This is a known issue with 1.0.1. It relates to the switch from sessions to cookies in the bp core. I do believe it’s fixed in trunk.
Apologies if my reported problem is the same as this one: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=3306 . They seem related.
Yes, rpx just jumps the standard registration process for buddypress which is required. The ideal is to direct rpx users fill the required forms in the profile…
Does your plugin offer such function?
[Mon Jun 22 01:48:49 2009] [error] [client 69.242.205.122] PHP Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /var/www/vhosts/ourcommoninterest.org/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-signup.php on line 257
I have registrations disabled. Bunches of warnings like that right after some cracking attempt to run a php file that doesn’t exist on my system. Not all of the warnings are attempts to run files such as ‘approved_checks.php’ though some are after msgs like this:
Sat Jun 20 23:09:13 2009] [error] [client 66.249.71.195] Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use ‘LimitInternalRecursion’ to increase the limit if necessary. Use ‘LogLevel debug’ to get a backtrace.
It is always right after one or the other though.
Twitterfic runs Elgg (which allows registration with both twitter and FB ID.)
Not sure why its listed as a BP site
btw, i’ve been wanting this feature as well.
I just recovered from a bad spam incident on my buddypress site. A user (who looked legit) suddenly started private messaging the whole community with obviously spam material resulting in some very angry members 
I will go ahead and install Akismet and a captcha during registration H.owever, is it true that each user has to obtain their own key from wordpress.com and plug it into Akismet to get it to work? Is there an alternative that I can just activate for everyone? Or can I just provide all my members with my key to activate their akismet?
Also, what steps have other BP admin used to prevent the kind of spam that I mentioned above? I do not think Akismet & the captcha during registration would have helped in this situation.
Is there a plugin that flags users who message a lot of users in a short time? Something like that might help fight spammers.
Thanks.
Bump..
still looking for help on how to edit the screen that comes up right after you enter your registration information. Thanks.
Hi, this is my WP/BB/BP integration: http://ryuuko.cl
it’s currently beta, but open. Only the blog registration is disabled because I haven’t uploaded themes :p I use a custom BP/BB theme that uses the markup of the WP theme (Thesis in this case).
We’ve been a small forum based community for almost 10 years. The next step is something more social, so BuddyPress was just what we needed.
@juanllamosas
This thread is about Mike Pratt’s Featured Groups Widget. This allows site admins to select certain BP groups to feature. It has nothing to do with individual members.
It sounds like you are talking about my Featured Member(s) Widget. If you are, you set a featured member by their unique ID, not by their username. When editing the widget’s parameters, it states “Member ID(s)
” and “Separate member IDs by commas”.
A member ID is the unique number automatically assigned to each user by WPMU upon registration. You can find each member’s unique member ID (also called userid), by logging into WPMU and clicking on “Site Admin > Users”. Then, hover your cursor of a given member’s username and look at the link text. you’ll see this in the url “user_id=”. You can also obtain a user’s unique ID by looking at the “ID” field in the wp_users table in WPMU’s MySQL DB.
There are already fields for first_name and last_name in wp_usermeta, so it shouldn’t be necessary to create custom profile fields for them in bp_xprofile.
How can I add these first_name and last_name fields to the registration form, instead of one “Name” field? And how could the one fullname be generated from first_name and last_name?
btw, this is standard across a lot of social media sites. Look at Facebook – aside from the fact that they login with email instead of username, they also have display name, first and last….just like BP can have
Exactly, but how?! Do I really have to get into complicated custom coding to get an “industry standard” registration process?
Where is that built-in “name & last name” feature that Nicola Greco mentioned?
Following Mike Pratt’s suggestion I’ve added custom profile fields for separate first name and last name and made them required.
They now show up on the registration form, but there’s already the required field “Name” there.
Is there a way to autogenerate “Name” from “first name” and “last name”?
Aren’t separate first name and last name already a default part of the system somewhere? I noticed user management in wp-admin has separate first and last name fields. Where are they stored? Can’t I use that for the registration form as well?
Very confused…
wpmu back end > Site Admin > Options
Allow new registrations
Only logged in users can create new blogs.
Oh thanks so much Burt. I’m new to wpmu and didn’t realize ..I’ll have a go modifying the theme there.
Thanks Mike,
I have been trying to figure out how to include that in the screen that comes up after a user enters their registration details and clicks next. Would you know what I have to edit?
Actually the problem is not only with activation emails..all emails generated by buddypress (alerts about private messages etc) seem to be going to the spam folders.
#3 all new blogs use the theme in the /themes/default dir unless you have some plugin installed that changes that behavior. There is no option in wpmu to select the theme for all new blogs with any kind of back end setting.
You can choose the theme that your main blog (id 1) uses but it has no effect on other blogs.
I believe any registration whose activation link is not clicked on within 2 days (maybe 3) is automatically deleted. You can test this be trying to register two accounts using the same email address.
Assuming the first registration’s activation email has not be acted upon, when you try to register another account right away with that same email address the signup process will inform you that the email address is already in use. However, if you wait until 48 hours have passed, it will allow you to use that email address because the previous inactivated registration has been deleted.
Again, it might be 72 hours. Either way, any registration that is not activated does get purged from the system.
Oh I fixed number one…. duh I had somehow changed allow new registrations to only logged in. number 2 and 3 are still issues
Thanks
Wait just figured it out – Had to snag SVNx and then export the files via y’alls trunk address.
Is there an easy way to install the Trunk version? I’ve been trying to figure out the subversion client all morning.
willpcg, this an issue that is known. Fixed in trunk bp. It’s related to the cookies that 1.0.1 uses now. Can’t sign up multiple users on the same computer. It’ll be fixed in 1.0.2.
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Well, I can’t comment on the bug you mention but it seems it has similar effects elsewhere. I uploaded Nicola’s Flickr plugin and entered my profile id # and hit save. Now it shows some other guy’s name as the link to the Flickr profile but the favorites photos in my photostream are displaying correctly.
So as I said, similar but different but a coding bug that seems to be in more than one place.
– brian
BuddyPress runs on WPMU, so you can run most WP plugins your BP installation including Akismet or whatever other spam plugin(s) you’re using — that would take care of the blogs. As far as spam coming from actual registered users, that could be another issue. I wouldn’t anticipate this becoming a big problem in the first place, because a BP user has to register (get an email) and then confirm (get another email) registration before getting started to spam anybody. By the time that *could* happen and BP user John Doe decides to spam link everybody on the Wire and elsewhere, you as the admin could just suspend/delete his account. I’d say go for it. I love this system the moment and wrote a lengthy comparison between BP and another system, Elgg, here… http://www.michaelkuhlmann.com/category/buddypress/elgg-vs-buddypress/
There’s also another social networking system out there for Joomla called Anahita, in case you’re interested. Hope this helps!
Generating the username from the email address is not ideal, because it’s also used for the blog URL – if you allow creation of blogs.
My first thought would be to generate username from the full name. Or leave the username field on the registration form, but rename it as “blog name” and move it down on the form.
Or a combination of both where the username/blog name field is not visible when you first register and you get a suggested blog name based on your real name when you register a blog.
The only fields that show up during registration are the ones in the main group, and even then they have to be marked as required. Any other profile fields won’t show up during registration, but just like Jeff said will need to be filled in.
(Ironically enough, if you save your profile without all of the required fields filled in on the page, it still saves the data. Not sure if this is a bug or not, but I kind of like it like this actually.)
I suspect in the future there will be more selections and features as to which fields to show on registration, etc…
Awesome. No sweat. Sometimes the WordPress back-end can be a little confusing at first.
