members/index.php
* /members/single/home.php
* /members/single/plugins.php
* /registration/register.php
@Iain Manley
How about this workaround:
1 – Create a page template and copy the content of your register.php file to it.
2 – Create a blank page in WP using that template. Eg: my-custom-home-page
3 – Under “Settings” > “Reading”, select that WP page as a static page at “Front page displays”…
Now your front page IS your register page. Next… @Brajesh at Buddydev has coded a cool activate/login/redirect plugin that can do the rest:
http://buddydev.com/plugins/buddypress-premium-plugins/plugin-bp-auto-activate-auto-login-redirect-to-profile-automatically-activate-your-new-user-signuplog-them-in-and-redirect-to-their-buddypress-profile-on-signup/
I’m sure you could tweak the code of that plugin to redirect to the “edit profile” template rather than the “Public” view.
Hope it works!
There’s a plugin for that but I don’t know if it’s working in 3.0.1
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-registration-options/
CRParticipant
I posted this in another thread on the topic, but I thought I would post it here too in case it helps anyone. I don’t know if this was anyone else’s issue, but this was my problem and the solution I found.
SET UP: Running BuddyPress on a single install (not MU) and using the default BuddyPress theme with an assortment of plugins (but removing all the plugins did not help my problem).
PROBLEM: jcrop function wouldn’t work after an avatar was uploaded either on the registration or edit avatar pages within buddypress. The image and thumbnail would show, but there was no crop box to change what was selected for the thumbnail. Very frustrating.
SOLUTION: stupidly simple once I finally found it – for some reason there was no link to the external jcrop javascript file appearing in the header of the pages! (This can be checked by viewing the page source of the problem pages via your browser) To fix this I edited the bp-core-cssjs.php file which is inside the bp-core folder inside buddypress. Right after this line:
`$aspect_ratio = (int) constant( ‘BP_AVATAR_FULL_WIDTH’ ) / (int) constant( ‘BP_AVATAR_FULL_HEIGHT’ ); ?>`
I added:
`<script src="/wp-includes/js/jcrop/jquery.Jcrop.js”>`
And now the crop tool is showing up and everything works perfectly! Note that you may need to change the path to the Jcrop.js file depending on your site setup. Before this I had also downloaded the latest version of jcrop from http://deepliquid.com/content/Jcrop.html and updated it on my site, so I don’t know if that plays in at all or not.
Again, don’t know if that helps anyone else, it might have been something quirky in my set up maybe, but it did the trick for me so I figured I’d share it just in case.
I should have been more literal .
In WP set up to run as Multi Site you have a Super Admin set of links one of which is ‘Options’ if running as single WP then that isn’t available and you need to use the Settings > General link as Paul described.
Worth bearing in mind BP is a registration/member led application it is nothing without ability for members to sign up but traditionally WP was a single bloggers tool and probably most never allowed or wanted people to sign up to the blog but simply place comments to posts so default state is registration disabled.
Have you enabled registrations in admin > options
1. Could you set this as a profile field ? For ex. A dropdown list added to the registration page where they state yes or no to a question on hospitality. If they answer yes they can be autojoined to the ‘yes’ group so everyone will know where to look for them.
2. If you are running a WP multisite you could set up a blog called ‘work listings’ or something like that, allow everyone ‘author’ capabilities set up one page as a standardized form and another to show the results of the posted form set the excerpts to show 0 -zero- characters and you’ll have a multipost page with a listing of jobs. – There are a number of plugins that will autojoin users to specific blogs on a multisite –
3. Same thoughts as with 2.
5. If you do a search for plugins there are a few that offer events calendars. Right now I’m using ‘My Calendar’ which offers an easily customizable interface so that you can make it look like your main site.
7. A simple page with a ‘donate’ button linked to paypal or whoever
8. WP multisite does this. If you set it so that users can create a blog on registration they can name the blog anything they like, I don’t know if you can automate the process so that the blog-name field is pulled from their username, or you can have a strict naming policy, add some text to the reg form stating that only the username is acceptable for blog names and set the joining process under moderation so that you have to approve each that way each blog will be called registeredusername.mydomain.com for subdomain installs or mysite.com/regusername for sub directory install.
4 & 6 I have no idea.
As for the plugins most come with the ability to activate either for one blog or for network activation, using the plugin ‘exclude plugins’ you can hide the plugins from your users blogs or allow certain plugins but disallow others. For ex, I have a user that wanted the plugin ‘ephemeris’ on their blog, I installed it, allowed it for that site and they are now happily ephemerising awaywhilst other users aren’t even aware that the plugin exists (they don’t see it on their blogs)
The plugins that I’m using I pulled straight from the WP plugin pages and so far they have all worked on my WPBP site without hiccup,
Regards.
Me.
Do you have multisite turned on ? If you do, what you’re looking for is the tab called Super Admin (should be at the very top), on the Options page you have the ability to only allow registrations from specific domain names or to block people from registering from certain domain names.
Regards
Me.
it is setup to accept new members, and I went through the registration process on the front end and it seemed to work just fine . . . until I never received the activation email.
HI Ken,
Just so you know I’m in the process of setting up my first WP/BP site so I’m a complete beginner and this might be bovine fecal matter.
Not sure this is what you want (or if it will even work), but it might be a workaround to get started.
You can set users to autojoin a specific bpgroup on registration, name the groups site1, site2, etc and when they signup through each sub they can be automatically joined to that group. (and automatically ‘friend’ the members of that group if you want)
That way you can differentiate the members of each site by which group they joined. Like I said, this might be bovine…… but it might work too
Regards.
Me
In the ‘Settings > Discussion’ section a black list does exist but it doesn’t prevent users from registering. It prevents them from commenting. I want to prevent registrations from gmail.com or hotmail.com etc
CRParticipant
Don’t know if this was anyone else’s issue, but this was my problem and the solution I found.
PROBLEM: jcrop function wouldn’t work after an avatar was uploaded either on the registration or edit avatar pages within buddypress. The image and thumbnail would show, but there was no crop box to change what was selected for the thumbnail. Very frustrating.
SOLUTION: stupidly simple once I finally found it – for some reason there was no link to the external jcrop javascript file appearing in the header of the pages! (This can be checked by viewing the page source of the problem pages via your browser) To fix this I edited the bp-core-cssjs.php file which is inside the bp-core folder inside buddypress. Right after this line:
`$aspect_ratio = (int) constant( ‘BP_AVATAR_FULL_WIDTH’ ) / (int) constant( ‘BP_AVATAR_FULL_HEIGHT’ ); ?>`
I added:
`<script src="/wp-includes/js/jcrop/jquery.Jcrop.js”>`
And now the crop tool is showing up and everything works perfectly! Note that you may need to change the path to the Jcrop.js file depending on your site setup. Before this I had also downloaded the latest version of jcrop from http://deepliquid.com/content/Jcrop.html and updated it on my site, so I don’t know if that plays in at all or not.
Anyway, don’t know if that helps anyone else, but it did the trick for me so I figured I’d share it just in case.
1. I’ll check about the invite tab, that is strange behaviour (I haven’t been able to to do that much as I have exams this week — I’ll be addressing all bugfixes for 0.1.2 from Monday onwards.
2. If an event creator invites someone, then the registrations get auto approved. If someone else (apart from the creator) invites people, then they get the “pending” status. ( I had assumed that anyone invited by the event-creator himself shouldn’t be given a pending status.)
Also, I’ve started using Google Code hosting for EventPress and related issues — that way I don’t have to keep checking this forum, the plugin forum, the wordpress plugin form (as EP also runs without BP) and my blog for feedback — http://code.google.com/p/eventpress/ . So, beyond this point, I’ll be checking the google project more often (and more of a chance to see a reply there).
