In reply to Ted Clayton.

The whole ‘project’ (it hardly seems right to call it a plugin) is too much of a hairball for my tastes, but it looks it will come apart fairly readily … and in fact works, when only partly intact.

Hi, I'm the creator of UserPress. Would you mind elaborating on your issues wit the plugin? And yes, it is a plugin...that includes a theme that's optimized for the plugin's functionality. But you can use any theme that you desire. (I honestly don't understand why people are so confused by this. But I will be remove auto-activation in the next version.)