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Not sure it’s something we need to be busy with really, in reality if this field is left out the username is used for all display purposes so again I question the use of ‘anonymous’ to describe the registration? I asked earlier whether you had any plugins in use that might alter the way WP/BP names are handled, is there some change being made to what is normally displayed sitewide or is it just that you don’t want usernames being used for display?

Hi Shawn. Short of debugging the outgoing mailbox on your server to verify that the email is actually sent, and then monitoring that inbox for any bounce notifications, no, I don’t have any answers. I think I recall seeing Microsoft’s email services blocking the user registration email because it thinks it’s spam (or a bad link).

You could try, as a test, totally replacing all the words and links (using the BP email editor) in the registration email, and seeing if that gets delivered. I suspect it’s being blocked because of the activation link.

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Hey guys I had the similar problem. I had 3 different user types. The first two could select between 2 user roles (let’s say “part time student” or “regular student”), as the third one had to have a set role of a let’s say “Teacher”. So I needed two different registration forms that would automatically register with user roles.

So what I did was to create a user profile field called “Account Type” (dropdown select) with the options of “Part Time Student”, “Regular Student” and ” “Teacher”. I then used @webizone’s solution for a second registration form. I created the template and added to it a few lines of javascript, basically to remove the “Teacher” option from the select menu.

<script type="text/javascript">

jQuery("#field_17 option[value='Teacher']").remove();
</script>

Now that template is for the registration of “Part Time Student” and “Regular Student”. For the teacher’s is just the regular registration form with the “Teacher” option selected by default.
Now to register the user roles I’ve used @spiritix’s solution from here: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-assign-a-wp-user-role-based-on-a-registration/

And to restrict wich forums users can access I’ve used https://wordpress.org/plugins/members/

Hope this helps. Good Luck and let me know if anyone has a better solution than this. Thanks

BP has checks in place for characters entered, you should not be able to register a username that just consists of white space without the form throwing an error message. Have you any additional plugins running that might be interfering with the BP registration process?

I’m getting a registration page, did you remember to logout before you went looking for the page?

Hi Will,

Sorry for the post-hijack but I’ve been looking for a solution to a problem that you’ve eluded to;

Are you saying that s2Member will allow users to register using BuddyPress, to join a buddypress group (using https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-registration-groups-1/) AND a corresponding mailchimp group, all within the same registration process?

If so then I’d like to kiss you – I’ve been looking for a solution to this for months.

Chris.

Simple way would be to setup a mandatory x-profile field using a text-area with country or city. Have a template that queries members by that field for the members page. Whatever the members puts into that field is what the members page or search would return with. Make it a mandatory filed on registration and it should work that way.

So basically if a member typed in Poland, and saved his profile, everytime he went to see the members list, only people who typed in Poland would show up. Search can work that way too.