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This isn’t an issue in the latest release.

Can you provide us with some more details?

It sounds like you upgraded from BP 1.0 to BP 1.1.

By any chance, are you using the old deprecated theme format?

Hey stef,

You’ll need to contact the people over at WPMU Premium to upgrade the theme.

Chances are they might already have an update for the theme you’re using.

You can tell if you’re using a deprecated theme by checking how you are setting the BP theme.

In the WPMU admin area, if you’re setting the theme via “BuddyPress > General Settings”, then it’s a deprecated theme.

If you’re setting the theme via “Appearance > Themes”, then it’s the new theme format.

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I’m 99.9% sure the theme you’re using is deprecated, but I could be wrong.

This doesn’t address the underlying issue but a temporary fix (2 months for me) is to

change the welcome email so that the wpmu generated password isn’t included. I’m hoping that upgrading to bp 1.2 and wpmu 2.9 will fix a few little bugs that effect my install.

Go to:

Site Admin > Options> then edit the Welcome Email

There is also a ticket for this in the trac:

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1208

Previous topic:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/user-chosen-password-different-to-welcome-email

The password in the welcome email, if you restore it…, is generated by this file in wpmu-functions.php:

function wpmu_welcome_user_notification($user_id, $password, $meta = '') {

global $current_site;



if( !apply_filters('wpmu_welcome_user_notification', $user_id, $password, $meta) )

return false;



$welcome_email = get_site_option( 'welcome_user_email' );



$user = new WP_User($user_id);



$welcome_email = apply_filters( "update_welcome_user_email", $welcome_email, $user_id, $password, $meta);

$welcome_email = str_replace( "SITE_NAME", $current_site->site_name, $welcome_email );

$welcome_email = str_replace( "USERNAME", $user->user_login, $welcome_email );

$welcome_email = str_replace( "PASSWORD", $password, $welcome_email );

$welcome_email = str_replace( "LOGINLINK", wp_login_url(), $welcome_email );

...

So I guess you should replace $password with something else from BP? Or maybe add $bp as global (whatever the hell that is…)?

EDIT: Adding $bp does nothing.

BTW, the wrong password in the welcome email is the same number of chars as the password that was entered, so I assume it’s an encryption issue. Unfortunately the ‘forget password’ function resets the password, it does not send the stored one. That’s probably more secure, but I don’t see where else I could find code that retrieves the stored password.

Could this also lead to the wrong passwords in the welcome email?