BuddyPress.org

I would try to prevent member registration through .htaccess:

http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/spam-blogs-and-buddypress/

If not .htaccess, then try WP Hashcash, but I prefer the simplistic method of blocking through .htaccess. This will block most spam signups, but of course you can’t block everything!

Thanks to Darcy Norman for the original tip!

Right, after a few months work, I’ve finally got my first attempt at a WPMU / Buddypress site up and ready for testing, excuse a few rough edges that need some tidying, but here’s my two cents.

http://qphia.com

Basically it’s a philosophy social network for everyone, “The quest for philosophical answers” in a manner of speaking I’d say it’s a bit like Twitter with direction, I’d love to hear any feedback or suggestions, I am well aware there is room for improvement and there are still check boxes left on my to-do list but hopefully you’ll get the idea.

It is my first go though so be gentle with the over technical criticism.

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

Uhmm…while I do agree there should be an option to do so, your argument did made me chuckle as I don’t think a terror cell would need your network. Especially considering that you can download wordpress and buddypress free of charge.

Is this legally OK to have groups in BuddyPress that are not even visible for the administrator who is responslible for the contents of his site?

Worst case, a terror cell could open a hidden group on our church network and use that to organize attacks without even the administrator knowing of the existence of such a group. I think this concept is a bit strange.

I’ve seen this sort of issue with sites using wp-supercache with certain plugins before.

I’m having a similar problem. Just did a fresh install with WordPress MU 2.8.4a and the trunk version of BuddyPress 1.1. Also installed bbPress via the WP admin panel. Went through all the setups for BuddyPress (General, Components, Forums), but when I go to the Profile Field Setup it tells me I don’t have any groups. When I try to add one, it returns the message, “There was an error saving the group. Please try again.” If I try to add a group directly via the site, I get the message (in a big scary red bar), “There was an error saving group details, please try again.”

I noticed that the database only has one table with the wp_bp prepend (wp_bp_activity_user_activity_cached). Another install I did (based on WMU 2.8.2, BuddyPress 1.0.3, and current bbPress) resulted in a database with a gazillion wp_bp tables. Is that the problem, and if so, how do I get those tables? And if not…wassup? Having groups is kinda the point, after all.

Otherwise, I’m looking forward to skinning the new template framework (ONCE, rather than twice). Thanks for your patience with a relative BP newbie…

@nightlyfe

The blank (or white) screen issue on these forums is not the same thing as the “White Screen of Death”. A site that experiences a WSOD is basically not working, is inaccessible, and often indicates an issue with the codebase itself.

The issue with the blank screen on BP.org is not related to the codebase. Whatever is causing this issue will not affect your install.

See this thread for more information.

refresh i think it gets “stuck”

I’m getting daily WSOD on THIS site — that not building my confidence.

I don’t know if my contribution is helpful, but I installed NextGen gallery for photo management and wp-greet to run a greeting card mailing module.. all of that works seamlessly on Buddypress.

Well…I am not a pro at all but I managed to uninstall most of the existing themes, and sort of replaced the default theme by the buddypress theme. New users by default end up with the buddypress style, but may have another option as I left another theme as I was afraid to delete everything that was there before. So my recommendation: make sure you maintain a backup of all your stuff. The identify the themes that you don’t like and disable them. Then I think the one you need to focus on is called “default.” It’s a folder called /default in /wp-content/themes/ Then the issue to figure out where the buddypress theme is and put its content in the ‘default’ folder. I am almost sure it will do the trick… but please please… backup your file. Good luck.

Another zombie thread.

EDIT: To clarify, you are responding to a post four months old and several versions of WPMU and BP out of date. Please start a new thread and include the details listed in this post: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/when-asking-for-support

Hey hatiro,

I had a question about the exact same thing a couple of months ago; here’s the thread:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/excluding-certain-blogs-from-bp_has_site_blogs-function

I know in the past, Unfiltered MU has been working just dandy. Only recently have people found any bugs, but no one’s been able to narrow it down and let the dev of the plugin know about it so he can fix it.

If you’re just looking to post video code, there’s plenty of video embed plugins for regular WordPress that work just fine in MU.

this is one I use often:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-video-plugin/

Hi

in the next version of BP – 1.1 – themes work much more like WordPress. If you have your own local development install of BuddyPress, upgrade to the ‘trunk’ version.

It seems to be a bug.

Open a ticket in the trac https://trac.buddypress.org/newticket

Hmm… interesting. I’ll have to make note of this for my own needs as well!

Anyway, you don’t have to hack the kses.php file, you could use an mu-plugin like Embed Allower:

http://github.com/ceefour/embed_allower/blob/160f179357835bfb6eda26952ed972f674c19365/embed_allower.php

Or Allow Embedded Videos:

http://wpmudev.org/project/Allow-Embedded-Videos

That’s an interesting solution, jorries.

Much simpler than what I was thinking of!

I learn something new about BuddyPress all the time!