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I am not following what you are saying at all..

I always go into wp-admin and click on users and then go through there to mark as spammers – I guess there is another way to do this with buddypress?

I would like a way to mark as spammers from the front page. I would also like a way to add email domains to the spam list at the same time, so the same email domain the spammer used to sign up with can’t be used again.. perhaps also pull the ip addy that they used and add that to a list that could be inserted into an htaccess deny list…

A better way to find them by username or screen name would be nice. When spammers hit my BP site, it shows up as blog spam in the recent wire or whatever it’s called, listed as posted by “danielle jones” – but when I go into wp-admin backend / users and search for danielle, it comes up with nothing – that sucks – so I have to go back to my site’ home page, and hover over the spammers name to see what the url is, and then search for the member signup name that way – bleh

ok, figured out another hack to get post deletes working on 1.1.3 Please read all my other entries and follow the same precautions. I am as of yet completely baffeled as to why this is happening and even more baffeled as to why the fixes work. on my site I had three problems, all with the activity stream as follows. could not delete a post, could not use RSS on the activity stream and post times are off by exactly the number of hous my server is off GMT.

While I still believe these are all related in some wierd way, I have yet to discover it. my changes are just code hacks that can only be done when the installed system is known.

here is the fix for delete post:

Find this file

http://yourdomain/yourinstalledfolder/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity bp-activity-templatetags.php

Find this line:

function bp_activity_delete_link()

6 lines below find this href statement segment

$bp->root_domain . ‘/’ . $bp->activity->slug . ‘/delete/

modify this seciton to this:

$bp->root_domain . ‘/buddypress/’ . $bp->activity->slug . ‘/delete/

by adding; buddypress/

this should fix the delete buttons on your activity stream itself and return you to the correct page after deletion.

Steve

PS please let me know how it works for you.

had to add my 2 cents..

photo albums are an integral part of most social networks – they were also a promised part of buddypress when it was announced, and given the features that were supposed to be available by 2009 is the reason we have spent so much time working with and testing BP.

While I think it is fine for people to develop and charge for premium plugins, I have found with several projects that a nightmare occurs when core code is updated and plugins are broken – many of the premium plugins developers do not update. Anyone who purchases premium plugins needs to be aware that they may not work in the future, this has hurt other projects in a big way. I vote that buddypress gets photo albums in the core, and as soon as possible.

[blockquote]”dozens of other applications that could be core to someone; event management, mailing lists, groupware, file sharing, paid membership levels, video galleries, group video editing, chat rooms, video conferencing, shopping cart, credit card payment bridge, mobile apps, geolocation”[/blockquote]

– I agree that many of these features are core to a social network in 2010 – If I was Automattic, I would have a developer on salary that worked full time to make sure plugins for these things did not break with future core updates – it’s essential for a stable future of social software in my humble opinion, this is one of the issues that crippled phpfox years ago.

Without some of these things that some people consider “extras” – buddypress is nothing more than a web 1.0 app that some geeks may enjoy, but essentially does nothing more than phpbb or phpnuke did years ago. Boonex’s Dolphin has photo albums, privacy, chat, and all of that – all core – and it still leaves room for premium plugin developers to create fancier flash gallery plugins, and others.

@John James Jacoby – I like your idea of charging for answered questions – that would make things better for those who answer and those who ask – very similar to a group-financing of plugins that get core support I had a couple years back.

Ok, I am mistaken, the post above is incorrect. it is exactly the same problem for deleting posts. Someone on my site posted just as I deleted and i thought it was multiple records but a review of records shows that it was just the one I selectd.

So, a simple way to delete a post from the activity stream seems to be to change the url from;

http://yourdomain/installedFolder/activity/delete/38?_wpnonce=db334cffab

to:

http://yourdomain/installedFolder/buddypress/activity/delete/38?_wpnonce=db334cffab

this will delete the item and leave you at a blank page you can just then back out. I will look for the hard code changes to get you to the right page and make it so you do not need to alter the url.

Steve

Log into the admin page, buddypress tab, click the “Profile Field Setup”. On the page that appears, you can set any field you want to display on the registration page.

Hopefully helpful.

The delete function is not working but don’t do this If you use the above logic and insert buddypress in the url called on delete, it deletes the whole page of comments. So be careful with that. It is obvious to me that the delete function is disabled by a call to the wrong virtual url. I will try to figure that out based on what I have learned.

Steve

I modified the define in Bp-activity.php and while it made the RSS function work on the sitewide activity it also made the other rss links fail. I suggest a patch in the code to allow immediate functionality while I look further for the complete solution.

Here is my suggestion. find: yourdomainsetup/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity/bp-activity-widgets.php and download the file as a backup or keep a copy in the folder on your server with a slightly modified name so you can change it back if you have issues after this patch.

type this line into a web browser and see if it gives you your feed, change your domain and install folder to the values for your site;

http://yourdomain/installfolder/buddypress/activity/feed

if it does, tell the PHP code to call it as follows

go to the same file; yourdomainsetup/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity/bp-activity-widgets.php

edit the statement line (should be line 23) in bp-activity-widgets.php

that reads;

href=”‘ . bp_get_sitewide_activity_feed_link() . ‘”

to; href=”http://yourdomain/installfolder/buddypress/activity/feed”

Please report back the success or failure of this procedure. It seems possible that the inability to delete entries on the activity widget could be related to this. I will keep looking.

If you see a mistake in my instructions please correct them.

document this edit for yourself in case you need to change it back at a later date

Steve

Hi JJJ,

the issue is still there:

https://trac.buddypress.org/attachment/ticket/1363/avatar_strange_squares.gif

6 hours and yusoof hasn’t responded yet? Is he even reading his own topic to know we’re trying to help him?

Akismet can sometimes be a little over sensitive, so taking the bad with the good means some false positives from time to time.

If you’re having issues on BuddyPress.org with your posts or topics going rogue, send myself or another moderator a PM and I’ll make them appear again. If it’s an urgent topic let me know on Twitter: @johnjamesjacoby

Also, do this too.

The virtual url call is incorrect. the main page calls http://yourdomain/installfolder/activity/feed and does not work. On my site the feeds work on the profile page and any member page but not the site feed.

If you call this url directly and get the feed; http://yourdomain/installfolder/buddypress/activity/feed

then changing the call will fix it. I will be back with that solution as soon as I have it.

When you upgrade to BP 1.2, you can use the BP backwards compatibility plugin:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-backwards-compatibility/

That will probably be the easiest way to keep your template tags.

Read this blog post:

https://buddypress.org/blog/news/buddypress-1-2-beta/

Also what are these “errors” you speak of? Is it theme-related? Is it plugin-related?

Are you installing BP 1.2 beta on WPMU or standard WordPress?

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/when-asking-for-support

If you grabbed a zip of the trunk, then it’s in a folder called “trunk” when you unzip it.

rename the folder to buddypress.

Your error logs woudl definitely have given you this clue.

It’s possible the wizzes behind BP haven’t responded because you haven’t given enough information to determine if this is user error, bug or random glitch. There should be instructions for posting questions and they should include what you need to let us know to help you.

I’m up for it ~ https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/install-buddypress-on-a-secondary-blog/

~ although it’s my first codex edit (w00t).. so ya’ll may want to review it! *and note that the ‘home’ in the secondary nav is pointing to MEMBERS_SLUG in the codex.