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== Going directly to the slug just bounces the user back. ==

Did you check if you allowed registration in your second WP install which has BP ativated?

Ok, correcting my previous assumption – it’s been a long day sorry. So you have a single WP installation with BP activated. Prior to installing BP, you had this PHP signup form which worked in your WP installation. You’ve deleted the PHP signup form and the BP registration form does not show up when you go to http://yoursite.com/register

To troubleshoot whether it’s a BP issue, given above conditions, deactivate all plugins except BuddyPress and change to bp-default theme. I assume that you haven’t changed any internal BP configuration like renaming register to something else, go to http://yoursite.com/register. If that works, then ..

Are you using a WP theme with BP Template Pack plugin for compatibility? Activate both and check registration. If that works, then ..

Activate other plugins one by one to identify which one is messing up with registration page.

@BlueInkAlchemist – I would download a copy of BuddyPress and then manually re-upload files via FTP or cpanel, etc. Only activate BP and with the bp-default theme, check if yoursite.com/register goes to default BP registration page.

If you mean reinstalling WP from scratch, then information in DB will not be preserved unless you back up DB and save to your computer.

Did you by any chance, install WP manually or did you install WP via webhost script like fantastico or simplescripts, etc? Those webhost scripts have been the bane of some WP installs which have problems or cannot upgrade to multisite or which get major hiccups making BuddyPress work in their install. In that case, then I would definitely reinstall from scratch and check out the tables I can import from the DB backup I made from previous installation.

Can you confirm the the pretty permalink is working for pages, post. Just curious.
Also, is it possible that you may link the site here, so we may check it in action ?

Have you tried just disabling BP’s registration hijacking? I haven’t tested myself, but it might work. In your functions.php:
`if ( bp_core_is_multisite() )
remove_action( ‘wp’, ‘bp_core_wpsignup_redirect’ );
else
remove_action( ‘init’, ‘bp_core_wpsignup_redirect’ );
`

It’s pretty easy to redirect users after login. Something like http://buddydev.com/buddypress/buddypress-trick-redirect-users-to-their-profile-on-login/ will work.

If you only want to do it the *first* time a user logs in, or only if the user has not filled out the profile, it’s trickier. Before returning `bp_core_get_user_domain( $user->ID )`, you’d want to check against some piece of data, such as `get_user_meta( $user->ID, ‘last_activity’, true )` (which will tell you the last time the user logged in, which I believe will return false if it’s a new user).

@blueinkalchemist
There seems something strange with the urls though.
It works
http://designatedsketcher.maidenhosting.com/category/contest

as well as this one
https://thedesignatedsketcher.com/category/contest

How do you manage to do that. That might have something to do with the conflict. hopefully, It will help further to understand the issue.

The hack is not working with latest version,

`if ( bp_core_is_multisite() )
remove_action( ‘wp’, ‘bp_core_wpsignup_redirect’ );
else
remove_action( ‘init’, ‘bp_core_wpsignup_redirect’ );`

bp_core_is_multisite() gives error as it’s not found.

Do you know what’s work nowadays?

Thanks!