Could the missing members be users that have signed up but not yet activated their account?
Just a thought
Thanks Henry, they’re all approved. I even have a plugin called Unconfirmed to verify any that slipped through BuddyPress unactivated.
@tux-kapono
Actually even though their account is activated after clicking the link in the email they will not show up as members until they actually log in for the first time. Basically they have to show that they are going to be active participants on your site before they are acknowledge as being a member of it.
@tux-kapono
Forgot to mention that is the reason for the discrepancy in member numbers in dashboard and members directory page.
Didn’t know that, thank you.
I’m finding this selective accounting has been confusing to too many people. Is there any way to have the counter display the number of registered Users?
@tux-kapono
Why would it be confusing unless you have several admins? Subscribers should not have access to how many registered users there are in the dashboard anyway. Unless those users are active participants wouldn’t it kinda mislead new legitimate registered users that there is more active members than what is truly there? Most likely the registered users that never logged in was either spam-bots or human spammers and most people fight that tooth and nail. If you have several admins then I would just communicate that to them.
I think it should be a choice either way, that’s all. There is no one way to do something.
Our members have a goal of reaching a hundred members, and they’d like to know. A registration nets other benefits, it doesn’t necessarily need everyone who registers to have to use the site.
I also don’t want to give a receptionist admin access just so they can record the number of registrations.
I’m having an issue related to this, where on the members page, it says ALL MEMBERS: 13, and down below it says “Viewing 1-20 of 197 active members”. The 197 is correct, and the 13 is not. I noticed the same problem when viewing @tux-kapono ‘s site. It shows ALL MEMBERS at 1,958, but active members are off by one at 1,959. Any insight into this @bp-help?
Cheers,
J
@jaemaz
Most likely the reason for that discrepancy is because the users may have activated their account but have yet to login for the first time. I think this is default behavior but I could be wrong. I have noticed they do not get added to the directory until they login the first time.
Thanks @bp-help — I thought that too, but I have manually logged in for a number of my newly created members, and still no love.
@jaemaz
Is it perhaps that some members were marked as spammers?
