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I think BP Registration Options is what Most people use

+1 on this.

It would be better to have profile details displayed below and not next to account details to make mobile registration look better.

Has anyone found a solution to this?

Thanks,

Lars

There are some plugins, do a google search.

you can also use this code but you will get spam if they can get in without email conformation.

add_filter( 'bp_registration_needs_activation', '__return_false' );

BP Registration Options will do that for you.

Where is BP installed ? Where do you try to register a new user ? What is the registration URL ? And give more details about your install please.

@alliebells15,

deactivate all plugins but BP and restart BP’s setup

BP pages should be empty, without any shortcode or template assigned. Once created again, clear eventually the trash, your pages must be unique !

Once ok, go to permalinks, and choose any option but “default”.

In BP pages settings, you should have a page for:

members
activities
groups (if you use groups)
register &
activation (if you allow user registration)

Reading the codex will help you to clarify how to proceed.

Configure BuddyPress

@uscore713,

i’ll try to explain. You’re using WordPress and a plugin called BuddyPRess which add a community dimension to WP.

Members are the heart of BP. Anything done by the plugin will return something related to members: activities, friendships, dicussion and much more.

How is this possible ?
Because WP let you register members separately. To do this, WP ask for a username(pseudonym), a password and a valid email.

You cannot avoid this, whatever plugin you use. It is how it works.

Now, we have 2 different question in this topic.

1) how to restrict access to profile settings ?
2) do we need a plugin for that ?

About point 1
WordPress was designed to be a blog builder. A CMS with one blog author who was mainly also the site
owner/builder… This changed with the years and today, you can handle a multiauthor blog.

When you install BP, you can still handle a multiauthor blog (or even blogs) and also a big community of different users, whith different (wp) roles.

What hasn’t changed is the way WP handles authors(or members): from within the dashboard, whatever the role.

When BP is activated, and if you use the xprofile component, you can build a registration form who is added to the original wp registration form. This form is then available on each user profile and can be modified from there.

To restrict user access to wp-admin, you can use different technique. This depends of your coding knowledge or working philosophy, with custom code or applying some plugin solution.

This is independant of BuddyPress and out of the scope of this forum. Just remember that BP let you access to your credentials from front-end.

About point 2
– in theory, you don’t need a plugin
– you always need to read about a plugin before using it.
For example, the workaround mentionned in this topic about the usage of Profile Builder.
– here a recent tutorial – for beginners – you may found more advanced advice by googling about “wordpress restrict dashbord access”.

When you read the teaser on that plugin page, you already should have understand that you don’t need it !
Simple to use profile plugin allowing front-end login, user registration and edit profile by using shortcodes.

Astonishment ! BuddyPress offers exactly the same options (among others).

What ever plugin you use, the regiter process of WordPress won’t change, and the user list or the user data will always be at the same place. What plugins do (most of them), is to modify the appearance of that process.

What you can also do is to remove all WP related items from the toolbar, if you use it. This is widely documented and discussed on WP’s support and codex. It’s WP territory and has nothing to do with the fact you use BuddyPress.

Admitting you found a solution for the backend, you need to use BP’s login widget. From there, users can enter the site. And if they loosed their password, they can ask for a new one from there (usually the sidebar, on front-end).

There’s a few different ways you could go about this, there’s a few privacy plugins that will hide different aspect of the site from public view. One is BP Registration Options, this installs new member moderation (so you can choose who to allow on you site) and BuddyPress privacy, where the BuddyPress pages are all private, but the WordPress pages and posts are still public.

If that’s not private enough for you then there’s BP Simple Private which allows you to hide all aspects of your site apart from the homepage.

Hi,

BuddyPress use templates to show his stuff.
The registration is part of WP and BP’s xprofile component add only some additionnal fields to the original register form.

If you open a template file you will see a lot of code and many lines starting by do_action( ‘something’ );

These files are all stored in bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/

Now you have already the where and the what. here’s the how.

To show some text on the register page you have two options:
1) altering the whole template file bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/register.php
2) add what you want by using an action hook

The second method is the fasted and the easiest. You just need to write a function and you’re done.

function valeriemanne() {
   echo 'Here i am !';
}
add_action( 'bp_before_register_page', 'valeriemanne' );

Add this to your child theme functions.php file or into bp-custom.php

WordPress codex references
add_action
Child theme

Hi,

Is there any easier way

this question may be answered if you provide first the complicated way !

if you want to use BuddyPress, you need a page for each active component. These page are there essentially for internal purpose and are working as placeholder or if you prefer, as permalink targets. Even if you use custom registration or pwd handling, you need them. What hapen in the template (ie. register.php) is to you, but you need to use a page slug.

Members is mandatory and is the only page you shouldn’t never delete.

Hi @kaosone1975,

add those snippets to bp-custom.php and give a try:

function bpfr_redirect() {

	if ( bp_is_current_component( 'register' ) ) {
		wp_redirect( get_option('siteurl') . '/wp-login.php?action=register' );
	} 

}
add_filter('get_header','bpfr_redirect', 1 );

function my_disable_bp_registration() {
	remove_action( 'bp_init',    'bp_core_wpsignup_redirect' );
	remove_action( 'bp_screens', 'bp_core_screen_signup' );
}
add_action( 'bp_loaded', 'my_disable_bp_registration' );

Hi,

You have to install BP correctly on WordPress as very first.
This means particulary that you use WordPress with one of default’s Twenty theme.
– install BuddyPress
– activate the component you want to use
– ensure that each component has his own page
– pretty permalinks must be activated too.

To get a proper register page, allow user registration in WP settings and add manually, if not created automatically, a “register” page to BP.

NOTE: BP pages are not usual WP pages. They are only placeholder (a unique ID in the wp ecosystem) where BP will show dynamic content. These page must be unique and shouldn’t be asigned to any template or model. Give them a title and you’re done.

once WP+BP work correctly together and you can access to the register page without trouble, you can be sure that this couple is definetly OK.

No it’s time to activate a custom theme if you use one. An if something gooes wrong at this stage you’re sure it’s the new theme who is the culprit.

And if the new theme is working correctly with WP+BP, you can install plugins.

And again, WP+BP+Theme = OK, but what about the plugin ?

Easy to understand, easy to build, very annoying to write this for the 589 000 time, but still the only way to install BP.

On your side, you need to follow these steps, but also to read the documentation from codex and of course, from any additionnal plugin you want to use !

That said, be warned that we can’t assist you on this forum with third party premium theme or plugins as we have no free access to their code.

If I go to the link that you provided I do not get a register page:
http://slipbuddy.codeprimer.net/Register/
However if I click on the register link I get a register page:

Register

Seems like there two pages on your site, Register and register, register is linked to the registration page, not Register.