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I’m having the same problem here. When user enters nickname and email address to register, they get redirected to the “default_site_domain/wp-signup.php“, where they have to re-enter everything. It’s very confusing for users wanting to participate on forums to say the least.

This situation also creates a problem for when a site with forum uses different language than the default site, as mentioned here.

Can one of the bbPress developers please give us some pointers, or at least tell us that this is not a common problem and we’ll have to figure out why this is happening on our own? We love bbPress and we’re hoping now to get some love back. 🙂

@jeffacubed Have you made any progress with this matter? I’m still researching…

Oh, and I’m running WordPress 3.9 Multisite, bbPress 2.5.3.

Thx for taking a closer look Stephen! ( @netweb ) – this is seemingly simple – though not simple in seamless execution in a multi-site setup. I’m fairly sure the best way to handle this auto re-direction to the root when registering from WPMS sub-sites is to create a unique wp-signup.php file for any sub-site where one DOES NOT want the re-direction to the root site on registration. I started to test Chris Wiegman’s (& others) method:

http://chriswiegman.com/2010/02/using-a-custom-wp-signup-page-with-wordpress-mu/

Which would work – though I didn’t got deep enough (yet) to get the re-direction(s) to the root to stop-happening.

My ‘temporary’ sol’n @hamsterdj involves two plugins:

1. Login with Ajax

2. WP-Members

While my ‘temporary’ sol’n 100% works (for now) – I’m going to dig-in & try my hand at the custom wp-signup.php sol’n for each sub-site registration as I’m more in favour of soln’s of this nature that do not 100% rely on plugins!

-Jeff

I’m not entirely sure it’s a WP multisite core-architecture issue or a specific WP + BP in a multisite environment issue. When I have some ‘testing’ time set aside, I’m going to work through freshly re-creating this entire multisite user-registration conundrum w/ bbPress. The non-plugin sol’n involves having a distinct wp-signup.php files for each separate site across the multisites, though my first attempt at that did not work (likely something in the custom wp-signup.php I created, that I overlooked/mis-understood).

@lauramelos – As an intermediate sol’n (if your multisite bbPress user registration issue was the same as mine, in that all new registrations were re-directed back to the ‘root’ site), then Login with Ajax (LWA) did resolve that issue, at least for me (i.e new user registrations complete on the site the user is registering from, not re-directing back to the root (site ID=1)).

It’s on my ‘to do’ list to fully understand what’s really at play here…

-Jeff

I posted solution for this issue yesterday but it not appeared here. Maybe it marked as spam? Stupid spam filter system!

@olalaweb send it. BTW – write all texts for web in your notepad.exe or other app on your computer because web sucks and I have so many times then I loss my data written in stupid browser.

@korobochkin

email me at

and I’ll post to this thread

I have solution for this issue!

First of all — in web published a lot of strange and bad solutions for this issue. Add some rules to .htaccess, change wp-signup.php directly, blah blah blah…

I dig into the source code and found something interesting. WordPress have wp_signup_location filter which set up the signup page URL (location).

require_once (TEMPLATEPATH . '/wp-signup.php');
function selena_signup_page () {
	return home_url () . '/signup/';
}
add_filter ('wp_signup_location', 'selena_signup_page');

After this create page-signup.php template in your theme folder with your custom forms (buttons, inputs, etc). Forms and other stuff can be grabbed from wp-signup.php. So I took wp-signup.php from root WP folder and put them to my theme folder. But it needs to edit. I remove some requires, functions and function calls (checkout the wp-signup.php). Be careful!

Right now I dont know how this technique works with caching (but I use Memcached and Batcache on my sites and all works great).

Next problem is – activate account page. Similar solution. Create page-activate.php template with require_once ( TEMPLATEPATH . '/wp-activate.php'); call inside. And copy wp-activate.php to your theme folder and then edit them (remove requires, filters and actions). Don’t delete this:

if ( is_object( $wp_object_cache ) )
$wp_object_cache->cache_enabled = false;

This line for caching (I write about this above). Maybe someone tell us about object caching in WP? 🙂

Now you need disable activation letters (WP sends its twice after this manipulations :). Use wpmu_signup_user_notification filter and your function needs to send emails and return FALSE (or WP send second activation email).

And that’s all!

Working example is my sites:

1. http://armyofselenagomez.com/signup/
2. http://selenaselena.ru/signup/

Activation:

1. http://armyofselenagomez.com/activate/
2. http://selenaselena.ru/activate/

It’s a multisite! And both sites also have:

1. http://armyofselenagomez.com/wp-signup.php
2. http://armyofselenagomez.com/wp-activate.php

1. http://selenaselena.ru/wp-signup.php
2. http://selenaselena.ru/wp-activate.php

I’d say @korobochkin – nailed the solution on this lingering problem with sub-site (only) user-registration, bbPress & multi-site!! Any chance you’d be able to share the exact code/steps you took to resolve this?

It sounds like hooking into the wp_signup_location filter opens the door 🙂

I’ve been trying to work through the steps/logic that Kolya has shared – but I’ve yet to make the entire piece work (though I know it will, eventually)

-J

@korobochkin – you’re 100% correct, in that there should be no difference between sub-domain & sub-folder setups for making this work as you described.

If you could share/paste the actual code for the req’d changed files – that would be wonderful!

If for whatever reason the actual code can’t be pasted here on the forums, you can always email the files (if you like) to me ( cubedit {at} jeffacubed {dot} com )

спасибо
-J

I’m sorry for few days of silence. My love in the USA, and I’m in Russia without the visa.

@jeffacubed thank you for “спасибо”. I can publish the code. Also I can give you access to my private repo on Bitbucket.

wp_signup_location – it’s the filter which returns the sign up page location (url) and WordPress redirect to this addres. So this address not using in wp-signup.php because you already on the signup page. Your example of grep result shows that this filter using in wp-login.php (this page have the signup link).

Require necessary files https://gist.github.com/korobochkin/06780b88118e35c3bfd1

wp-signup.php — https://gist.github.com/korobochkin/9e4f9cd6502c4252d902 I use selena_network_signup_main function from this file on page-signup.php template in child theme.

wp-activate.php — https://gist.github.com/korobochkin/765d0a5d4e028dc3001a I use selena_network_activation_page function from this file on page-activate.php template.

And finally https://gist.github.com/korobochkin/a161718855b7784bfb10 file which sends notifications after you create an account and disable default WordPress notifications (return false at the end of the function). If you return true and the end of this function then user get 2 emails with different activation links:
site.com/wp-activate.php?key=HASH
site.com/activate/?key=HASH

Thanks so much @korobochkin for sharing this in such detail! I’m going to test this out from start to finish on a 100% fresh bbPress, multi-site setup over the next few weeks. I’m thinking this is ‘finally’ a rock-solid sol’n to managing bbPress on multi-site, particularly in situations where the root site has no obvious visual/branding/etc relationship to the other sites on the network.

This sol’n looks very solid, much better than what I was previously doing with the Login With Ajax (lwa) plugin, wp-members (plugin) & hard-coded redirections (which while worked, seemed very ‘hacky’) & would not work with the [bbp_register] shortcodes, etc.

Thanks again Koyla!

-Jeff

Oh. Found another bug right now. In wp-signup.php and wp-activate.php exists global variables and in my main function they not defined. I’l publish the solution in the near future.