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(I’m going to try to be helpful rather than just telling you to go elsewhere. I want Buddypress to grow, and users helping users ought be part of that. I’d also like the forum here to be a useful resource. So many threads at mu.wordpress.org are just cries for help with zero replies. That sucks.)

wordpressfan, I’d probably approach this using Roles. I’ve never done it, but you could set the Dashboard user default role in Site Options to ‘Inactive’. That would allow you to monitor signups, and approve as necessary, I’d imagine. As long as users know that there is a process in place where they have to wait for approval. There are plugins out there that allow you to create custom roles, too, but I’ve never used them.

In terms of the registration emails sent to you as admin, this is also a WMPU thing, not on the Buddypress end. I’m sure I’ve seen plugins that allow you to edit these, but I can’t find them for the life of me. If you’re comfortable with hacking the WPMU core (and rehacking after updates), you can find the place these emails are generated in

function newblog_notify_siteadmin

in wmpu-functions.php in /wpmu-includes

off the root of your WMPU install.

Without knowing anything about the paid plugin in question, it’s pretty hard to make a guess. You might want to contact the plugin author, since I assume that if they made you pay for it, they offer support.

I note that it’s not one of the ones they explicitly say are Buddypress compatible, though, so you may have issues.

It can’t be a complicated bit of code, though, so I’d just open it up and see what’s in the code, and hack in the URL necessary. You’ll need to get the currently logged-in user from BP in order to build the URL of their profile, page, though, because their username is part of the URL.

That’s more than I know how to do off the top of my head, but I’m sure someone with more knowledge of BP coding can help you there.

@Jeff Sayre

Thanks a lot for your information, because of it, I have just upgraded to the new version, and (again) everything looks nice on my BuddyPress site.

I have the same problem but it’s not so much the issue of spammers coming to the site than non-working defense measures.

I have failed to find any reasoning behind the dropping of wp-signup.php and replacing it with /register (what’s the .php file for that btw?) in BuddyPress but that’s the reason for a lot of spam problems.

When you install a number of WP and WPMU anti-spam plugins, they add their own features to the signup page – which in WP and WPMU is wp-signup.php.

Now as it has been pointed out in about all spam-related posts, people even delete that file with no success to the spam issue. This confirms the problem that I believe could reduce the spamming significantly:

– WP and WPMU anti-spam plugins do *not* have any affect on the BuddyPress /register page.

Is it because some hooks are missing? I’m not sure as I’m not that deep into it but I think so.

My request to solve this problem and address the spam issue:

– either BuddyPress will return to use wp-signup.php, or

– makes sure that anything added by plugins to wp-signup.php is also added to whatever page is serving the /register URL.

No matter hashcash, captcha or security question (all nice and working (with wp-signup.php) plugins), they can’t add their stuff to the BuddyPress signup page.

Why I don’t use wp-signup.php manually (like redirect URL to there)? Because it’s a blank page (told to die somewhere in BuddyPress if I remember right).

Not upgrading wordpress to its latest version is a security risk. You’ve been warned.

Here is one way to do it I believe. Put this filter and function inside a plugin or your custom.php.

add_filter('bp_blogs_activity_new_post', 'my_process', 2, 3 );



function my_process($activity_content, $post, $post_permalink){



$activity_content = sprintf( __( '%s wrote a new blog post: %s', 'buddypress' ), bp_core_get_userlink( (int)$post->post_author ), '<a href="' . $post_permalink . '">' . $post->post_title . '</a>' );

$activity_content .= "<blockquote>" . bp_create_excerpt( $post->post_content, 25 ) . "</blockquote>";



return $activity_content;

}

I think this is the most efficient way of doing this. Basically, this code snippet overrides the content of the activity notification for a new blog entry. It is unfortunate that you have to write all the other crap again, but as you can see the thing you want to change (bp_create_excerpt) doesn’t have its own filter.

The good news is, unlike some approaches to this problem, this solution doesn’t require that you alter the core.

Try it and see if it works. Sorry ’bout the layout overflow

I think you can upgrade, but beware that this is frowned upon as the offical documentation states that you need WPMU 2.8+ or higher.

The other thing to keep in mind is that your BP widgets will not work due to the new widget system in WP 2.8+.

What are the plugins that are keeping you from upgrading?

Did you activate BuddyPress? Then did you face any errors?

I suppose you are talking about those admin notice upon newly registered members of your site. BuddyPress doesn’t control this function, so you should post this question or search similar topics on wpmu forums.

Well, look at it this way. WordPress doesn’t have a feature like that, so why should BP? There are themes out there that let you do that and that’s fine. That’s the way it should be with BP as well. In time there’ll be a lot more themes and maybe some of them will implement uploading a logo image, but it should not be in core.

You might want to take a look at this plugin:

http://manojkumar.org/user-import-for-buddypress/

It will allow you to import a ‘delimited’ set of data into your bp setup. Note that the current version is 1.0.3, and the author includes a link to this further down in the comments – http://manojkumar.org/wp-content/uploads/user-import-for-buddypress-all-fields-1.0.3.zip

I’m about to try the plugin myself, so can’t completely vouch for it’s effectiveness yet.

I’m guessing the potential problem with this for you could be that it won’t send out current passwords, though it says it will send out new passwords to your users. It depends how understanding you think your users are, and how many you have to move over – might be worth the potential user backlash to ensure you can effectively move them into your BP setup?

@grosbouff: It would be great if you released it is – you buy you break. Others from the buddypress community then have the option to pick up your work at take is the last mile or so.

I think it’s a perspective issue…what you see as easy, the typical client downloading and using the wordress blog software most likely won’t see. WP has evovled into a very simple blog software. No code editing required…

The average user does not know CSS. If you want to create a super successful bit of code think about how it will affect the novice. I know CSS is easy. But you’ll loose the majority of users if you force them into a steep learning curve. That’s all I’m saying…

If it’s an easy fix to add an image through CSS maybe create an admin function that allows the user to add an image link to CSS with an admin widget…

??

Well, letting an admin upload a logo is just the oppoite of keeping it simple. It’ll require some extra coding that the majority of users just won’t need or use. You can add a logo with just a few lines of CSS. Now that’s keeping it simple. I’d hazard a guess that stuff like that will never make it into core. Thankfully! Nobody really needs bloated software…

CSS is easy to learn and very intuitive as well. You can learn how to add your own logo within 3 minutes.

Whether it’s a theme design problem or not (calling it another name does not lessen the need), creating a simple solution to a basic function of the software would be a great move.

It’s true that personal design is open to interpretation and the point could be made that you shouldn’t try and read everyone’s mind. But…to keep things simple, allowing a user to upload an image (whatever the design…) would be a tremendous benefit to the BP plug-in.

One of the keys to the plug-in’s proliferation will be its simplicity (mixed with good design) and topped off with an innovative function supported by reliable results.

I think you guys are well on your way…good job to everyone here that supports this project!

This thread is six months old, it’s been marked as ‘resolved’ so not many people are even going to click it open, and the fact that BuddyPress is covered by the GPL license, means any plugins that use BuddyPress will also be GPL. This means you can do whatever you want within the terms of that license. This means you can ‘fork’ the software and provide updated versions if you so want to.

I realize this topic may not be active anymore, but I’m curious about the functionality of the BP-FBConnect plugin. Once this plugin creates a user account based on Facebook credentials, can that user then utilize all the extended profile and wire and other buddypress features on the WPMU/Buddypress install using those credentials, or would that person have to create a separate account?

Thanks but both permissions and thumbnail creation works for me but avatar and group avatar uploading does not.

EDIT: Correction, I can upload avatars after clearing out the user’s avatar folder via FTP. Unfortunately, I cannot delete these new avatars from the user’s Profile page without using FTP. So it does appear to be a permissions issue, where Buddypress cannot delete existing avatars. Ideas?

EDIT again: I found this old post from 1.1 on permissions. I expect this will help: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/surprising-avatar-behavior

I think this is a great startingpoint for a BuddyPress site.. I really like the Thematic framework, and I will start looking into making a child theme for this.. Thanks for all the hard work you have done with this, and I have a feeling that this could be a big step forward for BP theming-wise!

First, always read the readme.txt files that come with WPMU and BuddyPress.

Second, see these links:

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/upgrading-from-10x/

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/upgrading-a-buddypress-1-0-theme-for-buddypress-1-1/

https://buddypress.org/blog/news/the-new-buddypress-theme-architecture/

what is announced is about bugfixes and security, so usually it’s about deep core files, not really related to plugins and addons, so Buddypress would not be touched. “logically”

Settings>Discussion… this setting doesn’t have any relationship with BuddyPress.

Are you trying to accomplish threaded comments for blogs? If so, this forum is not the right place for support of wpmu.

Are you trying to make threaded comments for activity feeds? If so, your question should stay here.