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@LPH2005
I’ve updated my post. Take a look again, because bbPress strips out php tags, and like the code you tried to post, it gets stripped beyond recognition and usability.

In your register template registration/register.php you need to move the line,

, into each type of xprofile field ( if ( 'textbox' == bp_get_the_profile_field_type() ) : , if ( 'textarea' == bp_get_the_profile_field_type() ) : , if ( 'selectbox' == bp_get_the_profile_field_type() ) : , etc) below the label code of the respective xprofile field type.

For example. For the textbox field type you would do the following: http://pastebin.com/EJUTePGn

(Tried to post this in the forum, but it seems that the bbPress code strips out php tags no matter what you wrap them in)

@rueschhoff The last part of the user registration is to upload a picture for their avatar.

It is true that WP and WPMU were merged in 3.0, but the MU, now called Multi-site, functionality has to be explicitly turned on. Since you don’t seem to have the wpmu_validate_blog_signup() function available to you (as revealed by the fatal error), I’m guessing you didn’t explicity turn on multi-site, or you didn’t do it properly. The WP developers added a few hoops to jump through to enable multi-site to discourage the casual user from borking their site. These hurtles will be removed in a future release, likely 3.1, when the developers have more time make it user-friendly for most users.

I’m guessing you’re using WP single/standard, and not WPMU/WP Multisite. The BuddyPress Groupblog plugin was written for WPMU/WP Multisite. The function, wpmu_validate_blog_signup(), is a WPMU/WP Multisite only function, which is why you get the Fatal Error. Because of the nature of standard WP versus WPMU/WP Multisite, I don’t expect you’ll get the group blog functionality on a standard WP installation… not anytime soon at least.

If you are running the latest version of BP, then you can run WP/WPMU as long as they are 2.9.2+. What are the problems you are having?

Hi Rebecca. It’s probably either a form validation problem (and maybe your theme doesn’t show the error messages) or something weird happening with something known as the “nonce.”

I can see you are running the BP Template Pack, which is good. Have you overridden any of the files provided with the BP Template Pack in your theme?

Have you tried using the BP default theme? That’s the easiest way to figure out if your child theme is the problem.

Also, if you’re using WPMU, check the wp-content/mu-plugins folder.

Now… my spambusher script gives me some very rudimentary statistics… and in the 2 days and 9 hours since that post above, the number of spam registrations has gone up 50%… but the number that I actually delete myself has gone down by about the same number

Which tells me two things:

1. People or bots are actually following the link above and tripping the spambush

2. Links to buddypress sites from buddypress.org are just ASKING to be spammed

You could probably hook into the get_header action, do your conditional check and if the person is a mentor, then show the page, otherwise show the registration page or whatever.

Modify the function listed in this thread:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-make-a-private-community/?topic_page=2&num=15#post-44616

Hopefully it gives you a few pointers.

i banged my head several times before i got the answer finally!!! and it is NOT i repeat not the re-install
(thats what i did TWICE!)
the problem is that the server doesnt support emails like gmail and hotmail for admins. my solution was
1-create a user on a your own domain , get the smtp details
2- get the plugin http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/configure-smtp/
3- install and setup
silly me i shouldve thought of it earlier , when this occurred 2 years back with my other blog http://www.aivault.com and the solution was the same… please dont uninstall!!.
i hope this will also help someone out there…
working fine now on ….. http://www.aifgraphics.com

harounkola
Go to your wordpress dashboard > settings > general and allow users to register – you’ll then see the registration link

There’s a fairly simple and foolproof method to automate spammer deletion. It’s easier to let them in and then delete them automatically than to try to stop them from registering in the first place. Otherwise it becomes an ‘arms race’ type of thing, as well as a game of keep-up-with-BP/WPMU-changes if you try to integrate it.

See it in action at http://visarus.co.uk/bp-spambusher.php – every time you visit that page you will be cleaning up spam registrations for me I can put it on CRON if I want but I enjoy the satisfaction of seeing how many registrations I’ve deleted 40 in the last 24 hours.

Hi Philo,

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

@philippmuenchen and @sbrajesh.

Thanks for your discussion. Did you ever figure this out?

I’m trying to show all groups and make sure that all required fields get filled. I tried your solution and yes, it shows all fields but it allows user to create account without filling out all required fields.

Thanks for the response in advance.

Giovanni