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did you copy over the files or create the live one from fresh install?

I’ve been reading these forums for weeks trying to find a solution to all the spam registrations I’m getting on my site. Keep in mind that I haven’t opened it to the public yet. It is closed and the registrations are closed, but still they are getting in and creating accounts. I decided to do some troubleshooting to see where they are getting in and this is what I found out so far:
1. When I close registration still they get in and create member accounts and Groups in which they inject their spam. 2. I started to turn off some of the buddypress features one at a time, such as the forums and the groups, and the registrations stopped. It’s been several days without spam registrations. I turned on open registrations and still there’s no registration. I turned on Forums and now they are coming back.
Conclusion: they must be getting through the forum, since I understand, uses a version of BBPress. Now I have to get a solution to protect the forums and groups if I want these features on our sites.
any solutions out there?

This worries me, as I cannot do this every time there is an issue like this on my site. I still do not know what was wrong.

I empathize. Of course nobody’s expected to do that at all. Did you read the requirements before installing BuddyPress at https://codex.buddypress.org/user/before-installing/ ? Have you been installing WordPress via webhosts’ scripts?

@ronia Check out the Events Manager plugin by @netweblogic https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/events-manager/ Has BuddyPress support!

As for Media plugins compatible with BP
1. free – BuddyPress Album – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-album/
2. free – BuddyPress Media – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-media/
3. premium – BP Gallery – http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-gallery/

I’ve installed Worpress multisite with buddypress. I have a site running on a subdomain, but when users register, they are directed register only on the main domain.

@slinkyfran You have to configure where you wanted BuddyPress to be installed, in your case the subdomain aka secondary blog. https://codex.buddypress.org/user/install-buddypress-on-a-secondary-blog/

@webifiedgeek That would require some custom development. To start you off, see how @sbrajesh has implemented setting up menu and sub-menu in the user(s) profile page with page only seen by the logged in user and take it from there to develop your own custom plugin http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-custom-background-for-user-profile/

>>users cannot communicate with, see each other, or even know other users exist). Only the admin will have the privilege of viewing profiles or commenting on users’ blog posts.

@bg01 As I see it, you don’t even need BuddyPress especially with the configuration you posted above.
– Just create a network (go multisite)
– allow students to create own blogs or create the blogs yourself and add student/user per blog
– make all sites private (Super Admin can see anything and everything)
– post comment on each student’s blog post.
If you have any issues with your multisite installation, please post at https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite

Alternatively, you can have one single WP site. Make it private, no feeds. Set access of all posts in front end and back end to Site Admin and respective post Author in custom WP theme. Only Site Admin can post comment in all posts.
If you have any issues, please post at https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting

It’s been one of those weeks, let me tell you.

@p2ab No problem. Just glad you were able to resolve the issue 🙂
Marking this as resolved.

@bluestrat55555 if your only requirement is that users can contribute to “one masssive pool of content” then you don’t even need BuddyPress. Just enable registration for a single WP site and set roles to Contributors (if you want to moderate what get’s posted/uploaded) or Authors (can publish anything, anytime). Users can post from wp-admin or find a WP plugin for front-end posting/uploading.

Hi,

You might want to take a look at this article by our mod, hnla:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/theme-development/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/

@vegaskev – The codex articles were moved around a bit.  Apologies!

The new link to the article is here:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/releases/developer-and-designer-information/

Scroll down to “Group avatar uploading doesn’t work” to view the fix.

If you have the option don’t get too involved with template pack, work with and style the theme compat templates – if you have heavier duty styling/markup requirements then you perhaps might need to use the bp-default templates moved into your theme but try 1.7 in theme compat mode first:

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/theme-development/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/

I’ll Publish a page that I’d kept in draft as I wanted to revise some aspects that will help explain.

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/theme-development/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/

@hnla sure, will create trac ticket for this and add link to this topic
(strange, didn’t get notification for your @ mention)

EDIT – ticket with patch https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4864

Please don’t bump threads til ~24 hours has passed.

You stated ‘playing around’ with BP, that doesn’t tend to gel with ‘getting desperate’  Why the urgency? 🙂

What I would suggest is you rely on the theme compatibility built in to 1.7, use that rather than ? template pack. Download a copy of 1.7 beta and have a go with that, it’s pretty stable and safe to beging building sites with.

Closing this thread as it’s run it’s course.

Looking forward to seeing contributions to the community @famous