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@dwenaus Hi,is there anyway to remove the forum rating column from the forum directory? It’s not that it’s not a great feature but on my site it isn’t appropriate. I have 2000 forum topics where the initial post is the same in each. No one will rate that initial post as it’s just info only so isn’t really appropriate for a rating.

Also, where do I view people’s karma? I can’t see a tally anywhere on a member’s profile.

Thank you

I have a couple BuddyPress installs. The older of the 2 has received 150+ spam member registrations (and blogs) this weekend. All create members like bob45873675 and “Bob’s Blog”.

I have changed slugs, activated recaptcha and followed several blog posts on best practices. What’s interesting is they are somehow bypassing my registration page. I have required fields and have removed the “create a blog” from the registration page; but somehow they manage to create an account and a blog. I also receive “lost password reset” email notices for each account that is created, so maybe that’s a clue to where the issue is.

I was so fed up with it, I disabled registrations completely (only allowing blog creation by logged in users) — and I’m still getting new spam members and blogs (how is that possible??) This seems to be a pretty serious security issue that is different from previous “splogging”…

Vulnerability/hack in the registration or lost password, etc…?? I presume this could be WPMU not necessarily BP?

@nahummadrid I tried the same thing, found out that it was way too much work.

Either wait till BP Album+ is done or wait for WP3.0 with its custom post types.

@thenone This redirect works for both MU and WP.

New version now up on http://mystique.bp-theme-converts.com/downloads/
Fixes the CSS & custom background image issues.

@rich! @ etiviti Seems like a good solution to have the reply show up in both places (i.e. so activity stream comments to a forum posting go to the permalink page but also to the original thread). I looked at your test group however and didn’t find any info. Could you perhaps post some code? Or if the testing is successful, maybe even put it out there as a simple plugin?

I’m going to take a look at the entry.php file now.

@3sixty: Yes… it already exists… but it’s confusing, unintuitive and inconsistent. Users don’t understand the difference between updates and forum postings in the activity stream. They don’t understand the difference between replying in the activity stream and replying in the thread. Any why should they? Reply means reply. Period. The way it works now is just plain broken. You end up with people replying to thread in the stream then wondering what the heck happened when they visit the thread later and don’t see their contribution. So the only alternative is to turn off activity stream replies for forum postings. But that’s even worse. Now you have bits of conversation in the stream that you CAN reply to (updates) and bits of conversation in the stream that you CANNOT reply to. Well you can… but you have to know enough to click “view” to take you to some other place and reply there. Very inconsistent. Too much friction. And not at all intuitive. I think that in the case of forum postings, replies made within the activity stream go to the THREAD… NOT to a permalink comment page. Think like a user. Like a human. Not like a programmer.

If there a ticket for this serious usability issue? There should be.

I too was a big supporter of those plugins. Thankfully, I was able to convince someone to revive at least one of them. This might work for at least the photo part of your problem.
http://buddydev.com/buddypress/bp-flickr-plugin-allow-your-users-to-show-their-latest-flickr-images-on-their-buddypress-profile/

I’ve been looking at how to help get a headstart on a similar YouTube plugin also.

Hope this helps.

i have the same problem with wpmu 2.92 and bp 1.2.4.1
I have to deactivate buddypress in order to creat blogs.
Once blog created and buddypress reactivated, i am not able to link the blog with the group-blog plugin.

Does anybody have a solution ?

I am also having this problem – I guess everybody is. I also followed the tips you mentioned and initially, it reduced splogger registrations a lot.

However, I disagree with Terry: there are not real people setting up blogs and answering captchas, these are bots. As kiwipearls mentioned, if you go and try to sign up manually, you have to fill in the required fields.

There is a leak somewhere in BuddyPress/WPMU registration and all methods to stop the oil have failed until now. BP (haha) people say it’s WPMU and the other way around, I guess. The leak has been here for months and nobody seems to want to fix it. Maybe it’s some kind of corruption since the premium site Terry mentioned has a way to fix it.

You would just have to copy and customize styling from
https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/tags/1.2.4.1/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/default.css and add the following in your theme’s style.css
– from line 52 to 55, the from line 227 to line 238

@thekmen How does he featured post template come into play I do not see an option on posts or pages to make one or another to be a feature.

Actually BP Nicey child theme has already been upgraded for BP 1.2.4.1 . But as @tomah mentioned above, that screenshot was made when it was a child theme of bp-sn-parent.

@thekmen I am thinking the missing div closing could be in the sidebar code on my main blogs page the hr above the footer extends outside the page content. http://radicalbastard.com

Same problem here. :< will post fix if I can get one hahaha

@cavamondo

Have you tried Buddypress Links?
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/third-party-components-plugins/forum/topic/buddypress-links-04x-releases-and-support/

line 606 in lib/core.php I see the use of get_the_author() now I do not know for sure but I think there is a bp function for this wp function may want to do a search and replace if there is indeed a different function to use.

I will look into this as well, but just incase you know where to set it at. All profile links link to wp-admin/profile.php when they should probably link to the bp profile for each user.

I also noticed that the custom header background image does not carry across all pages example
http://radicalbastard.com/ – with the custom image
http://radicalbastard.com/members/ – with out it

@anaxent spoke too soon, see the issue now, will fix & update the zip.

@anaxent it’s working fine on my test install http://mystique.bp-theme-converts.com/activity/ I did make a few changes before making the zip so I could have left out a closing div maybe?
Do you have an URL I can see?

I have tried to use the theme with in the current zip above and all is well except for the activity stream. seems a container is not properly closed as the footer is cramed to the right and stops 1/2 way through the stream the rest of the stream over laps into the background

@andy
Just wondering whether this is really a bug and if so, whether this is fixed in the latest release of the Plugin ?

Many thanks,
Erich