https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-pack/ is the URL for the welcome pack. It does show that it’s been updated for 1.2
Have to admit I had no idea there was another registration.php page and it would have never have occurred to me to look in the bbpress folder.
This kinda worries me really why is this required and also a password reset file, it feels as though it’s a bad hangover from earlier days and ought to be removed.
Is it not time that this bbpress thing be integrated fully or at least forum capabilities simply part of BP core .
I have deleted this registration file and will be interested to see if it clears up the remaining few spam signups still being received
The welcome pack plugin can do this. I’m not sure if it’s been updated for 1.2 yet though.
@windhamdavid – thanks for the hint about bbpress… didn’t know, that the register-file was still there… Now I deleted it (just in case) – although forums are not even activated in my install. By now, still no spammers registering… could be that activating hashcash again did the trick (although I really don’t get it why, for as far as I know it just protects the register-form, right? and it seems, that wasn’t even used…
@chouf1 On the install I am havong troubles with there is NOT ONE spammer for sure. I know all of them personally! In my other install (I have 0 troubles until now, I will check back on that. thanks for the hint)
PS: Chouf1 – wow, do you speak swissgerman 
I think it is bad. See I found out that they are actually making Google believe,
http://u.kodingen.com/vLZ4B
This makes our site look like we are affiliated, or we are phishing web site if nothing, it’s bad.
Could that post be removed or that comment deleted ?
google search: http://bit.ly/9ALjBc
OK that makes a lot more sense when you think of it like that. I can see a lot of potential in this because normally with a forum category all you can do it post, groups add extra features.
The only thing I would like would be to make groups that are public in the sense that you don’t have to subscribe to them, sort of like a type of group that any registered user is a member of without having to subscribe
let’s continue this thread over here ~ https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/how-to-control-spam-registration/page/2
and did you try that recommendation regarding bbpress?
posted my temp fix for the dups – and i haven’t seen any on my site since the change
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/external-group-blogs-bug#post-40090
I don’t quite understand these spam posts since I’ve run ten to twelve mu sites for several (4+) years with no splog/smap exploits (knock on wood) and some of them are outdated installs with very little protection. If buddypress is in fact, the culprit, perhaps it’s related to the registration in bbpress if you have forums installed? @micheal ~ perhaps you should try removing register.php from the buddypress/forums/bbpress/ ~ and/or buddypress/forums/bbpress/templates/kakumei/register.php to see what happens…
I just tested on a local install with no conflicts and thanks for investigating.
Just another little update: To me it seems that there are two different spam-signups (at least )
The ones, that come in through the registration-form
I could handle those with all the tipps (for me this worked best):
– change the slug
– additional-fields
– change some text on the registration-page
– change footer-text
– SI-Captcha didn’t really work, so I used the modified invitation-code-plugin mentioned before
– wp-ban did help, too (often wasn’t really needed – just left it there in case…)
– changing/deleting wp-signup.php (which led me to this connected issue/question: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/wp-signupphp-redirects-to-registration-slug-why)
The ones, that don’t seem to use the registration-form or wp-signup.php at all
– never had this problem before, so it hit me… Further described here with a open question for me: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/is-there-a-backdoor-in-wpmubuddypress
– This morning I found out, that I had deactivated the hashcash-plugin because I had comment-issues (didn’t come through anymore). I think the spam-flood came after deactivating it. Right now I have activated it again (just for signups) and no spam came in for a couple hours now (even with deactivated wp-ban, without captcha or invitation-plugin, wp-signup.php still there)
So far my forther journey with this issue
Ah!
Since the only thing that changed was that i updated the plugin Like for BP, i tried to disable that and… everything was fine again.
I have no clue how the plugin like can mess up permissions like that… but i had to disable it, until it’s fixed.
I’m trying to integrate P2 in the bp-groupblog plugin. Haven’t tried BP theme template pack.
P2 apparently only works on a regular blog index.php. On a group home (and probably other BP pages like members home etc.) it can’t find the right blog and the Ajax breaks.
The fix probably involves setting the blogID somewhere and changing settings in P2’s js.php. If it’s possible at all…
r-a-y, I definitely understand that these days people like to consider older posts and forum threads dead after a short period of time. Some user just like to jump on old stuff without finding the answers in newer threads. However, when there is a dearth of information about a particular topic and people are trying to properly research before posting and all that comes up is old threads, I’m of the opinion that they should be resurrected. Why start a new post asking the same questions and diverging the threads? I’m actively searching for information about this and scrounging through PHP code and websites for answers. I’ve uncovered some good information that I’m trying to share, but am still looking for more answers. If I run a search and it returns all these “dead” threads and no new threads, the masses are going to as well.
Plus, I just replied to other threads offering to help with questions you’ve asked here months ago to which I see no answers. If you’ve figured all this out, why not update those original threads with the answers for newer folks trying to figure things out? If you haven’t figured everything out, then why not be happy that the threads are going active again and information is being shared?
Please don’t take this the wrong way, I just don’t understand why some forums seem to be filled with people complaining about “old” threads being responded to and others appreciate it. And why don’t the forums that are dead-set against replying to old threads, simply close out the old ones?
r-a-y, is there any way to get comments on blog and forum posts (in the BP activity pages) to actually add the comment to the WP blog post or as a reply to the forum post? This would be SO useful. The way it works now is that your user’s comments end up staying only within the BP activity stream and don’t get reflected on your actual main website (blog)! Disabling it prevents that, but also removes the convenience of user’s being able to comment globally from a single place on their BP activity stream pages.
I have to believe this *should* be a pretty easy plugin to develop (depending on how modular the WP and BP code is around this), but would much rather see this built into BP core. I already have a dozen WP plugins that I feel are essential for any blog and as I look to roll out BP, that’s going to add many more. I’m tapping out a dedicated server as it is and all these hooks and plugins and template tags and such require some seriously beefy hardware.
Seeing that this is very old conversation…has there been any update on this or the https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/excluding-certain-blogs-from-bp_has_site_blogs-function thread.
Really interested in removing / excluding certain blogs…that would help our topic we started https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/exclude-admin-id-for-has-blogs-and-has-members
I don’t think Dnorman said anything about using Multi-DB. Check this post for info on why existing WP users aren’t appearing in BP when you add that plugin. https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/activating-existing-users#post-39547
For more specific help you’d need to give more specific details –
i want to do all sorts of things to profile fields…..
… is a bit vague.
Also, you’re effectively asking someone to teach you how to write code. What you’re after probably requires a more in-depth answer than you’re likely to get here in the forums.
Perhaps you ought to download and break down / delve into the custom profile filters plugin and start from there – that’s an example of how to do these things in code – combined with the codex etc should get you started.
You should rename your bbpress folder to /forums if you want it to show up there.
IMPORTANT: Read this forum thread:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/help-i-renamed-my-bbpress-file-directory-name#post-17994
Where did you install bbPress?
example.com/forums?
example.com/bbpress?
zageek: Yes, exactly. It’s just terminology. A group is like a forum, but with a whole lot more power.
Here’s the solution to only show the blog posts:
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/how-can-i-set-show-newblogposts-as-default-on-acitivity-stream
But then only blog posts are shown and nothing else.
I have no solution to the problem, how to show the blogposts as default and the rest by filter.
OK, integrated all I think.
bbpress integration plugin done in WP.
bbpress itself integrated with WP.
I still do not see the external preexisting bbpress forum. I am thinking that I should see the bbpress forum when I click the buddypress forums tab.
I have the same issue as moshthepitt. I am using WP 2.9.2 in a standard way. I have changed the permalinks to custom: /%postname% my site (dev site) is located at http://www.irreia.org/dev/
I have read as much as I can find about redirection errors to the home page. I see it happening to a LOT of people, but I haven’t seen one single fix suggested.
When I see things like that, it appears that there is some obscure setting that is not mentioned in the documentation anywhere, as it seems unlikely that so many people would be a having the same issue because they were all NOT following directions.
Also, it would be really helpful it there were a ‘subscribe to thread’ on this forum so that one could be notified of additions or answers to the conversation.
Andy am I understanding it correctly to think of it in the following way because I think I get it now?:
Think of each group like a forum category or section on other traditional forums and suddenly Buddypress is like super forum on steriods.
So in other words you will be turning all the forum categories like “Installing Buddypress” , ” How-to and Troubleshooting”, “Creating and Extending” etc etc in groups with the same name?
If that is right I think what is throwing people off is the use of the term “group” especially since many people are used to it being used in other ways on other social networks
