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Hi,
WP is promoting his own software Akismet against spam, so i’m affraid that it’s not tomorrow they will develop another antispam system.
i’m using wp-ban and some htaccess rules (very efficient IMO)

`# BEGIN ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .register*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*your_site.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
RewriteRule (.*) http://die-spammers.com/ [R=301,L] (->URL to redirect spammers to)
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer mrtoday.net spammer=yes (-> identified spam site)
Order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from env=spammer (-> some IP’s to ban )
deny from 78.47.125.158
deny from 203.186.54.21
deny from 174.139.12.106
deny from 70.32.38.85
# Blocking access from libwww-perl, and blocking urls that include “=http:” to eliminate bot attacks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} libwww [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ – [F,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} www-mechanize [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ – [F,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(wp-login.php|/wp-admin/) [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)=http [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ – [F,L]
# END ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION`

Take care by copy/pasting above code. Notices between (-> bla….) must be retrieved !
IP’s and sites to be blocked can be found in your server log files.
You can also consult some antispam sites giving the latest spam marked sites like http://urlvoid.com/

@sciencefiction68 this topic is specific for the alignment of the Catch Box theme for ed161718. Please start a new topic, copy over what you’ve posted above and I’ll help you there.

== BuddyPress Components do not have associated WordPress Pages: Activity Streams, User Groups, Members, Activate, Register. Repair ==

@tgnwsauctions Click on repair https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-buddypress-components/#settings-buddypress-pages
Make sure that Pages are associated with the BuddyPress component

I am simply going to comment once here and won’t reply as I’ve had my fill of debates like this. Part of me just feels I shouldn’t even comment anymore but you certainly have got the wrong end of the stick. I for one want you to get involved more – I have lost count of how many times said that now. I still do and my hope was that you step into the community with more involvement not tred on it with a statement like this, so with that intent I shall comment.

You’re not the only one active in the community speaking to users, many say positive things. As someone that is like everyone else whose not a core contributor and by your definition an ‘us’ not an them (horrible definitions with too much negative weight to be used with bias), I can say that I couldn’t disagree more with your attitude exhibited in this post and also in other posts. There is no conspiracy, there is nobody against anyone. The mods aren’t out to get anyone either… they are simply doing their job in the forum.

If you look at the facts you will see actually a far more open community effort has been done in 1.7 where the core team have opened the doors by asking event or UI contributions for the first time ever in the history of the project. These were open to absolutely everyone and still are. You, me, him, her.. anyone can do a wireframe and it will be discussed. Anyone is also encouraged to be part of this process. I am not a kid by any means, I have lots of work to do, a husband, a life outside of BuddyPress – do you truly think I and others like me who aren’t part of the core team would get involved in this project when it was going to be pointless to be involved?

In 1.6 there was even a theme project and yet again calls were made out for people to join. I did, so did others and you know what – we had an amazing time, were welcome and never had any agendas forced on us.

Whilst, out of context to your statement here, I shall mention briefly the apparently trigger word for you of ‘veto’. You took offence at my use of one word ‘veto’ in relation to a technique suggested for drag and drop feature by a member of the core team, claiming this was a sign of an agenda by the core team – I still encourage you to look at the logs I linked for the developer chat to put that statement into context. Then I think you would see no agenda as there wasn’t any. Perhaps as you state ‘if you take this as hostel you proved it’ you should look without bias before jumping at a word.

I have before and I will again simply ask you to turn up the developer meetings and get involved. There is no point writing posts like this without looking for solutions. Negative breeds negative and gets peoples backs up. You say don’t take this post as hostel, way I’d not take it as hostel would be to see you step up and be a positive influence and get involved in the community. Then you truly are putting the community first and making sure by being part of the solution there is no agenda.

You walk into a room with open arms and smile – you get a welcome. You walk into a room, you talk to people, you start conversations and engage positively – eventually you’re at the center of that room’s conversations and integrated. You walk into a room with folded arms and a grumpy face – you get no welcome. You walk into a room, stay a while and endlessly complain about the room and all the people in it – people stop talking to you, back off and the room becomes very lonely. You walk into a room, stay a while then start lashing out your arms and swearing – people ask you to leave. I hope you open your arms and become a part of the solution.

@djpaul Off topic? This is 100% on topic.

I was only quoting what she wrote. She wrote things have already been vetoed and are not up for discussion. If you have a problem with that take it up with her because she was the one that wrote it not me.

Don’t worry I won’t comment anymore. Clearly it’s not welcome.

@FIQ Please stop trying to take these discussions off-topic. I don’t understand where you’er getting your views from; karmatosed and Hugo have been quite accurate.

@hnla I didn’t suggest it, she did….

“ @karmatosed : Things like you are suggesting are far more theme than UI. I could see it being done as a released theme or being done as a custom theme. Just seems over kill for a default UI. I could be wrong but didn’t you bring that up before @ubernaut and it was vetoed?”

I don’t have a problem if the developers want to make these decisions on their own. That’s fair, they put in the hours to get it this far. What upsets me is wasting our time asking for feedback on things that are set in stone.

BuddyPress requires “pretty permalinks”, i.e. Settings > Permalinks is set to other than default setting. mod_rewrite must be enabled in your server.

I should note that I did not have to replace the .htaccess files. Deleting the bbpress plugin via FTP recovered the dashboard.

@uhchurch there’s no problem. If you already have users in your WP installation for a while and just installed/activated BuddyPress, then those users need to log in at least once with BP activated in order to be “recognized and recorded” by BP. There’s a plugin – BP Disable Activation plugin – which worked before, but not sure if working on current BP version, check it out.

I am also having this problem with bbpress. Tried twice to install, locked out of dashboard both times. BuddyPress install seems to work fine without it. I host with Bluehost; is there some setting there I should be looking at?

@jesse_james It would be great if this option to ban certain domains was built into the core. Maybe make a ticket on trac. Not sure they will approve it but it never hurts to request it because spam seems to be a constant issue with BP and having the ability to ban a entire domain that is famous for enabling spammers from registering would help save a lot of long term grief.

yeah its called ban hammer can exclude specific emails or entire domains

@FIQ it is somewhat churlish to suggest things are already decided and a little rude, I have said get stuck in and help guide this you clearly have a level of understanding so don’t be put off put those views across and DO attend the dev chats.

If you have already run the install using the “buddypress out of the box” option, and need to get back to where you have options to install different theme support, just switch your theme temporarily to a theme that lacks buddypress support. It will then give you a message with the options to get buddypress themes (and clicking on that link in the message will take you to a plugin download page with the buddypress theme pack and other specific theme plugins you should install) OR the option to have buddypress help you modify your own theme, which will be a 3-step process in which buddypress will copy theme folders over to your theme folder, and then will give you instructions on how to modify the buddypress pages to match your theme.

@karmatosed
Who is vetoing stuff? What is the point of these topics if it has already been decided. I don’t think any of these “wireframes” have been thought through. I don’t think it matters what anyone says here, this is just an exercise in fishing for people that already agree with what has already been decided.

@newbie2011 first of all, congratulations on fixing alignment of your Members Directory page for Step 3 of the BP compatibility process

The difference between members directory page from the activity page was that the div surrounding the content for members directory was `

@hepdoll glad you resolved this on your own

The instruction was included in the plugn’s Installation instruction “Activate BuddyPress in the “Plugins” admin panel using the “Activate” link. You’ll then see a message asking you to complete the BuddyPress Installation Wizard, which will guide you through configuring your site for BuddyPress”

Also, for those who might land on this page from search -> https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/setting-up-a-new-installation/