OK I’ll run with it on my site for a couple of weeks, see if there’s any feedback regarding it’s recommendations and then when it’s more solid I’ll put it in the Repo
Is that the sort of thing the codex would cover? I thought there might be issues with mentioning specific plugin’s, you know like official endorsement?
I could try writing a simple guide tonight if you like, might take me some time though depending on what else comes up.
One thing I can say is that before I put in these measures I was getting at least 50 spam registrations a day, I now get 1 a week and this is a human who is trying to register with the site purely to spam, to find these out you have to ask then where they live, they always lie but the IP address does not, so that’s one way of vetting spammers before you allow them onto your site.
Of course with these measures there is always the chance that you are turning down genuine member requests…. It’s a balance.
This page has my own suggestions to try to avoid spammers, this combo dramatically cut down on the number of spam registrations and those that get through I hold them in a queue with BP Registration options a ban then based on discrepencies in their registration information.
The only way is to engage the plugin developers and get them to update their software to support the latest features and fix any bugs. I know bo Group Tinychat has not been updated in quite some time and may therefore be reaching end of life.
The other option is to find alternative plugins that do the same thing, for example mediapress as an alternative to Easy Albums.
Regarding question 2, I think that you need to set up a custom home page for your groups using BP Group Extras. That way you get to have the intro text as long as you like without it encroaching on the group cover image. you can also add some other cool features is you do this such as adding extra images and video’s into the group description, you can even add short codes to display group comments and forum entries on the same page.
I’ve written a guide as to how you can do this here:
This makes it so the only page you can view is the homepage, then make sure all you can see on the homepage is the login button? Either that or modify the above plugin so that it redirects to the login page.
It seems I have a different problem, I got them to change their name to something more usual and I still can’t see then in my admin user list, I’ll have a play with this but any suggestions as to what is going on would be appreciated.
If you go to Customize>>menus you will see there are buddyPress pages there you can add to menus, but these are the user specific menu items i.e. My Activity etc. To add the global pages you just need to create a link to the page in question, i.e. http://www.yoursite.com/activity
Make sure you are logged out when accessing the register page.
Sometimes wordPress losts it’s connection to pages, you can reset this by resaving the Dashboard>>Settings>>Permalinks page, that might fix your Groups page access problem.
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