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Solved https://wordpress.org/support/topic/anyway-to-see-user-registration-before-approving-user?replies=8#post-8538842

Essentially my issue is I am trying to see a users profile/registration before I activate them because their registration process includes info/files that need to be vetted before activation. Now it appears there’s no way to do that under vanilla buddypress/manage signups menu, but per this thread I can see all that info under the BP registration plugin.

The issue becomes I need to activate/approve the user twice; once under manage signups, once under BP registration.

solved it.
hopefully someone from wordpres.org helped me.
here is the link for anyone in the future faced the same problem as me.
wordpress.org page

the answer was:
If you want to add some user meta info in user database while registration you need to use “user_register” filter like below code:Add code in your themes function.php file

add_action( 'user_register', 'my_user_meta_save', 10, 1 );
function my_user_meta_save( $user_id ) {
    if ( isset( $_POST['first_name'] ) )
        update_user_meta($user_id, 'first_name', $_POST['first_name']);
}

i have an important project to finish, so i can’t post my setups right now — but honestly — i was hoping that others would post reasonable plugin and theme combinations that work well when installed. basically, combos where you can configure some settings, sure, but where you don’t have to do custom programming just to get basic community registration, splog protection, and member interaction to work properly.

Hello, thanks for the advice. I installed the plugin, but unfortunately it still doesn’t appear to be sending registration emails. I noticed that the plugin mentioned above will be automatically disabled on BuddyPress 2.5.3 and higher because the functionality is already built-in.

Figure this out for me. I found this statement on a blog site;

“In your WordPress admin, go to Pages > Add New, and create the two pages as you normally would. Call one Registration and the Other Activation”

I created both blank pages (notice it is Registration, not Register) — change the settings page to point to them and MAGIC — I now that a Registration button, point to the Registration page, which appears to work

Thanks for the pointer — I’m finding many things about the installation process to by non-intuitive and skipped in the documentation. This is but one example.

Current documentation issues;
Getting started ends with configuration of components.

Configure BuddyPress

Unfortunately that is just the beginning.

I am currently trying to figure out how create registration and activation pages. This is apparently not a new issue — I still wading through the support thread.
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/registration-and-activation-pages-missing/
It talks about switching to the bp theme — which isn’t listed as a selectable theme.
I have found the files under bp-themes/bp-default — I just need to discover what to do with them. (more reading ahead)