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.. and sipping a cup of tea, yes 😀

hi @notpoppy,

no it’s not possible. WP post comments are not forum discussions.
And the BP included bbPress forum as no settings for such.

If you use BP 1.6.x with the bbPress 2.2.4 plugin for a standalone forum, you can plug bbPress, but this cannot be done if you have group forums.

If you use BP 1.7 and bbP 2.3, every thing becames possible, but you have to wait a little, both are still in beta…

That said, each WP comes with Askimet, the theoretical nec plus ultra of comments anti-spam, whitch protect the comments, the activity stream, etc
Search on this forum, you’ll find many discussions about spam and what to do/use….
Even if no definetly solution exist.

the thing to understand with PHP is to never use a function name twice on a same action. A function name is and must be unique.

In the WP ecosystem, you can act on templates throught the child theme. Generally you only change HTML and CSS and use the existing php filters from the original template.

If you need to modify an existing function, you copy the original to the child theme functions.php file and do your changes on this copy. Once done, you change the name of the function and the new hook name

unhook first  the action or the filter
remove_action or remove_filter, than the new function
function my name
add_action or add_filter (‘the_action_to_hook’, ‘my_name’)

Because this is registered in the theme functions file, and because WP is calling a evantually exiting child theme first when he loads, the child becames priority of any other existing theme. And that’s why it works !

Don’t be affraid, the only one who can broke things in a child theme is you, never an update.

The only limit is when you use a so called buddypress ready theme, in fact a third party theme. This works generally  out of the box, but if you want to change something in such a theme, you must first create a child for it. Simply because that original “child” is updatetable. And the whole world knows that you want’t loose your changes.

That said it’s not forbidden to work on a local copy, and to save systematically any file you modify on the prod site.
Reading the Codex on rainy days is also a good thing you can do. 🙂

Grr. Me too!

Was working okay.

Have been trying out BuddyStream, BuddyBlog and BP Simple Front End Post.
Now no blog posts are appearing in Activity feeds.
I’ve deactivated all those plugins. Now the only plugins I’m running are BackWPup, BuddyPress itself and Remove Admin Bar – but still, new blog posts are not appearing in the Activity feeds!

How frustrating 🙂 Looks like I’ll need to wipe the slate clean and start again?

Haylp!

BP 1.7b2
WP 3.5.1

Since your site was compromised, and you are the resident expert with your configuration, we rely on you to fill in any gaps that you can.

If you get to the point where you’ve identified a clear and repeatable security issue with WordPress, BuddyPress, bbPress, or any other plugin, let is know by checking out the following page:

https://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Security

Thanks, and good luck.

@praisehim Sorry to butt in but the simplest answer is to just not use that theme and use the default buddypress theme. The moderators here are well versed in the default theme and some other ones. Anytime you use themes or plugins that are not included with BP then you have to rely on that theme or plugins author for support. Don’t get me wrong their will be people that will try to help but it seems to go a lot smoother when they know the theme and these moderators know their stuff on here really well. Their good people!

hi @number_6,

Number 2: – Why did you resign ? 😀

sticky is a WP setting. This can be done/undone when you publish a post.

The only sticky or featured related code i found is in the child theme index.php

Give a try by removing this:27
                            <?php if ( is_sticky() ) : ?>
<span class=”activity sticky-post”><?php _ex( ‘Featured’, ‘Sticky post’, ‘buddypress’ ); ?></span>
<?php endif; ?>

or ask the author  @modemlooper directly

<?php if ( bp_has_activities( 'user_id=1895624') ) : ?>

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/developer-docs/loops-reference/the-activity-stream-loop/

buddypress/bp-activity/bp-activity-classes.php

As Boone told you already, there are no known security issues with BuddyPress.