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I have installed BP – registration options to activate what I can for now, but it limits how many you can activate unlike the regular option where I could activate as many as I wanted to at a time.

I figured this out by cobbling together some code. Just copy this into a new .php file, upload to /plugins and activate. You’ll need to change ‘Referrer’ to whatever profile field you have instead.

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Custom New User Email
Description: Changes the copy in the email sent out to new users
*/
 
// Redefine user notification function
if ( !function_exists('wp_new_user_notification') ) {
    function wp_new_user_notification( $user_id, $plaintext_pass = '' ) {
        $user = get_userdata( $user_id );
      
	// The blogname option is escaped with esc_html on the way into the database in sanitize_option
	// we want to reverse this for the plain text arena of emails.
	$blogname = wp_specialchars_decode(get_option('blogname'), ENT_QUOTES);
	
	// find the profile field for referrer
	$field1 = xprofile_get_field_data( 'Referrer', $user_id );

	$message  = sprintf(__('New user registration on your site %s:'), $blogname) . "\r\n\r\n";
	$message .= sprintf(__('Username: %s'), $user->user_login) . "\r\n\r\n";
	$message .= sprintf(__('E-mail: %s'), $user->user_email) . "\r\n\r\n";
	$message .= sprintf(__('Referrer: %s'), $field1) . "\r\n";

	@wp_mail(get_option('admin_email'), sprintf(__('[%s] New User Registration'), $blogname), $message);

	if ( empty($plaintext_pass) )
		return;

	$message  = sprintf(__('Username: %s'), $user->user_login) . "\r\n";
	$message .= sprintf(__('Password: %s'), $plaintext_pass) . "\r\n";
	$message .= wp_login_url() . "\r\n";

	wp_mail($user->user_email, sprintf(__('[%s] Your username and password'), $blogname), $message);
 
     }
}
 
?>

Hi Roger,

That’s some really good and useful advice, much appreciated. I take your point, to do something properly is going to take time.

When the business gains some momentum I certainly want to invest in having great looking and functioning profiles.

Where I am right now I am looking for the simplest way to test the concept as I’m not sure if our business model is going to work or not. So for the MVP we want carers to create profiles, and for clients to be able to look through and contact who they want to with some degree of registration (or control) from our side. Stuff like payment gateways, and even filters can come later.

I will take your advice and post on the job board and see what happens.

Please could you tell me which websites you have developed, I would be very interested to see what can be done.

Thanks,

Ollie

@djsteveb

Oh I found the error.
I banned a special domain during the registration process like @xyz.com
users with this email domain are not supposed to sign up at my website,
what i didn’t knew is that all members who previously signed up with an email like that
got black listed. It means they where posting and than the system was removing their posts like spam !

seriously, there is no other way? 🙁 I was hoping to find a plugin that would allow me to create a welcome page after registration

Thanks! I was looking for hours and couldn’t find that first one. I guess I just wasn’t using the right search term.

Only thing that would make it completely perfect is if the password worked for infinite registrations instead of just one user. Oh well, it will work.

The jcrop tracker is a part of wp/bp and allows the user to select the portion of the uploaded image to be used as a group avatar. The trackers aspect ratio controls the proportion of this selection process. The profile avatar is being upload using the Userpro registration plugin.
The only adjustment to size is for the group avatar, using css, 215px x 135px.

@shanebp: There wasn’t anything rude in my response. If anything, Henry’s didn’t address my question as I stated it,. Instead, he rephrase it, which could be considered inconsiderate.

Had I wanted to ask the question he moved my question to, I would have asked it. I didn’t. So I moved what I could have considered a rude move on his part, back to my original concern. As for your response, … “It depends”; it is not an answer. Consider the context here: We are in a BuddyPress forum que. If you haven’t figure it out yet, I am querying to how better install BuddyPress, on a domain or a subdomain. It is obvious that it has to be on a WordPress installation. (Everyone who doesn’t know that, hold up your hand….. Just as a thought, no one. Oh, there is one.)

Now, I could have interjected my own thoughts into the original question, but by not doing so I was hoping to illicit candid input, as compared to a general and useless response such as, “It depends”. So. Since you seem to have more to add, depending on something…, let me clarify for you:

One of the sites we created and run for a client has WordPress as the platform. We are considering adding BuddyPress to it to extend the accumulated audience. We have concerns regarding security, cpu and memory load, plugin conflicts,possibly running a separate user registration and permission scheme (possibly) and all the other common issues inherent with WP; as well as the size of the site already, which is a bit over 3Gb in size. It runs an events system, with about 400 locations and in excess of 23,000 daily events. It is on a VPS with 2 cores, 32Gb RAM, using multiple dedicated IPs, much of what is in WHM, and numerous firewalls and other security systems.

As you maybe are able to see, how BuddyPress is installed would make a difference. But now that I have clouded your considerations with information I would have preferred to reserve until later in any possible conversation, we’ll see what bias is in any response you may have, hopefully beyond a mind-dulling, “It depends”.

Now, on to Henry’s response:
You left out the option of WP on both the primary and the sub-domains; which is the case. Again, if my primary question had to do with BUDDY PRESS, not to gain opinions about WP on a subdomain vs on a primary domain, which is the case; I would expect responses regarding that. Had your topic been my topic, I wouldn’t have posted my question in a BuddyPress que, simply becuase your question says nothing about BP.

And I’m sure that question has been addressed many times already. Who cares??? IT WASN’T, AND ISN’T MY QUESTION! Why do you have this habit of trying to rephrase or move another’s original question? Must be a power struggle issue.

Never mind. I’ll seek the opinions elsewhere, from other forums that actually want to address questions as stated, and don’t act like gatekeepers.

Good grief!

@djsteveb – I think it’s not only with login attempts, but posts that are being forcefully being posted, BP Members, Groups, and Activity being accessed and I am only seeing one username of rogeliomackie. iThemes Security log shows site URLs that doesn’t even exist yet on my website, and these activities are happening here. Most of these URLs are from BuddyPress generated pages which I removed asap after installing the plugin, so I am wondering.

I agree that not only WordPress but other CMS and websites gets unwanted visitors daily. One of my concerns too is bandwidth usage, 2 days and it’s already around 800MB and the max is only 48 GB. I know pages are being indexed but it just feels abnormal. What if my site got a lot of users and these unwanted activities happen at the background, I’m thinking that the site will get unimaginably slow.

As the site aim is for a community that can submit video links and automatically get posted, I am looking into adding Captcha and other security measures specially integrating security to BuddyPress pages like Registration. I haven’t seen a Login page generated though.

Thanks for the tips and advice I appreciate it.