This is no longer an issue with the BuddyPress 1.0 Release, however the bug remains in WPMU.
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Woot woot!
And woot woot from Yara, too! 
Woot woot… and onward!
Well done Andy (and community!)… BuddyPress rocks!
I’m gonna get all the milage I can out of those silly fireworks. Congrats Andy. Job well done.
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Bumping this because I’m curious about the same thing DJPaul mentioned. The need to create a random account for bbPress is fine, but it’s pointless having it listed with the BuddyPress members when it’s not really one.
Any suggestions?
jotem, look for references to ‘root component’. That’s what you are describing.
So I posted the same support topic over at wpmudev.org and they advised me to ask you about this issue, whereby Andrew stated:
“Sounds like they’ve figured out how to bypass a step or two in the signup routine.
Probably best to mention this on the buddypress forums so they can look into it.
Thanks,
Andrew”
Does this help?
the two members on my site that created buddypress profiles without me being notified are ndcom.com/members/Garamoff/ and ndcom.com/members/poifyipsyhold/, since these two, I’ve received about 3 other buddypress profiles where I, as the admin, didn’t receive notification.
How is this possible and is there a remedy for it?
Thanks,
N
you can check the members who made it through and on to the site without me being notified: http://ndcom.com/members/Garamoff/ and http://ndcom.com/members/poifyipsyhold/, since these two, I’ve had about 3 others like them whereby they make a buddypress profile and I don’t get the notification.
One quick update to the comment immediately above this one.
I just did a fresh install of WPMU, did not even log in as admin and did not install BuddyPress. The default WPMU shows the same behavior as the above, so this can’t possibly be a BuddyPress problem.
Not that I wouldn’t appreciate your help on this, but I’m going to continue to try and solve this at the WPMU level, and move on to BP when/if I solve it…
Burt,
Thanks for the reply. When myself, friends, or family create a profile to test the site, I always get an email as the administrator.
But over the past few weeks, I’m getting individuals creating buddypress profiles and upone further research into my database, I track their email addresses back to health supplements, pharma drugs, and porn sites. I don’t receive an email notification when these buddypress profiles are made.
Currently my settings are as follows, where the second choice with the “X” is selected.
Disabled
X Enabled. Blogs and user accounts can be created.
Only user account can be created.
Only logged in users can create new blogs.
Wondering how can they create buddypress profiles, without me getting notifications?
Thanks,
Ninh
@Enlightenmental1
The plugin works mostly off the post and media library architecture. The database interaction is principally adding entries to wp_postmeta. It saves the post as a slideshow post by a boolean _jqss_is_showing, and, if desired you can add a special slideshow image with a meta field called jqss_image to contain the URL of the image. If you are lazy like me, you can just insert an image in the body of a post, and the plugin will sniff that out (hopefully) and use it as the slideshow image.
It saves widget options in wp_options. Pretty standard stuff I would guess.
@Hyrxx
My intention was that the widget would appear on the main page of the site, where the admin would select pages from the main blog to feature. I am working on a few CSS themes to make the presentation a little snazzier. A regular blog could use it in any sidebar. I guess that I could hook it into TinyMCE so you could put a slideshow of posts in a post, but that might get ugly if the person accidentally slideshow-selected the post that had the slideshow in it.
Great contribution! I just don’t want to have to modify my core files yet. 
does this plugin add tables to the database?
I just found what I need: The events-component (https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1333) should be a good example to start with.
You would basically be using an existing plugin that does close to what you want, and modifying it to fit your needs. People have taken the groups plugin and made various random plugins out of it, for links to amazon store products, etc…
Normally you access your plugins in the members area, like ‘Profile’, ‘Messages’, ‘Settings’, ‘your-custom-component’, e.g. http://domain.tld/members/admin/your-custom-component.
I want to create a component that’s not related to the members area and can be accessed like http://domain.tld/your-custom-component.
Can I do this using the BP plugin system, or do I have to write a WordPress Plugin?
