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@jwack it works for up 1.2.10 but says it fails for buddypress 1.5 …. can someone please take this over am willing to pay and make it compatible with 1.5 ?

@jwack good luck!

@jwack – Yep – Yes, it’s not the most accessible-friendly way to prevent splogging but we do require people use the code in order to register at all, instead of a captcha. And we haven’t had a single spammer since. But for the few who don’t know it, we also provide the link where they can […]

@jwack hi, I had similar issues… even after removing the blog signup at registration, spammers would sign up, activate their accounts, and then create a new splog. to help cut down, I tried these steps: – changed my registration slug in bp-custom.php: define ( ‘BP_REGISTER_SLUG’, ‘join’ ); – also added a redirect of wp-signup.php inside…[Read more]

Hi @jwack What you describe in your first sentance is what I call “retroactive achievements”, or rather, retroactive awarding of existing Achievements. It’s not possible in the current release, but I’m trying hard to find a good way of doing it for the next release. Regarding Achievements for creating 10 posts and 50 posts. If you […]

@rogercoathup @jwack Aha! Found this https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/featured-blogs-list/

@mercime – that may give a solution for @jwack.. Although the original post was asking featured blogs, not for specific featured posts

@jwack @rogercoathup something like this? http://wpmututorials.com/plugins/featured-posts-plugin-and-widget/

@jwack – it won’t be easy as a non-programmer. Your best route is probably to make use of switch_to_blog(); and use a ‘standard’ WordPress posts loop on each blog in turn. Search ‘wordpress loop’ in Google. You’ll also need to call functions to fetch the author, etc. You may be able to figure out your loop […]

@jwack – you’ll hit some performance problems – You’ll need to use switch_to_blog(blog_id) to change to each blog, and extract the post, author, etc. details. Each call to switch_to_blog incurs a performance overhead. Your alternative is to store the information you need in the activity stream when a post is saved: Most of the information you need […]

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Here are good places to get you started:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference

BuddyPress Codex

@jwack @modemlooper

Thanks for the feedback 🙂

@jwack – That’s why it’s called example code 😉

It still applies, @jwack .