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@pisanojm you raise some very valid points about spamming over here… but tell me, why is it that you chose to avoid the “confirmation email link” option… its a sureshot way of overcoming most of the automated spam-bots out there… yes, you can still have manual registrations who want to mess with your site… but this is something we just have to deal with.

Max we as admin can do is to spot the bad guys (community flagging), and delete there stuff as well as bar them from registering again… atleast thats my opinion.

Sid.

Here is a recap of some posts I posted at http://buddydev.com recently:

I use Bp-Cosmic-Pro Theme built of of bp-mag and have about one spam registration per couple of weeks (and it’s usually a real person that registers and gets through)… They are caught within minutes of posting something ridiculous and marked as spammers by the admins.

There are a number of reasons for that:

1. It’s a closed/ register only site (but free to all), (note: I do not require e-mail validation either)
2. I use BuddyPress Humanity Anti-Spam Plugin
3. I use Si-Captcha Anti-Spam
3. Multiple Profile fields are required to be filled-in at registration as an ANTI-SPAM measure – in part.
4. I have a TERMS and use that Requires THE CHECKING of a box to register.
5. I use the bad behavior plugin to keep out the crazies and use the Blocking-list feature of it.

Occasionally, I get the I can’t register e-mail, but it is rare and there is a note for people to contact me if they can’t register properly… I have 1700 active (non-spam users) on my site and virtually no SPAM.

I believe one of the keys to success here is that it is a “private site” and as such it’s not indexed (I realize this could be a problem for many sites, but not my niche site). So, sites don’t scrape it as a potential source to attack.

I would also recommend the ANIMAL BuddyPress Captcha plugin.

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I usually think about SPAM protection in the form of a Castle for open community WordPress Sites:
1. The Moat: Programs like Bad-Behavior and plugins that stop bots/scrapers before they get “through” to the site.
2. The Gate/Drawbridge: Programs like Captchas, Math Challenges, Reverse fields that SHOULDN’T be filled in to “trap” bots from auto-filling.
3. The Keep: Programs like Akismet.
4. The Guards: Moderators with the ability to knock out spam when they see it.

The biggest issue with BuddyPress is that THERE IS NO KEEP (no. 3 above) for the Activity Streams…
As far as I know, there are not programs like Akismet or any of the “KARMA” / Comment anti-spam plugins that work for the BuddyPress group/activity/forum streams… DJ-PAUL has talked about making Akismet work on BuddyPress Streams at the BuddyPress.org site, but there is nothing yet that I know of yet –

If anyone does know of something that will “auto-moderate” the BuddPress Stream updates/comments, please let me know…

Regards.

Reality is that you would have to be proactive in killing those spam robots and human spammers if you have open registration. Search through BP.org shows many threads which share tips in plugins to use to prevent this and not all are 100% perfect since these spammers are really gung-ho about overcoming such preventions. Having said that, check out this thread – https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/has-anyone-tried-this-spammer-blocking-plugin-with-buddypress/

== however on the sub-domains it does not show up in the navigation menu or in the back-end. ==

That is default behavior, so you haven’t done anything wrong. What exactly do you want? To add a navigation menu of the main site to all subsites? Then you either have to add the source code of the main site’s navigation to your member theme/s or use switch_to_blog function which could be intensive if you have dozens of main navigation links, etc.

== Is it even possible to have one buddypress installation that shows up on all the sub-domains being created with Multi site ==

BP by default is activated in one site of one multisite installation and it aggregates information from main site and subsites (in your case in subdomains) to record the activities of members in said installation.

Now if you want to have multiple BP installs in one WPMS install, check this out – http://wpmututorials.com/news/new-features/multiple-buddypress-social-networks/

== My blog’s sidebar displays at he bottom, but there’s nothing on the side for buddy press. ==

@lizdavalos it very well might that you haven’t made the necessary HTML revamping of the BP template files moved over to the folder of your active WP theme. i.e. you need to impose the HTML structure of your WP theme onto said BP template files – those wil get_header at top and get_footer at bottom.

pretty permalinks: https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

https://buddypress.org/2011/05/buddypress-template-pack-1-1/

https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

http://faq.oneandone.co.uk/scripting/php/11.html ?

Has your theme, ‘Boldly’, been converted to be buddypress compatible?

Are you using pretty permalinks…. which are required for buddypress to work?

You give far too little information to start with…..

It would be useful if you could provide at least some of the information suggested in https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/when-asking-for-support/#post-14652

@naved you are now essentially running two threads on the same question, you need to keep to one only as it’s confusing and wasteful of peoples time if they respond on one where it’s already been answered on the other.

I have covered most of this now on another thread

You go to wp-admin/plugins/buddypress/themes/bp-defualt/footer.php

You just need the HTML code for the image. You then add a Text widget to the Sidebar of your website and copy the HTML to there.

I think droid app use has exceeded iphone now.
Wouldnt your app need to be specific to the buddypress install?
There are so many plugin variations I cant see how you could satisfy them all.
But yes, I’d love to see it.
How is it doing?

Also looking and trying to do something like this, but for Buddypress Links, where I could put in the url eg http://resabi.com/links/create/?link-url=http://example.com. (The Id of the url text box is link-url).
However, when I try this, I just get a clear form, as if the part after the create/ never existed. I guess the solution is pretty easy but I just can’t see it, so please help!

You can’t run Buddypress on BlueHost. You can, but you will have this issue. BlueHost throttles anyone running BP (3 of their tech support people told me this when we where with them). Even if it is only you with no others users. You can check for yourself in the control panel under CPU Throttling. You should leave them as soon as possible. Because even if this was not a issue, you can’t grow your site with them because they only offer shared hosting. I know lots of people do, but you shouldn’t run BP on a shared server.

The only 2 hosts I would recommend are Media Temple or Rackspace.

Good timing! Check out https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3243