Kim Knox

Andrea, this is interesting. I am going to see if I can deactivate buddypress from my subsites. I have a lot of Buddypress plugins that are “network activated”.

Any advice on how to deactivate without causing myself unnecessary frustration?

I used “default blog” plugin to create a blog template for every subsite that is initiated. It is a really handy plugin.

I would be happy to get rid of the registration option entirely, as I hate having an error message come up.

The registration is not a widget though, do you have any ideas of how to get rid of the registration option entirely on the user created sites?

Under superadmin, I changed the theme to the twenty ten. It was already in there. I deactivated both buddypress and custom community.

Then I activated twentyten under “themes”.

The main site takes me to “https://www.aareaforum.com/wp-signup.php” when I click registration from the home page.

So with Buddypress it comes up https://www.areaforum.com/registration. Without buddypress it comes up https://www.aareaforum.com/wp-signup.php

on the https://oregon.aareaforum.com/ there is no option to register.

Under superadmin, I changed the theme to the twenty ten. It was already in there. I deactivated both buddypress and custom community.

Then I activated twentyten under “themes”.

The main site takes me to “https://www.aareaforum.com/wp-signup.php” when I click registration from the home page.

Interestingly, if I go to a subdomain, like https://oregon.aareaforum.com/ it remains in the custom community theme.

Do either of you recommend a particular page in my control panel that I should concentrate on to see if I can figure out where this problem is occurring? Any particular language I should be looking for?

I have only dealt with my control panel when I have gotten fatal errors, so my experience is limited. I only have practical experience with html.

Perhaps I should use the editor within WordPress instead of my control panel. I have done a little with the editor, but still lack experience.

My site is https://www.aareaforum.com

Ipstenu, I had WP subdomains plugin active at one point. It has since been deleted, so perhaps that initiated some unexpected registration subdomains?

Custom Community

Maybe it is a problem in buddypress though.

When I deactivate all plugins except buddypress, I still get routed to an error page. It has the sidebars and header, footer, but is routing to https://www.blogname.domain.com/registration. I have to have buddypress activated to have a login and registration area visible.

So this must be indicate it is not a plugin problem.

I have about 35 plugins on the site. Should I start with deactivating the buddpress plugins first? I think the only thing I can do is deactivate and reactivate one plugin at a time to see which one is causing me grief.

If I could figure out a widgetless (ha) way to somehow stop the subdomain sites from naturally creating new registration page addresses, that would solve my current problem without having to add a widget. When I add a widget, it is odd bcuz it still has the “create an account” section that takes someone to the error page, then right below, it has a registration widget. To remove the use of widget would make it more user friendly.

When someone tries to register to my main site, it goes to “www.mydomain.com/registration” and all is just as it should be. When someone goes to one of the blogs created by a user, the “create new account” link takes them to “www.blogname.mydomain.com/registration” they get a error indicating this page cannot be found.

If I could somehow route all registration requests to my main site registration page, my problems would be solved. Well, my most current problem. =)

I have used the “default blog” plugin to be used as a template for every new site registration template. I wonder if this default blog has somehow also created a rule to have independent registration pages per site. I did monkey around with the advanced users section when I don’t actually qualify as an advanced user (what can I say).

On a side note Andrea, your answers to questions on this site have been a valuable resource to me.

Thank you, this solved one of my problems!!