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@projectslimited – yeah, welcome to the club! I had one bp site with registration turned off for 18 months.. turned it on to test some thing – hours later – dozens of new “groups” and spam accounts.

My main site I depend on buddypress humanity as main line of defense.. but also add the plugin “good question” (changing the defaults on these two!)

I also use “geo ip block” on all wp sites now. (changing some defaults)

that seems to help 95% – then I got so tired of the manual spammers that I added the apache gep redirect thing from maxmind lite.. and block all visits from Russia, China, Ukraine, and a few others completely.

Saves a ton of bandwidth and server resources – and makes it easier to find the cdir blocks of US and UK ISPs to block via htaccess (none of my web site visitors are using COLO Crossing Transport to visit my site- so all their cidrs eg:
23.94.144.0/20
23.94.144.0 – 23.94.159.255

blocked…

I have been messaging with a wordpress plugin author about modding his plugin that pulls info from failed logins and puts them into iptables – suggesting a few mods that can make that info useful to those of us who do not have access to or want to get into iptables modsec stuff – hopefully those suggestions will come into a new version of that plugin later this year.

with my multi-site setup I use a ‘new blog defaults’ plugin to set any new blogs created to automaticcaly have the noindex setting in wordpress, and noinded nofollow settings from yaost.. so even if one manual spammer gets in and makes blog – it does no good, and does not show up on the radar of the other spammers.

I recently had to block Japan entirely as I started getting daily spam hits from there.. of course each person’s setup will vary – I can’t block all countries on all my sites, so some sites I set the ip geo block to whitelist just one or two.. on other sites I setup a blacklist to block 20 or so..

Thanks for the clarity in your question.

Are they also Buddypress entries and can I delete them as well?

Looks okay to me. Should be fine.
But if you aren’t comfy about deleting them, leave them there.
9 rows is no biggee in the options table.

Just looked it up

 * Filter SQL query strings to swap out the 'meta_id' column.
 *
 * WordPress uses the meta_id column for commentmeta and postmeta, and so
 * hardcodes the column name into its *_metadata() functions. BuddyPress, on
 * the other hand, uses 'id' for the primary column. To make WP's functions
 * usable for BuddyPress, we use this just-in-time filter on 'query' to swap
 * 'meta_id' with 'id.

Seems as though it’s used to make WP *_metadata() functions compatible with BP.

Good shout @shanebp.

Also, looking at the groups_get_groupmeta() function definition, I’m wondering why we need to filter the query string with bp_filter_metaid_column_name?

Anyway, alternatively, this may work but I haven’t tested:

$retval = get_metadata( 'group', $group_id, $meta_key, $single );
var_dump( $retval );

Edit: Looks as though there is a reason BuddyPress uses bp_filter_metaid_column_name to filter the query. So my above might not work when it comes to BP.

I agree it sounds as though you’ll need a bookmarking plugin as the “core”. There are most probably lots to choose from in the WordPress Plugin Directory. My advice is set up a WordPress site locally for testing, install BuddyPress and try out some of the bookmarking plugins to see which suits your idea best.

Sadly, I’m not here with an answer, but another manifestation of this same problem.

Am running WordPress with bbpress and BuddyPress, Twentyfourteen theme, everything updated except I’ve not yet gone to BuddyPress 2.3.3.

My login is “Prof L”; so is my user name. To the best of my knowledge I’ve set “admin” nowhere in BuddyPress……but to private message me, “@admin” is required!

Update: OK, I see that in email settings, one of the options reads as follows:

A member mentions you in an update using “@admin”

So somehow that has been set to my “handle” (is that the right BP term?) But again, I never to my knowledge entered “admin”, nor does it display anywhere on the front end of the site.

I will try the plugin mentioned up thread, and report back–but wanted to testify that this problem is real and ongoing….

afaik, there is no option.
Try this in your theme/functions.php

function larnoult_remove_bbpress_notifications() {
    remove_action( 'bbp_new_reply', 'bbp_buddypress_add_notification', 10, 7 );
}
add_action( 'bbp_loaded', 'larnoult_remove_bbpress_notifications', 99  );

You may need to tweak the priority settings.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/remove_action

I added some comments asking the main group to seriously consider BP and other plugins when choosing next default theme

Nice one @djsteveb! I hope TwentySeventeen takes BuddyPress into consideration too.

To the best of my knowledge, you can’t have 2 themes activated at the same time. You should choose a WordPress theme and then make use of the BuddyPress Template Hierarchy to customise the BuddyPress portion of your website.

You can create a job listing here.
Be sure to include your contact info.

Deactivate RTMedia & any custom function (if exist) related to buddypress-media and test.

Hi,

Thanks for posting. Are you using an older version of WordPress?

In BP 2.3.3, we added support for WordPress 4.3 in the Activity and Groups dashboards without checking for older WordPress installs.

This is how the fatal error occurred.

To fix this temporarily until we release a new version, apply this patch to BuddyPress:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/6606/6606.01.patch

Read from here and see if you can build something:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/notify-by-email-when-xprofile-updated/#post-183977

See the Customizing Labels, Messages, and URLs article.

These plugins should address parts of #12:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-local-avatars/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-identicons/

I do list “plupload.full.min.js” and other similar scripts in Autoptimze “Exclude list”

If you don’t include required files, things tend not to work.

Unless I’m mistaken, there must some thing else wrong because I’ve not found BuddyPress Followers to be problematic in that way. Are you sure you’re using the latest version?

Optimize Press uses a custom post type.
So you need to add activity tracking support to it.

I use the plugin Buddypress followers, but is problematic

What did you find was wrong with it? It works well for me.