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Sigh. I’m talking to myself… It seems that disabling that security plugin seemed to work but now my registration is back to broken. So I’m not sure that was really it, or there’s something else going on.

Naturally right after I posed my plea for help I figured it out. I had a bot attack about a week ago and as a result I tightened down a security plugin I’ve been using. Apparently some setting in that plugin broke the registration. So now I don’t have the security plugin enabled, which will probably mean a bunch of bot registrations, but I’ll try to narrow down the issue and report back in case it helps anyone else.

–SOLVED–

Update: I have discovered a work-around and would like to post it here in case it is useful to anyone else.

I installed both BuddyPress for its membership functions (eg profiles, directory) and also “User Registration” plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-registration/) for the registration form. User Registration plugin allows you to have more than one user registration forms and you can set what role you want each registration form to automatically assign to the user that signs up with that form. For example, you can create a form for teachers, and a separate form for students, and have the forms assign the respective roles to registrants of the form. Of course you need to create the roles first: t do this, use some sort of plugin that lets you manage user roles. I used “Members” (https://wordpress.org/plugins/members/). You can then create restrictions using this plugin and control the pages that each user role can and cannot have access to.

Hi @venutius, I must apologies as I misunderstood what the plugin was doing — the user role I had setup had manage options enabled so I didn’t see any change.

I have now created a new user role and using the plugin the assigned users can still manage the Group, Members, Activity and emails perfectly without having access to other areas.

The main problem I had was how to email/notify the none admin users that a new member needed approving – after going around in circles I simplified the whole login/registration process by using Gravity Forms which solved some other issues with keeping records and triggering 3rd party services.

Thanks again and sorry for any confusion.

Hi @venutius, not sure if I am missing something, but it doesn’t appear to work – in-fact when enabled and user role is selected the User no only doesn’t receive an email but the notification in BP stops working.

I might look at using a 3rd party registration plugin like Paid Memberships Pro.