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Thanks. That indeed did the trick. However, if I view an individual profile and click on the profile field it shows a page with others who have the same profile term and uses the wrong format again. That is baked into the buddypress profile page. I cannot change that.

see this page and click on the school building tag in the profile: http://iblog.dearbornschools.org/members/kieselh/profile/

Then try the pagination. It’s broke because it uses ?s_= and that is generated by Buddypress for the custom profile.

Oops hit reply not edit! well…

Here’s the solution I arrived at:

function filter_change_email_subject ( $email_subject, $sender_name, $ud ) {
	$email_subject = sprintf( __('%1$s wants to say hello', 'buddypress' ), $sender_name);
	return $email_subject;
}
add_filter( 'messages_notification_new_message_subject', 'filter_change_email_subject' , 10, 7 );

This works for what I’m doing, for someone else that wants to pass a dynamic subject you may need to nest this function.

After a lot of searching I’ve put this together. It appears to remove the ability of normal site users to use the rich text area editor in ‘multi line text areas’. Its use now allows jQuery functions for character limits to be applied to the text area which was not possible when tinymce was active.

function bptest_remove_tinymce() {
	if ( !is_super_admin() ) {
	tinymce.activeEditor.getBody().setAttribute( 'contenteditable', false );
	}
}
add_action( 'wp_footer', 'bptest_remove_tinymce' );

Note that the is_super_admin() is included. Without it the WP bar at the top of the screen which is used to access dashboard etc disappears.

Then to remove the remaining Visual/Text tabs attached to the text area, use the CSS display:none on the relevant div id.

I am still very curious as to whether there are better methods for excluding the rich text editor / tinymce from Buddypress (across the site and/or targeting specific text areas). Would appreciate any input from anyone more in the know!

Thanks

I’m using boss theme, no i didn’t ask them, I thought it is buddypress issue
what about activity filter?

I installed WP Crontrol and saw nothing out of the ordinary:

ws_plugin__s2member_auto_eot_system__schedule
_cron_zencache_cleanup
bp_activity_akismet_delete_old_metadata
wp_maybe_auto_update
wp_version_check
wp_update_plugins
wp_update_themes
akismet_scheduled_delete
wp_scheduled_delete
wp_scheduled_auto_draft_delete

Earlier today I added the following to my functions.php file:

add_filter( 'bp_activity_do_mentions', '__return_false' );

No @mention emails were generated since then. As soon as I commented that code out, within 5-10 minutes thirteen @mention email notifications went out – all with links to content that is years old (pre-import).

I’ve therefore put the filter back into functions.php and can only assume I’ll have to do without the @mention functionality of buddypress.

I appreciate everyone’s help up to this point.

My host said emails are STILL being sent out.

Can anyone suggest an interim solution (other than switching off my mailserver completely) to stop these emails going out?

Evidently placing the code below in functions.php had no effect:

//buddypress stop mention emails //
remove_action( 'bp_activity_sent_mention_email', 'bp_activity_at_message_notification', 10, 5 );
//End buddypress stop mention emails //

OK, just so we’re on the same page I’ll give the URIs as I respond.

Having looked into my notifications feed here:

/members/member-name/notifications/

I see that notifications were indeed coming in in ‘batches’, too.

For example:

All refer to pre-import mentions.

HOWEVER, no notifications for pre-import activity appear there from the time I ran the below mySQL query yesterday:

UPDATE bp_notifications SET is_new=0 WHERE is_new=1

So that seems to have had some effect (yet emails continued to go out).

As for activity entries being created, if I go to:

/members/member-name/activity/

… it contains all activity from the start of time (post-import and pre-import activity).

bbpress told me this is a buddypress issue since buddypress generates the @mention email notifications.

A couple of hours ago I added this to my functions.php file:

//buddypress stop mention emails //
remove_action( 'bp_activity_sent_mention_email', 'bp_activity_at_message_notification', 10, 5 );
//End buddypress stop mention emails //

Hopefully that will stop new emails from going out. Not the ideal solution, though as it also blocks mentions for anything post-import, too (I believe).

I very much doubt my install has been compromised. In fact, searching through the buddypress support forum it seems this is an issue that crops up after imports – so I believe there is probably something in the core code doing this.

A couple of examples:

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/post-migration-constant-user-email-notifications-for-mentions/ @zane

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/mass-notifications-of-old-mentions/ @halo-diehard

Disabling my mail server is not a practical solution. For now I will just have to block all email notifications for mentions until (hopefully) a solution is found.

Pssst @netweb – are you still around?