I’d like to see this functionality too!
Can anyone help me find a way to send a mass email to all users that have registered to my bbpress forum. Any suggestions to do this easy would be much appreciated.
Thanks
There is still a set of problems with this. The value of $this->$dbhname isn’t checked before it’s used in mysql_get_server_info() on line 75 in db-mysqli.php. If the connection fails, the error won’t be echoed to the user because the use of @ on the mysql_connect() call and then the script just continues, assuming the connection went fine, which in my case, it din’t. Also, the call should be to mysql<b>i</b>_connect() and not mysql_connect(), as far as I can understand.
The patch doesn’t fix these problems and they need to be fixed for bbPress to work on my host. I’d write these comments on the associated ticket, but there doesn’t seem to be any way to register or comment anonymously there.
Here is my explanation:
The question is should we reuse deleted ID?
1. Says we have ID from 1 to 10. ID 5 is just deleted and a new user just registered. How does the program know which ID should be assigned to this new user? If this program reuse ID, then it have to go through the entire data, just for find out which ID is available. Or add another table for storing those deleted IDs? Reusing ID makes performance issue.
2. If this new users is assigned ID 5, then the admin suddenly find out he deleted wrong user, that should be another user. And if this program can partially restore data, can this program just do that? It can’t. ID 5 has been assigned to a new user, if you want to restore that deleted user, you may need to assign a new ID to that deleted user.
3. Now, think about a products database. You deleted a product, and inserted another one with same ID (assuming 5). If there is another program can order products using IDs only, it says it wants ID 5. But it actually meant old ID 5, not new ID 5. If you don’t reuse ID, then the transaction can’t be done.
I don’t think so as the plugin adds them direct to the database (you can quickly test that). Without register.php there are no registrations going to happen for sure!
Trent
hello there!
I was wondering, how can you disable registration in bbpress; I have added the Admin add user plug-in. and want to restrict registration so it is done manually. I already checked http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/is-there-an-approve-registration-plugin?replies=14 (Trent’s reply on shutting it off) BUT would removing register.php file disallow me (as admin) registering users?
thanks!
Thanks for the reply. I guess what I really meant was mass deleting bogus users. Deleting them one by one is a pain, when you get several a day.
I also had the idea that it might be possible to change the registration system to keep bots from registering.
I can’t see a way that bbPress would be responsible. The email is sent right before the registration success message is sent. From register.php lines 39-41:
do_action('register_user', $user_id);
bb_load_template( 'register-success.php', $_globals );
So, after the register_user action (which emails the password) the success message is displayed. There is no delay built into bbPress. So, it is somewhere after bbPress has handed off the email.
Is is possible there is a different header in the bbPress password message that causes it to be delayed by the recipient’s ISP? I know there is a Precedence: bulk header in the bbPress email, and that WordPress has the same, but there is also a X header in the WordPress email that I don’t see in the bbPress email: X-Priority: 3 (which means “normal” delivery.) It could also be due to the email address the email is coming from (some sort of validation by the SMTP server to see if the sender is valid.)
I would say the problem is with the server sending the emails, or the recipient’s ISP, not with bbPress. I can’t come up with any ideas at all how bbPress could be responsible.
Hi All,
I have BBpress integrated with WordPress. We just launched the forums yesterday and noticed that users were registering, but not posting. After some testing it looks like the password emails are being sent, but they can take up to five minutes. Users seem to be getting impatient and leaving. We are on a hosted service and the email service works just fine so it’s not the server. Any ideas what is happening?
I can’t see how bbPress would be any different than wordpress in terms of the mail usage, so:
Emailed passwords not received
Description: When users try to register with your blog or change their passwords by entering their username and email, WordPress says that their password has been emailed to them, but it’s never received.
Reason and Solution: WordPress uses the standard php mail function, which uses sendmail. No account information is needed. This is not generally a problem if you’re using a hosting service, but if you’re using your own box and don’t have an SMTP server, the mail won’t ever send. If you’re using a *NIX box, you should have either postfix or sendmail on your machine; you’ll just need to set them up (google for how-to’s). If you don’t want to go through setting up a complete mail server on you *NIX box you may find ssmtp (http://packages.debian.org/stable/mail/ssmtp) useful – it provides “A secure, effective and simple way of getting mail off a system to your mail hub”. On a Windows machine, try a sendmail emulator like Glob SendMail (http://glob.com.au/sendmail/).
More help can be found on the forums at: https://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=24981
Translation, there are posts in the normal wordpress.org forums as well that even dreamhost for whatever reason doesn’t send the passwords out through sendmail. I would look in the dreamhost support as well, maybe an answer is right there for you to grab 
Trent
I’m having similar issues, where people are registering, but no e-mail containing a password is sent to them. Any help?
@Trent and everyone, this plugin intercept login process, if the logging user hasn’t activated the account, then it will be redirect to bb-activate.php. After successful activation, the user will be redirect to bb-login.php.
And when new user is registering, this plugin doesn’t interfere the normal registering process but add an additional usermeta and send the activation code right after bbPress send the password mail.
So, there is no way this plugin will break the password being sent.
Edit: Currently, user gets TWO mails after registration, one is for password, another is for activation code. I am not planning to merge them into one, because that would have to touch many things and I don’t like that.
Edit: I knew there are some topics about mail problem, but I can’t find them now.
Did you mean password or activation code? Your forum is quite new, so I guess that your server can’t send any mail for your forum. And this isn’t a plugin’s problem.
Please deactivate this plugin, and register new account, then see if you can get the password mail. If you can’t, then you have to fix mail problem.
Hello, first off I want to thank you for this excellent pluggin.
Nevertheless, when users register at http://uniteformike.com/forums their password is never sent to them. BB-Activate is in my root directory and activate is in my root/bb-templates/superbold-bbpress (template folder) and the EnhancedRegistration folder is in my my-plugins directory, and the plugin is activated…
I hate to be one of those people, but what the heck am I doing wrong (version 0.8.3 )?
I can’t seem to log in to my forums or blog. What troubles me is that another blog on a different domain refuses to let me log in also, and all three of them are on the same server.
When I click the register link, it tells me that I’m already logged in.
Edit: I seem to be logged in when I use a page that has a php extention. 
Hi, i’m not sure if this is the correct forum for this question but here goes:
I’m developing a new site in ASP classic and would like to use bbPress as a discussion board on this new site. The new site will have it’s own login and registration but I would like to enable single sign on for both services.
The proposed solution for this is on registration, register the user on my site then process a registration for bbPress using the same details. Similarly, on logon I will have a script to logon to an ASP session and then to a bbPress PHP session. (both my site and the bbPress forum will be on the same domain).
Heres the question. How can I do this? Is there a page I can submit form information to (using AJAX or similar) on registration? Is there a page I can submit login information to to write a PHP session? I’m not very fluent in PHP so if someone could help me out here I would be very grateful.
You can never stop spam registration if people hire people to sign up. Nor captcha or askimet or any other program can prevent that.
We can however block all registratingspambots with an empty www field like the starting post. Only problem is, it aint working 
Great! .. im gonna try it right now 
brb..
Update 1: No mail yet. Dont know if i have set that up correct. Can see this in phpmyadmin, in wp_users..
ID : 2
user_login : xxxxxxx
user_pass : 63db6f94498b383aa4eebb38b9d41505
user_nicename :
user_email : xxxxxx@gmail.com
user_url :
user_registered : 2007-11-26 08:21:45
user_activation_key :
user_status : 0
display_name :
user_activation_key shouldnt be empty ?
Update 2: in wp_usermeta..
umeta_id : 12
user_id : 2
meta_key : act_code
meta_value : 12345678 (eight numbers & letters value)
dammit! this is a winxp test server with wamp.. dont think mail() works here
When I last looked at your site (just now) there was no header logo so I could not see about that. Can you draw out where you are thinking of putting the buttons and stuff? I can’t picture what you mean.
So, where is the logo, where is the login and register stuff and where is the link to home and the forum?
I think a plugin IS the easiest way to do it without having to resort to modifying core files, which is generally a bad idea. You lose your changes when you upgrade bbPress.
I think you’ve found the best information about the profile already by browsing the source. There is no official documentation that I know of, but browsing the source is good, and there is at a start of an additional source:
http://bbpulp.org/wiki/Main_Page
I wish I knew more about plugins to help you with this, but I don’t. I’m sure someone else will come along and explain how to do this easily. There is another current thread about modifying the profile information, so learning how to do it would help in both places. I’m pretty sure the answer is to do it with a plugin rather than modifying core files.
We’re writing our own history here :-b)
sambauers, are you saying I have to move to India or China to get a job like that? More work being taken away from Americans … 
Seriously though, I have a few spam users registered every day, and they always link their username to a website, but there are never any posts by them (maybe I delete them soon enough after registering that they never make a post.) So, what good is it creating a user with a link to a website in a profile they never post from? Would a list of users show up somehow in a stock bbPress install where the links there could actually drive traffic to them somehow? I know WHY they do it, but if their username is never shown next to a post, how would the link to their site ever get picked up? I’ve always wondered about that.
Good point. You just assume they are automatically registering robots. I have the “extra” custom registrations plugin and it stops most spam, so logically the other users could be real people….
Trent
Hi. I want to change the data that is collected in the Registration:Profile Information page of bbpress. Some background…
I have a bbpress/WPMU integration. The system is working fine in terms of the two sites being integrated. When a user goes to register for an account on the forum, they are presented with a form with name, email, website, occupation, location and interests. I see in the source code where the associative array is (get_profile_info_keys). So I could modify the fields there, but there must be some “proper” way to change the profile info that is gathered.
I apologize if this is plainly explained somewhere. I can’t seem to find any admin page related to changing the bbpress profile info. I’d prefer to do this the sanctioned way and not modify source files.
Reading other posts I see stuff about plugins and the profile, but surely that isn’t the easiest way to change the nature of the data collected?
Are you sure they are robots? There are people in India, China and elsewhere whose job it is to register spam users to websites.
These measures will not work on them at all.
Same. I’ve tried this one, but I could still registrate without leaving the webpage field blank
I need something too and fast, cause I am getting at 200! registration spammers already and counting…
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