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I am having this problem too. When I activate members they disappear. Also, no email being sent to new user when they complete registration.

@san61236

Please don’t jump in on others threads if you have a question start your own post.

You might need to check that you have allowed registration in the super-admin settings.

Roger, how to get the Signup / Registration link on the admin bar when I logout. This is for an experimental site on the local machine. Do we need to do any settings? I have updated the wp-config file to support multisite…. ie define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true);

I have no means to test this but if this is an issue with BP 1.2.5.2, please would someone who has this issue report it as a bug on http://trac.buddypress.org? You can use the same username/password as you do for this site to log in. Thanks

Not sure of the process but even if you haven’t got bbpress running locate and remove the file. If spambots are managing to get around hidden fields that should remain empty it suggests they are not using whatever form that protection is on.

For CURL try adding this: (but check carefully things still work!)

# trap curl registration downloaders – block in allow,deny rules
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “^curl” blog_spammer
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from All
Deny from env=blog_spammer

Be careful about blocking IP ranges it’s a difficult practice and one that technically you are supposed to notify about in case innocent yet important sites get blocked, you can add further rules to the deny lines above but unless there is a very persistent IP it’s probably not worth it and likely spoffed anyway.

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.

With me registration doesn;t work. After filling in the form and clicking ‘continue’ people just get redirected to the same, now empty again, form.
The page where they can choose the Avatar never showes up…

Can’t you just change name to “first name” and then add another field called “last name” and then you’d have it the way you describe.

Thought the stray registration file had been dealt with.

As well as rename the register slug, rename the footer links as they are searched out in their default form. I also added a rule to htaccess that checked the referer page and if it wasn’t the site chucked the request to somewhere else (do need to make that somewhere interesting) also blocked any CURL requests for the register page, finally made the decision that blogs could not be created during sign up, once registered members could create blogs and this made a difference.

@tedmann – there was a register file kicking around in the bbPress forum files, and I think that was the back door into the BuddyPress system. I don’t know if that issue has been addressed in the latest BuddyPress / bbPress releases.

We stopped spam registrations almost completely on Hello Eco Living by removing the register file in the bbPress installation, and changing the url of the BuddyPress registration page.

Here’s what I don’t understand: All our recent Spam registrations are completely bypassing the BP registration form. I’ve got a tricky Humanity plugin question on there, as well as several required fields. But when I look at the accounts the spammers are creating, they have none of those fields filled out.

Is there some kind of backdoor registration option in BP or WPMU? How are they getting in?!

I had a similar problem when ie8 was not running in compatibility mode. I was advised to put a meta tag in my header that forces IE8 into this mode http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/ie8-compatibility-mode

This has worked for me

@crashutah:

As @djpaul says live demos are the modern day equivalent of “don’t work with animals and children”. Great if you can make it work, but so many opportunities to go wrong.

You are talking about why it rocks, not an installation tutorial, so I’d also steer clear of any talk about platforms and servers. As @mercime points out, showcasing is where it’s at if you want to talk rocking.

I’d go with the following structure:

1. Whet their appetite with a quick showcase of a few real world sites

Use different types of sites – I see 3 main types in practice:- just niche social networks, pretty much the default BuddyPress with a little bespoke styling; complimentary ones where the niche social network is still obvious but there’s some additionality like a magazine (hmag, tasty kitchen, or our own Hello Eco Living or Fisherbook); and the ones where the social network is in the background supporting the main function (Travel Oregon, Volkswagen, GigaOM).

You could also show by vertical – in education (CUNY), big companies (Daily Telegraph Blogs)

Keep this short and sweet – leave them wanting more!

2. Tell them what they get out of the box

Do it with visuals of a group, activity stream, etc.

3. Tell them what they can add to the box (plugins)

Just a few strong examples – easy to appreciate ones: – e.g. EventPress (running your own event registration) and Media+ (photos, videos, who doesn’t want that!)

4. Finally walk them through one of the most exciting sites in more detail

Use screen dumps / graphics throughout (it doesn’t need a bullet anywhere – although a couple of big number slides is nice – a la Steve Jobs)

Ask them questions throughout to engage attention – “Who’s ever built a site where it would be great if they could get visitors registering?” – then show them an example in BP. “Have you ever wanted a twitter like stream on your site?”. “Have you ever wanted a site where your visitors could post from the front end, and see responses in real time?”, etc., etc.

This way, you’ve got them thinking already: oh yeah, I need that in my site, imagine what we could do if we added this, etc. You’ve painted the picture for them.

And for a bit of humour – you could always risk a live activity stream playing in the background – where a buddy sends a few ‘helpful’ messages as you talk.

Hope that helps!

@crashutah It would all depend on the audience – total WP/BP newbies or WP.org site owners no BP yet or BP site admins who need a little more help before launching. If I were to give a BuddyPress presentation on why BP rocks in an hour, i would make it interactive – with audience participation

– Knowing audience level in WP/BP experience would help you give a better presentation – possibly getting list of attendees off the database from registration to your specific module is powerful information to have, if registration for Utah and/or Vegas were set up to allow that

– Spend a few minutes with the overview of BP – testbp.org – native components included – then include minimum server requirements like mod_rewrite, pref LAMP server, GD library, PHP5.2+, etc.

** include a live presentation of WP and BP installation in 6 minutes or less – get them involved and let them time you, and since you are an experienced developer, you could do it in less than 4 minutes

– Note that even if installation can be easy and fast, it’s the customizations in terms of theming and added functions via plugins that make the site unique and stand out. The special customizations are what makes a difference between a “free” site with a $20,000++ WP/BP site.

– Compare BP showcase sites with default WP/BP install and explain how some customizations can be done either via custom functions, free/paid plugins or by hiring coders/programmers.

** A live 5-minute lesson on how to create a bp-default child theme, upload to server and activate it
** If you prefer, create a custom function live, upload to live site that you created earlier, so audience can see the changes brought on by function or plugin
** If you’re strong in theming, you can also show live how to add some styling in style.css to effect minor/major changes to theme

– Q and A session – 10 minutes or less

– Your contact information – some attendees might prefer to hire you rather than create the site themselves.

Good luck and have a great time!

This only seems to half work.

When an account registers, the metadata is stored in the signup table. When the account ACTIVATES, that data never shows up in the usermeta table.

(I’m trying to record the IP address of user when they register and then spit it out in a pretty way. IMO, this is pretty important for CMS so you can see if a run of morons are all the same troll or not, rather than waiting for them to comment.)

I’m also seeing the same issue using WordPress 3.0 and Buddypress 1.2.5. Zero BP plugins installed.

Email gets sent, user clicks on it but still gets the activation code screen. Enter the code results in an error message about the code being incorrect.

It’s not a very good first impression.

When they activate their account.

Bump
I do require this one.And after searching the forums for a solution I found this thread but there is no solution.

Is there any other way to remove this from your registration page??

Thanks

@hnla, I said “Click it” because it’s on the blog’s main navigation menu. If a visitor click this menu, it will go to the Introduction page.

What you said is exactly what I want— “simply have the text/content you want with a simple link to the registration page and also a simple login, registered users will login and be directed to their profile pag”, but the plugin you mentioned does not perform like this. It works on the action of a user log in(click the log in page) and then redirect.

That sounds like you actually need a custom front page, but what do mean by ‘click it’ that’s a rather loose term click what?

Why does that page not simply have the text/content you want with a simple link to the registration page and also a simple login, registered users will login and be directed to their profile page by the plugin mentioned earlier. What you do with the main site home link is another question, suppose it’s possible to have that custom frontpage display your intro page to all logged out users and once logged in if a member navigates back to that page it will display ? activity loop / main site blog posts