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Ah hah. Just to confirm: with bbPress active, your BuddyPress “Active user” like in the emails don’t work?

We’ll check it out. Thanks.

I’ve just tested this with all sorts of combinations of bbPress/BuddyPress, and I can’t recreate a problem.

Can you find out what web server software your web host is using for your server? It could be Apache, nginx, etc.

Thanks. I don’t have any ideas; something must be redirecting URLs when it shouldn’t.

I can confirm this problem. After a user registered and clicked on the e-mail activation link, the activation page was displayed with an error message about an activation code.

When I disabled WordPress SEO by Yoast, the problem went away.

Hi, I’m trying to get BuddyPress running, and I can see the activate account page, but I don’t have an activation key. Nothing was sent. How do I re-trigger this?

I recently ran into this issue as well and found that troubleshooting the plugins associated with the site resolved the issue. There was a specific plugin that was causing the problem. I simply deactivated them and activated them by trial an error until I isolated the culprit. In my case it was not an SEO plug in but one called “Confirm Activation”. I realize this is an older post but maybe someone will benefit from this solution.

So, I had the same problem, but with the deactivation of WordPress SEO by Yoast everything works again.

Ok, maybe I got the source of the problem. I use this code below to change the text from the e-mail with the activation code:

<?php
 
function bp_change_activation_mail_text( $message ) {
 
//  Get some globals
	global $bp, $wpdb;
 
  //  Get username from the signup form just posted
  $username = $bp->signup->username;
 
  //  SQL query to get activation key for that username
  $sql = 'select meta_value from wp_usermeta where meta_key="activation_key" and user_id in ( select ID from wp_users where user_login="' . $username . '" and user_status=2 )';
 
  //  Getting the activation key from the database
  $activation_key = $wpdb->get_var($sql);
 
  $activate_url = bp_get_activation_page() ."?key=$activation_key";
  $activate_url = esc_url( $activate_url );
 
  //  Custom message with activation key
  $message = "Obrigado por registrar-se no Espaço Tesla!\n\n Para completar a ativação de sua conta, por favor, clique no link abaixo:\n\n$activate_url\n\n";
 
  return $message;
 
}
 
add_filter( 'bp_core_signup_send_validation_email_message', 'bp_change_activation_mail_text' );

Maybe there is something wrong with the query that could sometimes return an empty result? When I remove this filter, the default text is sent with the correct activation link.