@mercime – that hack you linked to is totally unnecessary! It is possible to use filters to achieve the same result. The same method was brought up in the IRC room a few days ago. It is actually quite a nice way around the problem 
@mercime 
@dandelionweb
For signups, please select the box which says user and blogs can be created.
To disable blog creation by non logged in user, put this code in your theme’s functions.php or bp-custom.php
Here is the code on pastebin(current forum has trouble posting code, so i posted it there).
http://bpdev.pastebin.com/1AyszwQ7
And the issue with bp-registration-options seems to be of PHP5.
sigh… like a number of plugins the bp-registration-options won’t activate
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in /…../clubfootclub.org/community/wp-content/plugins/bp-registration-options/bp-registration-options.php on line 23
There is a hack to core BP files which can be turned into a plugin (hint, hint) which works in BP 1.2.3 and WPMU 2.9.2 …
Thanks for your response Brajesh – I’ll check these out
for the second…. if I select only logged in users can create new blogs this also disables new user registration completely.
Yes I need to have the host upgrade to PHP5 but I have a number of sites on the account and I just don’t have time right now to do any debugging if things break right now.
hi
For your first question, you may want to try this plugin
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-registration-options/
checkout this thread too
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/moderate-members/
For the second, yes, It is possible. Just go to SiteAdmin->Options and select the radio box which says only logged in users can create blog.
PHp5 may be an issue, better why not ask your server adminstrator to upgrade.
@Erich73 On WPMU, the user database is shared between all sites. The user registration is executed on the main blog. In Welcome Pack’s case, there’s not a lot of difference therefore if it runs sitewide or on a per-blog basis, so I set it to run sitewide just in case there is some unusual way that WordPress user accounts can be added.
FYI, Today I updated SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam for latest version of buddypress 1.2.3 compatibility
SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/
This plugin adds CAPTCHA anti-spam methods to WordPress on the comment form, registration form, login, or all. In order to post comments or register, users will have to type in the code shown on the image. This prevents spam from automated bots. Adds security. Works great with Akismet. Also is fully WP, WPMU, and BuddyPress compatible.
When Boone and r-a-y compete to help someone, EVERYONE WINS!!
How so?
The frontend stuff is located in registration/register.php.
What are you trying to change?
[EDIT]
Boone was just a step faster than me!
What is the piece of text in bp-core-signup.php that you have to change? You might be able to do it with a filter.
Thank you both, that helped…
I did however run into one problem. The file that I need to work on is located outside the bp-default:
wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-signup.php
Isn’t that the file that I would edit to work on the positioning of text on the registration page? I may be wrong…
Thanks!
Moo! (translates to Boone is right)
The best way is to create a child theme, as per https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/, and to copy over registration/register.php from buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default into the child theme. Then you can make modifications til the cows come home
The Invite Anyone plugin does keep track of who invites who, so that it can automatically send group invitations and friendship requests when an invitation is accepted. There’s not a ready-made interface for admins (or invitees, for that matter) to trace how an individual found out about a site (most of my energy went into building a Sent Invites screen for *inviters* to keep track of who they invited), but it would be easy enough to create such an interface with the data that’s already there.
Not having open registration makes it trickier, though, because my plugin just hooks into the existing BP registration and does not limit who can register. I can imagine that it wouldn’t be too hard to connect something like WP Invites and the data collected by my plugin, but it’s probably a bit more work than I can do right this moment. I guess for your purposes I’d suggest looking into WP Invites first.
I’m becoming a fan of WP-Invites and you might want to try this…
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-invites/
It’ll allow you to dole out codes for users to signup and as far as tracing goes, I’d just generate one invite code for each existing member and it’ll store that invite code with the new user profile so that you are able to determine who the invitation was send from based on which user was giving the code. I’d even go so far as manually generating the code with the existing username in it so that you don’t have to go digging to determine whom signed up whom.
thanks for sharing. Indeed, it is a barrier to user registration.
In my case, I want to keep my network personal and do not need to expand a lot. I prefer to have a handful of people with a great vibe together (and the avatar is a key part on this).
For that reason, in my network it pays off to turn some people off but keep the avatar as a required condition to do the sign-up (and I’d like to have it as an automated part of the system, and not have to be writing each person asking them to add the image post-registration)
From my brief experience of Ning that option wasn’t ever set and as annoying as it was to see the default avatar get displayed over and over, I think this was due to it being perceived as a barrier to people joining and possibly off putting?
As a user I find I can’t proceed with the sign up as I have to first find some suitable graphic to upload, trouble is I don’t have anything nor do I know about the gravatar option, I’m an inexperienced internet user and haven’t got my head around avatars 
Invite Anyone plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/invite-anyone/
I don’t think that plugin has the “tracing” ability you want though. You could bring it up to Boone, the plugin author, as a feature request.
Since nobody replied, I assume this is a complicated thing, right?
Newbie question: Maybe I can send this as a suggestion for developers?
You could hook a custom function after BP registration.
I haven’t done this myself, but you could output some Google Analytics event tracking javascript when a new user is registered.
many thanks Ray !
That “no reply” e-mail seems not to be the issue, because the second e-mail which says “Dear User. Your new account is set up.” is also being send from “noreply@domain.com”.
So both e-mails are being send from “noreply@domain.com” , but the first e-mail containing the BP-Registration-Code is landing in the Spam-folder, the second e-mail which the user is receiving is actually not landing in the Spam-folder of Gmail.
Anyway, do I need a Plug-in” in order to change the e-mail-address from “noreply@domain.com” to something different ?
Is there a way to change that somewhere in the backend without using a plugin ?
