WPMU, S2M & BuddyP – Registration & Login

Since a week I’ve activated the MultiSite option and added BuddyPress.

From the beginning I’ve been unsure about which part handles or should handle the membership registration, the login and the profile page.

Since a couple of days I receive messages that people have registered on the site but never were able to login. I can’t find any new users similar to the info they send me. They also write me that they receive on their display a message like:
“Sign Up Complete!
You have successfully created your account! To begin using this site you will need to activate your account via the email we have just sent to your address.”

But they don’t receive an email. I don’t recall that this e-mail confirmation route was happening before at all.

The sites address is: http://www.jazzharmonica.org

I’ve read the configuration documentation 100 times now but all seems to be configured just fine to me.

The feeling I have is that somehow there is a mismatch between S2Members and BuddyPress. Both have their own registration pages and it looks to me that currently only the buddypress pages are used.

Many thanks for your help in advance,

Wim Dijkgraaf

Hi Wim,

For problems with email delivery, please see Knowledge Base » Troubleshooting Email Delivery Problems.

Regarding the BuddyPress registration confusion: You’ll need to hide or redirect the BuddyPress registration page to point to the WordPress/s2Member registration page, otherwise users might not register at the correct page.

Hi Raam,

Many thanks for your reply. The e-mail delivery problem is solved now.

My question now is how do I hide or redirect the BuddyPress registration page?

I’ve tried to configure the “pages” tab of the BuddyPress settings. But by selecting “none” for “registration” and “none” for “activate” does gives me 404 page errors on the wp-login.php?action=register URL.

I don’t recall that this e-mail confirmation route was happening before at all.

This is something BuddyPress does. BuddyPress pretty much takes over the registration process and the wp-login.php one is disabled by BP apparently.

If you don’t use BuddyPress’ registration, you can use the s2Member free registration pro-form. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Free Registration Forms[/hilite]

I hope that helps. :)