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Ok, I have this working! For anyone else struggling with this, these are the steps I took:

1. I created a custom registration form ( I needed more than one form for my setup) using the tutorial from Brajesh Singh http://buddydev.com/buddypress/show-buddypress-user-registration-form-everywhere-buddypress-site/

2. I added a hidden input field to my form:

<input type="hidden" name="user_type" id="user_type" value="your_role" />

3. I added a user_meta during the registration to store the role for later use during the activation process:

function store_user_role($user_id) {
    $user_type = $_POST['user_type'];
    $user_role = $user_type;
    switch($user_role) {
        case "your_role":
            add_user_meta( $user_id, '_member_role', 'yourrole');
            break;
        case "my_role":
            add_user_meta( $user_id, '_member_role', 'myrole');
            break;
	default:
            add_user_meta( $user_id, '_member_role', 'defaultrole');
    }
}
add_action( 'bp_core_signup_user', 'store_user_role', 20, 1);

4. Then during the activation process you check to see which user role is stored in the user_meta, and assign that as the actual WP user role:

add_action('bp_core_activated_user', 'bp_custom_registration_role',10 , 3);
function bp_custom_registration_role($user_id, $key, $user) {
   $userdata = array();
   $userdata['ID'] = $user_id;
   $key = '_member_role';
   $single = 'true';
   $userRole = get_user_meta( $user_id, $key, $single );
   
   if ($userRole == 'yourrole') 
      $userdata['role'] = 'yourrole';
   
   if ($userRole == 'myrole') 
      $userdata['role'] = 'myrole';

   if (($userdata['role'] == "yourrole") or ($userdata['role'] == "myrole"))
      wp_update_user($userdata);
   
  }

That’s it. I used a few different examples from these support forums so credit goes out to those who got this stuff working in the first place. Hope this helps someone else.

@henrywright – I wrote

$POST_['user_type']

instead of

$_POST['user_type']

D’oh! It still isn’t working though, kind of. The user is actually having the role set during the registration and is showing up in the admin section in Users as an expert, as well as pending. When I activate the account from admin they then get set as a subscriber (the default set by user roles editor). So it appears there’s another step happening after the activation of the account.

Any ideas what I need to look at?

none of those actually answered my question. note i am not logged in. this happens right after sign up, not visiting the registration page.

site is here http://canadian-health-network.ca/

registration http://canadian-health-network.ca/register/

@danbp

I understand everything that you’re saying, but everything that you’re saying through here is still not resolving my issue to get the registration process to work on my site. I am not allowing just any random person to upload to my server with random documents if I am not only having them labeled as “Authors” (where they are able to edit their OWN profiles and edit their OWN posts, so on and so forth) and not as “Administrators” (where a person has control to change up EVERYTHING on the site and the server), but also for the fact that this Vipress theme was created to be compatible with BuddyPress, therefore, allowing people to be able to create a profile with, in this case, the MyLoopNetwork.

As far as with the whole newly register user, I already know to keep in mind about who I allow to become a member for I am constantly checking the back end of my site on a regular basis. All I’m trying to do is create my own version of a website where users can sign up as a new user, create their own profiles, update their posts, upload their own pictures, connect with other MyLoopNetwork users, create groups that people can join, and pretty much build up on their own news feed through their profiles without conflicting with any sections or areas of the overall site.

I don’t know anything about this BuddyDrive plugin that you have mentioned, but for the record, this is my first WordPress website that I’ve been working on for months and I’m trying to learn as much as possible. I’m just trying to get some assistance on how to resolve certain issues that came across my way with configuring this particular theme. So with you saying, “You’re talking about pdf, doc and docx, but on the register page nothing appears about what type of file they have to upload (as it is required) and for what !” that’s what I’m trying to explain to you. That’s what pops up on my end and on other people’s end that are trying to create their own MyLoopNetwork profile, so therefore, I do not have any control over that, for I wasn’t the one that created that coding for it to show up that way. And then you was saying, “‘Here you’ll be able to upload images. Try it out now!’ is a bit vague.” you will have to ask the creator of this Vipress theme and ask them why they have it set that way because, once again, I am NOT the one that created this theme, and this is how it automatically showed up on the registration page when people were trying to create their profile. So unless you’re going to actually give me a full detailed, step-by-step guide on how to resolve the issues that I’m trying to fix, I thank you for your time and patience and I hope you have a good day.

Yay, it’s working now!
OK, so I had required entries in hosts file for localhost, however I had to add new host name for my site specifically and set up virtual host config for it to get the registration working.
Just out of curiosity: why was it necessary? I mean – why wasn’t it working with http://localhost:8080/my_wp_directory but is working just fine with http://bp_test.local:8080? I’m asking because basically I like to understand what I’m doing or what I’m doing wrong to not repeat same mistakes twice 😉

Quick follow-up since I’m still struggling with this problem with registration, but done some more testing in the meantime.
I’ve installed clean WP with BuddyPress (same versions as above) on my other machine – LAMP server this time (php 5.5.9 & apache 2.4.7 running on Ubuntu 14.04). This time registration process is working properly! However on Windows machine still nothing…
Can this problem be somehow connected with the non-default port (8080) used on Windows machine? Or maybe BuddyPress requires some specific php modules enabled I’m not aware of? As I mentioned all other pages of my WordPress install are working properly on WAMP server and that’s not the first WordPress install I’m doing on that server and never had any WordPress problems before.
Anybody has any ideas how to fix this registration issue? Or how to test it additionally to figure out what’s going wrong here?

Yes, I have permalinks enabled and set to Post name. All other pages and posts are loading just fine, no problems there. BuddyPress Members, Activity Streams and User Groups pages were successfully created and seem to be working just fine as well.
Just the registration page reloads with form data filled when I try to submit it and no user gets registered.

I haven’t mentioned it in the previous post but I’ve also checked Apache logs to see if any errors were logged, but logs are all clean, so no help there unfortunately as well (btw I have Apache 2.4.4 and php 5.4.12 on my WAMP server install).

Brilliant! It worked a treat, and I used the ‘user_register’ as suggested. So for anyone else looking for this solution, this is the code i used to turn some on and some off by default on new user registration:

add_action( 'user_register', 'bpdev_set_email_notifications_preference');
function bpdev_set_email_notifications_preference( $user_id ) {
//I am putting some notifications to no by default and the common ones to yes to enable it.
//ref. https://bp-tricks.com/snippets/changing-default-buddypress-notifications-settings and BP forum
$settings_keys = array(
'notification_activity_new_mention' => 'yes',
'notification_activity_new_reply' => 'yes',
'notification_friends_friendship_request' => 'no',
'notification_friends_friendship_accepted' => 'no',
'notification_groups_invite' => 'no',
'notification_groups_group_updated' => 'no',
'notification_groups_admin_promotion' => 'no',
'notification_groups_membership_request' => 'no',
'notification_messages_new_message' => 'yes',
);
foreach( $settings_keys as $setting => $preference ) {
bp_update_user_meta( $user_id, $setting, $preference );
}
}

and this went in my child theme functions.php file.
Hooray! Thanks so much again – it will make a big different to our users experience.
Cheers 🙂

I mean for the code above (it’s not the plugin’s code), I was hoping that someone could identify why it doesn’t load on the first try on the registration page.

Hi, the thing is when I install the plugin, it messes up my login pages.

However, I’ve sort of managed to figure something out. The following code, when placed in bp-custom.php file, does exactly what I need it to do. Just ONE thing, is that it doesnt show the “Confirm Email” field during the first try. So when you click the “Complete signup” button, the page reloads and THEN it says confirm email field is missing. So on the second try, a user can successfully fill in all the fields and sign up. Would you know how to make this label “Confirm Field” show up when the page loads the first time? Thanks for your assistance, greatly appreciate it!! 😀

<?php

function registration_add_email_confirm(){ ?>
    <?php do_action( 'bp_signup_email_first_errors' ); ?>
    <input type="text" name="signup_email_first" id="signup_email_first" value="<?php
    echo empty($_POST['signup_email_first'])?'':$_POST['signup_email_first']; ?>" />
    <label>Confirm Email <?php _e( '(required)', 'buddypress' ); ?></label>
    <?php do_action( 'bp_signup_email_second_errors' ); ?>
<?php }
add_action('bp_signup_email_errors', 'registration_add_email_confirm',20);
 
function registration_check_email_confirm(){
    global $bp;
 
    //buddypress check error in signup_email that is the second field, so we unset that error if any and check both email fields
    unset($bp->signup->errors['signup_email']);
 
    //check if email address is correct and set an error message for the first field if any
    $account_details = bp_core_validate_user_signup( $_POST['signup_username'], $_POST['signup_email_first'] );
    if ( !empty( $account_details['errors']->errors['user_email'] ) )
        $bp->signup->errors['signup_email_first'] = $account_details['errors']->errors['user_email'][0];
 
    //if first email field is not empty we check the second one
    if (!empty( $_POST['signup_email_first'] ) ){
        //first field not empty and second field empty
        if(empty( $_POST['signup_email'] ))
            $bp->signup->errors['signup_email_second'] = 'Please make sure you enter your email twice';
        //both fields not empty but differents
        elseif($_POST['signup_email'] != $_POST['signup_email_first'] )
            $bp->signup->errors['signup_email_second'] = 'The emails you entered do not match.';
    }
}
add_action('bp_signup_validate', 'registration_check_email_confirm');
;

?>

no, because i can’t edit only few of that (B group) req. fields when i logged as admin…

my registration looks like this: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-create-register-form-with-selectbox-and-hidden-fields/ (here C group)

Hi @HenryWright !
Thank you for your reply

Do you know if it’s possible to stop submiting after the buddypress registration form and redirect to a page which include the PMPro checkout ? I mean changing the Submit button by a second page where we choose a subscription ? And where can I change this button ?

Thank you