Hi Chaps – just to let you all know, you are not alone in this quest.
We have customers running BP sites who need to ‘re-capture’ ‘lost/unconfirmed’ user registrations (attempts).
A high proportion of confirmation emails do get filtered into peoples spam buckets, bounced by firewalls and blacklists, overlooked in the inbox, whatever. Its an ongoing part of community/site admin to re-sift this list of unsuccessful registrants and correct anything impeding signup.
Its pretty apparent neither BP, nor WP ( == WPMU) address this ‘corrections process’ out of the box.
My perusal of available plugins has yielded some near fits for the job (reporting at least), but nothing yet bang-on (the ‘resend_registration_confirmation_email()’ function), which suprises me.
Looks like someone will have to lift the hood and write somethething to do it. (I have some plugins in mind to extend for that purpose – will keep you all posted )
I’ve done something similar, however, the user I created I did by using the dashboard feature to create a new user. I could then login as that user. (Wasn’t quite sure what level to give them, mind).
I wonder if it sent you a confirmation email (you, in the user role, not you in the admin role) & your email system spammed it?
1 – WP Version 3.0, BP version 1.2.5.2
2 – I cannot locate an .htaccess file anywhere. I did some reading online and found that the .htaccess file doesnt exist unless needed by wordpress for permalinks? If this is the case perhapos the godaddy permissions are not allowing this file to be created? If thats true, I can call godaddy and ask them about this, unless you know how to enable this functionality?
3 – Theme – Standard BP Theme | Plugins: A lot, but I had tried disabling them and getting the same error. Here is the list: Add Logo to Admin, Akismet (disabled), AWPCP, BP Events (Disabled), BuddyPress, BuddyPress Community Stats, Email Login,
Fast and Secure Contact Form, Google XML Sitemaps, Jet Event System for BuddyPress (Disabled), Members Only, Secure WordPress,
SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam, Welcome Pack, WP-Mail-SMTP
4 – Godaddy, shared, Windows ( ica change off of windows if needed, this is not critical for me)
By the way, I CAN delete the user if I go the dashboard and go down to the WPMU ‘users’ section no problem. A little bit more work, but now that I’m getting the odd spammer signing up, it’s essential.
Foxly, I would have expected you to know that getting more actions or filters into buddypress is very easy, as long as you aren’t changing the template files between major releases.
Mercime, Andy’s gone nowhere. He’s still project lead.
Im closing this topic as this is not on-topic anymore, start new posts if you want to discuss more.
@foxly: And then there’s the whole issue of *where automattic is taking buddypress” and what they intend to do with it, now that they’ve taken Andy off as the lead developer.
say what? .
EDIT – there you go again, editing your forum post. fortunately, i’ve got a screenshot of it.
Oh I’m sure @foxly & @francescolaffi development inc will come up with something. It’s just that not having it part of the core makes much harder to develop, because frankly, BuddyPress doesn’t currently have many useful hooks for plugins to manipulate the core. So you have to hack the system in all sorts of crazy ways and that can really slow down the site.
And then there’s the whole issue of *where automattic is taking buddypress” and what they intend to do with it, now that they’ve taken Andy off as the lead developer.
EDIT: what I meant to say was “now that Andy is not working *full time* on BP anymore, as automattic has split his time between other topics” – my bad
@foxly, even though your solutions require code modification you do say “i’ll develop my own solution” – will these be plugins you release, or perhaps become part of the bp-moderation plugin that is being developed by @francescolaffi?
I really appreciated your detailed posts on the tools spammers employ. It has given me a much better understanding of the problem. Thank you.
I’m pretty new to Buddypress and WordPress. Launched my first site today with 95% of the “i can’t find my registration” emails solved by directing them to their spam folders. But beyond that I have three that can’t find their email, say it’s not in their spam folder, and I need to get em in. Opened phpadmin and didn’t see a “wp_signsup” listing. Checked out “wp_users” and found user_activation_key and there’s a list of 30 things and two of them have keys next to them. They’re different keys. How do I know which one to use? And how exactly do I use it. Do I go to the mydomain.com example url above and enter this key and then that gets them in? Or do I give them the key and they do that? Any insights most appreciated.
I deleted the entire contents of the OP as it was one, giant spam advertisement. I did not delete this thread yet because I want to remember the offending poster.
I sense that there are some politics at play here, so I’m going to keep my head down. When spam becomes a problem on the sites I run, I’ll develop my own solution.
@jeffsayre & @foxly it’s been a while since I visited this thread, but I liked the momentum on it. What was the consensus at the dev chat? What’s the stat on this item? Can I help in any way?
1. There is number of discussion on this forum about issues signing up… most likely they didn’t get the activation e-mail …check spam/junk folder…. I tried to register for your site and did not recieve the e-mail so it may be you are having trouble sending mail from your server? Can you get it to send you an e-mail?
My grandma would tell me stories of way back when you could by a can a Spam for a penny.
PS
All those “rules” you sited are SEC Regulations. Any fool can make money on penny stocks, as long as they are on the inside and keep close tabs on the volume. I guess it’s a hopeful sign these scumbags still think the can make money on these pump and dump scams.
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