I am a new Buddypress user but in a very short time, our site has had numerous spammers join. This is a significant problem limiting the potential of the system. I have just 21 users and have had to remove 4 of them as spammers. What happens with 2100 users? Removing spammers will be a fulltime role and that would seem to defeat the purpose of a self-maintained website and social media community.
Your plugin was actually the first thing I tried when I noticed the problem. It’s still running on my site with the core links in the order I chose, however, it’s not seeming to put them in any order.
I was going to try and sleep on it then try to figure it out, but I can’t get to sleep knowing I have this problem. It’s my bit of OCD I suppose. 
I think the main problem is that the Gantry for BuddyPress and RocketTheme template framework removes a lot of the WordPress code and replaces it with standard html in their own files. Not sure if that makes any sense… lack of sleep and all.
I didn’t know if there was any way to use a bp-custom.php to manually make the changes to the core or the additional plugin links?
Thanks for the reply. Hopefully I can think better one I get some shut-eye.
@r-a-y Thank you so much! That will be really useful to know when trying to modify things further.
Try my BuddyPress Extended Settings plugin, to see if it works with your custom setup. I will be adding a way to specify tabs that get added via plugins. Right now plugin only includes core tabs
It’s not a perfect solution but have you look at gravity forms for registation forms and BuddyPress? http://www.gravityforms.com/
It’s tricky to say not having a link to your site as a starting point to consider things. It could be that some plugin or even your theme is interfering with the links working. Probably a good starting point would be to re-save your permlinks (this probably isn’t the issue but a good check) under settings.
Then look to see if any redirect / plugins are interacting. If you are able (and you may not be able to on a live site) set to the BuddyPress default theme and see if that solves the issue. Could you have added any custom code to the theme?
Yes, BuddyPress and multisite do work together and you can have one login.
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@juanmaguerrero Hi! I was just curious if you have had any luck packaging your “auto load more” code snippet as a plugin? It would be an awesome contribution to the buddypress community. Thanks and best regards!
Cool start, you’ve posted this in the gallery section so probably for your questions you would get more responses if you put them each in a post in one of the other forums. For instance the ‘Creating and Extending’ for customisation or ‘Installing BuddyPress’ for setting up, or ‘How-To and Troubleshooting’ for any issues and after set up.
As far as commenting on the site I’d love to see the front page show more of the community within. I always think it’s a shame to just have a wall of text when you land on a community. Maybe expand on the logo styling and rough up (for want of a better design term) the other elements. I’m a sucker for a bit of personality in a site and think considering your topic you could do that fairly easily.
It’s a standard WordPress question, rather than BuddyPress specific.
Have a look at some of the actions on new user registration in WordPress – you would simply need to hook a function onto the appropriate action, and write to your alternative database in that function.
If you are not familiar with ‘action’ programming in WordPress, take a look at Codex documentation, there is plenty of info in there.
Yes, it works really well for this organisation – their build has been running for over two years now, and we add new features on a fairly continual basis.
There are some added twists that the shared user base lets us introduce – e.g. as well the main domain being the corporate home, we are able to offer personalised versions of the main site that the members can ‘present’ to their colleagues and connections.
Meanwhile, the member area (BuddyPress based) remains hidden away, and only visible to logged in members.
@julie92500
Thanks for your input. I’m having trouble obtaining your email address. Is there another way I can contact you?
@StSmith – we use exactly this setup on one of our client builds.
They have a standard WP install on the root domain for their corporate front end, with a BuddyPress install on a subdomain for their members to access social elements, book events and so on.
They share the same database, and we even ‘share’ some stories from the corporate site direct in the member domain, and vice versa with some photo uploads.
There are lots of options in addition to multisite – e.g. bespoke code to integrate a shop built from scratch with the profile, or integration of an existing shop into profile, with a member front end for product upload.
For an off the shelf solution, you can have a look at MarketPress from wpmu.
None exist yet. The only option is to us multi site and have each user run a store on their own blog
@mercime
Ok, I followed your directions and still no bb tables (I am reactivating my theme and plugins now, so that users don’t get disgruntled, but let me know if you need to see it with the default). What do you think are my options now?
Okay, thanks. I am not using the buddypress theme – so would this still apply to that? Here’s the code in there now:
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I added the “width:’30px'” inside
and it’s probably wrong because nothing happened. What would be the correct way to limit the width?
Your pages are reading the CSS perfectly correctly.
It’s your templates that need adjusting – you’ve installed a photo plugin, and not rewritten the templates to work with your theme.
You may find a kindly soul on here who’ll rewrite your templates for free for you – alternatively, you could try posting on the job board for a developer: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-jobs-board/forum/
