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You can disable plugins and themes temporarily without losing work. WP and BP content is stored in the database and shouldn’t be affected by what themes and plugins you do or do not have activated.

It’s important that you test whether the problem arises with bp-default, the BuddyPress Default theme that comes with BP. If registration works with that theme but not with your custom theme, then we’ll know that your problem is theme-related. Most likely, your theme is missing the template files that BP expects to find when someone visits the registration page, and for some reason the fallback template (which should be wp-signup.php) is not being found either.

Please test with the default theme and report back.

I don’t know if anyone is still following this thread but I discovered the users with this problem had not activated the account. So I installed this plugin so I didn’t have to keep deleting and recreating these accounts. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-activate-users/installation/
FYI the users either were not receiving the email, or so they say, or the message went to spam or didn’t activate when they clicked the link.
hope this helps.
chow

Is there any fix yet, workaround for this error? our users also report getting this error, (we do not use paypal etc)
we use WPMU 2.9.2 and BP1.2.3

their accounts are activated, but the screen displays this error message, and it confuses them!

I’m +1 on the need for a solution too. I seem to always get the email without it going to spam. I also notice some repeat spam / sploggers in the email addresses. I have used WP-Activate-Users but I’d like an option to resend the activation or delete them.

well, my idea was this:

reading through the forums and the codex I found a couple of settigns that seemingly can be used from wp-config.php BUT I don’t want to clutter it too much.
Alternatively I can use bp-custom.php or make a small plugin and pop it into mu-plugins.

here is my collection of lines, please let me know where I can find more (built-into BP as I know plugins also offer several of these). What is recommended for what? I try to use wp-config.php only for WP related stuff, mu-plugins only for stuff that really needs to be running on every page and functions.php for stuff specific for my theme (and in this case the main page)

`/*add user with ID as group admin, alternatively change to mod*/
define( ‘BP_RESTRICTGROUP_AUTOADD_ADMIN_USER_ID’, 1);
/* disable the admin bar*/
/*define( ‘BP_DISABLE_ADMIN_BAR’, false);*/

/*customize all slugs*/
/*define( ‘BP_ACTIVATION_SLUG’, ‘activate’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_ACTIVITY_SLUG’, ‘activity’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_BLOGS_SLUG’, ‘journals’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_FORUMS_SLUG’, ‘discussions’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_FRIENDS_SLUG’, ‘peeps’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_GROUPS_SLUG’, ‘gatherings’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_MEMBERS_SLUG’, ‘chefs’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_MESSAGES_SLUG’, ‘messages’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_REGISTER_SLUG’, ‘register’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_SEARCH_SLUG’, ‘search’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_SETTINGS_SLUG’, ‘settings’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_XPROFILE_SLUG’, ‘info’ );*/

/*customize more stuff*/
/*Put profiles in the root � http://example.org/username/*/
/*define ( ‘BP_ENABLE_ROOT_PROFILES’, true );*/

(btw. since I have decided upon the final theme to use, I guess I will be going via the functions.php route)

/*Change the default tab opened when looking at a user’srofile (default is activity):*/
/*define( ‘BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT’, ‘profile’ );*/
`
Also if you want yo ucan give some more information about order of invocation?

@whitbyglennk Hi Glen,
As soon as I saw the name Whitby I thought “That rings a bell” and had to search back through the archives at CSSCreator, nice to see the domain flourishing although it was the ‘Sea Anglers’ site you were working on back then.

To clarify for the thread real-whitby is presently a WP site and quite an evolved and customised one.

As has been said you have all options available to you really as to which is the best one to take I’m not to sure, I think it’s fair to say the most work would be to activate BP on the primary root blog, creating a secondary blog would be an easier option but I’m tending to think that a physical subdomain i.e community.real-whitby the easier route along with user blogs as folders, community.real-whitby/glensblog.

I’m not entirely sure of the best approach, you’ll probably need to experiment on a localhost test install to get a feel for the amount of work required and how the various options work in practice.

ok, with thanks to http://cleverness.org/2010/08/08/add-user-types-to-wordpress-and-buddypress/ found another starting point:

Put this in you BuddyPress theme /registration/register.php file:

`Account Type:

User Type A
User Type B
User Type C

`

Put the following code in your theme’s functions.php:

`<?php
/* Add sign-up field to BuddyPress sign-up array*/
function bp_custom_user_signup_field( $usermeta ) {
$usermeta = $_POST;

return $usermeta;
}
add_filter( ‘bp_signup_usermeta’, ‘bp_custom_user_signup_field’ );

/* Add field_name from sign-up to usermeta on activation */
function bp_user_activate_field( $signup ) {

update_usermeta( $signup, ‘signup_type’, $signup );

return $signup;
}
add_filter( ‘bp_core_activate_account’, ‘bp_user_activate_field’ );

function synchro_wp_usermeta($user_id, $password, $meta) {
global $bp, $wpdb;

$type = $meta[signup_type];

update_usermeta( $user_id, ‘signup_type’, $type );

}
add_action( ‘wpmu_activate_user’, ‘synchro_wp_usermeta’, 10, 3);
`

This should create selection of account types on the signup page.
If anyone knows how to update profile-loop.php, so that every account type would have different profile group, please share your opinion.

thanks.

I’m having this issue as well. I am using WPMU and I have selected “user accounts may be registered” in the Super Admin > Options > Allow users to register section. Still no go. I’ve tried all of the options that allow users to register but stil nothing. The register link just goes back to the main blog.

Any suggestions?

My answers to the questions:
1. Which version of WP/MU are you running? WP 3.01
2. Did you install WP/MU as a directory or subdomain install? subdomain (http://yourwebsite.com/blog)
3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory? root
4. Did you upgraded from a previous version of WP/MU? No, it’s a new install. Was previously a single WP and I used the “Enable Multi-Site” plugin.
5. Was WP/MU functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress (BP)? e.g. permalinks, creating a new post, commenting. Yes
6. Which version of BP are you running? 1.2.5.2
7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version? No, it’s also a brand new install.
8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? If so, which ones? Yes, Akismet; BuddyPress template pack; Embedded Video; Enable Multi-Site; Exec-PHP; FeedBurner FeedSmith; FeedSnap; Full Text Feed; If You Liked That; In Series; MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer; Sociable; Wp.com Stats; WP-Page Navi; and WP-Project;
9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes? I am using the Twenty Ten Theme through the BuddyPress Template Pack plugin that allows you to use any theme with BP.
10. Have you modified the core files in any way? No
11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php? No
12. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in? Not running
13. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files. Nobody can register. The registration link just goes back to the main blog.
14. Which company provides your hosting? Bluehost
15. Is your server running Windows, or if Linux; Apache, nginx or something else? Linux and Apache

Thank you Paul for responding but answer the questions in detail here:
1. Which version of WP/MU are you running? Answer: WP 3.01
2. Did you install WP/MU as a directory or subdomain install? Answer: Using it on my main domain
3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory?
4. Did you upgraded from a previous version of WP/MU? If so, from which version? Answer: when it says upgrade I click that. So I guess it supdated.
5. Was WP/MU functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress (BP)? e.g. permalinks, creating a new post, commenting. Answer: Yes
6. Which version of BP are you running? Answer: It says..Buddy press 1.2.5.2
7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version? Answer: Every time it says update I always click that…So maybe..??
8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? If so, which ones? Answer: Buddy press 1.2.5.2, Live journey importer, akismet, fast secure contact form 0.2, OPML Importer 0.2, Post video player slideshow and photo gallery 1.79, Rss Importer, simple social sharing widgets and incons 0.2, Word Press Importer version 0.2 and WP Touch 1.9.19.1
9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes? Answer: Standard
10. Have you modified the core files in any way? Answer: I don’t think so…Didn’t touch anything…Just beginning to do this…
11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php? Answer: I don’t think so
12. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in? Answer: Using Hostmonster.com is my web host part of their menu control panel comes with concrete5 and under concrete5 I installed buddy press…Then that’s all I did
13. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files. Answer: The only problem I’m having is nobody can “create an account” or cannot register…And of course no email was sent for verification and account is obviously not created..
14. Which company provides your hosting? Hostmonster.com
15. Is your server running Windows, or if Linux; Apache, nginx or something else? My server is running? I’m using century link previously Sprint…Mozilla fox and Explorer…Windows XP

So I guess I answered all the questions…That’s all I did…And can’t create an account…I did it to test the application…Now go to my website hostpugs.com create an account and see what’s going on…my email: whiteflower12004 @yahoo.com….Thank you!

@nahummadrid
I’m interested in doing the same thing as well on WP3. Have been roaming the internet for two days now and nothing has come up so far.

@jimboba

Re: “incurred hnla’s dismissal?”
Do not take things personally. @hnla has assisted hundreds of users in this forum and some questions were out of this world compared to your questions.

Re: “Page Not Found” errors
– Change Settings > Permalinks to other than default.
– Activate bp-default theme to check links to BP components. When that works, insatll/create child theme of bp-default theme OR use the BP Template Pack if you want to use WP theme.

@Iain Manley

How about this workaround:

1 – Create a page template and copy the content of your register.php file to it.
2 – Create a blank page in WP using that template. Eg: my-custom-home-page
3 – Under “Settings” > “Reading”, select that WP page as a static page at “Front page displays”…

Now your front page IS your register page. Next… @Brajesh at Buddydev has coded a cool activate/login/redirect plugin that can do the rest:

http://buddydev.com/plugins/buddypress-premium-plugins/plugin-bp-auto-activate-auto-login-redirect-to-profile-automatically-activate-your-new-user-signuplog-them-in-and-redirect-to-their-buddypress-profile-on-signup/

I’m sure you could tweak the code of that plugin to redirect to the “edit profile” template rather than the “Public” view.

Hope it works!

@jordashtalon

Ah right… I think that “Bulk Action” only becomes available in WP3 if you have enabled Multisite. And not too sure if WP-Activate is compatible with Buddypress. Here’s an auto-activate plugin that is compatible with WP3 single:
http://buddydev.com/plugins/buddypress-premium-plugins/plugin-bp-auto-activate-auto-login-redirect-to-profile-automatically-activate-your-new-user-signuplog-them-in-and-redirect-to-their-buddypress-profile-on-signup/

It’s a premium plugin, but the small fee is well worth all the cool stuff @Brajesh puts out almost weekly. He’s also a great help if you ever get yourself into a coding kaffuffle.

You can also test the plugin here:
http://plugins.bpdemos.com/bp-auto-activate-auto-login-wp3s/

Also https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-activate-users/

1. Could you set this as a profile field ? For ex. A dropdown list added to the registration page where they state yes or no to a question on hospitality. If they answer yes they can be autojoined to the ‘yes’ group so everyone will know where to look for them.

2. If you are running a WP multisite you could set up a blog called ‘work listings’ or something like that, allow everyone ‘author’ capabilities set up one page as a standardized form and another to show the results of the posted form set the excerpts to show 0 -zero- characters and you’ll have a multipost page with a listing of jobs. – There are a number of plugins that will autojoin users to specific blogs on a multisite –

3. Same thoughts as with 2.

5. If you do a search for plugins there are a few that offer events calendars. Right now I’m using ‘My Calendar’ which offers an easily customizable interface so that you can make it look like your main site.

7. A simple page with a ‘donate’ button linked to paypal or whoever

8. WP multisite does this. If you set it so that users can create a blog on registration they can name the blog anything they like, I don’t know if you can automate the process so that the blog-name field is pulled from their username, or you can have a strict naming policy, add some text to the reg form stating that only the username is acceptable for blog names and set the joining process under moderation so that you have to approve each that way each blog will be called registeredusername.mydomain.com for subdomain installs or mysite.com/regusername for sub directory install.

4 & 6 I have no idea.

As for the plugins most come with the ability to activate either for one blog or for network activation, using the plugin ‘exclude plugins’ you can hide the plugins from your users blogs or allow certain plugins but disallow others. For ex, I have a user that wanted the plugin ‘ephemeris’ on their blog, I installed it, allowed it for that site and they are now happily ephemerising awaywhilst other users aren’t even aware that the plugin exists (they don’t see it on their blogs)

The plugins that I’m using I pulled straight from the WP plugin pages and so far they have all worked on my WPBP site without hiccup,

Regards.
Me.