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You’ll probably want to create a custom loop then in whatever page, have a look at this page of the codex:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

@pcwriter. That is quality. Thanks for the tips!

I was having 5 or 6 sploggers sign up daily no matter what I did until about 2 weeks ago when I revamped my tactics. Since then, I have had 0 spam signups… not one. Fingers crossed Here’s what I’ve done:

– Removed references to WP/BP in footer text
– Changed the register slug to something unrecognizable that has no bearing whatsoever to the concept of signing up (so even those grossly underpaid 3rd-world human spammers can’t figure it out)
– Installed WPMU Super Captcha to let the nice humans through: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/super-capcha/
– Installed WP-Ban to block the not-so-nice ones: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-ban/
– Installed Buddypress Humanity as a double-check: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-humanity/
– Blocked lists of bad bots in .htaccess as suggested in this post: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/buddypress-spam/?topic_page=2&num=15#post-60177
– Added “deny from all” in .htaccess for wp-config.php
– If someone does manage to access the register page through a direct url (without visiting any other page first), they are bumped to a GOAWAY page with the following in .htaccess. .

# BEGIN ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .wp-signup.php*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.examplesite.com. [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
RewriteRule (.*) http://examplesite.com/goaway.html [R=301,L]

So far, so good. As I mentioned, not a single splogger has managed to get through in about 2 weeks. If they do, there are 2 ingredients in the above recipe that can be adjusted:
– the captcha image is fully customizable to render bot algorithms redundant (hopefully)
– the register slug can be changed as often as you change socks

On a final note, there are also some interesting tweaks to be found here: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/07/01/10-useful-wordpress-security-tweaks/

It should be working fine! I’m using it on WP 3.0.1 and latest BuddyPress without any problems (so far).

@davidniyat – you can’t just cut and paste sections from the default theme if they rely on functions that are defined elsewhere in the theme. It’s designed to be use a parent theme.

The bp_dtheme functionality is embedded / used in various places in the theme. In particular, you need to take a look at the functions.php file where those functions are defined.

I’m using a custom child theme, so the footer copy has been changed. At the risk of inviting more spam, here’s my signup page: http://injersey.com/join-injersey
I’ve got si-captcha, Humanity, alternate slug, htaccess tweak, and 2 required profile fields. At this point it’s just getting kind of absurd. There must be some kind of backdoor that’s letting them in. Like Matt ( @footybible ), every single one of these spam signups is registering for a sub-blog. Unlike Matt, I offer the ability to register for a town via the Group Registration Options plugin ( https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-registration-options/ ) developed by @Messenlehner. Worked pretty well until 2 weeks ago, when we started getting slammed every day at about 2am with spam signups and posts.

@peteranselmo ping

Hi @modemlooper tested http://tempsg.com/activity/ in IE6 as well and the dropdown works well and the pop-ups show up quarter of the browser on top left of screen. The share button is styled in activity but there is no visible styling for share button in forum topic in IE6. Otherwise, looking good.

I’m having the same issue, did anyone find a solution ?

There’s also a newer, beta version of my plugin available for download with many more configuration options right in the admin panel. See this post for more:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/add-all-nav-links-to-bp-adminbar/forum/topic/testers-needed-for-version-2-1beta/#post-69288

@jgwebdevelopment

I would absolutely love to hear how you solved this problem and built the multisite recipe component with global searching. I’m trying to do something similar where each site has a custom post-type ‘testimonials’. I want to pull them all into a ‘root page’ as well where they can also be searched.

I was going to use the sitewide tags plugin, but it does not seem to work at all with custom post-types yet. Not to mention it would be overkill for my needs.

Would you care to share a few code snippets?

thanks for your time

@pcwriter ‘s Add All Nav Links to BP Adminbar plugin has an option to do this with just click of a button.
There are many more configuration options to customise your admin bar.
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/add-all-nav-links-to-bp-adminbar/

Here are some possible solutions

This may help with slugs

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/changing-internal-configuration-settings/

@tedmann when I had the rogue bbpress register file and I was getting spammers sign up I could identify them because under ‘users’ they were listed only as users of their subsites rather than my main site – (which I dont believe is possible through legitimate registration?)

However, last night I had another such registration. Granted, its only one, but I dont understand how they can sign up for a sub-blog without being added to the main site. Which makes me also worry there is another ‘backdoor’ somewhere….

Yeah, we know. @jeffsayre‘s been working on a plugin to address this critical hole in BP. During the developer chat today Jeff guestimated that after 1.2.6 makes it out the door the BP Privacy will make it’s appearance about a week later.

So in short, there’s no fast fix. Personally I’d recommend either warning people to use the site at their own risk or to take it offline. I know what it’s like, my community has been stalled for the last few months waiting for a Privacy plugin before we go on a recruiting push.

@smurkas Nevermind I have figured it out. I wasn’t naming things correctly.

Probably in index.php if your Dashboard >> Settings >> Reading option is set to “Your Latest Posts”. Now keep in mind that if you add in the activity stream loop that it’ll either display above all of your blog posts or below them. Either way it’ll be really annoying.

So personally I would recommend creating a brand new page template called “Activity” that has the activity loop inside it instead of the normal post loop and then creating an empty page with the new “Activity” page template. Then back inside Dashboard >> Settings >> Reading set “Front Page” to whatever you titled your new page that uses the “Activity” page template that you created.