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I’ve looked into that, but all that does is rename the tab/link and the url for the component your dealing with, it won’t combine the bbpress and buddypress registrations and accounts.

I was playing with the idea for a while to just rename “groups” to “topics” and treat them as a forum
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/completely-re-naming-the-groups-component/

I’m using the bp-twentyten child theme that Adrea_r made. It’s great but it has this problem as well.

I was curious so, I filled out the registration page on my site and then I tried renaming the entire theme directory, and then clicked on the complete signup button. Got a blank page..no surprise there. But after changing the theme directory back to normal, i refreshed the browser and got the next screen. This is the only way i’ve been able to complete a registration.

I’m sure there is something simple that will fix this, but i’d love to hear your opinions. I have no ‘old bp-theme’ folder as this is a fresh wp3.0 install with Andrea_r’s twentyten child theme.

Ps. Big thanks to Andrea_r! I don’t know how many of Andrea’s posts and tips i’ve used (as well as the new bp child theme), I really appreciate it!

stwc, found this post and using your method I haven’t had a spam registration yet. thanks so much.

@kumo99
I’ve moved your sample code to a pastebin and have amended your post, as the forums were rendering some of the markup.

@kumo99 – You might want to take a look at this:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/add-field-description-to-fullname-core/#post-57735

Much easier and doesn’t require copying the registration page template to your child theme.

This is a known bug on buddypress.org.
We’re looking at trying to rectify this in the near future.

If you want, you can keep track of the bug squashing here:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-org-ninjas/

In the dashboard, click on settings then general. Tick the box next to ‘membership – anyone can register’.
Hope that helps!

to make registration page multilingual you need to copy the register.php from buddypress/bp-default/registration folder to your themes folder and make your changes by replacing the loop :

http://buddypress.pastebin.com/wC4fCkbT

hope this works for anyone interested..

Edit: this makes only the registration page multilingual, but unfortunately it doesn’t translate the member’s profile view and edit fields.. instead they show what you saved in the profile setup fields in the backend.

If you’re using WPMU or WP 3.0 in network mode, try this:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-registration-options/

The plugin author hasn’t updated this for single WP yet.

A more, manual method involves forwarding the activation emails to an admin account so you can approve them manually that way.

Put this sample code in your theme’s functions.php:
http://wordpress.pastebin.com/Qf2cskRj

Replace “get_site_option( “admin_email” );” with a custom email address if you don’t want it to forward to your admin email addy.

KHK, did you read this?
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/faq-how-to-code-snippets-and-solutions/?topic_page=2&num=15#post-45772

What WP/MU and BP versions are you using?

Did you allow member registration in the WP General Settings?

Hi Ky, glad you’re testing out BuddyPress!

You have to turn registration on.

Read this:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/faq-how-to-code-snippets-and-solutions/?topic_page=2&num=15#post-41850

I have an idea about a plugin. However, because I am not a coder, can only hope someone can make it happen. The way these plugins work like a maintanance mode plugin, but there is a login and registration form on the theme. When activated, it becomes the welcome screen on the members only site.

This works the same way as if you registered from within WordPress. If I remember correctly, WordPress purges unactivated sign-ups after a certain number of days, but I will need to research this to make sure.

Ok, so I don’t think that there’s any function to know if the email bounced or not. So, BP would think that it was sent successfully even if it’s a fake email. You’d have to setup something to catch the bounced email to then know that it was bad or something. Unfortunately, email doesn’t respond with a successful reply when an email is received so that you’d be able to cue off of that.

I think the solution to the spam accounts that weren’t activated is a plugin that will allow people to easily clear out these never activated accounts.

“What’s wrong with creating the user before the activation email is sent?”

Because the (spam) account is still there, listed everywhere, even if it will never be used.

What’s wrong with creating the user before the activation email is sent? If it doesn’t get sent, then the user won’t be created and they’ll never be able to login since the user account won’t be activated.

Of course, if you’re using the plugins that r-a-y mentions, then that’s a different story.