"Invalid Activation Key" error in buddypress registration

  • Resolved simple-man

    (@simple-man)


    10 years, 11 months ago

    OK, when new users click the account activation link in the email they get after registration, they get this error message: Invalid Activation Key

    I have tried everything in last one month to solve this issue and nothing seems to work. My hosting company says everything is fine at their side.

    I even disabled all the plugins except buddypress and still keep getting same error.

    Here is more information about this:

    https://buddypress.org/support/topic/will-buddypress-2-0-fix-this-problem/

    Please advise if the theme or template can cause it?

    What can I do to fix it.
    Thank you very much for your help.

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  • Thread Starter simple-man

    (@simple-man)

    Btw, here is the site: dnvoice. com

    Thank you.

    Theme Author Richie KS

    (@rkcorp)

    more like a bp core issue. the theme did not have bp components include.

    Theme Author Richie KS

    (@rkcorp)

    could you try bp default theme and see if it also had this error

    Thread Starter simple-man

    (@simple-man)

    Hi Richie,

    BP default did not have this issue.
    Thank you.

    Theme Author Richie KS

    (@rkcorp)

    try copy paste buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/registration folder
    into wp-content/themes/mesocolumn/

    Invalid activation key errors can sometimes be fixed by running this query on your DB:

    UPDATE wp_users SET user_activation_key = '' WHERE user_activation_key LIKE '%$%'

    Be sure to change wp_users to your actual users table if you use a non-default DB prefix.

    How does this work? If the user_activation_key field is blank, WP will create a new one that’s not invalid.

    How did it get invalid in the first place? I’m not sure how this crops up, but I think it is more likely if you are moving WP DBs from server to server or if you upgraded from an older version of WP that used to have $ in the activation keys.

    Hope this helps. (Posting this to a few threads talking about it in case this can help.)

    Theme Author Richie KS

    (@rkcorp)

    thx for the explaination @strangerstudios
    another solution would be disable the activation process.

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