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Hi there… I’ve racked my brain over a very similar issue. I’m wondering if you had any luck finding the answer?

This is what I’m seeing.

1). From what I can tell (I used shared hosting), the Centos Linux box that hosts my site has the date/time set correctly.

I asked them to issue the date command and send the result. What they provided was the result when logging into the box via SSH. i.e. “Sun Jan 27 10:45:24 CST 2013”. The server is hosted somewhere in the CST timezone, and the date/time was correct at the time this info was sent.

2). I am in the EST time zone. My WP general/settings/timezone is set to Montreal.

3). When I publish a WP Post (for example) everything is fine. The “published on” date/time is correct (in local / EST / Montreal time). In fact, everything to do with straight WP date/time related handling is fine. BuddyPress is a different story!

4). BuddyPress: When someone sends a private message, the time on the received email is one hour behind. I assume this can be explained by the CST server time and the EST timezone I’ve chosen in WP Settings/General/timezone. I can live with this – Or could change the timezone to the server timezone (chicago / CST).

This is where it gets interesting.

5). BuddyPress: When somebody creates or adds to a topic in BuddyPress Group Forum, the date/time is also correct. i.e. “username said n seconds ago” is 1 second after the update is made. OK.. But, the corresponding Activity entry shows 5 hours and 1 second ago. i.e. 5 hours in the past!

Looking at the Activity Table record via phpMyAdmin, the date is stored in GMT (i.e. + 5 hours as I am in EST).

Looking at the Topics Table record via phpyMyAdmin, the date is exactly the same – i.e. stored in GMT.

So, when the forum topic is displayed, it’s doing a proper conversion from GMT to local time (-5), but the Activity Stream page seems to be doing the conversion twice, and I end up with -10 hours from the stored time in GMT.

6). BuddyPress: Of course, when somebody just posts something to the activity stream, it always shows up as “username said 5 hours and n seconds ago” also. i.e. a -10 conversion from the stored db time which is in GMT.

7). BuddyPress: Finally, when looking at the Activity via WP Admin, the date/time on each entry is straight out of the DB – i.e. GMT time – No local time conversion at all!

So in Summary:

Server setting for date/time is ok
Straight WP handling of date/time is ok
date/time is stored at the DB in GMT in all cases
date/time is converted properly based on timezone for the BuddyPress Group forum topic itself (-5)
date/time seems to be converted twice (-10) for the corresponding BuddyPress Activity Stream record as seen by the end user
date/time is not converted at all when viewed via WP Admin. i.e. it is straight GMT

If anybody can make sense of what’s going on, I’d really appreciate it! I’ve looked through everything I can find and just cant figure this out.

Best regards,
Mike.

NOTE: Maybe it’s not good that I added to this post? It’s a similar problem, but not exactly the same. I can create a new post if that’s best.

This might help you: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-activity-as-blog-comments/

Ok, I tried reverting back to 1.6.3 and 1.6.2, but to no avail either. I had made back ups prior to each upgrade and what I did to revert was to delete the contents of my current buddypress folder and upload previous versions. I cleaned the cache, but still no submenus.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

Hey @skittles, I’m also having the same problem with my submenus. They all just disappeared after updating WP and BP.

@enquirer32 Did you try deactivating all plugins except BuddyPress to see if issue is resolved? What theme are you using?

@derek-melo deactivate BuddyPress. Create a network (multisite) and make sure it’s working (create a subsite) before activating BuddyPress.

@rondena custom BP Template Pack solution for your theme at http://wp.me/p1I84P-4w

If BP FriendPress does this

BP FriendPress is a BuddyPress plugin by Shawn38 that makes BuddyPress specific pages private so logged out users cannot view BP pages making more of a private community.

I think (but it hasn’t been updated for long time) https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/private-buddypress/ this could work.

Now I’m using it as it and it’s working for me.

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/plugin-development/creating-a-custom-buddypress-component/
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/plugin-development/creating-a-plugin/

@remixines just remove the extra div at the top of sidebar-buddypress.php
the code has been updated in link posted above.

very easy.

create a button with html and place a on click to it

https://gist.github.com/4644352

This didn\’t seem to work for me 🙁

@mercime – any chance I can hire you to make a quick fix?

Hi @orbitor

How you said, WangGuard works great for protect your website and with the Wizard you can check many of the old ones. But every website is different and WangGuard knows many old Sploggers, but not all of them. WangGuard is only  1 year an 11 month old (today).

The first year blocked 750.000 sploggers, and in the in the next 11 months,  5.000.0000 sploggers. You can see that its growth is exponential.

About your question if there is a tool for check the humanity of your old users… I’m sorry but only WangGuard. WangGuard is the only tool out there to check users

Kind regards

About spam registrations – I have already answered here: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/thousands-of-spam-subscribers/#post-151777

@chouf1 Where the heck did this come from ! Awesome 🙂 Cheers

Take a view here, they’re some alternate solutions
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-make-buddypress-1-6-a-private-community/

What I use is buddypress captcha for registration, works like a charm!