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I’ve started looking into bypassing the activation email. It seems like the code @ wrote above only works for regular WP installs and not WPMU. WPMU uses the wp_signups table and then when they’re activated they’re moved to wp_users. I’m going to see if I can’t figure out the WPMU code to do this. I’d love to hear if people know more about this. Otherwise, I’ll ask in the WPMU forums.

Also, it seems like you could just use this function to disable the activation email from happening (once again that doesn’t work in WPMU though):
function disable_activation_email() {
return false;
}
add_filter( ‘bp_core_signup_send_activation_key’, ‘disable_activation_email’ );

I, too, have been getting the error “wp-content/plugins/tweetstream/twitter/EpiCurl.php on line” with the line number changing at times, etc. Since I have not yet been able to figure out a solution, nor find one in my web searching, I have deactivated the plugin on my site at http://citizensofinfluence.com. I do have a few users who really liked it, but it’s started causing too many problems.

Anybody have any ideas, yet? I’m not a programmer, nor do I have any php experience, etc. I’m just a casual end-user who was really liking the way it was functioning initially.

In WP 2.9.2 go to http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/options.php and go down to users_can_register and add 1 to box
In WPMU 2.9.2 go to http://yoursite.com/wp-admin/wpmu-options.php and go to Allow New Registrations — Enabled.

Boone there is this plugin which is really for dev setups where passing emails through the dev network is awkward so allows you to register a user normally then go into backend and manually approve using the activation id

WPMU Manual Member Approve:
http://mattkern.com/wpmu-manually-approve-new-members-on-local-install/

Would you believe though I just tried to run it on my local site and it’s broken! at least it’s throwing an undefined function error bp_page_title()

Haven’t time to look into that but it doesn’t look to much of an issue.

Of course this doesn’t get round the issue of letting those users know they have been activated and not really sure one wants to simply activate a bunch of accounts when the users are never going to know about it.

Of course once activated and once you have established you are sending emails correctly you might be able to work some means of adding everyone to a group and posting an update to that group that will send a notification out to email addresses?

Signups (including non-activated users) are stored in wp_signups table. I have looked briefly but have never found a plugin for WP admins to manage these signups (activating accts from the Dashboard, resending activation emails, etc). Hard to believe, actually, as it seems like this is an area of great need.

Maybe this is something I’ll write myself, as I’ve had need of such a thing on multiple occasions and I’ve usually had to dig directly into the db to find the activation keys.

@dandelionweb


function my_redirect_activation_email()
{
return get_site_option( "admin_email" );
}
add_filter('bp_core_activation_signup_user_notification_to', 'my_redirect_activation_email');


Add this to wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php or your theme’s functions.php file.

There is a hack to core BP files which can be turned into a plugin (hint, hint) which works in BP 1.2.3 and WPMU 2.9.2 …

captcha and math tools do not really help fighting spam.

spammer register manually and then feed your blog automatically remote via xmlrpc.

i am running a wordpress mu + buddypress site and had about 40 spammer-registrations a day with lots of spam. then i deactivated xmlrpc via renaming xmlrpc.php in wp-root, result was only user registrations (without content spam). about four days later spammer registrations were reduced from 40 to about three a day (easy to delete), seems that the spam-apps noticed that the rpc doesn´t work and deleted my site from their targetlists, entering their messages manually is to complicated for them….

Just looking into the bp_core_signup_user() function again. Sorry for pointing this to you in the first place!

I would not recommend using this function because it sets a user’s status to “not active”, then sends an email to activate the account (which makes sense because that’s the default registration behavior in BP!).

Since we don’t want to ask a FB user to activate their account, stick with the wp_insert_user() function, then use some code to sync up the xprofile fields like:

// set xprofile field 1 (Name) with the fbuser's first name

xprofile_set_field_data(1,$user_login_id,$fbuser['first_name']);



/*

* @param $field The ID of the field, or the $name of the field.

* @param $user_id The ID of the user

* @param $value The value for the field you want to set for the user.

*/

To initialize BP, look at using the bp_init action:

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/checking-buddypress-is-active/

[EDIT]

Just looking into the WP-FB-AutoConnect plugin, Justin (the author) has a do_action that you could hook into:

do_action('wpfb_login', array('WP_ID' => $user_login_id, 'FB_ID' => $fb_uid, 'facebook' => $facebook) );

Here you can sync up your xprofile fields, etc. Unfortunately, this action occurs every time a Facebook user logs in. You could view this as a positive or a negative!

I think it would be nice if Justin added another do_action right after the wp_insert_user() function in _process_login.php.

[EDIT #2]

Requested a new do_action on Justin’s plugin page – http://www.justin-klein.com/projects/wp-fb-autoconnect/comment-page-5#comment-11638.

Does this also work with the BP Compatibility plugin or would there be an extra step? I have no problems getting this hack to work with single user WP + BP. However, when I try it with WPMU, it doesn’t work. I thought perhaps it was due to the fact that I’m using the Compatibility plugin in conjunction, but even when that is deactivated the hack isn’t working. Thoughts?

So, your question is really a WPMU question. You should try asking the question on a WPMU support site as it will likely get more response than here.

As for the blog thing – you currently have users with no blogs. If you create a new blog for every user then what default content are you going to put on that blog for the users who have no interest in the blog? Are you going to leave the default Welcome to WP post with the comment from Mr WordPress? As a user, I’d be annoyed by that if there wasn’t some way for me to delete the blog. Oh, yeah, there is a way – don’t automatically create a blog for a user that’s not interested.

But anyhoo, I assume you have asked your user base and this is what they all want so do what you need to do.

f you think you can help me I sure would appreciate it. Cause I cannot figure this thing out – I have tried and tried.

YES, I moved the bp-default theme into wp-content – themes… okay I deleted it just now AND for a second I thought I was going to lose my blog posts – it looked like it in IE – I have deactivated the plug in buddy press and the buddy press template pack – and actually deleted them from the system. I do NOT understand php, but do understand css and html – I would really like to get this thing to work with my template currently. Can you help?

It does seem a go idea to open a new folder on my site and install my theme and wp and buddy press and buddy press theme pack – to get it to work first… however, I have a LOT of posts in my blog currently and they are permalinked all over the place . I cannot mess with the permalinks and the posts. Can I transfer them into a new theme folder on my site and not lose the permalinks – I think not.

You know I am beginning to wonder if this thing works at all. So muc for the three step easy install. Does it work at all?

OK, I’d rather keep this in the forums instead of in private messages because then other can benefit from the discussion if they have the same issues.

First, it’s never a good idea to muck around with a live site. Go and install XAMPP or MAMP and setup a test/development environment on your local PC. It’s super simple. I’m doing this right now as are many of the other BP users.

Second, Installing BP will not cause you lose any of your posts. The only reason you are going to lose post is if you delete them or you do something silly and end up corrupting your database. Go back to the first point I made – don’t develop on a live site. This applies to everything online, not just WP or BP.

Once you have the offline test site setup with WP (make sure you mirror the setup you have online or you’re not going to have the same issues) and your current theme installed, add the BP plugin. Then add the BP Template Pack plugin and start following the directions. @Modemlooper has commented in a number of threads here about what typically needs to be done to make your theme work with BP.

Do the work required to get your test site looking how you want it to look. On the testsite, install the plugins you currently use (one at a time to ensure none of them break BP) and make sure they work and look how you want them to look.

Once you have that done, add any new BP specific plugins you want to run (again, one at a time) and get them looking “right”.

Finally, go to your live site and find the Tools –> Export page. Export your live site data into a file and then import that data into your offline test site. This will allow you to ensure your existing posts/content will look OK.

Once you’re satisfied with everything offline on your testsite, start uploading to the live site. Upload the new theme (but don’t activate it), install (but don’t activate) any new plugins required (including BuddyPress).

Yes, BuddyPress works. No, it’s not going to work for every single user in every single possible combination of WP installations. You will need to do some work to resolve issues.

@dwenaus

I think it would make sense if there was a unified karma plugin. Forums are nice, but that’s only really one component of BP. I also know this means a lot more work on your part.

I don’t know what you have planned for blog post karma, but I’m guessing at some point, you’d need the thumbs up/down voting block across all blogs on a WPMU install, so it’d have to be a plugin that is activated site-wide or a plugin that resides in /wp-content/mu-plugins/. Unless you think that users should activate the plugin on certain blogs only.

Personally, I’d rather see activity karma than blog post karma, but that’s just me.

@dwenaus

I think it would make sense if there was a unified karma plugin. Forums are nice, but that’s only really one component of BP. I also know this means a lot more work on your part.

I don’t know what you have planned for blog post karma, but I’m guessing at some point, you’d need the thumbs up/down voting block across all blogs on a WPMU install, so it’d have to be a plugin that is activated site-wide or a plugin that resides in /wp-content/mu-plugins/. Unless you think that users should activate the plugin on certain blogs only.

Personally, I’d rather see activity karma than blog post karma, but that’s just me.