BuddyPress requires that users activate their accounts after registering. The activation link is sent via email to the registrant. It is likely that either your php mail configuration is messed up or that the email in question went into the user’s spam folder.
In any case, you can use this plugin to manage activations: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-pending-activations/
Thanks for the help, does this even work for wordpress 3.4.2 and buddypress 1.6.1?
I am using it on that setup, and it works fine.
Thanks toby,
It did help previous users that was in limbo but how can i prevent this problem from happening? Every time a user sigh up, they are asked for the activation code and the email thats sent out after they sign up has the activation code but its not reading it.
Plus its not giving me access to select the user that are pending.
I would start troubleshooting this from the ground up as follows:
1) set up an exact copy of your site in a development environment (and preferably on the same server)
2) deactivate all plugins
3) switch to the Default BuddyPress theme
Does the problem persist?
The goal with the above method is to eliminate possible culprits.
Same problem here.
User registers, user gets email with an activation link, user clicks on the link and it leads to the activation page telling the user to enter a key.
Activation link looks like this: `http://domain.com/activate/?key=c30b42bea81091b523b0993c35f7ed8b`
I’ve also tried copying the key from the link and pasting it into the activation code input box but no dice.
Seems like a lot of people have this problem. There’s no solution? I have to use another plugin for this?
@wpnewbie69 – Have you tried the troubleshooting steps I mentioned above?
