I have these plugins activated: bbPress, BP Registration Options, Buddy Plugin (comes with the Buddy theme I am using, purchased from ThemeForest), BuddyPress and BuddyPress Community Stats.
In BP Registration settings I have both Moderate New Members and the Private Network options ticked. I was using the Private Community for BP plugin to hide bits of the site from non-users but deactivated this (and activated your Private Network option) to simplify testing.
This is what happens:
When a new user signs up they see a web page that says “Check Your Email to Activate Your Account! 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.” An email goes to new user, subject “Activate Your Account”, content “Thanks for registering! To complete the activation of your account please click the following link:…”
No email is sent to administrator. And no new Member Requests appear in the BP Registration dashboard. However, in Users > Manage Signups the new user is visible under the Pending heading.
When the new user clicks on the link in the above email, the new user sees a webpage that says both “Your account is now active!” [in green box] and “Your membership is awaiting approval…etc” [in red box]. An email is then sent to the administrator, subject “New User Registration”, with new user’s username and email.
CORRECTION: A second email was sent to the administrator, subject “New Member Request”, saying new user would like to become a member…” [I found this in spam folder but it had the same time as the previous “New User Registration” email so presume they were sent together]
After the new user clicks on the email link, the new user can then be seen on the Users list (not in Pending as before) and at the top of this list is a message “You have 1 new member request that need to be approved or denied. Please click here to take action”. The new member can then be found on the BP Registration Options Member Requests page.
At this stage the new user is able to log in but they can’t see any BP content except their own profile.
On approval, the new user can fully access the site and a while later an email was sent to the new user, subject “Membership approved”.
So it seems to me that a big issue is that the new user notification is only sent to the admin person once the new user has clicked on the link in the “Activate Your Account” email.
