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I second this. Whats the problem? How do I fix it?

@Boone,

I just finished something similar for a client. They wanted group admins to be able to invite people to their group via email.

My plugin adds a text field below the standard group “invite friends” section for an email address. It then sends a message via email to the person, guiding them to the site registration page. It also tracks their email address to the group they were invited to. When the new user registers, it skips the whole send-and-approve-group-invite step; they are automatically added to the group.

Let me know if it sounds like there’s overlap, I’d be happy to post code or whatever.

If you’re using standard WP, you can’t.

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If you’re using WPMU, login to the admin area, navigate to “Site Admin > Options” and under “Allow new registrations”, make sure “Enabled. Blogs and user accounts can be created.” is selected.

If you’ve done this, when you’re logged in, navigate to your blog directory (example.com/blogs) and click on the “Create a Blog” button.

Help! There’s no register button on my BuddyPress site!

If you’re using standard WP, login to the WP admin area, navigate to “Settings > General”, and make sure “Anyone can register” is checked.

If you’re using WPMU, login to the WPMU admin area, navigate to “Site Admin > Options”, and under “Allow new registrations”, select any option but “Disabled”.

If you’re using standard WP, login to the WP admin area, navigate to ”Settings > General”, and make sure ”Anyone can register” is checked.

If you’re using WPMU, login to the WPMU admin area, navigate to “Site Admin > Options”, and under “Allow new registrations”, select any option but “Disabled”.

I have this same problem – I know WPMU is sending me emails for other things, but BuddyPress related items do not get sent.

On new user registration, the final part of the registration process says “You have successfully created your account! To begin using this site you will need to activate your account via the email we have just sent to your address.”

No email sent to either new user or admin, and new user isn’t in list of users in admin panel.

dwpers, if you figure out the way to do, would love if you could share. Sadly, I am not so knowledgeable on scripting but I watch these threads all the time to see if someone came with a solution. Cheers/A

I tested this out, it does indeed work.

Use captcha, have one profile field be required and change the slug.

define( 'BP_REGISTER_SLUG', 'name-this-something-unique' );

oh and if you are on WPMU then you need to disable the ability for blog owners to add users via their admin section. This is an easy way for spammers to get entry.

Thanks everyone for the tips and tricks, I’ll be checking this page again!

It’s strange but the moment I upgraded to WP2.9.2 and BP 1.2 spam started again.

Previously, I just added SI Captcha and I went from getting 10-20+ spam registrations to none. I added WP-hashcash now and I’ve only had one registration since.

I’ve just disabled the blog registration on the signup page, hopefully that’ll help too.

By the way, there’s also a meta tag in the header of many templates :

<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.9.2" />

Removing that may help too….

My registration link is broken too. I’m using the latest versions of everything (WPMU), no active plugins except BuddyPress and WordPress.com Stats, no custom language, and the default theme. Any ideas?

I’m not sure I get it, chip-d. So in my registration form do I need to put something like:

< code ><label for=”signup_username”>CUSTOM</label>

<input type=”text” name=”bp_custom_field” id=”bp_custom_field” value=”” /></ code >

Enable registration on your WPMU install.

Login to the WPMU dashboard, navigate to “Site Admin > Options” and under “Allow new registrations” select anything but “Disabled”.

Hey JJJ,

Tried this out on an install where BP is setup in a sub blog on WPMU 2.9.2.

Didn’t work on the root blog. The root blog had its own wp-signup.php page.

For now, I’m using a rewriterule in .htaccess and redirecting to the BP subblog’s register page.

A standard Buddypress isntall doesn’t send out activation e-mails, does it?

And if all else fails, there’s a search option in most text editors.

in all my test installs of 1.2 on wp and wpmu I’ve never had an activation email for new user signups – I just assumed the feature was removed…it’s still there?

This problem comes from the bp_has_custom_signup_page function.

It checks to see if your theme can locate_template( array( 'register.php' ), false ) or locate_template( array( '/registration/register.php' ), false ) )

Since your child theme has neither of those files, naturally it will return false and give you wp-signup.php as the link. To counter this, BuddyPress attempts to be smart and redirect to BP_REGISTER_SLUG.

If you always want to bypass this check all together, you could try putting this in your bp-custom.php file…

function bp_custom_get_signup_page( $page ) {

global $bp;

return $bp->root_domain . '/' . BP_REGISTER_SLUG;

}

add_filter( 'bp_get_signup_page', 'bp_custom_get_signup_page' );

Note that bp_get_activation_page and bp_has_custom_activation_page work the same way, and the same rules apply if for some reason you want to bounce people from a different activation page.

I’m having this same problem, I think. Since upgrading to 1.2, my custom BP_REGISTER_SLUG doesn’t work anywhere other than the root blog buddybar. Other blogs and login widget all direct to blank wp-signup.php page. http://injersey.com

Any ideas?

Yes. Please make a trac enhancement ticket on https://trac.buddypress.org/, as we should probably make sure we add this into WP to keep the behaviour consistent.

I just wanted to add my own low-tech solution to a similar situation. This is what I did to hide all my BuddyPress features (members, activity, etc) while keeping my pages and blog posts publicly accessible…

In my child theme, I copied the members/index.php, activity/index.php(etc etc) folders and files. Then in the index files, I surrounded everything inside the “padder” div (which displays all the content) with a is_user_logged_in tag like this:

<div class=”padder”>

<?php if (is_user_logged_in()){ ?>

(content guts go here)

<?php } else { echo “<h3>Members Only!</h3><p>Sorry. The page you have requested is for registered members only. Please visit our About page for more information on member registration. Thank you for visiting.</p>”;} ?>

</div>

PHP isn’t really my thing, so that’s probably not the best way of doing it, but it worked.