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I have over 4000 active users on Buddypress – and it’s a Spam Magnet.

I’ve tried a few things I’ve found in past threads, but doesn’t seem to be working. Registrations are e-mail verified, and coming from gmail for the most part. The Spam users don’t seem to have the same IP range to ban, etc.

First people were just creating profiles. Then they started using the messages system. Disabled that. Then they started sending Friend requests to other users. Then they started replying to other users basic activity.

I’ve tried throttling, they just make more accounts. I’ve tried ReCaptcha on every messaging form. A week later someone still manages to reply to activity to a few hundred users in a day.

I’ve essentially disabled every single interaction possibility at this point, which severely hobbles the usefulness of buddypress in the first place.

Any ideas for something that actually works to stop spam?

Hello,

Having some issues with activation emails and wondered if anyone could assist. While activation emails are being sent from my site, they are always the default WordPress ones and not the Buddypress ones.

If this is relevant, I’ve noticed any attempt to create new email templates gives me a ‘Sorry, you are not allowed to edit this post’ message even though I’m the site administrator. Editing existing ones seems to work though.

Thanks in advance.

When a user logs in to my BuddyPress site, it redirects them to the WordPress login. Does this mean that you need to create a WordPress account to login to your BuddyPress account? If so, is there a way around this since I would like my users to just login through the BuddyPress portal and have that get them straight to the BuddyPress site.

Hi,
I’m using last version of buddypress with profile fields, I have two issues :
1) i get in profil page phone as html not text like that :
Phone <a href="tel://06666666669&quot; rel="nofollow">0666666666</a>
2) how can i validate phone number in registration page? i used jQuery to do that but does not work, this is my code jQuery:

jQuery(document).ready(function(){

//Code Starts
function validatePhone(field_49) {
    var a = document.getElementById(field_49).value;
    var filter = /^[0-9-+]+$/;

    if (filter.test(a)) {
        return true;
    }
    else {
        return false;
    }
}​
//Code Ends

//Code Starts
jQuery('#field_49').blur(function(e) {
   if (validatePhone('field_49')) {
       $('#field_132').html('Valid');
       $('#field_132').css('color', 'green');
   }
   else {
      $('#field_132').html('Invalid');
      $('#field_132').css('color', 'red');
   }
});
//Code Ends

});

Thnak you

Hi.
I have successfully registered new users which are active.
However, none of them get redirected to a profile page after login and none of them have a profile page for all i know. Its like Buddypress doesn’t consider them active because it does not show them on the Members Area even though I have tried multiple logins with their account and WordPress confirms they are active.