BuddyPress.org

The nice register page would be http://yourdomain.com/register and it is already there for new registration of any account type you allow Check out http://testbp.org/register as an example.

Trent

you’ve just to add an action to the registration hook..

i can’t do that for you, i’m not of age

Nicola

BP GURU & BPDEV

I think it somewhat depends on the kind of network you have but I generally recommend against open registration for blogs and, instead, have people request a blog with you instead. Yeah, it’s a bit more work and yeah, it takes away some spontaneity – but the reality is you’ll have tenfold the amount of work with monitoring for SPAM blogs AND people that do the spur of the moment “let’s start a blog” thing are not your long term bloggers either. What’s the benefit of having 100 inactive blogs on your network? I’d rather have 5 that update daily with solid, quality content. As with many things in life, quality trumps quantity any day of the week.

So, it may sound a bit counter-intuitive but I’m all for slowing down to speed up with blogs/members that are worth your effort.

and I suppose it has to do with the several issues on my BP installation (follow the link), for example :

– can’t edit the profiles, create a group

– blogs are created but aren’t showing in the recent activity, neither in the blogs tabs or in his owner’s profile

– can’t send a message, invite somebody to be friend, etc

i’ve read somewhere that sometimes a table named bp-xprofile was not created in the DB ; I can’t see any table with that name in my DB.

thanks for any help

so do I

are you hosted by 1&1 ?

I have the same problem

Any help ?

to add extra sign up fields you can use this action add_action( ‘signup_extra_fields’, ‘function_name’ );

put the captcha code in the function.

use add_filter( ‘wpmu_validate_user_signup’, ‘function_name’, 10, 1 ); for validation

you can add a action to do that, it is more simple you can think,

Nicola Greco,

BP GURU

It can, but the amount of spam accounts will increase dramatically. The reason for sending the account password via e-mail is to prevent spammers from simply entering a known username and password and creating 1000’s of spam blog posts on wordpress mu.

I have a similar situation, where I have a current site with 15k users, username and passwords. What I used is this plugin. It works well on wordpress and buddypress.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/external-database-authentication/

When a user logins, it checks my “other” database for the username, and validates the password against it. This means they don’t need to do the e-maiil thing, as their e-mail was already validated on the old site. It then creates the user in wordpress and the user doesn’t notice anything.

How you could do this for your friends, just make a table of all the friends, and set the same password for everyone initially, and ask them to change it. I only suggest this for very small beta sites with friends you trust, like less then 10 people.

Brad

http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta

On the main page when I click the “Sign up” button, it goes to /register… and 404’s.

/register? Can you give me a link to your site? What is a Clark Connect box?

I’m guessing ‘main page’ is the bp home theme. There are three places a user can choose to signup from there. The admin bar ‘sign up’ the home theme header area ‘login’ and ‘sign up’ buttons and if you are using the welcome widget it has a ‘create account’ button. All three launch wp-signup.php as far as I can see.

Using the url mysite.org/register running the home theme gets the normal registration functions in the left sidebar.

Anything else is a config problem on that box that isn’t allowing normal bp behavior.

Home theme, where the root of my blog is located, in fact the admin bar(drop down list [log out]) is also affected.

I got this result for both the log out links for the home theme and the admin bar:

You don’t have permission to access /blog/wp-login.php on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

I attempted to replace the code for the admin bar and got the same result as how mdsports had. It didn’t redirect to my home blog page.

I downloaded the latest WordPressMU and BuddyPress(I used the beta link that was given)

Here’s the admin bar code which I identified:

// **** “Log In” and “Sign Up” links (Visible when not logged in) ********

function bp_adminbar_login_menu() {

if ( !is_user_logged_in() ) {

echo ‘<li class=”bp-login no-arrow”>‘ . __( ‘Log In’, ‘buddypress’ ) . ‘‘;

// Show “Sign Up” link if registrations are allowed

if ( get_site_option( ‘registration’ ) != ‘none’ ) {

echo ‘<li class=”bp-signup no-arrow”>‘ . __( ‘Sign Up’, ‘buddypress’ ) . ‘‘;

The Home theme header logout link(the one to the right) is also similar but I have no idea how PHP really works and I spent a few hours figuring out what the problem was but I’m interested to learn how these stuff works and I hope you guys can enlighten me.

burtadsit,

I see the reply you are talking about and found the lines in the bp-core.php file but I’m still not sure what to do with it. I’m sorry but could you please me more specific on how I would modify it? I want to have emails sent form “A.i. Music” as “support@aimusic.com” thanks so much for your help!

Comment out:

In: function bp_core_email_from_name_filter()

line #1150

add_filter( ‘wp_mail_from_name’, ‘bp_core_email_from_name_filter’ )

And comment out:

In: function bp_core_email_from_address_filter()

line #1165

add_filter( ‘wp_mail_from’, ‘bp_core_email_from_address_filter’ )

Try some test registrations and see if they still say that whacky address.

Try changing default role here (domain.com/wp-admin/wpmu-blogs.php?action=editblog&id=1) and here (domain.com/wp-admin/options.php) to “contributor” then do a test registration to see if the new user is a contributor or subscriber.

If that doesn’t work in wp-includeswpmu-functions.php change this:

add_user_to_blog(‘1’, $user_id, ‘subscriber’);

to this:

add_user_to_blog(‘1’, $user_id, ‘author’);

That should take care of all future signups, however existing users will be unchanged. If you don’t have too many users yet you can simply manually change them to authors, however, if you have a lot of signups check out this thread for a way to mass add users as authors.

@realfam – the log in info on my site – explorewithme.com is easy…drop me an e-mail and i can send you the code if you like…use the contact form on the website…

I should just learn to *really pay attention* when Andy drops in with a suggestion. I looked at the message that started this thread. Lets see if his suggestion that those two hooks are the problem.

In /mu-plugins/bp-core.php are two functions that hook and alter the email ‘from’ address and modifiy it.

Comment out:

In: function bp_core_email_from_name_filter()

line #1150

add_filter( ‘wp_mail_from_name’, ‘bp_core_email_from_name_filter’ )

And comment out:

In: function bp_core_email_from_address_filter()

line #1165

add_filter( ‘wp_mail_from’, ‘bp_core_email_from_address_filter’ )

Try some test registrations and see if they still say that whacky address.

Howdy. I’ve never modified the default mechanism. No that you’ve brought it up, looks like I will. Ugly. Been awhile since I faked a new user registration. One more thing on the list.

I took a look at wp-signup.php and it calls the theme’s header and footer and has it’s own internal css. We gotta modify that or go get a plugin. It doesn’t know anything about your theme’s sidebars.

I’d just add a custom profile field called “Public Email” or the like, which would allow users to optionally provide an email to display publicly and also allow it to be different from the one they used for registration.

It works for the main blog too, thought the search function isn’t all that useful given there would only be a single blog but all the other functions work with the main blog.

All you’d need to do to get this setup is to change the default role for the main blog from subscriber to contributor and disable blog registration. Also, you may want to hack at the code to remove things such as the blog directory, the list of user blogs, etc. but this is optional.

Don’t fear. Just change the register.php form in your bbPress template to not have the registration form in it and replace it with a link to your register form on your WPMU install. There are quite a few threads on the bbPress forums about this. If you use the default theme, copy folder to /my-plugins/ and then adjust the theme. That way it won’t break when you upgrade.

Trent

Actually, maybe it makes more sense to have a custom login page. Non-logged in users are already being redirected to the login page now, so you can design that page to have an intro message and a registration form, along with the standard login fields.