When a friend of mine tries to register she gets: User registration is currently not allowed
I searched the settings and the forum but didn't find anything.

Thanks Leo ... everything is fine now. A friend of mine just registered and bought an image for testing and everything worked like it should. I am very happy right now 
Basic is done, now I can start with fine-tuning.

I noticed the cookie notification too.. I think it's annoying..

I checked registration and seem to have a problem, too. I can register, but the e-mail with password never arrives. Check spam folder, too. Nothing.

When I try to login using just something as password, I get this (missing text in pink box):

 

But I am curious - is there a cookie requirement based on what country you live in? I thought cookies and javascript were now pretty much something you can't live without.

It's a legal requirement for British controlled Web sites, and has been for nearly a year. There are Wordpress plugins to pop up the notices.

Thats a strange problem nobody has mentioned.

Firstly do you have any plugins installed which might interfere?

Do you have "anyone can register" with default roles being "subscribers" ?

Yes, "anyone can register" with default roles being "subscribers" is set.

Don't know about interfering plugins. I don't see anything suspicious. Do you?

when something overly funky happens in the world of wordpress (that everyone else isn't experiencing) the first thing they tell you to do is deactivate all plugins and turn them on one-by-one till the problem comes back - then you found the clashing plugin.

Let me experiment a bit and see if the problem exists on my end.

That's good advise. Found that the "Better WP Security" plugin screwed my registration.

My question now is: which of its zillion setting caused my trouble? Or is it the plugin as is, no matter what the setting are? sigh... - I see what I can find and report back.

OK, here's what I found:

on tab Tweaks
under Server Tweaks
Option Protect Files  must be unchecked. This caused derailing of registration

under Other Tweaks
(same tab)
Option Remove WordPress Login Error Messages, if checked, causes the empty pink box. That one at least is pretty obvious.

I have both options unchecked now and registration seems to work as intended.

However, some links in the password e-mail seem to wrong/misconfigured:

• The header "Welcome to..." links doesn't work. It points to \[url\]*
• The Login Page doesn't point to the login page but links to the license agreement page

Can that be customized somewhere in the SY theme?

Have a look at wordfence, I posted about it in th general section yesterday to see if anyone was using it

OK, here's what I found:

on tab Tweaks
under Server Tweaks
Option Protect Files  must be unchecked. This caused derailing of registration

under Other Tweaks
(same tab)
Option Remove WordPress Login Error Messages, if checked, causes the empty pink box. That one at least is pretty obvious.

I have both options unchecked now and registration seems to work as intended.

However, some links in the password e-mail seem to wrong/misconfigured:

• The header "Welcome to..." links doesn't work. It points to \[url\]*
• The Login Page doesn't point to the login page but links to the license agreement page

Can that be customized somewhere in the SY theme?

No prob. The cookie prompt was covering your logo till I pushed "agreed"

Whats the hang-up people have with cookies and user notification? Is this a law somewhere?

Leo, could you please tell which information our cookies exactly collect or where I can find the cookies to see which information is in there?

Quote from: Tinny on June 05, 2013, 15:33

Have a look at wordfence, I posted about it in th general section yesterday to see if anyone was using it

Thanks Tinny, I'll try it. I hope I find some time to install it on the weekend.

I finally got around installing Wordfence. Seems to me it is pretty much set it and forget it. I haven't noticed any problems so far. Knock on wood...

Quote from: Pilens on June 11, 2013, 22:38

Quote from: Pilens on June 06, 2013, 16:19

Quote from: Tinny on June 05, 2013, 15:33

Have a look at wordfence, I posted about it in th general section yesterday to see if anyone was using it

Thanks Tinny, I'll try it. I hope I find some time to install it on the weekend.

I finally got around installing Wordfence. Seems to me it is pretty much set it and forget it. I haven't noticed any problems so far. Knock on wood...

Hi Pilens,

I've just registered on your site and get no password sent?
I have the same problem with my Symbio site, seems to be a fundamental bug in theme.

Anyone else tested their sites, any registrations working out there?

I've been experiencing that only with one of my test e-mail accounts.  Check out my various posts on the Bug Stomping thread.  I get the registration if I use my g-mail account, friends testing with Yahoo accounts get it, I tested using my e-mail at my day job and it came through. When I use my Optonline.net account which is my Cablevision (ISP provider) account their SpamScrubber stops it before it ever gets to my mailbox.  They are working on identifying what in the e-mail is blocking but I don't have an answer yet.  What I was able to determine was that it's the Symbiostock back-links in the e-mail that are trapping it in the spam scrubber.   Leo is aware of it and was going to work on changes.  I disabled the Spam Scrubber on the Optonline.net accoutn and it went through.  Tried forwarding it about 40 times, each time deleting different combinations of links.  Took out just the header, or just the images, took out all links, just one Symbio link, Just the other Symbio link.  The only time the forward went through was when I took out both Symbiostock links.