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I’m sure if you posted a link to your registration form you’ll get the answers you need 🙂

shouldn’t BuddyPress create those pages automaticallyyes, but only when it is the first install. As you sed a member plugin previously with a page name member, BP didn’t create one as it already exist. But BP doesn’t check for existing plugins, just for “his” pages.

Anyway, as you added BP, than reinstalled or reactivate, the page was already registered in the wp_post table, with a post_type of ‘page’ and a post_status of ‘publish’.

Also, in the WP system, when a page is in the trash, it is not deleted. The page is still in the table, but with a post_status of ‘trash’. To remove it completely you need to delete it permanently. Click on trash and use the appropriate button.

Now the issue. You have 2 member pages. The one has a slug /member/, the other has a slug /member-2/.
The one may show in the pages list and the other in the trash. This naming is the internal way used by WP to differenciate 2 pages with a same name. That’s fine, but BP dosn’t know about that, and you can run into trouble because of this. And other plugins also.

Ensure you have only one page called ‘member’ and clear the trash. And delete completely the other one. Do the same for any other BP page eventually. The principle is to have an unique page name in the pages list and no identical page in trash.

Yes you have to create these page manually now. By default, each component should have one page assigned. On a standart install, you should have at least:
members – activity. If activated, group. And depending of the previous status of your WP (before BP installation) a page for activation and registration. If not in BP’s page settings, you have to add them manually.

Note also that all these pages exist only to give a slug to each component. These page are not ordinary WP pages, but slugs placeholder used internally by WP to connect the components.
That’s why they should exist, be blank and without any model or template assignation.

The content is added dynamically by BP for each component with the appropriate template to the current action.

e.g. the member page. You can name it to what you want. Lets say you called it crew. His slug is /crew/
When typing your-site.xx/crew/ you will see something related to the member component.

The member directory is default: your-site/crew/ will show all your members

Now you want to see a profile. The slug wont change, but only the action.
Again your-site/crew/ (the default slug, aka page) and the new action: go to the profile of /username/
Click on a member name and you’re now on his profile: your-site/crew/username
Now from the profile you want to see that users friends.
your-site/crew/username/friends

As you see, you’re always on the same “page”, but with different content depending the context. This context is defined by anything appearing after the slug name.
This behave is the exact inverse of a traditionnal WP page, intended for so called static contents such as about page or TOS and similar stuff.

Hope this point is now clear to you.

Those messages are in the language file and so you can change them in the same way as you would for the messages in the registration page.

I would suggest you skip the captcha on registration and instead use something like
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-humanity/

or the plugin “good question”

There is another similar to those.. in my experience these work 100 times better in preventing spam registrations..

I also use “ip geo block”

These took my spam fighting down from hours a day to a minutes a week.

This advice I got from William helped me change the text of the Registration page, I’m sure it will work you change other text messages in Buddypress:

This article may be of help to you to change that text http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/make-your-wordpress-site-buddypress-ready/

Or you can use this one too with a plugin: https://webdevstudios.com/2015/06/02/creating-custom-templates-for-buddypress/

You just need to find a capture that does work with the registration form. There’s plenty that do.

@micheleriva – you’re using a custom registration page, correct?

Try it with the default BP register page.
If that works, then you know the issue is in your custom page.

I can see your registration page, I can’t see your activate page, but the registration page goes to a registration form from where I’m seeing.

@venutius,

please search the forum before hijacking. 😉
search:
https://buddypress.org/support/search/assign+group+on+registration/

read:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/auto-assign-new-member-to-group-upon-registration/

Please do not hijack threads or double post.

Your reg page shows the standard layout.
Adjusting the layout may require changes in the css for your theme.
There are many articles about customizing the registration page.
Google: buddypress customize registration page

This all sounds feasible. BuddyPress is very developer friendly so building your own web apps and hooking into BuddyPress shouldn’t be a problem.

The registration form is configurable and is fully customisable via the BuddyPress template hierarchy.

Also, BuddyPress is free, so there’s no need to purchase.

Try using the Buddypress Registration Options plug in, I use this and it sends me an email once when they first register and then another once they have activated their account.

@shanebp: I don’t understand. Why are all the BP pages listed as options for only logged in users in the Menu widget except for the Members page (and Register and Log in, ofcourse)? I only want logged in members to see the member directory, for the sake of the privacy of my members. I can add the page via the regular pages menu, but then it is visible in the menu to everyone even if they are logged out. Or if I go to http://www.site.com/members/ when not logged in, the page with the list of members is visible. I would like the members directory to be private. I don’t understand why BP left this out of the menu for logged in users only. If this is not possible, is there a way to block the /members/ page from the public that won’t mess anything up?

In fact, I just checked all the logged-in links in a different browser that I’m not logged in to, and the members, activities, groups, friends and profile pages are ALL visible! Doesn’t that defeat the whole purpose of having a membership community that requires registration????? At least messages, notifications, and settings are locked. Am I missing something?

Doubt there is a plugin this specific. I’m not sure the specifics but are you saying anyone can review a woo product if they are not logged in?

BuddyPress doesn’t have a specific method for logging in its the same login as WP.

You might try this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24747095/woocommerce-require-registration-to-buy

That information never arrived at the email.

Just a thought, check your spam folder as sometimes activation emails end up there.

I attempted another registration with different credentials and email and this time nothing happened.

This might be a problem with your theme. Try activating TwentyFifteen and complete the registration form again. Also deactivate any plugins you’ve installed, just to be sure none of those are causing the problem.

Sometimes registration emails aren’t sent

Are you sure they’re not being sent? Could it be that they’re not being received (gone into a spam or junk folder)?

If the user skips this they can login normally

They can log in but unless they’ve activated their account via the email that was sent, or you have manually activated them, they won’t be able to do much on your site. Their privileges will be restricted.

i did it that way and it worked for me. so i now have all my profile fields in one group and display only one of the fields on the registration-page

Please provide a valid activation key is a msg which is generally fired when you’re in a same browser session.
Example, when as site admin, you’re testing a new user registration. Close the window, or clear history cookie before you login as this new user.

Hi,

see if this plugin fit to your need:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-registration-options/

thanks for your input, @danbp.
There is, of course, a reason why i want it as requested 🙂
On my registration form, i only want to show one field to not bother new users with unnecessary fields. this one field is in my base group.
All other fields are arranged in another group.

From my point of view, it doesn’t make sense to show two tabs on the profile-edit page, but it does make sense to show as less fields as possible on the registration page. I think UX comes first today. Customers pay our rent, so we should avoid putting spokes in there wheel. I also think buddypress is doing a pretty bad job here regarding UX (Of course this behavior gives structure, but we pay with UX for it). Since we live in 2015 it shouldn’t be a matter of “hacking” to reduce the amount of inputs and clicks for such “trivial” actions (from a users perspective) like editing a profile.

Is that reason enough? 🙂