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First you have to enable comments in the admin menu and click the “save” button on the admin menu. Then for each uploaded item, you have to check the “Enable comments” box on the item’s edit page.

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Clayton …you have to answer *all* of the questions so I can help you. 4) What’s the hosting company? 5) What FTP software did you use to upload the files? 6) What kind of image file did you upload? 7) Did you change the page slug for BP Album? Is there a space in the […]

Well I’m coding the 0.1.9 templates *right now* so let’s hear some of that feedback… 🙂

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It’s probably because there are a huge number of different ways that plugins handle “uploading” in WordPress. Most plugins just have to handle generating an avatar image of some sort, which is built-in to WordPress anyway. We’re on the bleeding edge of it, having to handle many different image formats, plus audio, video, and embedded […]

Oh that is *NICE* …Good work mate!

So you extended the plugin to get those effects?

Let me know if you need anything “tweaked” in the BPA code.

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1) What is your computer and operating system? 2) What web browser are you using? 3) Where is your install hosted? Is it on your computer, or on a web hosting company? 4) What’s the hosting company? 5) What FTP software did you use to upload the files? 6) What kind of image did you […]

The reason is probably because you’re using buggy pre-release versions of WordPress and Buddypress on an incorrectly configured home PC. 1) To start with, you’re testing with a version of WordPress that, according to wordpress.org “…has over 200 bugs that we are still working on” (as of 5 days ago). So before I can provide […]

We’ll probably have the next beta out within a week or so, and it should be stable enough for template development. The version we’re working on is a huge improvement over the 0.1.7 release.

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The next version of BP Album+ will let you essentially clone the media functionality of sites like DeviantArt, Flickr, and Facebook with a minimum amount of effort. It includes a “widget” that displays the latest uploaded media items, which you can position anywhere in your templates. For heavy customization jobs, the sample templates we’re including […]

Probably within the next week.

We’ve both got our new code finished, and we should be doing our merge shortly.

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I think, overall, the core devs have approached BP development in the most effective order possible. There really isn’t much point in adding spam protection to a platform nobody uses, and nobody would be using BP if the core developers had spent the past two years hardening it with spam protection instead of adding member-centric […]

PART 3 – STRONG -vs- WEAK METHODS When it comes to spam on BP sites, you’ll see all sorts of stuff posted on blogs saying “change on your site and your spam problem will disappear”. Truthfully, a lot of these tricks will actually work …for a while… but eventually, the spammer makes a minor change […]

@Erich73

Add a “refresh” button beside the captcha that allows the user to flip through multiple captchas until they find one they like.

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@thekmen

Last I heard, BuddyPress does not run activity stream posts, or anything else, through Aksmet …it’s wide-open and that’s what’s causing the problem!

If you install the WP Akismet plugin, it runs *blog comments* through Akismet, but that’s it.

See why I’m really concerned and am putting work into this? 🙂

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PART 2 – DEFEATING SPAMMERS In the last post I covered why and how spammers attack BP installations. This post will cover how I propose to counter them. Fast Attacks -vs- Slow Attacks There are two basic kinds of spam attacks that get run on social networks: “fast” or “flood” attacks, and “slow” attacks. In a […]

All About BuddyPress Spam From what I’ve seen over the past few days, the range of knowledge about spam in the BP community ranges from zero to PhD research project. So, to get this thread off to a productive start, I’m going to give everyone some background info on why spammers target our installations, how they […]