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@bluebird2

This thread is eighteen months old; we need more information to help you. Which dates aren’t being displayed (where are they) and what version of BuddyPress are you using?

Also to get rid of that annoying message, the BP plugin clearly states that you must put the tag “buddypress” in the Tag: section of your theme’s stylesheet, AFTER you have made the suggested changes.

When you activate the template, it figures out which is your current theme. It puts its own theme files (found in the buddypress plugin subdirectory themes/bp-default) into your theme’s directory.

I downloaded the /themes/bp-default files to my hard drive, made the changes there, and then uploaded the files and folders in that directory to my theme, replacing what the BP Template plugin already placed there and it’s working fine and dandy.

via sql would be another way to remove them (besides manually each via buddypress frontend)

as expected – you can disable activity commenting on forum topics/replies via wp-admin buddypress settings.

each forum topic/reply excerpt is logged in the activity stream linking back to the appropriate forum topic. the activity stream has a separate functionality for commenting as well.

@TedMann

If you’re using the same machine that you normally use to access that page, it’s highly unlikely that you get redirected, ‘cuz as site admin, your IP has already been “goldlisted” and you’re known as one of the good guys.

To really test if it’s working properly, and there’s no reason it shouldn’t be, try accessing the url directly from an airport or internet café with wifi. Or, better yet, through a proxy server.

You could also have some fun and try this:
Set up 2 email accounts at any test site you’ve got going (the weirder the names, the better). From a different IP (another computer), email your wp-signup link from one account to the other, and click on it. If you’ve never sent emails to your buddypresssite from the test site (thus, sender unknown), that access attempt would probably be flagged and you’d probably get bumped. Just my thoughts…

@nettantra thank you. Will be checking it out.

So, I have a question re: the htaccess tweak to block spam registrations. If I type http://mybuddypressite.com/wp-signup into my browser, I should get automatically redirected to my GOAWAY page, right? If that’s not happening, am I doing something wrong?

Thank you so much, @pcwriter
I’ve been using IP banning now for two days, and that has virtually eliminated most spam signups. Much as I hate to go that route, it’s great to have something that finally works. Will make the htaccess and wp-config changes today, too. Thanks again.

@javipas – you need to be a little clearer on your setup. In the default setup / theme, the activity stream is a separate page, and not something that shows up on individual blogs / blog pages.

Are you using a custom theme with a custom activity stream, or an activity stream widget in your blogs?

The standard activity stream loop shows activity across your entire BuddyPress installation. If you want to filter the activity steam to just show comments relating to a specific blog, you can write your own custom activity loop:

Take a look at this documentation, in particular filtering on the primary_id to just show posts for a specific blog id: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

@jwack @modemlooper

Thanks for the feedback

@onlyblue – I suspect a good sweep to remove all the spam accounts will get it down to a sensible and useful members directory

It’ll need a good automated tool!

@anointed – yes, it looks like you can specify blog_ids to specifically include, but not to exclude, in a call to bp_has_activities()

My suggested workarounds:

If you want to exclude the blogs on all calls to bp_has_activities() – Hook a function onto the bp_has_activities filter. That function should process the activities_template (passed as a parameter) removing the entries where the primary_id is in your blog ids to exclude.

If you want to exclude the blogs on one specific call to bp_has_activities() – Check the primary_id of the activity item at the start of your loop, and skip processing if it’s in your list of blog ids to exclude. It’s not the most efficient, and might be a pain if you are counting returned results, but should work.

Cheers, Roger

Are you talking about uploading an avatar to buddypress.org?
If so, that’s a known bug on the site.

However, you can set your gravatar at gravatar.com and buddypress.org should pick it up.

Sounds like a problem with your “Suffusion” theme.

Can you switch to the BuddyPress Default theme to see what happens?

Re: moving standalone bbPress forums to BuddyPress group forums, I would recommend reading an excellent post by BP moderator, Boone Gorges:

Upgrading from BuddyPress 1.0 to 1.1

Hey guys,

So this is a shot int he dark, but ill tell ya what we have figured out so far.

I worked with some of our Server Operations guys, and they were able to narrow it down to the bp-groups.php file, it loads each ctivity, blogs, forums, friends, groups, messages, and xprofile individually, after checking to see if its enabled and that it exists.

Something in that file is causing Zend to go crazy and throw the 500 error.

We notice that BuddyPress says its fully supported on WordPress 3.0.0, is it possible that there is a change from 3.0.1 that could effect this? I recommend trying to install 3.0.0, or even an earlier version to see if it works.

Currently, we have renamed wp-contentpluginsbuddypressbp-groups.php to wp-contentpluginsbuddypressbp-groups.php.disabled, and your site now loads.

Thank you

Justin H
NewTek WebHosting – TST

Hello,

JC, I apologize that you are having this error with your WP/BP install, and we are doing our best to figure it out.

Paul, As far as JC’s website goes, I took your route of the manual install instead of automatic install, no difference, still had the error.

I ran a ProcessMonitor on his directory and ran into no file permission errors at all, after looking through the windows event logs, I noticed that it was throwing errors regarding the ZendOptimizer.dll on the server. I checked out the requirements for BuddyPress, and no Zend Optimizer is required at all, which I found interesting.

Just to verify that the issue is with the relation between BuddyPress and ZendOptimizer, I went inside the PHP.ini file, commented out the zend configurations, ran an IIS reset to implement the settings, and the site worked perfectly.

My question is, what in BuddyPress, relies on ZendOptimizer? Also, what version do you require?

I found this other thread here, with a BuddyPress site on windows, but using Apache instead of IIS6/7
http://www.developerit.com/2010/05/24/windows-7-apache-crashes-on-any-request
That BuddyPress user describes the same issue we are having here.

My next thoughts are that perhaps the latest version of ZendOptimizer is required, the only problem with that is that we can’t find a current non-threadsafe version of ZendOptimizer, and that is required due to the fact that we are running with FastCGI.

If you have any thoughts on this, please let us know.

Justin H
NewTek WebHosting – TST

P.S. I am unable to change my avatar, I get an error with folder permissions when I attempt to do so Just an FYI to the moderators.

@johnwinch42 – If you’re just testing BuddyPress locally, I would just login to PHPMyAdmin and clear out your entire activity table so you won’t have to worry about redirections.

Like you mentioned, once you set the BP_ROOT_BLOG from the onset, you won’t have to worry about redirects whatsoever!

Done.
See this post: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/add-all-nav-links-to-bp-adminbar/forum/topic/version-2-1-is-here-hurray/

@DJPaul a few months ago you were talking about updating the Achievements plugin, just wondering if you still have plans to do so?

Also, I remember others talking about a similar reward system but I can’t seem to find it.