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@richardicanie your response sounds like you got my original message but I can’t see it on this thread (the forum here stopped it from being published and gave me an error when I tried to resubmit it).

anyway, about the site you mention: http://community.babycentre.co.uk/

it doesn’t look like they are using wordpress at all. my guess after…[Read more]

moderators: I am unable to respond – I’ve tried several times. There is an error which doesn’t allow my posts to show.

I’m opening this up again in the hopes that someone who knows something will see it this time:

I’m looking for a plugin that would allow me to put up a page like this one:
http://moz.com/invite/signup

and to collect name/email from those interested in joining as members for my site

I do NOT want to block off the site from them if they are not…[Read more]

not sure if I understand you correctly but it sounds like something that can be solved with the apache modrewrite module in your .htaccess file

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html

@aces this may be a dumb Q, why do you need poedit? why can’t you just edit via notepad++ or some other text editor and change, for example:

line 5560: msgid ” Friendship could not be requested.”

to

line 5560: msgid ” Friendship could not be sent.”

most people get this functionality by installing a membership plugin like S2

there are many more, just do a search for membership plugin wordpress in the official plugin repository or google

@bphelp thanks for your feedback, the site isn’t mine, just thought others might benefit

speaking of spam, what do you think of the sandbox idea I shared here?
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/idea-stopping-spammers-with-sandbox/

since you have the knowledge and experience writing plugins, can you comment on how feasible it is? could you write it?

Thanks @derdzi – can someone please confirm this? also, can you share it with the Yoast SEO wordpress forum so they can respond?

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-seo

@ubernaut the scenario you outline is possible. that I can agree with. but I don’t think any reasonable person would respond by ‘leave never to return the interesting but apparently broken site’ if they didn’t immediately see their friend on the site.

to clarify, the (new) member would be shown and included in the membership directory – if there…[Read more]

@shanebp the very nature of the functionality is that it is *not* explained, the user doesn’t know they are in a sandbox! (like a user being ‘shadow banned’) otherwise the benefit that this would confer is totally erased.

please explain why would this result in a flurry of support submissions? the new user sees their own activity being reflected…[Read more]

@bphelp thanks, I’ll take a look at that plugin but it lacks this specific functionality as you already mentioned

@shanebp how is this ‘too complicated’? I also like using the community to flag spam but that only finds spam after the fact, what if you could ID spammers *before*? wouldn’t that be even more valuable? or why not both?

https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

a theme is completely different than bbpress or buddypress. the theme gives the ‘look’ the bbpress and/or buddypress plugins give the functionality

@ubernaut and others, re spam, I would appreciate hearing from the more experienced dev and web masters about the pros and cons of a private membership site.

By not allowing just anyone to become a member you automatically arrest spam. Of course, you also impede your growth because legitimate users can’t join.

One way to get around this is to…[Read more]

I like your enthusiasm but it seems you’re getting a bit ahead of yourself. The trac for 1.8 has been on 100 active and outstanding tickets for weeks on end now and there is no discussion of 1.9 anywhere.

But as long as we’re throwing out ideas for the upcoming, I’d like to vote for throttling as discussed…[Read more]

take a look at cubepoints: https://wordpress.org/plugins/cubepoints-buddypress-integration/

http://store.slyspyder.com/free-cubepoints-plugins-modules/