BuddyPress.org

giving members the ability to flag things as spam through akismet seems like a very sticky wicket to me probably something which would be better addressed as plugin. i for one would not want to give that ability to any user. i can barely get my staff to do that correctly under wordpress.

Well activity is already protected by akismet integration. Regarding the friend requests, one thing you can do now (and i have been forced to) to fight spam is only allow private messages to friends in that case the spammer gains the ability to send spam messages to these friends.

+1 for that, was my primary thought regarding the anti-spam functionality i was referring to. actually had a sort of deep thought about that the other day.

i think in todays landscape on the internet spam is becoming an ever increasing issue and without doubt buddypress sites/admins are bearing in inordinate brunt of that battle. Now that we have…[Read more]

bp rss feeds can definitely be erratic, we are working on it:

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5020

there are definitely some known issues regarding rss feeds and we are working to overhaul the entire system in the next version of buddypress more info can be found here:

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5020

for buddypress data

not sure i follow some of those tickets but i’d say my top 2 wish list items would be import/export functions and more anti-spamming stuff.

it’s hard to give advice without more specifics but what you are suggesting (or maybe just re-installing the plugin?) sounds like a reasonable approach assuming your canvas is truly blank at this point.

the original group based forums have been depreciated now what happens is each group is it’s own forum/topic in the regular site wide forums which are connected vis the forum tab in the groups page.

I’m not sure how I could contribute to be honest

well i don’t know jack about php i contribute by helping pick off some of the low hanging fruit here so that people who have more development related experience can address more challenging issues. i also contribute to the ux/ui discussions and will soon be helping help build the new template p…[Read more]

also, maybe i talking about something which is way over my head but perhaps the two things are somehow related?

well you’re always welcome to help make things better it is definitely frustrating when a problem you can’t figure out is posted here and you don’t get a response or a partial one i think its basically a thing where people have to decide how they can best help and devote what time they can to help buddypress thrive.

there is no question that time…[Read more]

thats not very helpful is it? please understand everyone who posts here is a volunteer like any open source project. in fact we are working on this bug currently (today in fact) you can see that here:

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4564

Which is not terrible of and by itself (these are BP-compatible plugins for WP). But I agree, there needs to be a way to separate out “Plugins for BuddyPress” (things that actually extend the functionality of BuddyPress) from “WordPress plugins that work with BuddyPress”

i’m pretty sure that’s what the plugin modemlooper made does:…[Read more]

ah well that would be gravatars most likely, i do not know how to remove them from buddypress but perhaps someone else does.

there is no relation to wp.com or wordpress.com and buddypress other then the fact they are built on the same basic infrastructure of wordpress which is available at wordpress.org. but you cannot be using buddypress on a wordpress.com website.

glad to be a help!

i think you may be talking about the buddy bar which was depreciated as of 1.6 there is (or least there was) a way to re-enable it using the bp-custom file code looks like this:
<?php
// hacks and mods will go here
add_filter( 'bp_use_wp_admin_bar', '__return_false' );
?>

plugins folder

@angelladesigns you can already do that by using the drop down filter menu.