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@mike8022 It’s certainly something something that I’ve done, because removing items from search can really hit large servers, it’s a known performance issue. So it’s better to not offer search to the bots, so that you can have a more nuanced approach to search for logged in users, and also for people visiting the site. A bot should not ne using search at all, in fact this is a primary part of a DOS attack, to het WordPress constantly searching for none existent pages. So what I’m thinking for my plugin, is to exclude bots from all searches, to give logged in users full search, and to have controls on what site visitors are able to search for. Included in this is the need to have control over the xml sitemap, and to enable hard rules for exactly what site visitors are allow to search for. Include in this a strategy of honeypots and other traps for those with prying eyes.

bbPress tags seem be a bit of a target, as a lot of the security solutions out there do not cover them. it pretty simple to turn those off for not logged in users, and also to choose to turn them off just for bots I reckon, but it shows a comprehensive approach is needed I reckon, and this DOS attack I’m looking at currently is helping my ideas gel into that comprehensive approach. As I see it, ideally, next time I get an attack, I’ll have a single page allowing me to lock down the entire site if I need to.

Currently, I’ve got part of the solution, I can redirect all the bbPress feed links to a 404 or back to the originating page. However, I want to remove those links, and ideally stop the rss functions from being triggered. I did find some clues for that on friday when I last worked on it, and should be back working on it on Monday.

@venutius, did you figure out how to disable the bbpress feeds?

I woke up thinking, don’t forget bbPress.

That’s not a BuddyPress function, it’s bbPress.

Thanks venutius for removing all potential spam from this forum, it’s appreciated.

The question was regarding: why are forums not showing on my Buddypress site?

My reply: Buddypress does not include forum functionality by default.
Usually this can be added via another plugin eg. bbpress.

Find the bbpress plugin on the WordPress plugins website.

Install it, that should solve your issue.

I have a similar issue. After plugin updates, the activity page url often stops working.

To get around it I have to add “-3” to the end of the activity page url, and then create a redirect as we have urls going to the activity page in our menu. It works for a while, but eventually stops working. When this happens, I change the url back by removing the “-3” and remove the redirect.

I need to change the members url as well by adding “-3” to the end of it, or removing it depending on which url is working.

This typically only happens after running plugin updates. This last time a plugin auto updated and we lost our urls. wpmudev. I’ve turned off auto updates so I can keep an eye on things, but it would be good to know what’s causing this.

I have the latest version, and BP classic, also the latest version. WP and everything else is kept up to date.

Thanks

1. Which version of WordPress are you running? latest

2. Did you install WordPress as a directory or subdomain install? installed at /

3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory? root

4. Did you upgrade from a previous version of WordPress? If so, from which version? always up to date.

5. Was WordPress functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress (BP)? e.g. permalinks, creating a new post, commenting. yes

6. Which version of BP are you running? 12.3.0

7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version? yes. using BP for over 5 years. kept up to date weekly.

8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? If so, which ones? too many to list…

9. Are you using a standard WordPress theme or customized theme? custom

10. Which theme do you use ? Thrive

11. Have you modified the core files in any way? no

12. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php? no

13. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in? not running bbPress

14. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files. https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress autoindex error happened around the time a plugin auto updated, which I suspect caused the url change. The plugin was wmpu dev, but other updates cause this as well. error references public_html/.well-known/. not sure if this is related.

15. Which company provides your hosting? liquidweb

16. Is your server running Windows, or if Linux; Apache, nginx or something else? alma linux

17. Which BP Theme are you using?

18. Have you overloaded any BuddyPress template files. no

19. Any other site customisations that might have a bearing on the issue? Not that I know of.

20. What BP Template Pack is activated in your installation? You will see that under Dashboard > Settings > BuddyPress – Options page. New Template/Nouveau Template

Worse for me.

I have a problem installing BuddyPress from a “fresh” installation of WP. The WP installation works correctly, nothing to report. I go through the plugins admin page and search for buddypress, download it and install it and activate it. No error message, installation seems to work. I have the additional menu items including the URL slug management page. But none of the pages work, all fall to 404. Even if I change a slug for a custom one and save. Nothing works.

The only particularity is that the initial installation of WP is in French. But even if from this “fresh” installation in French I revert WP to US English, nothing happens, none of the slugs work!

1. Which version of WordPress are you running?
6.4.3

2. Did you install WordPress as a directory or subdomain install?
Main domain install : http://www.sudnat.be

3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory?
in the root

4. Did you upgrade from a previous version of WordPress? If so, from which version?
not relevant, new WP install

5. Was WordPress functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress (BP)? e.g. permalinks, creating a new post, commenting.
yes

6. Which version of BP are you running?
12.3.0

7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version?
No, fresh install

8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? If so, which ones?
None

9. Are you using a standard WordPress theme or customized theme?
Twenty Twenty-TwoVersion: 1.6, no customisation

10. Which theme do you use ?
Twenty Twenty-TwoVersion: 1.6

11. Have you modified the core files in any way?
no

12. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php?
no

13. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in?
not running bbPress

14. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files.
I have the additional menu items including the URL slug management page. But none of the pages work, all fall to 404. Even if I change a slug for a custom one and save. Nothing works.

15. Which company provides your hosting?
ovh.fr

16. Is your server running Windows, or if Linux; Apache, nginx or something else?
Apache

17. Which BP Theme are you using?
BuddyPress Nouveau

18. Have you overloaded any BuddyPress template files.
no

19. Any other site customisations that might have a bearing on the issue?
no

20. What BP Template Pack is activated in your installation? You will see that under Dashboard > Settings > BuddyPress – Options page.
New Template/Nouveau Template

Hi, v12.2.0 is breaking my site WPv6.4.3 + BuddyPressv12.2.0 + bbPressv2.6.9 + Theme Beehivev1.4.5

https://mysite.fr/members-2/0qchw/activity/
Deprecated: Le crochet bp_uri est obsolète depuis la version 12.0.0, sans aucune alternative disponible. in /home/mysite/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6031
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/mysite/wp-includes/functions.php:6031) in /home/mysite/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 1435
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/mysite/wp-includes/functions.php:6031) in /home/mysite/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 1438
That’s all on the activity page

On other pages, I get only the Deprecated message
Also on the forum page which shows no poste.

HTH

@lesd1315 it’s more specific customization related to bbPress, you can override the form-topic.php template and add some additional custom codes.

I am glad to hear that a v.14 is planned!
For 10 years I’ve tried to build something with buddypress, but I have never been able to launch a completed project, as I haven’t had the skills to make it as functional as it needed to be.

I am one of those guys that have used wordpress + various other members plugin + freelancer to make what I want.

Every community is different – so is the ones I’ve tried to make, and more often than not I haven’t needed 60% of the functionality coming out of the box in buddypress. But there are always something missing, at least for what I wanted to use Buddypress for.

In version 14 I hope to see more functionality (presented in a clear way for the users) towards user-interacting: Easy to use notification system for 100% of interactions between users.

All notifications is so, so important – as this is the way to bring members back. “Lila has sent you a message, click here to see”, “You got a new friend request”, “Someone replied to your topic”.. This brings people back, helping to grow the community!

So: Live popups and emails + bell notifications for:
Private messages, new bbpress replies / new topics, bbpress mentions, commenting, like buttons, added, follows, friend requests, accepted friend request, rejected friend requests, rating of content, e.g posts, forum posts etc.

And the entire notification system must be easy to use for both members and the admins!
Not all admins have coding skills. We just need an easy way to implement a bell in the header, which nicely presents new notifications. Small things like that is what I’ve been looking for.

And I have often found that 50% of it is working as I hoped, but then the other 50% is just not there. Forcing me to go to Freelancer, and from the developers over there, getting told: “You don’t need such a heavy tool like buddypress to accomplish this. Let me fix it for you just using wordpress and UsersWP”.