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https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/when-asking-for-support/ please

@jwack good luck!

Are you talking about the Home, About, Blog, Community, Extend, and Support tabs on buddypress.org? Those are WP Pages. In BP 1.3, there will be better support for having a setup like this that is totally customizable, but even now bp-default does something almost exactly like this.

The way that individual user navigation (profile, activity, groups, etc) is laid out on this site is just like it is in bp-default.

Or am I missing something?

@jwack
– Yep

– Yes, it’s not the most accessible-friendly way to prevent splogging but we do require people use the code in order to register at all, instead of a captcha. And we haven’t had a single spammer since. But for the few who don’t know it, we also provide the link where they can easily find out what it is, especially if they feel too lazy to look it up (I would be, heh).

Since our targets are mostly local people or former residents, they tend to know what the zip code is. If you have a genre-specific site, perhaps a similar technique could be applied? Or maybe a developer here could help you to modify the code so it applies only to the blog registration? I’m more of a front-end user/designer so altering other dev’s code is way out of my league >_<;

@jwack

hi, I had similar issues… even after removing the blog signup at registration, spammers would sign up, activate their accounts, and then create a new splog. to help cut down, I tried these steps:

– changed my registration slug in bp-custom.php:
define ( ‘BP_REGISTER_SLUG’, ‘join’ );

– also added a redirect of wp-signup.php inside bp-custom.php:
function register_redirect() {
if (strpos($_SERVER, ‘wp-signup.php’) !== false ) {
$url = ‘http://www.mysite.com/join&#8217;;
wp_redirect($url);
exit;
}
}
add_action(‘init’, ‘register’);

those two helped but didn’t completely remove the issue, this plugin really nailed it for us though:

– installed this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/invitation-code-checker/ (since we have a local comm site, we just used a zip code as the invite code)
Not sure how your site is set up but perhaps you can find a way to use it too, may even allow you to re-enable blog sign up at registration. It says Tested up to: WordPress MU 2.8.4 but I have WP 3.0.3 with network enabled and BP 1.2.6 and still seems to be working just fine.

Most of these suggestions were pulled from helpful posts on BP, hopefully they help you out a bit

https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/changing-internal-configuration-settings/
Set which blog ID BuddyPress will run on – in your wp-config.php file add this

`define ( ‘BP_ROOT_BLOG’, $blog_id );`

where $blog_id is replaced with Site Admin’s blog ID #

Paul, I would like to know how to force my WordPress installation to run BuddyPress on only the Super Admin site, and not the member blogs. Could you guide me through the process. Thanks.

I think the site looks great! Is that a plug in that allows the registration drop down or did you code it out? I’m less than 24 hours into buddypress so I know nada!

jamie

I have never seen this done, although I suppose it might be possible.

You might be able to write a custom script to do this, but it would be rather complex.

I have updated the BuddyPress Auto Group Join plugin to work with WordPress 3.0. I haven’t looked at r-a-y’s Welcome Pack, but I’m sure it does a wonderful job too!

@janismo

Oops sorry! My bad

Good catch.

Just to give a quick summary:

– current standalone bbPress plugins are possible to use with BuddyPress, but they need to be ported over to WordPress/BuddyPress. Check out Rich’s BP Forum Extras plugin, which combines a few of them:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-forum-extras/

– forum editor tutorial:
http://etivite.com/groups/buddypress/forum/topic/quick-tip-adding-markitup-to-group-forum-textareas/

or:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-tinymce/

– lastly, like Paul mentioned, bbPress is getting a major rewrite from an external script to a WordPress plugin. This will directly impact BuddyPress in version 1.3/1.4. Don’t worry too much about it now. Just use the BuddyPress’ forum setup as-is. Everything will sort itself out!