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Had the same problem on all of my installs last night. Temp solution was to shut down all registrations while bp works this out. Between my network of sites, I would estimate 150+ spam registrations. Once in, they were also abusing the pm system. It’s ok though, I’d rather shut it all down for now then to have to manually keep deleting pm’s from the db all day long.

I know you guys are working hard on this issue. It is much appreciated!

Part of the problem might be running BuddyPress in a subdirectory. We use some tricky URI parsing to dynamically trap and trigger the pages that don’t actually exist. To do this, we count the slashes and put the slugs in the “correct” positions, which in your case are one level off.

You could .htaccess your way out of this by redirecting, but your best bet is to install it at the root of your site.

For those only having the trouble with /register and /activate, make sure you have member registration turned on. Since it’s off by default on single site WordPress, that has gotten me a few times.

I guess these could be spam bots inputting data to pass the registration
I know a lot of work is going on now in the background to help stop this
Stay tuned

@mikepratt that’s a really nice design and layout, especially like the /why/ page.

Nice job, Mr. Pratt!

Take a look at my dev site with a concept you might like. Sorta speaks to what you’re talking about…I think: http://mjpratt.com.

Custom register and splash/login sidebar

Did you get to step 3 of the plugin?

It gives explicit instructions on how to modify the template to match your WordPress theme.

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If BuddyPress pages are not aligned correctly then you will need to modify some of the templates to match your theme’s HTML structure.

Then open up the page.php file (if this does not exist use index.php). Make note of the HTML template structure of the file, specifically the [div] tags that surround the content and sidebar.

You will need to change the HTML structure in the BuddyPress templates that you copied into your theme to match the structure in your page.php or index.php file. The files that you need to edit are as follows (leave out any folders you have not copied over in step two):

* /activity/index.php
* /blogs/index.php
* /forums/index.php
* /groups/index.php
* /groups/create.php
* /groups/single/home.php
* /groups/single/plugins.php
* /members/index.php
* /members/single/home.php
* /members/single/plugins.php
* /registration/register.php

Once you are done matching up the HTML structure of your theme in these template files, please take another look through your site. You should find that BuddyPress pages now fit inside the content structure of your theme.

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If you can’t get this to work, just use a pre-made BuddyPress theme.

Seems like this should work:
-Create a Child Theme: https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
-Copy the file in the default BP theme folder/registration/register.php and save it in your new child theme folder as a page template (or you could just overwrite the index.php)
-Create a New Page that uses that page template
-Go to Settings–>Reading and set the new page you created as a “Static Page”

I saw a plugin to do a sidebar registration for WordPress a while back, but I’m not sure if it works for BP or not.

Hast anybody tried to either:
1. copy https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/tags/1.2.3/bp-themes/bp-default/registration/register.php
and paste it to home.php or page template and make it static page
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2. create home.php or create a page template and add this

edit – tried every which way to post it —- locate_template …. array … registration/registration.php …. true

yeah, I am also looking for having the user-registration within the SideBar at the right.
Is there a Plugin to have this as Widget being put into the SideBar ?

Any solution would be very much appreciated.

That would be cool !

Sounds about right. I would like to know the same thing. Looks like I’ll be going through the forums today to start getting into the nitty gritty of BP.

Allowing upload of avatar/image file at signup in open registration installs could lead to hacking of your system. I’ve cleaned a site where uploaded .jpg contained hacker scripts instead of real image files.

Hey Ray,

My users are added through another piece of software so I don’t allow registrations on site.

The plugin get caught in a loop obviously since the register page redirects to the front site which is trying to redirect to the register page etc.

I’d like this to redirect to my about page where I will provide a link to the site where they can actually sign up.

I see where to to change this but what would I change it to?

bp_core_redirect(bp_get_signup_page());

Is it just my slug for my page?

Thanks so much.

V

If you are already logged in it seems that the registration page bounces you back to the homepage. Perhaps following the principle of least surprise it should be a bit less clever and just show the registration page with a notice that you are already registered, as seems this has tripped up a few people.

Oli

I banged my head against this one too. Seems the registration page bounces you back to the hompage if you are currently signed in (and hence already registered).

Oli

I just talked things over with Andrea; I’ll be releasing a plugin shortly with the code snippets posted above.
I’ll add private message username overrides as well. Is there any other place where display names are used?

However, I do see some benefit with leaving the “Name” field on the registration page. The name gets displayed on a BP profile – eg. http://testbp.org/members/andy/profile/.

Also Twitter does something similar; they add the “Name” field to the sidebar of each profile.

FYI, first name, last name and nickname fields are not added to the registration page unless you manually created them as xprofile fields. Look at testbp.org’s registration page for an example: http://testbp.org/accounts/

@rossagrant Yes i just saw that… also the full name still shows when users leave a comment in a blog. I think we need to come up with something else before i upload this code as a plugin…
I’m considering modifying the registration page to “hide” the name field all together, but since it’s required, i need to find a way to fill in the name field using the data entered in the username field… Maybe using JavaScript… not sure yet
I’ll let you know

Hi Ray,
Thanks for that help! That’s great; now much clearer to me. Huge help!

I did email the author. I haven’t heard back yet. I’m not intending to release a fork without permission.

In fact, on the contrary, my main goal here is just to learn a bit about BP development before we move on, and to make sure there’s some kind of solution – even as a stopgap – to allow switching on BP blogs without a torrent of spam. That’s made our registration system effectively unusable. I was unaware of some of the other options, but to be perfectly frank, I think it’s unacceptable that there isn’t at least some option in core. (It’s the situation that had been Akismet in the 1.x days of WP.)

But that, and since you’ve posted a lot of good info in the forum, happy to go through it and through the eyes of someone to whom this is new, try to format it in a way that could be friendlier to developers.

I’m in absolute agreement that releasing a zillion forks is not a good idea. I’ll keep testing here and document my experience but will refrain from releasing anything until I hear back from the author.

I think that’d be the next question, whether this conditional code gets rolled into the main wp-recaptcha plug-in. In that case you’d leave the WPMU and “legacy” WP checks so you’d have one recaptcha plug-in to rule them all, which is probably best.

Peter