Gian,
Do you have a diff slug set for registration?
I am a massive Cure fan btw. Love the name of your site. I’ll never forget seeing them, pave fainted like Robert Smith, in Leipzig (What was then) East Germany right after the wall came down in 1989.
Mike
ps On your site, after activation, there is no login form present. Also, you aren’t clearing your username/pw placeholder text so I have to select all and clear myself when entering the login info
There are plugins that allow WP users to write posts without going into the backend. I think TDO Mini Forms (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tdo-mini-forms/) allows this. I’m not that familiar with the plugin though.
I think there is also a “quickpress” type plugin to allow the same as what the “quickpress” function does on the main dashboard in WP.
Anton and hnla – thank you so so much for your very helpful comments. (I take it that most of the big functionality is working properly, since these are relatively small issues – that’s good news!)
Anton – Great point. I had originally not hardcoded the register link, but then had to hardcode it for some testing purposes and forgot to change it back. The latest trunk version creates the accept_link with site_url( BP_REGISTER_SLUG ), which is the same code used in BP core. Please let me know if it works for you.
hnla – Very sorry about my American date formatting 
I have changed it so that the format matches the setting in Dashboard > Settings > General. As for markup in the welcome message: I didn’t manually strip tags because I’m using $wpdb->prepare to write to the database, which means that all tags are escaped and therefore presumably not harmful. But I thought about it, and I think you’re right that it’s a good idea not to allow HTML in that box – it tends not to work well in email. The latest trunk version strips tags before sending the email/saving it to the db.
Finally, hnla, I’m guessing that your problem with /register/ redirects may have had something to do with one of the following:
– Anton’s problem (/register/ was hard coded into the accept_link)
– You are clicking on the link while logged in. BP redirects from the register page for logged in users. Log out, or try another browser.
– You’ve disabled registrations. In WPMU, look at Site Admin > Options; in WP I think it’s Settings > General > Anyone can register.
Thanks again for your help. I should be able to put a stable tag on it in the next day or so thanks to your feedback.
I said I’d try and establish some test conditions to try and determine whether banned email domains were an issue in WP or BP, tests were not hugely conclusive sadly.
site running out of the box no modifications (WPMU / BP) – no anti spam measures in place. had been receiving ~ 10 -20 spam registrations daily (quantity of spam is governed to some extent by search engine ranking /prominence)
1/ Running WPMU 2.9.2 ALL BP plugins deactivated site open to user account registrations only.
24 hour period = no spam registrations at all – a surprising result!
2/ Conditions as above (1) but allowing blog to be registered
Start to receive spam signups – not many but only observed over a 6 hour period.
These do not match to any banned emails domains entered by me, so on the surface looks as though banned domains working BUT this is far from conclusive as they may simply not have attempted to.
3/ Activate BP 1.2.3 allow accounts and blogs to be registered.
Spam increases – not hugely though! of the 6- 8 received in a 12 hour period one is noted as having an email domain that matches to one entered in the banned domains list.
None of the above is that conclusive or useful sadly, it’s a difficult subject to run tests on. It does appear that BP probably does have some problem with the banned domain list, but then I get the impression that with each version 1.2.2.1 / 1.2.3 spam issues feel as though they are lessening but others may not be experiencing that.
I have the latest versions of WPMU and BP, but I have tonnes of spam.
It’s a pity, there are not any antispam plugins for BP which work on the registration page.
Gene53… the Invitation Code Checker seems to be an MU plugin. Give it a try though and if I find something else along the lines of r-a-y I will post an update here. But at least not it seems the fort is holding.
Hmm, I wonder if it’ll work on a BP/WP single install, I might give it a try tomorrow, I don’t think it can do any harm…
yea..i agree that would be a lot easier. i am searching for a plugin like that. if u happen to know one, by all means let me know. many thanks
r-a-y, FYI and for what it’s worth for others looking for a similar concept. There is a tiny plugin called “Invitation Code Checker.” By installing it and then putting a code in it, say ‘fifty three’, and changing “enter validation code” in the registration form to “what is fifty and three in letters” – seems to be working so far. Spams have slowed, though I expect they will catch up. By then it is a matter a matter of changing the code like what is the capital of china? In my case, it is a foreign language site, which I hope would add more difficulty to those punks.
Thanks for the help!
Are you using WP or WPMU? If the latter, do you have registrations turned on at Dashboard > Site Admin > Options?
Have you tried the bundled bp-default theme to see if the same thing is happening there?
thank you, r-a-y. I will focus on these options this weekend. Thanks again
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Hey.
Thanks for the update. This was what I was looking for as I couldnt find any docs/info that states clearly as you have above.
Question.
If I change to WP instead of WPMU can users write posts on the blog via a simple ‘add post’ screen which, visually, still has the site header, navigation etc.
I ask because most users on my site would run a mile if they saw the back-end when they clicked ‘write post’. I think they would be overwhelmed, even though to use (for us), its really simple. My target audience is older people, I think to add a post they just want to see a box much like the ‘reply’ box im typing this message in right now. Any ideas?
Putting this one inside form should make it work
<?php wp_nonce_field( 'bp_new_signup' ) ?>
The plugin wordpress Hashcash (updated today to 4.5.1) should now work for BuddyPress registration but it stops EVERYBODY from registering.
This is not true for me. I just registered a test user with Hashcash 4.5.1 installed. Though still waiting to see if it stops BP splog spammers.
If you just want users to be able to submit blog posts, why not use regular WP instead of WPMU? In the WP settings, set the user’s default role to be contributor or something higher than subscriber. Then they can access the backend and write blog posts on the blog.
Note that this functionality doesn’t really have anything to do with BuddyPress.
The only reason to run WPMU is if you want your users to each have their own blog. If you don’t want to offer that, don’t run WPMU. 
BuddyPress just provides the social networking functionality (activity streams/updates, forums, groups, etc.).
As for Burt’s plugin, I think it might not longer be necessary in most cases now that BP runs on WP Single and not only on WPMU. I’m probably mistaken though.
I’m actually having the same problem? I go through the registration form, submit the form and it gives me a confirmation page. But there are no emails being sent to confirm the registration? I have tried several different email addresses for this. http://www.activelexington.com is the site if you’d like to try it and see if it’s working for you?
Assuming you installed the “bp-template-pack”, here they are:
Template Files (generating web pages):
1) activity/index.php
2) members/index.php
3) members/single/home.php
4) members/single/activity/permalink.php
5) members/single/plugins.php
6) groups/index.php
7) groups/create.php
groups/single/home.php
9) groups/single/plugins.php
10) forums/index.php
11) registration/register.php
If you are going to install Album+ plugin:
– wp-content/plugins/bp-album/includes/templates/album/single.php
– wp-content/plugins/bp-album/includes/templates/pictures.php
FWIW, this wasn’t a problem for me until I upgraded to 1.2.3. Maybe it’s a coincidence, but I’d banned .info a few weeks ago and hadn’t gotten any registrations from them since. But since the upgrade, I get 30-50 .info’s a day.
Are we sure nothing changed in 1.2.3 that would effect this?
What i mean is if my root MU install does not have Buddypress (mydomain.com). and I want to be able to create private company social network “subdomains” like xyz.mydomain.com and abc.mydomain.com…..both these sites will be totally isolated as far as their user registration, user interaction/communication , group setup etc…..because xyz doesnt trust or want to be involved with in any way abc?
You want separate members for each blog?
Is that the reason why you would want a separate registration page?
You should be linking your register page to the blog where BP is installed.
eg. mydomain.com/register (i’m assuming mydomain.com is the blog where BP is installed)
You can use bp_get_signup_page() to grab the registration URL.
Try this:
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/which-file-do-i-need-to-edit-registration-questions#post-45514
Or you can use an invite plugin – the invite code would be the answer and you manually need to add the question yourself.
