BuddyPress

@footybible thanks!

I’ll consider adding an option, or some way that you can turn it off. It may be possible, but I won’t have time to look at the code for some days.

@footybible – Yes please send me a link. If you have an email addy, use http://scr.im and post it that way.

@footybible – We’re not always online at the time you want to be!

Try deactivating and deleting the plugin, then install the plugin manually:

http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/buddypress-usernames-only.zip

If the problem persists let me know and I’ll look into it.

@footybible i dont ftp access to the serevr from my home laptop, but there is a php file in the plugin dir and i think its called bpModAbstractDBObj.php (see aaron’s post) do a search for “function __construct($id = false) {” or just scan the code and you ll see the place to paste in aaron’s line. [...]

@footybible – have a look for a block with p id=”nav” . Replace the line in that block with the link to register

@footybible – you can try replacing line 368 in wp-login.php with the code I put in the pastebin (above). However, I don’t know if this catches everything (give it a quick try!). There’s a lot of code / javascript going on in there, so fingers need to be crossed that this simple fix will do the [...]

@footybible Yes, good spot by @govpatel Of course, that file is not going to be BuddyPress aware, so won’t know about BP_REGISTER_SLUG It’s not really a good choice for the registration / login screen for a BP site. If you are stuck working with that, rather than the standard BP login area, then you will have to [...]

@footybible – Ok, I don’t know the theme, but it looks like the designer has ‘gotten lazy’ and coded in a hard link to register.php rather than the register slug. You’ll have to get in there and find which template file it’s using, and change the link code to the register slug. The code you’ll be [...]

@footybible – What’ve you changed your slug to? What does the link point to that is failing? Essentially, they need to be the same thing. Which page is giving you the problem? Is it a standard WP login screen as opposed to a BuddyPress one? Which theme are you using? Based on this, you can just [...]

@tedmann – have a search on your install for the bbPress folder and remove the register.php file. I guess it doesn’t have to be activated for the file still to be there and therefore usable by the spammers.

It worked like a treat for myself and @footybible

@jonnylons, are you looking for something that lets users write blog posts for their sites? Somebody pointed me to a few good front-end blog post plugins. If that’s what you’re looking for, say the word, and I’ll dig ‘em up. Or, now that I look more closely at the link @footybible offered, sweet. And he mentioned the [...]