BuddyPress.org

Are you using any plugins that might interfere with the registration process? If so, disable them.

Thanks for the report.

Since this bug was happening on v2.1.1, we need some more details to duplicate the problem.

Are you using any registration plugins? If so, disable them and see if you get the same problem.

If not, can you let us know exactly what you are doing on the registration form?

For example:

* First, I go to example.com/register
* Next, I type in “newuser” under the “Username” field.
* …

Thanks!

@lonewolf95665 did you enable registration in Settings > General?

I am having a Registration page issue also. In the captioned area on Pages > “Registration” there are two associated drop down menus. They are “Register” and “Activate.” I have attempted to select pages multiple times but wp will not save my selections. Instead it defaults to “-None-”

I have deactivated all plugins except for bp and bp tool bar. Does anyone know why this would be happening?

Right. To be clear:

Members registrations need to be active, AND each member must have logged in, before they show up in the Members Directory.

@wanderingsoles Just to be clear, you have enabled registration on your site and removed the copy correct? Have you have assigned the Register and Activate pages in Settings > BuddyPress > Pages? Have you tried changing your theme to 2014 or 2015 to check if it’s a theme issue or not?

WP won’t allow any character. WP uses sanitize_user function to strip out.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/sanitize_user

First thing I would do is deactivate all plugins and test WP registration alone to see if its WP issue. If it is then search and post in the wp.org forums.

Hi @nickguidomedia

My first thought was to get the member count of the relevant group during each user registration.

That can be done with groups_get_total_member_count( $group_id );.

You’d need to check this figure is less or equal to 150 and if it isn’t, you’d need to add the user to an over-spill group, creating a new one if necessary.

As you mentioned users are added to a group automatically during registration.

The bp_core_signup_user hook fires at the end of the registration process so could hook all your code for the above to that. That hook gives you access to $user_id, $user_login, $user_password, $user_email and $usermeta, so you should be able to get all the info you need from those. For example:

function my_func( $user_id, $user_login, $user_password, $user_email, $usermeta ) {
    // Write your code here.
}
add_action( 'bp_core_signup_user', 'my_func', 10, 5 );

Hope this helps.

@spiritix usually with any kind of members plugin you can restrict access per user level on a page or post basis and should have the option within that post or page to select what user level has access to it with a custom message and even a link pointing them to upgrading their account.

what membership plugin are you using? and im sorry im not familiar with restrict content pro or bbpress though as ive not used them, if your users get given the correct roles within wordpress after registration then the problem lies with one of these plugins or some kind of conflict is my guess, maybe try to track it down by deactivating all plugins and reactivating them separately.

Hey @youmin and @spiritix i hear you both on this matter, after much testing myself on how to do this i have realized the best way to do this is via a few other plugins.

firstly i would recommend using a membership plugin and a plugin to create your own registration forms as well as a roles capability management plugin, you can then overide the buddypress registration process (but you will lose the ability of integrating the custom fields you create for the buddypress registration unless you tie them into your own registration forms)
but the way i got around this myself without the problem of having to tie them with my registration forms was to add a buddypress profile progression plugin so once they have registered they will see a notice in the header showing the percentage of the profile they have completed encouraging them to fill the fields in “you could even integrate it with an awards system the more they fill in” its up to you. (to me this works perfectly fine as i can still add as many buddypress fields as an when i want and have a simple registration process to boot).

if you mess around with this idea you will see that assigning a user to a specific role does infact work with the right combo of plugins and effort, i know this seems a long haul work around but the way i have set it up works fine for me. i may go into more detail for you guys when i have more time and explain exactly how mine works. plus this way if you do decide to implement some kind of pay per view membership for higher levels in the future your ready to go!

Does the registration page work when you switched your theme? (I’m not concerned about menus as that is independent from this issue.)

Do you have registration enabled?

Register and Activation Pages

BP 2.2 is introducing a barebones API for member types mostly for developers to get their hands on it. We haven’t done any deep UI integration into the registration or edit profile pages, but 2.3 will make further inroads into this.

i have a question for r-a-y, is it not possible to make it one time select able (for users), i mean locking down after selecting once or twice.
but admin can change it on user request ?

or making it available on registration form only ?

i also saw the ticket above mentioned but its just hiding the box from user, i dont think its a perfect solution. i will be good to hide after selecting a member type by a user .

Just an idea, but you could probably create a plugin to inject some javascript and add a button called “Generate Password” on the registration page. When clicked, the JS will generate a password and populate the BuddyPress password fields.

For the JS, you could use something like Chance.js.