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This is getting worse and worse. I just launched my first BuddyPress site and am getting spammer registrations although I have additional required profile fields and SI Captcha installed.

Sadly, the article mentioned (linked) above is not available anymore (I guess the spammers took down that site) and judging by the responses here there still seems to be no known solution to the spammer problem with WPMU/BuddyPress.

I spoke to someone on Twitter who confirmed that the spam problem started when activating BuddyPress – this would be in contradiction to remarks from Andy, I’m afraid. Anyhow: after reading comments here there seems to be a hole in the system somewhere.

(I guess the spammers have been clever enough not to spam testbp.org )

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.

If you’re using the plugin I mentioned and you want to do exactly what you mentioned above, you could probably just add it into the SN arry in the plugin file, thus:

$social_networking_fields = array( // Enter the field ID of any field that prompts for the username to a social networking site, followed by the URL that must be appended to username to create a link to the user's profile on that site. Thus, since the URL for the profile of awesometwitteruser is twitter.com/awesometwitteruser, you should enter 'Twitter' => 'twitter.com/'. Don't forget: 1) Leave out the 'http://', 2) Include the trailing slash (/) if needed to make a valid URL, and 3) to separate items with commas

'Twitter' =>'twitter.com/' ,

'Delicious ID' => 'delicious.com/' ,

'YouTube ID ' => 'youtube.com/' ,

'Flickr ID ' =>'flickr.com/' ,

'FriendFeed ID' => 'friendfeed.com/',

'Facebook' => 'facebook.com/',

'MySpace' => 'myspace.com/',

// your site's Company Field

'Company' => 'google.co.uk/search?q='



);



// You shouldn't need to touch anything below this line.

Of course I haven’t actually tried this myself. The alternative is to extend the plugin a little with a function that takes that company field and does whatever you want to do with it.

This works great! But I am wondering if there is a way to have it call the value depending on the user that is currently logged-in.

I thought something like this might work… <?php echo bp_loggedinuser_xprofile_get_field_data(’10’); ?> but no such luck.

Any ideas?

There used to be the possibility to use pre-built fields to the registration form (as described here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/what-happened-to-add-prebuilt-field), which would take care of at least part of this problem. But it appears this is no longer supported for 1.2.

So I definitely support the request for the ability to add pre-built registration fields.

Ahh sorry about that!

I thought you were talking about the registration page!

Move /bp-themes/bp-default/members/single/profile/profile-loop.php to your child theme and adjust.

Move the /bp-themes/registration/register.php to your child theme.

Edit as needed.

I have the same question

@Andy

sorry if my following questions are off-topic:

when I do create a “Private Group” on Group-creation:

– are the members-data who have joined this “Private-Group” visible to search-engines like Google ?

– are the user-images (avatar-images) and user-Profile-Fields of “Private-Group-Members” visible to search-engines ?

– is the user-activity (e.g. Permalink-comments) within a “Private Group” being exploited to search-engines or is it hidden from search-engines ?

– are all data from “Private-Groups” are actually hidden from other members within an installation ?

So if “Private Groups” would be hidden from search-engines, this would be perfect “Privacy” – just need to setup “Private-Groups” only, instead of “Public-Groups” ?

Many thanks.

I simply did the easy things. I added yes or no questions. I put in default profile fields they would have to answer and I added a date of birth field.

What I don’t understand is right now I have registrations closed and they are still signing up.

Registration has been closed for almost an hour and I still got 8 or 9 spam accounts over the last 40 minutes.

How is that possible?

just a note, nick.. .stop bumping your own posts after 2 minutes, they will not gain in popularity, they will just gain you some kick.

this is a good suggestion for a plugin, having chained selections is good… http://dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex16/chainedselects/index.htm and can be applied to a form if well built… you need a new interface for the custom fields to do so.

Not a security vulnerability, but looks like a value check is missing somewhere, I’ll fix this.

Privacy, advanced xprofile fields and front-end posting have to do with cleaning up loose ends in existing core functionality; access, member management, usability, etc. They are not in the same category as requesting a gallery or event management feature.

The polls are silly window dressing. The last one was largely ignored. Probably rightly so. We don’t pay Andy’s rent, Automattic does. Don’t pretend like we’re some hippy commune ruled by consensus.

– X-Profile Fields.

Surely you can add these at the registration phase – just make them “not required” and then users can fill them in later – so the registraion isn’t 10 hours long

Advanced Search for X-Profile-Fields was on the BP-Roadmap for 1.2, same as “Privacy-Features” and “User-Blogs-Posts from Front-end”. However those 3 features did not make it into BP1.2

I think most of the requested and discussed features on this Forum are Plugin-territory, but the mentioned 3 features should definitely be within Core and are essential to run a Social-Network-website:

– Privacy Features

– Advanced Search & X-Profile Fields

– User-Blogs-Posts from Front-end

I would even say:

STOP any further feature-polls for BP 1.3 and focus on above mentioned 3 features ONLY.

Yeah, but it is worth it…

I had to create 21 groups (one for each region). It took me a couple of hours. Now it is much easier for people to find each other. I also created a page with an image map and links to all regions. I can see that people have great use of it. Not everybody understand that they can click on profile fields to find others.

If you need a ton, maybe you should rethink your structure? Because then people also would have to fill in a ton of profile fields? That might scare them off.

Another argument for creating groups – each group have their own RSS, making it easy to follow.

Maybe you could get it to work with two plugins:

First, install the auto-join-groups, but beware, I think it is still the old version (1.0) in https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/auto-join-groups/ and not the new one (1.1) which you can find here: http://brentandmary.net/2009/10/24/bn-auto-join-group-plugin/ I have tested it with BP 1.2 and WPMU 2.9.1.1 and it works. (It also works on WPMU 2.8.4 with BP 1.1.2)

You need to create groups that match your profile fields, wheter it is interests or location. Only ‘selectbox’ and ‘textbox’ type profile fields are supported. The plugin work backwards so all existing users will be connected to their corresponding group. Neat.

Then, I imagine, you can try some of the plugins that will email group members about updates.

I’ve installed Cimy User Extra Fields plugin. Pluses and minuses.