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You have to activate your account via email by default!

It appears that you’re using the BP Disable Activation plugin or some other plugin that does something similar.
Can you confirm?

You can’t. It’s a design decision by Andy Peatling/Automattic not to support firstname and lastname, because it would offend international users. And most of the BP users community love anonymous usernames, because they use Buddypress primarily as an old-fashioned forum. You’ll have to custom code something. Good luck!

I would also like to have an age verification on my BuddyPress site. I have added a “birthday” field as a requirement in the user profile, but this does not prevent minors from completing the registration process. How would I go about implementing something like this?

Has anyone made any progress with this? Will we have buddypress checking for banned email domains soon?
Will we have buddypress checking for banned domains upon registration and perhaps even again upon activation?
Can someone please add the possibility to add *.info in a way that works
I know this won’t stop all spam and splogs – but I am getting tired of deleting a dozen spammers every day that are mostly from the same dozen domain names that I have added to the block list. This would save lots of people hlaf the splog deletions, and that adds up to a lot of time saved.
BTW – has anyone tested buddypress with TTC Spam Bot Registration plugin (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ttc-user-registration-bot-detector/ )to see if there are any issues? I am guessing it may still be bypassed by buddypress even if it worked in WP?

Please 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

(Side note: I wish that FAQ thread was stickied properly!)

Yes, that’s exactly how it will work. Buddypress simply skins the registration process. Your users can register sitewide (I would recommend on the main install) and will be able to sign on anywhere within the site.

Are you using the bp-default theme? Check settings if you allow registrations. Also, do you have any kind of membership plugin which could interfere with registration.

There is no email problem when I use WP only. But,if I install BP,some new registered users can not receive confirmation email.

My email system was offered by my web hoster with the name service@mydomain.com. Most Yahoo or Gmail users could get the registration email immediately,but, the PAID-email users didn’t. It’s odd!

There must be a solution for BP mailing. It’s really not a very good idea to solve any problems by using substituted plugins…..

@dennis_h (“If you believe BP causes more problems that it solves why do you use it?”)

I chose Buddypress primarily to manage member lists for my projects and give members online profile pages and ways to interact with other members online.

The first version of my site was a mix of WordPress + PunBB for the members list. When Buddypress appeared it made sense to consolidate everything on WordPress/WPMU/BP.

An early annoyance that cost me six weeks last year was lack of built-in support for firstname + lastname, which made Buddypress hard to integrate with my mailinglist script.

I now have the basics kinda working; all the dumb stuff that should work out of the box, like a user-friendly registration process, etc. Upgrading to 1.2 would mean having to start all over again.

@Andrew

Hi

To enable user registration a had to set the ‘Membership Anyone can register’ checkbox in General Settings

http://www.iluvscifi.com

Create a new xProfile group in the wordpress dashboard; any fields not in the “Base” group will, by default, not appear on the registration form.

Use a WordPress plugin like “Mail From”:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/

The only requirements for registration are:

-Username
-Email Address
-Password
-Display Name

Apart from that, set all your other xprofile fields as “not required” on the “BuddyPress > Profile Field Setup” page.

You might have to edit the /registration/register.php template file depending on how much you want to modify the look and feel of the page.

re: register button, 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

re: admin bar – Hard to tell since we don’t have your custom theme to look at. Check your stylesheet for a line like this:
#wp-admin-bar {display:none;}

and remove it. If you don’t see such a line, then you have some custom code in your child theme’s functions.php.

Yes, there is.

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/changing-internal-configuration-settings/
Put this in your wp-config.php

define( 'BP_ENABLE_USERNAME_COMPATIBILITY_MODE', true );


Haha, yeah, I just saw a post you made a little bit ago where you got it to work. At least we know for the next time.