[mmdouce]

We use the forums for student groups and having threaded replies would be fantastic!

[elvissalic]

Awesome this actually fixed most of the problem dude thanks so much. One thing that is still out of the box is this one take a look http://cl.ly/0A1J1F320z0W47390d2B the bit that says Order By: its for some reason out from the visible part of the box

[mmdouce]

I am also very interested in this option! Thanks.

[Hugo Ashmore]

And a parting final comment or two on what does tend to become a wearisome topic:

Spam is pandemic across internet sites, all internet sites that have a member/registration system suffer from spammers – it is not! a problem that BP has more than any other app.

It’s annoying to have to go in every day and delete these users

And here is the rub so to speak; you DO! have to go in everyday and manage your site, how could you not think that wasn’t important or even vital? Any site of the type ‘Forum’ or ‘blog’ has to be managed and that really has to be realised why run a site if your not prepared to… run it – it’s why there are ‘admin’ roles!

I perform admin / moderator duties on a fairly large tech forum running Drupal we number six mods and each and every day we each deal with two or three spammers each this is over and above the measures put in place to deal with spam bots.

There are primarily two types of spam bots(automated) and humans(real people) There are a number of tricks and tips to dealing with bots and by and large there are actually pretty effective, these approaches and been linked to quite often so search those out and implement. As for humans this is the real issue, there isn’t a lot you can do about people registering on your site then posting garbage – not unless you close of membership or restrict membership – you have decided to run a open registration member site so really you need to get with the plot and understand that you WILL be spammed, if you find it too much trouble to visit your site once a day or to appoint further admins in your community that can deal with it then expect, when you do finally visit to have a lot more spam to deal with and for those spammers to have had the luxury of unfettered access to promote their links or harass your members – It really is your choice how you run your site but please please stop hunting round for this magic ‘thing’ that stops all spam dead it does not! exist.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Blimey. I’d like to reassure that there’s no conspiracy theory (but I would say that, right?), nor is the BuddyPress.org team ignoring posts on these forums. We are all volunteers, and we only have so much time that we can contribute. This thread is not heading in a constructive direction so I am going to close it.

Mercime’s answer above was good as any. It takes a lot of effort from lots of people to try to prevent spam. This thread talks about user registration spam and activity spam. In our next version of BuddyPress, 1.6, Akismet is integrated into Activity Stream. We have this running on testbp.org and it seems to be doing a decent job at helping.

[Hugo Ashmore]

which makes it look unprofessional

Really? considering BP is developed by professional web developers that’s a sightly surprising statement to be making.

The titles you refer to on pages such as ‘Forums’, ‘Groups’, ‘Activity’ are heading tags, h# tags are a semantic tag that defines the document outline there are six levels and you use them to assign document section headings, these tags are mandatory and it’s very unprofessional not to have them so take care in removing them and also remember that search engines look for and use these tags for index information.

If you are removing these tags then you need to locate these sorts of lines in your index files `

` and simply delete them, this is basic level stuff so as an IT literate person should be within your means as it’s simple editing of text files but it is going to help you enormously to learn some absolute basics where CSS and HTML are concerned.

Lastly you are going to need to make these changes in a child theme otherwise whenever you upgrade your changes will be overwritten, a clear step by step guide to setting up a child theme can be found in the BP codex.

[@mercime]

Add the following at the bottom of your theme’s style.css file
`table.forum { margin: 0 !important; }
.padder div.pagination { margin: -20px 0 0 !important; }
div.item-list-tabs { margin: 25px 0 20px !important; }
div#subnav.item-list-tabs { margin: -15px 0 15px !important; }`

Recommend using Firebug, the Firefox add-on, to identify which elements need to be styled or revised.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Suggest you hire someone with server expertise if you’re talking about that scale. It’s cheaper than trying to scrape together advice from forums.

100k users, one at a time, is different from 100k users visiting your site at the same time. It’s a question of concurrency, really, and what your requirements are about server redundancy and failover.

Whatever runs WordPress at this level, will run BuddyPress.

[shanebp]

Uploads aren’t supported in browsers on those devices, afaik.
To get around that for avatars and galleries for apple users, we used the free version of this
http://www.aurigma.com/mobile/

Use of aurigma and similar apps has been discussed before on these forums – not sure how you can find them though.

[Eric Langley]

I had enable BP multi blog enabled in wp-config, thus BuddyPress is automatically activated and configured at the site level.

I went ahead and dis-enabled BP multi blog and this put the BuddyPress control panel in the Network Admin site. There I was able to configure bbPress so that it worked.

Then I enabled BP multi blog and added sites. I now have separate bbPress forums on each site with the addition of BP Multi Network filtering.

~eric

[elvissalic]

yea but if you see this screenshot not all the text is visible for some reason, I think it has to do with the width the forum is set to. http://cl.ly/1x3j2V0l3V0m3V0Z0R1y

[@mercime]

Looks like you’ve already fixed it by changing page template to full-width.

[@mercime]

To put your issues in context
WP/BP versions? Theme used? Plugins used? basically … https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/when-asking-for-support/

[tibbles]

Ignore last request. Sorry I’m being dumb. All is well. Again, thank you for the help!

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Do not post duplicate threads: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/disable-viewing-info-on-friends-of-friends/

[tibbles]

Thank you very much!

The forum page now displays with the one forum topic I created.
Now how do logged in users create a forum? There is no option to create a new forum.
Or is it only the site admin that can create a forum?

[aro747]

Go to Pages, All Pages, and locate the page titled Forums. Edit that page and place this code there:
[bbp-forum-index]

[@mercime]

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-jobs-board/forum/topic/buddypressbbpress-plugin-for-slashdot-style-moderation/

[fmeroney]

Posted this here also; https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/display-name-doesn%C2%B4t-fit-between-bp-and-wp-fields/

This Plugin may help, tested on a single site, hasn’t been tested on a multi-site install. I was having the same issue, so I had this developed. Let me know if it works for you.

FYI: I submitted it to WP for inclusion in their repository, should be there soon.

http://scenicjobs.com/wordpress-plugins

[@mercime]

Please post at https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-jobs-board/forum/ and/or http://jobs.wordpress.net/

[@mercime]

There was someone who had a similar issue and found reasons why at https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/edit-profile-link-leads-to-page-not-found-error/#post-130178 but might not be applicable to yours. And another posted (can’t find it right now – topic title was not related to the issue) a solution which involved deactivating a slideshow plugin and another which involved installing new WP/BP from scratch.

With your forms acting up, it looks more like JS/AJAX issue.

[Adam]

Any idea when BP 1.6 will be coming out?

[pawriter]

I assume that the loss of links to stickies and New Topic when refreshing Support is symptomatic of the same problem. I cleared my browser cache but I shall shut down and reload the browser too and see if that helps.

[pawriter]

Thanks for the prompt reply Paul.
I seem vaguely to remember using square brackets to refine general searches but now I’m not sure if that was in Buddypress or WordPress.
Is there a workaround or should I just post my topics anyway?
On registration issues I end up posting in both places because I can’t determine if its a WordPress or Buddypress problem.

Regards

Paul

[Hugo Ashmore]

It’s not time zones, this was mentioned to me by another dev in passing as one of their clients had run up against this. I think, but not 100% sure, they created a ticket or forum post on the issue. It sounds as though the activity is recorded for a post according to it’s creation, and it’s not aware the post has actually not been ‘published’.