[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #33307: Lack of any hooks for user registration in case of multisite installation AND BuddyPress

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#33307: Lack of any hooks for user registration in case of multisite installation
AND BuddyPress
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 Reporter:  summoner                |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement             |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                  |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Login and Registration  |    Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal                  |   Keywords:
  Focuses:                          |
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 Hi there,
 Recently i get quite a few strange registrations so i wanted to implement
 a captcha to the registration form. I have WP multisite and BP 2.3.2
 installed.

 One of my sites has no BuddyPress and just a normal registration, for this
 one it was really easy to get what i wanted: with "signup_extra_fields"
 hook i display the captcha and with "add_signup_meta" hook i can validate
 the captcha before any data is saved to the database.

 But when BP is enabled on a multisite installation, there is simply no
 hook defined in wpmu_signup_user function found in ms-functions.php. That
 way it seems to be impossible to validate the the captcha with add_filter
 before the user is saved WP's "signup" table. This way one can not protect
 against spam registrations.

 Please consider adding a proper hook in WP 4.3. It is just a short line of
 code and can not break anything but that way the signup process would
 become controllable without modification of a core function.

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