[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

… except for the “separate” part. BP currently does not have multistie support. It’s the same BP across the entire thing.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

“I came across this code if I like to Set which blog ID BuddyPress will run on:

define ( ‘BP_ROOT_BLOG’, $blog_id );

So, if I didn’t find an answer for my first question, I have plan B question

if I’ve chosen the blog Id to be 3 for example

would it be like this blog3.example.tld/community “

The Blog ID has no bearing on the actual subdomain. It’s just internal. So if the blog ID was 3, the 3 would not be in the subdomain.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

“I still wonder why they are attacking buddypress”

Backlinks, that’s it.

“I am starting to realise that no matter what BP devs do the spammers always try new things “

and this is open source. the code is OPEN. That means whatever is put in to stop spam, the code is viewable by spammers who just rewrite their programs to get around it.

“the fight against spam is in our hands the users, it will also help us learn more about being better webmasters”

Yes! If you are setting up a site to host other people’s information, then you have a responsibility as a webmaster to maintain your site.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

“would it not be possible to have certain customizable elements which each and every installation of WPMU/BP had to create whilst doing an install, e.g. the name of the pages and hooks that the sploggers exploit?”

They look for the default registration slug. You already have the ability to change it.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

You have to go inot the BP folders that are added to the theme, and wherever there’s a “content” div, match that up to the HTML markup in the original theme.

If it;s overly complicated in the theme – yeah, pain in the ass. (which is why there’s unfinished themes on my hard drive )

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Woot! Found some bugs. on WPMU 2.9.1.1, after picking a blog, I get errors on ever item over on the right side

‘Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in /var/www/html/trunk/wp-content/plugins/default-blog-options/start.inc.php on line 76″

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

What theme was it? Some themes are pretty straightforward, some are a nightmare. (I’m working on a pile of them in my “spare time”)

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmu-new-blog-defaults/ This is the one most of us have been using.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Yes, just add that to the config file. Don’t move any files or folders around.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

There’s really no need to make unfounded accusations like that.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Go turn off the ability for users to add other users. If you already have spammers in your system, they’ll let others in. It’s under Site Admin -> Options.

Doing the easy stuff is just the first level of defense.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Bbrian – what exactly have you implemented to stop splogs? I’m not being sarcastic. If I know what you’re tried already, I can suggest different things other than telling you things you tried already.

“I wonder where the spammers get the time to figure out ways to spam sites is there like a spam university or something”

They buy automated scripts. Seriously, I can send links. They google for default text like “powered by buddypress” and “/register/”, plus they jointly build lists of BP-powered sites and share them, so they can then drop these lists of sites into their programs.

Part of stopping them relies on figuring out how they come in, which we’ve spent time doing.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

But you can put a home.php in your child theme, with that is_logged in I talked about.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

“Adding an extra feature on signup or even adding a question doesn’t help. “

If you have just the defaults, you will get hammered with spam. No question.

Part of the issue is how they are finding your site and how they are signing up. What works for one site may not work for another as there are quite a number of sploggers out there who wrote programs (I’ve seen them advertised) to hammer your sites. They look for the defaults.

But in my experience, to stop the splogs to a trickle, you have to do a number of things, not just one or two. Andy has a number of fields on signup at testbp.org and doesn’t have a splog issue. The domain has been up long enough for them to find him.

There are signup moderation plugins for MU. I have no idea if they work with BP, but someone can modify them. there are also a number of suggested bot-stopping plugins that are suggested, that I have found DO work, but many people reading about them discount it as they think it only applies to comments. Some sploggers use the exact same techniques. Bad Behavour works. Cookies for Comments works.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

You have to adapt the theme to work with BP. And last I looked at the theme, it was a nightmare to work with.

(tables? really?)

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

“A nice feature would be (plugin request!) to have:

– an extra field on signup. “

Then add an extra required filed in the BO backend.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Are you using a BuddyPress theme?

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Are you using single WP or WPMU? Because that’s the htaccess for MU. (yes, they are different)

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

“and uploaded to godaddy and then unzipped there which create a buddypress folder in the html directory of godaddy.”

The plugin folder needs to go in wp-content/plugins/.

have you tried installing it from the admin area of WordPress? Go to the plugin menu and pick Install New.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Match the div classes. The BP ones need to match your theme.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

If the devs can’t reproduce an issue, it’s pretty hard to fix, right?

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

It’s not php, it’s HTML. Your theme page up there has a “post” div aroudn the content area. make the BP template files match that. (Hint: look for the “content” div.)

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

“It seems like the Splog problem is not being taken seriously enough “

Sure it is – but a bunch of the devs have open test sites and aren’t getting hammered by splogs because they made a few simple changes, which they DID post about.

There’s tons of solutions posted all over. I’ve found you have to use a lot of them, the main one being change the default signup. Did you do that? Is your register slug custom? Have you added a couple of extra required fields on the signups page?

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Manually – means finding the php code in the header and typing in the right parts of the URL.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

They work on wildcards. *If* your host will let you have wildcard domains, the subdomain limit doesn’t count, as no actual folders are made on the server.

On a host like that, I’d go for subfolders tho.