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So you can’t even get past the registration page? A little odd how I can register and you and your friends can’t…

Try deleting your cache and cookies perhaps?

I didn’t do anything.

I filled out all the fields, then hit “Complete Signup”.

Then, I activated my user account.

Users have to activate their account via email after registration before they can even login.

Worse case… you could try captcha

Is there one you could recommend?

It would be great if some coder could write a simple admin defined question and answer plugin for the registration page.

@Magganpice: I’ve had two SPAM registrations since banning proxy connections.

This has been a wordpress mu issue for a while off and on.. I discussed an idea about at mu forums:

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/13982

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I too have noticed that even putting domains in the block list seems to not stop future registrations. Here is a thought of mine.

MAYBE a spammer actually signs up 100 new accounts, and then only activates one a day. So even though we have added his domain to the ban list for signups, he still has 99 more that have been signed up, but not yet activated?

If this is the case I would like to see MU add core code that checks to see upon activation if the domain they originally used to signup has since been banned, and then prevent them from activating if it has.

Just a thought, not sure if this is the case – but it may be worth looking into.

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It was suggested that I add this suggestion to the trac, ( https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ )

but I really don’t know how to use that thing…

not sure that it is a buddypress specific issues, but I DO believe that the spammers are looking for buddypress phrases when compiling their lists of sites to hit…

@kunal17

I’m seeing the same thing you are….

Is there any way to get buddypress registration to reference the banned domain list?

I’m having 300 spam registrations a day and having to mark them all as spam manually 15 in one go in the user list. The plugin wordpress Hashcash (updated today to 4.5.1) should now work for BuddyPress registration but it stops EVERYBODY from registering.

David Lewis, one week later, is your solution still working for you?

True, I keep a test install running live with minimal plugins other than BP, I can perhaps disable BP and take it back to WPMU and open registrations again and see what gets through and report that back which might help, but won’t be able to set that up till later.

Just rename those fields in the Profile Field Setup in wp-adminb

Hi jozik,

I’m dealing with a big problem regarding Buddypress multlingual: no matter what I do, I can’t figure out how to make the BP Registration page multilingual, since the Registration/ Sign Up Fields are dynamic I guess, I don’t know how to translate them from EN to IT once I set them up??? Also because at the moment my Italian version is a mixture of the following fields to name just the first 2 that can’t be translated:

Dettagli Account (obbligatorio) –> is fine

Indirizzo Email (obbligatorio) –> is fine

Scegli una Password (obbligatorio) –> is fine

Conferma Password (obbligatorio) –> is fine

Dettagli Profilo –> is fine

Name (obbligatorio) –> here its starts since Name is set in “general settings”

Last Name (obbligatorio) –> and Last Name was added by me in “profile field setup”

…

.

.

Do you have an idea how to solve this problem? Or am I missing something? Please help!

Thanks & Grazie!!!

Sanny

(my site: WPMU 2.9.1, Buddypress 1.1.3, WPML 1.7.1. & Buddypress Multilingual 0.9.2 )

Hey everyone,

I’m dealing with a similar problem: no matter what I do, I can’t figure out how to make the BP Registration page multilingual, since the Registration/ Sign Up Fields are dynamic I guess, I don’t know how to translate them from EN to IT once I set them up??? Also because at the moment my Italian version is a mixture of the following fields to name just the first 2 that can’t be translated:

Dettagli Account (obbligatorio) –> is fine

Indirizzo Email (obbligatorio) –> is fine

Scegli una Password (obbligatorio) –> is fine

Conferma Password (obbligatorio) –> is fine

Dettagli Profilo –> is fine

Name (obbligatorio) –> here its starts since Name is set in “general settings”

Last Name (obbligatorio) –> and Last Name was added by me in “profile field setup”

Does anyone have an idea how to hack the register.php? Or am I missing something? Please help!

Thanks & Grazie!!!

(my site: WPMU 2.9.1, Buddypress 1.1.3, WPML 1.7.1. & Buddypress Multilingual 0.9.2 )

You know maybe the problem is us lowly users. If we didn’t depend on plug in developers so much to keep their projects functioning then it wouldn’t be an issue.

I never saw this as an issue with Single user WP plug ins so this is all new to me.

What I don’t understand is, I always assumed that plug in developers had other services that were paid services and creating plug ins was a way to not only contribute to the platform, but to show their expertise and make their names known in the community.

If a plug in goes unfixed and crashes a users or a company’s website, and support for it goes unanswered..how does that help you as a professional ?

And when you do release a premium paid plug in in the future, why would I take a chance that you won’t go missing in action again when it comes to support?

And why would I contribute to a plugin that doesn’t work and hasn’t been updated or answered support questions since late 2009?

Unfortunately some of what could have been/would have been some of the most used plug ins are on that list with no sign of the original developer updating them.

So now, instead of contributing to that developer for their hard work, I have to hire someone else to make it function correctly or build me a new one.

That really sucks.

I’m with Magganpice. I’d be more than happy to make a contribution to Buddypress Registration Options and Ahjira Recent Sitewide Articles, if they would just update them so they actually work.

Done using firebug with your website

Try replacing this

<div id="container">

<div id="content">

with this

<div id="container">

<div id="content">

<div class='box box_medium box1'>

You need to do this to all the pages below, plus any plugin pages that are added.

* /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

* /blogs/create.php

* /registration/activate.php

Or use something like this:

/**

* Add custom userdata from register.php

*/

function tj_add_to_signup( $usermeta )

{

$usermeta['accept_tos'] = $_POST['accept_tos'];



return $usermeta;

}

add_filter( 'bp_signup_usermeta', 'tj_add_to_signup' );



/**

* Update usermeta with custom registration data

*/

function tj_user_activate_fields( $user )

{

update_usermeta( $user['user_id'], 'accept_tos', $user['meta']['accept_tos'] );



return $user;

}

add_filter( 'bp_core_activate_account', 'tj_user_activate_fields' );



/**

* Perform checks for custom registration data

*/

function tj_check_additional_signup()

{

global $bp;



if( $_POST['accept_tos'] != 'agreed'  )

$bp->signup->errors['accept_tos'] = __( 'Please make sure to read our Terms of Service and then check this box!', 'traveljunkie' );

}

add_action( 'bp_signup_validate', 'tj_check_additional_signup' );



/**

* Add newsletter and TOS to register page

*/

function tj_add_to_registration()

{

?>

<div id="tos" class="register-section">

<?php do_action( 'bp_accept_tos_errors' ) ?>

<label><input type="checkbox" name="accept_tos" id="accept_tos" value="agreed" /> <?php _e( 'Check this box to accept our <a href="/terms-of-service" target="_blank">Terms Of Service</a> (required)', 'traveljunkie' ) ?></label>

</div>

<?php

}

add_action( 'bp_before_registration_submit_buttons', 'tj_add_to_registration' );

You’d have to adjust the links and some other stuff slightly, though. Put this in your (child-)themes functions.php file. I use the above for all kinds of stuff, like newsletter signup. You could add the quiz stuff then with a bit of jQuery.

My Question is are these the only folders that get ‘copied’ in to the theme directory?

I don’t have FTP access so I’m not certain where the plug-in Copied the files to – i’ll have to change them and upload them ‘blindly’

So does it wind up being (?)

[MyTheme]

>[activity]

>[blogs]

>[forums]

>[groups]

>[members]

>[registration]

Also I see that the default is for 1 sidebar – I have 2 – I’ll get back to you on that

I’ll see what happens….

From the Plug-In:

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

* /blogs/create.php

* /registration/activate.php

Thanks r-a-y, this potentially answers my https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/creating-tos-hurdles forum post. Need to investigate further.

@birdy43

Try logging into the WP backend. Navigate to “BuddyPress > General Settings”.

Under “Full Name Field Name”, change this from the default “Name” to whatever you want.

@mrjarbenne

You need to create a custom function for outputting your questions and another one to validate your questions.

function my_custom_questions() {

// your questions would go here - would be an input field of some kind



// eg.

echo '<label for="my_question">Please enter something for this new field</label>';

echo '<input type="text" name="my_question" id="my_question" value="" />';

}

add_action('bp_before_registration_submit_buttons', 'my_custom_questions');



function my_custom_validation() {

// here you'd check the submitted input fields, you'd probably do a check to see if the question is blank, if not return an error message



// would be something like this:



global $bp;



// checking if an input field of "my_question" is blank

if ( $_POST['my_question'] == "" ) {

$bp->signup->errors['my_question'] = 'You must type in something for the field "my_question".';

}

}

add_action('bp_signup_validate', 'my_custom_validation');

Can you break this down a touch further for the new guy. Do hooks get added to the function.php file in your theme?

You shouldn’t be editing core files.

BP has a ton of hooks you can use to get your custom questions on the registration page.

You could just hook into the following actions and then your custom questions will appear:

add_action('bp_before_registration_submit_buttons', 'YOUR CUSTOM QUESTIONS');

add_action('bp_signup_validate', 'YOUR VALIDATION ROUTINE');