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This sounds like a problem with the edit profile screen rather than your registration hook.

@maganiza,

how and when do you generate the field value, if the user can’t edit it ?
The only place a user can acces a field is on his profile.

On signup page, only fields who are part of the “Base” field group are shown.
You can create another field group who will contain the field you want after signup. Then, to enter something to it, the user must go on his profile. But if you disallow edition for that field, it’s quite impossible.

Before signing in, a user doesn’t exist. He can only fill some registration fields before asking to be a member. Once he is approved, he can access to his profile and fill additionnal fields.

Aside, is the field value the same for all user ? Perhaps you could add this information differently to profile. Give details please.

registration and activation pages should not be cached as its for logged out users i believe

Earl – If you want to use W3 Total Cache’s page cache, but want to whitelist the registration and activation pages, you should be able to do that within W3TC.

This is an old guide that I found on Google to show you how to whitelist pages in W3TC:
https://www.itsupportguides.com/wordpress/w3-total-cache-how-to-exclude-posts-and-pages/

For your needs, whitelist the /register/ and /activate/ page slugs or whatever you have those slugs set to in BuddyPress.

let me know what issues u found with registration and activation pages?

@masoud1111,

thank you for your appreciation. And sorry for my confusion about setting > general. That’s traditionnally the path used on admin dashboard. In regard of the picture, it’s the mandatory wp registration email field. This part is on your-site/members/USERNAME/settings.

The template file you can modify is members/single/settings/general.php
In that file is a form who contains a label and a input type for “email”. To hide, you could add a conditionnal for admin’s only.

For example, before both label and input lines, add

<?php if(is_super_admin() ): ?>
   <label>bla
   <input>bla
<?php endif; ?>

To be complete, you may want to show message to explain about the email field. In that case, add something like following above:

<?php if ( !is_super_admin() ) : ?>
<p>Ask site admin if you want to change your email address.</p>
<?php endif; ?>

BP Registration Options Works pretty well for me includes option to approve every registration prior to user accessing full BP features.

If you do not have access to your database, you can temporarily put the following snippet in your theme’s functions.php or wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php file:

function ray_xprofile_group_fix() {
	global $wpdb, $bp;

	if ( empty( $_GET['xprofilefix'] ) || empty( $bp ) ) {
		return;
	}

	$wpdb->query( "UPDATE {$bp->profile->table_name_groups} SET id = 1 WHERE id = 2" );
}
add_action( 'get_header', 'ray_xprofile_group_fix' );

Then, go to your website and append ?xprofilefix=1 to your website URL.

eg. example.com/?xprofilefix=1

This should change your profile group ID back to 1. Next, check your registration page and “Edit Profile” link and see if they work.

Once you have confirmed that it works, remove the code snippet from your theme’s functions.php or bp-custom.php file.

Can both of you try reading this and see if the same problem applies to you?

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/registration-page-does-not-work/#post-251532

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/bad-link-to-profile-edit/#post-174602

It sounds like this might be the problem at least for @angelaq.

So I thought I would shed some light on this issue. Since I’ve seen so many threads regarding it and I was having same issue.

this is regarding 404 error page if you are on page profile/edit/group/1/

Problem is group 1 is missing in your profile section.

All you need to do is go into you DB and look for table: wp_bp_xprofile_groups

Then look for id=2, Base

then just change id=2 to 1 and that’s it.

I’m also having this issue. Per recommendation on these forums, the plugin I’m using to assist with registration is Theme My Login.

I’m using ColorMag theme and the latest BP and WP…

I also tested BP 2.5.3 on WP 4.5.2 on a fresh install and cannot duplicate your problem, Earl_D.

I tested with the Extended Profiles component enabled.

Are you using any caching plugins? If so, try to disable it or whitelist the register and activate pages from caching.

Do you have any special extended profile registration fields? If so, can you list what they are and how they are configured?

@maganiza,

it’s possible. I suppose you need a unique code for some later user specific actions. But that code exist nowhere when a user register. What can we do ?

1) generate a 6 digit code and show it on the register page
2) asign that code to the user
3) show the code on his profile

1 – we use php mt_rand to generate the code and one of the available action hook on the register page for his output. Add this snippet to bp-custom.php

function bpfr_digit_generator() {
$num = mt_rand ( 0, 0xffffff ); 
$output = sprintf ( "%06x" , $num );
 
	echo '<strong>Your personnal code: '. $output .'</strong>';

}
add_action( 'bp_after_account_details_fields', 'bpfr_digit_generator' );

2) create a new xprofile field, call it Personnal Code or whatever. Make it mandatory and asign it the visibility level you want. In field description, ask the user to copy/paste in the code.

3) as the user entered the code in a xprofile field, you get automagically this field on his profile.

I’m a bit unsure how to insert this field value in the activation email, or if it’s even possible. Perhaps somebody else can help you. See email on codex.

A bit raw, but at least you have a start point how to do that.

Here also another method, you may use if you don’t want the user to copy/paste the code.

use wp spamshield plugin..this would stop the spam registrations on your website which in turn wont lead to spam groups