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Hey, @agundabbo, I’m new to BuddyPress but have been doing WordPress for a couple of years, and was happy to find two plugins that work with BuddyPress that have been stopping the fake registrations on my site. They are WangGuard and Pie Register. Good luck!

I just installed WangGuard today on a new site I’m setting up that’s been getting slammed with several an hour, and it stopped the new faker registrations immediately. Also, I’ve been using Pie Register for a couple years on another site, and that alone has done a great job of keeping most spammer registrations out, so I put it on the new site, too. I didn’t have Akismet or anything on my other site, just Pie Registration and I was pasting a bunch of IP’s and certain words in the Settings > Discussion > Comment Blacklist, and no spam.

Pie Register has the best Captcha I’ve seen in the plugins, but what I really like is you can program random questions that the user has to put the right answer in, and that’s fun. I choose stuff that is relevant to my sites, and amusing. I was really glad it works with BuddyPress!

And I’m not affiliated with either of the above plugins, either, just another site owner who knows what it’s like trying to track down help.

Ah the theme needs to be BuddyPress compliant, which greatly reduces the options.

Actually, BP is compatible with nearly all WordPress themes (and all WP default themes) since BP 1.7. Issues arise with some frameworks which do not follow basic WP templating with the_title and the_contant within the WP loop. Even so, there are solutions put forth in the BP Codex https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/

BP 1.9+

function custom_notification_menu_tabs(){
	global $bp;
	if ( bp_is_user() && bp_user_has_access() ) {
		$count    = bp_notifications_get_unread_notification_count( bp_displayed_user_id() );
		$class    = ( 0 === $count ) ? 'no-count' : 'count';
		$bp->bp_nav['notifications']['name'] = sprintf( __( 'Alerts <span class="%s">%s</span>', 'buddypress' ), esc_attr( $class ), number_format_i18n( $count ) );
	} 

}
add_action('bp_setup_nav', 'custom_notification_menu_tabs', 201);

This feature does not currently exist in BuddyPress.

The core team has talked about what a robust member-to-member role and capability system would look like for a few years now (to allow for this sort of functionality) however we haven’t prioritized it yet.

Hi Hugo, my bad, should have given the link: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/improving-performance/ at the bottom of page

but I see you, or maybe another mod? has already removed the link to this thread

does anyone know if Fredrick Townes has said anything about adding functionality to W3 total cache for buddypress? all I found was this 4 year old comment

Maximize WordPress and BuddyPress Performance With W3 Total Cache

I’m asking for same. Since buddypress revolves round members, it will be tricky to remove it. I only want to remove the notification figure for logged in users and reserve it for admins…

>deem some activity as more important

I never understood that either.
It seems arbitrary and esoteric.

Try this:
Create a template over-ride of
bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\members\members-loop.php

And replace
bp_member_avatar()
with
bp_member_avatar('type=full&width=50&height=50')

Hi,
have you read the Codex about avatars ?
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/guides/customizing-buddypress-avatars/

Jumping the gun a bit, but your enthusiasm is greatly appreciated. The core team will likely put together a wish list immediately before we start 2.1 development. Until then, you can watch the state of all-things-2.1 over on trac at: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/milestone/2.1

Hi,
as you probably know, spam is a world wide disease and there are no ready to use solutions against it. Only tips at least.

So can you please search and read on this forum before asking for such a remaining question ?

https://buddypress.org/support/search/spam/