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intimez posted a new activity comment 14 years, 3 months ago
@rogercoathup @hnla Is there specific download version that need to worry about or just on bp org site?
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Roger Coathup posted an update 14 years, 3 months ago
@hnla Have we deleted the bbPress register.php file on this site, and changed the the BuddyPress register slug? Does it account for any of the spam registrations on here?
There was another one this morning (actually, they been operating for a while) – posting v.large nonsense status updates riddled with spam links
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I don’t think either has been done, but now that Boone fella with the aberrant ‘B’ has some site access we may be able to change these things.
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The bbPress register.php file is indeed there, but it doesn’t appear to be web accessible. BP_REGISTER_SLUG is the default ‘register’ on buddypress.org.
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@boonebgorges web accessible? does that mean what so ever, that form can in no way be used and returned, I’m perhaps thinking of curl scripts?
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@rogercoathup @hnla Is there specific download version that need to worry about or just on bp org site?
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@intimez – no, the register.php file is still in the bbPress folder inside the bp-forums folder on all installations.
I think this is the key to stopping spam – so, yes, delete it from your installation if you are having problems.
suerte!
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Roger Coathup posted a new activity comment 14 years, 3 months ago
@hnla – right thread!
The issue is: it was a difficult and not very technically astute ‘customer’ who’d opened the later thread, and there we are closing his thread and pointing him to something confusing and apparently inconclusive – even you had to get Ray to re-open it briefly, and check the solution again. 🙂
I can’t see the guy asking the…[Read more]
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I noted earlier in the thread the mention of adding topic content to meta description as well, which never got covered. it’s difficult as the OP sort of hopes for absolute solutions when often there are not or at least not that don’t involve coding skills and API knowledge.
Sadly the OP probably fled at least their last comment was simply “So no…[Read more]
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Okay, just got to this (/cc @rogercoathup).
Concern raised and duly noted. There are so many threads talking about the same thing. And there are only so many people answering them.
Try and see it from the mod’s standpoint. I’m not getting defensive and I truly accept the constructive feedback. The rationale behind closing a thread is to…[Read more]
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@r-a-y I didn’t have you in my ‘gunsights’ with regard to handling criticism… so, apologies if it appeared a little scattergun. I appreciate your to the point, technically aware replies.
I know there are some very difficult users & oft repeated questions – hopefully, some strong pointers to existing documentation and better search facilities…[Read more]
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Roger Coathup posted an update 14 years, 3 months ago
A few more that are creating profiles to spam link their description (although with just a few links): meloanorman1, limuya28, smythdanielson, sheffieldsolic
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and some more… they are joining like wildfire tonight:
logsplitterhs4, comprarl8h, fquidman695,
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Boone Gorges posted a new activity comment 14 years, 3 months ago
Thanks for the heads up on this.
@hnla It should be pretty straightforward to filter for a certain number of links within a profile and then reject it. I’ll add that to the Ninja list.
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I thought it wouldn’t be too hard and WP already has this ability floating aound to trap qnt of links.
btw could you remove that ‘b’ as it catches me out each time 🙂
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An extra ‘e’ in the surname would help as well 🙂
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Just be easier if he could get a new name altogether :p
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Roger Coathup posted an update 14 years, 3 months ago
@johnjamesjacoby, @djpaul, @hnla
Spam problem – a more worrying development
Guys, you might want to check whether your name is being ‘hijacked’ by the BuddyPress spammers.
I found an account that had been setup using my name on a site called fannation.com
When I looked at the blog posts on fannation.com (that had been posted in my name), I…[Read more]
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Hmm don’t like the sound of that at all. Is this directly related to group creation here? Off to have a look around!
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It’s not groups, it’s direct in their profiles – visit any of those users, and you’ll see their profile description is just stuffed with spam links. There were also some who were stuffing status updates with spam links.
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checking updates / descriptions with multiple links would help a little – anyone have an automated tool for this?
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We might run that by @boonegorges and see how hard it might be to whip up a simple filter or the like to catch more than 2 or three links and clean them out. the updates and improvements should be implemented any day now. If no provision already made for this issue it might be politely suggested.
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@boonebgorges (I miss the ‘b’ out as well).
I wrote to fannation, and they deleted the offending account straightaway (good on them).
Can we delete the profiles on here for the already identified users?
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Thanks for the heads up on this.
@hnla It should be pretty straightforward to filter for a certain number of links within a profile and then reject it. I’ll add that to the Ninja list.
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I thought it wouldn’t be too hard and WP already has this ability floating aound to trap qnt of links.
btw could you remove that ‘b’ as it catches me out each time 🙂
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An extra ‘e’ in the surname would help as well 🙂
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Just be easier if he could get a new name altogether :p
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Good to see a fast and positive response from the site.
Only the admin can delete profiles, not sure if Boone has this ability now with the increased access granted?
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Marked them all as spammers. We’re working on a solution to this so try to sit tight. No fun for anyone. :/
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paulhastings0 posted on the forum topic More Core Committers? in the group Miscellaneous: 14 years, 3 months ago
@hnla It’s good to hear that yall have at least been discussing this then. Or at least it’s reassuring that I’m not totally off the wall here. @djpaul, Yeah, I would agree that communication has improved. But still, I fail to see why it would hurt to add a couple of core committers. Committers are supposed to be […]
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Roger Coathup posted on the forum topic Allow Users to add fields in the group Miscellaneous: 14 years, 3 months ago
p.s. it’s the grouping fields as @hnla points out, that is one of the tricky points.
In old language terms: we needs structs, and then arrays of structs
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Roger Coathup posted on the forum topic Allow Users to add fields in the group Miscellaneous: 14 years, 3 months ago
@hnla – what’s the ‘beef’ with Javascript for the field creation? I assume Boone is just meaning the UI to insert the form fields, etc.
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Roger Coathup posted on the forum topic Change 'Members' Link and Name in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years, 3 months ago
@ellaj – check out this page: https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/
@boonebgorges, @mercime, @hnla – the Documentation tab needs to be much more prominent, to save us having to keep typing this URL (and the child theme one) in forum threads
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Roger Coathup posted on the forum topic Allow Users to add fields in the group Miscellaneous: 14 years, 3 months ago
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Roger Coathup posted on the forum topic Forum content in meta and topic title in title? in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years, 3 months ago
http://wpmu.org/big-news-for-bbpress-users-a-bbpress-plugin-is-coming-to-wordpress/
p.s. if it just needs you to use the echo-ing version of the function: bp_the_topic_title() as suggested by @hnla, then please report back on this thread, so that we have the information.
I assumed you would have been trying to echo the result anyway. Please…[Read more]
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Roger Coathup posted an update 14 years, 3 months ago
@hnla Looks like our replies to tubruk might have crossed: will bp_the_topic_title() work outside of the loop?
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Mark posted on the forum topic Editing BuddyPress-generated URLs for improved SEO in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years, 3 months ago
@DJpaul, @hnla Thanks for the feedback. I agree the username would probably be appropriate, but I’m guessing a lot of webmasters like myself would like to be able to edit it to be seo friendly for their site even though alt attributes might not be originally designed for that purpose. It is very common for webmasters who […]
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pcwriter posted a new activity comment 14 years, 3 months ago
Great news! This has definitely become a team project. And I’m sure having figured out how to grab wp_nav_menu names is goinf to help in other projects as well.
I’ll check out the code you pasted in your earlier message and get that incorporated with all the css styling stuff I’ve been busy with lately.
I won’t be online for a while…[Read more]
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You’ll have to add a ‘Contributing Author’ tag 😉 🙂
I’ll work up a further version with the wp_nav_menu labels added in when I have cleaned up the function a bit and I think the admin file may have patebined up with some test lines in that need removing.
Have a good break, catch up when you’re back.
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pcwriter posted an update 14 years, 3 months ago
@hnla ”…try an always avoid embedded styles as much as possible.”
Other than individual functions, is there any more efficient way of coding individual styles for background, text, border & hover colors, specific dimensions & positioning, etc…? I ask this because of your warning and of the number of options I’m adding to the BP-WP-Nav…[Read more]
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If it can be found a means of writing to file would be best, WP does have the capability to edit files in the dashboard so my initial thought would be to create a stylesheet correctly enque it to the wp_head set it so that it only gets added if admin option set to ‘Yes’ and have the file called in for editing by the user (the file would heavily…[Read more]
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In fact until better method found construct the admin menu options for the styles we’ll pass the to the main file or call the values back into the main file and rework the embedded styles for the hide main menu function to include further user options
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I’m coming to the party late here, haven’t done much background on your plugin, and might be way off track, so apologies in advance if I am:
To get my personal viewpoint upfront: Unfortunately, the first mention of embedded styles sends me running for the hills.
If you are implementing anything that allows the BP menus to be customised from the…[Read more]
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Roger Coathup posted an update 14 years, 3 months ago
@hnla Yes, I notice a few of us have been PM’d directly by eyg1 asking the same question. Myself and @kineticimages today
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p.s. I think you have their handle wrong in your forum reply: “eYg1” not “evg1”
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desperately trying to feel as though I care 🙂
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🙂
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They must be asked not to do this please and directed to forum threads only, unless a specific reason for contacting a member directly (even though this isn’t really a PM system)
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Roger Coathup posted on the forum topic The requested URL /groups/ was not found on this server. in the group Installing BuddyPress: 14 years, 3 months ago
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Roger Coathup posted on the forum topic Help updating bp on my site in the group Installing BuddyPress: 14 years, 3 months ago
@hnla – same point I made when direct messaged a few minutes ago about this one
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nit3watch posted an update 14 years, 3 months ago
@hnla Dude Iv’e got a simple question thats died in the forum. Dont want to bother r-a-y as he’s already helped me out so much 😛
I just need to get my plug-in to direct ‘group websites’ to say: http://www.example-group.com and not to http://localhost/wordpress/groups/example-group/www.example-group.com
Think its got to do with something thats…[Read more]
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nvm I had to use esc_url
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@intimez – no, the register.php file is still in the bbPress folder inside the bp-forums folder on all installations.
I think this is the key to stopping spam – so, yes, delete it from your installation if you are having problems.
suerte!