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@marionettex http://www.stillbreathing.co.uk/wordpress/wordpress-mu-secure-invites or https://premium.wpmudev.org/project/signup-code/

See also links in this

@tendersqatar Enfold is a premium WordPress theme which we have no access to so it would purely be guesswork to assess what’s going on in your installation.

Please change to the Twenty Thirteen or Twenty Fourteen theme and check if registration is working in your local installation. If you encounter the same issue using those themes, could you give a step by step instruction on what you did and where in the registration process the error occurred.

for some reason my nav bar (which has dropdowns to sub-pages of the site) doesn’t work properly

@themusicbusinessnetwork For this issue, please contact the theme developer as we have no access to the premium theme.

… where I can’t set up user registration properly. I have the fields setup but something with the pages that I direct them to don’t work

Could you please clarify what you mean by “pages that I direct them to”? Are you referring to template redirect after submitting registration form or something else?

I also am having issues updating the Theme. WordPress is giving me an error message saying the data is already there and it can’t install.

As mentioned above, we have no access to the premium theme. But to help you find the possible causes, change to Twenty Thirteen or Twenty Fourteen theme, are the issues resolved or still there? That way, you could provide the theme author more information about the issue. Recommend that you share what shows up in error logs.

Update: Turns out another plugin had caused this error, and it is repaied now. The name of it was Frontend or something like that, it disables access to things like the registration and such for security, and idk how I missed that, but yeah.

Thanks for the fix!

This was the question I had, and when I put this into the folder, I then got an error asking me if I was sure I was supposed to be doing this.

Are there any other steps to this that I need to be aware of?

The URL given was mydomain.com/user-error/?message=nononce

I am really not sure how to get past that.. I did disable the registration and activation pages in the BP Page settings.

@simpleone

Registration page

If you are on the registration page, BuddyPress will use the following template hierarchy:

    /buddypress/members/index-register.php
    The rest of the base templates as listed here.

If you now rename the existing file you have overloaded as per the instructions for working with BP templates in a theme or child theme to the above what will happen is that BP will consider it a template handling and indeed needing all the necessary template parts i.e header and footer and all parts in between – think of the file now as similar to your page.php template but with the register content where the page loop for title and content would be. You now can traet this file as standalone and modify as you require.

That’s exactly what I’m trying to achieve. With the new Member Types in BP 2.2 it would so useful if members could select the type during registration, hopefully there’s a way!

For me the issue was
1) Allow registration in general settings
2) After enabled s2member plugin I needed to allow Open Registration in s2member > General Options

If you’re using GF’s registration plugin and you do not associate a register page with BP, you’ll have to ignore the notice in the admin area.

Two alternatives I see:
1. Add a register page with BP, but use it as a dummy to avoid the notice. WHen someone attempts to go to this dummy page, write a small plugin to redirect to your GF register page.

2. Add a register page with BP, but override the BP registration template so it will use GV’s registration form. Not sure if BP’s validation will try to force certain fields to be completed if you use this method and someone submits the form.

Are you using the GF buddy press plugin ?

User Registration

I forgot to make the switch under the options to.

Hi @aluxi33, this can easily be done via this code

function my_disable_bp_registration() {
  remove_action( 'bp_init',    'bp_core_wpsignup_redirect' );
  remove_action( 'bp_screens', 'bp_core_screen_signup' );
}
add_action( 'bp_loaded', 'my_disable_bp_registration' );

add_filter( 'bp_get_signup_page', "firmasite_redirect_bp_signup_page");
    function firmasite_redirect_bp_signup_page($page ){
        return bp_get_root_domain() . '/wp-signup.php'; 
    }

What you will need to do is first create a bp-custom.php file (make sure you add the opening and closing tags at the top and bottom ) and put it in your plugins folder, then paste the code between the php opening and closing tags and save.

This should disable buddypress registration and let you use wordpress registration as default, hope this helps.

Once BP is installed and you allowed user registration, you have already a register page.
Simply go to dashboard > general > read and select this page as (static)homepage.

For the layout, see

BuddyPress Theme Development

and searching for homepage on the forum leads to many result. 😉

Hi @ch1n3s3b0y

I don’t think there’s a template tag or shortcode available which will let you insert the registration form. To the best of my knowledge, if you want the form in multiple templates then you have to insert the form manually.

Hi KSimpson

I’m looking for the same thing. I’m going to be connecting up user roles with ‘member types’ when people register. My issue is having two different member types and allowing them to register separately and the back end automatically assigning the correct roles and types.

What I was thinking was to simply pull out the registration form from register.php and put this into a custom template. I was then thinking to pass a hidden form field with the member type in. Where the form data is processed I will have a conditional statement that says “if $_POST[“expert”] = “expert” then this member type is registered and it’s this role. etc.

My issue is, where is the registration form data processed? It has a blank action attribute so I don’t know where the data goes.

@jessiewordpress – might want to check out either “good question” (change default question / answers!) – or ‘buddypress humanity’ as well. They have made a huge impact on the spam registration issues we used to deal with.

Hi @jessiewordpress

Personally, I’ve found the honeypot approach to be quite effective. Try Justin Tadlock’s Registration Honeypot plugin.

Yes, that’s right. The Anyone Can Register button won’t stay selected and then that message comes up.

I’ve had to temporarily set up a contact form to collect email addresses and usernames so that I can manually set them up. I’ve had almost 20 new registrations since yesterday, so this is becoming a very serious problem.