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Just some basic questions: multisite (which is important as a different process)? registration steps completed? data in mysql for a failed user signup? (check _users->”user_status” and _usermeta->meta_key->”activation_key”)

I was pointing out the php file and functions – if you wanted see the flow of the signup. (wp_insert_user, setting user_status, generating and saving activation_key, sending activation email to user). You mentioned “My install of wordpress does send emails successfully, until I activate Buddypress (then it breaks).” BuddyPress uses the same WordPress functions to send an email – so nothing changes in that regard but maybe some weird oddity in your setup causing a null email address or some other unpredictable result.

Rich was asking whether you could confirm that an important stage was definitely being completed correctly as that helps narrow down the areas to troubleshoot.

Using a tool such as phpMyAdmin (MySQL DB manager) find the table called ‘wp_signups’ and confirm that emails that should have been sent and received do indeed have a valid set of entries for registration i.e activation key.

buddypress requires certain steps (such as activation, avatars, profile, xprofile, activity) in the signup process

@Andrea_r I currently have the default theme installed, and have the Twenty Ten child theme is in wp-content/themes. I’m not sure now if I’ve done it all working properly. Is it better to have the Twenty Ten theme if I’m using the CP version too? I’m still so unclear about all this. I’ve read the post about creating a child theme, but I don’t know if I need to do that or not. My site isn’t “live” yet, ie. registrations are closed, so I can still change things around if I need to. I’m just not sure what to do about that.

I don’t do extra profile fields. I use that to redirect to a payment page so they can pay to join. After they pay, I redirect them to a Thank You page with their payment details. This is just a page with a special page template applied to it. I also have the activation disabled and they are just automatically activated and logged into the site. I can get away with this since they have to pay.

I have spent all day trying to figure this out as well. Someone please help.

I have installed Aweber super simple, aweber footer slideup, and Cosmic BP user signup password, and even the Registration sign up plugin widget.

What I would like to do is simple: A sign up form with password creation on my homepage where users auto-subscribe to my aweber list while signing up to my community.

Something like this: http://www.facebook.com/

Any help is greatly appreciated.

I thought that there was a solution on the Google Webmaster page: http://www.google.com/webmasters/ I think you can provide them the login and they’ll index it.

Just know that if you do that, then they’ll likely cache some of the “private” pages which makes it so they aren’t technically private since you could potentially find them in Google’s cache.

I took a different approach to handling a second step. I just redirect the user after the initial registration:

function bp_redirect($user)
{
$redirect_url = ‘http://redirect-page.com ” ;

//redirect to URL
bp_core_redirect($redirect_url);
}

}
/*Add an action to redirect user after registration*/
add_action(“bp_core_signup_user”,”bp_redirect”,100,1);

At least two ways – assuming you’re using child theme of bp-default:
1. in style.css only
body.registration #sidebar { display: none; }
body.registration div#content div.padder { margin-right: 0px; border-right: none; }

2. Template change plus one line in style.css
copy register.php from bp-default/registration/register.php to your child-theme-folder/registration/register.php
replace div class=”padder” with div class=”padderwide”
delete line [?php locate_template( array( ‘sidebar.php’ ), true ) ?]

in style.css add
.padderwide { padding: 20px; }

use the redirect_to param (either get or hidden)

what i use on each topic but just a link to the login form.
$bp->root_domain . '/wp-login.php?redirect_to=' . urlencode( site_url() . $_SERVER )

@r-a-y this helped me out so much… you have no idea. Thank you!

One more question, though, if you are available to help.

Is there a way to turn an xprofile field into a tag? I’m trying to track posts by country so we could then click on the country and see all the posts from that country. (I have a drop down of all countries as a required registration field.)

Or is there a better way to go about it? I don’t mind learning/doing work, I just have no idea how to go about it. Any ideas?

Thanks and best wishes,
Kristen

Edit – too many browsers open, wrong post

OK, I have a BuddyPress install on my website, which is hosted by BlueHost.

I’m using WP ver 3.0 and BP ver 1.2.5.2.

I have searched all over for the solution to the problem apparently addressed in this thread, but the suggested “Mail From” plugin doesn’t work. I just logged out as Admin, and signed up as a regular user. The site told me my registration is complete, pending my reception of the activation email and subsequent clicking on the link contained.

There was a suggestion in this thread, I think, to go to the Options menu and edit the Registration email configuration, I cannot see any way to do that.

Thanks, r-a-y! That worked!

Not sure why you’re attempting to edit the bp-core-signup.php file. This is something you should not be doing!

First, did you enable registration on your BuddyPress site?
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/faqs/specific-faqs/#register

Where are you seeing this “inactive” string?

@r-a-y from your note in this thread you have Display Name showing in users’ profile page. Do you have any idea why it doesn’t show up in mine? Is there a common mistake people make that takes First Name, Last Name, Nick and Display Name out of the Buddy Press profile and the registration form?

Hi Chaps – just to let you all know, you are not alone in this quest.

We have customers running BP sites who need to ‘re-capture’ ‘lost/unconfirmed’ user registrations (attempts).

A high proportion of confirmation emails do get filtered into peoples spam buckets, bounced by firewalls and blacklists, overlooked in the inbox, whatever. Its an ongoing part of community/site admin to re-sift this list of unsuccessful registrants and correct anything impeding signup.

Its pretty apparent neither BP, nor WP ( == WPMU) address this ‘corrections process’ out of the box.

My perusal of available plugins has yielded some near fits for the job (reporting at least), but nothing yet bang-on (the ‘resend_registration_confirmation_email()’ function), which suprises me.

Looks like someone will have to lift the hood and write somethething to do it. (I have some plugins in mind to extend for that purpose – will keep you all posted )

Same problem on buddypress.org. I just signed up (-waves to all-) and every button/link clicked on during the registration process led to a blank screen. The registration went through, but you have to know to check your e-mail for the activation link and then go to buddypress.org to login, Since logging in I’ve had no problems, so it seems to be a bug in the registration process.