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the only place i see the new activity update 'type' => 'new_member' is under bp_core_screen_activation() which is called with an activation key – maybe this is restricted to multisite installs?

the activity means someone who is active on the site… registrations have to be complete before being considered active… this is to avoid spam bots to be considered active on the site… so when the new members visit the site back and “do” something, they are tracked by the actvity stream.

I was actually going to use this one since I don’t need registration or payment: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/calendar/

In my site I use this plugin. It has all the basic functions I need – RSVP, confirmation emails, payment bridge, etc. – but the interface is a mess. It also has no BP integration, but I don’t really need that in my project.

I had planned to restructure, rewrite and expand the plugin, also including the excellent jQuery plugin FullCalendar. I’m very interested to see what Erwin and Marius Ooms come up with! A connection with groups, Buddypress’ killer app imho, sounds like a great idea as well.

But for my project I really need a solid event management tool, like a self-hosted version of eventbrite.com, integrated with the BP members database. I don’t really need a solution that allows members to create events or put stuff on a calendar.

Will Erwin and Marius solutions be an event management tool or more like an expanded community calendar? I’d encourage them to look into the EdgeTechWeb plugin…

EDIT:

Actually, the EdgeTechWeb plugin is really ugly. I need alternatives…

PayPal Booking Framework

Advanced Events Registration (based on EdgeTechWeb’s…?)

Eventr

…

@wowfood3 but activation emails are actually sent out. Why isn’t your install sending them?

That would be a great plugin. Makes sense to send folks to “Activity” to check the latest.

Edit the blog registration out of the theme.

Copy /bp-themes/registration/register.php to your child theme and edit accordingly.

If you don’t have a child theme, read up on it here:

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

I’m going to paraphrase a line out of the iPhone ads:

“There’s a plugin for that!”

Check out this plugin by Brajesh Singh:

http://www.thinkinginwordpress.com/2009/10/autoactivate-users-and-blogs-at-buddypress-signup/

I think it needs to be updated for BP 1.2 though.

I just found the same thing, and I change it manually through the database, the _bp_xprofile_fields table.

This is in the buddypress admin

….wp-admin/admin.php?page=bp-general-settings

ciao !

Use the older version then:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-redirect-to-profile/download/

I’ve now deleted the register pages inside the bbpress folders, and that seems to have halted the spam registrations for now. Fingers crossed

I’m getting about 50 spam registrations a day on one client site since the start of this week.

We’ve modified the register slug, changed text on the register page, deleted the wp-signup.php file, and implemented the following in our .htaccess file:

# BEGIN ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .join-lorem*

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*mydomain.com.* [OR]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$

RewriteRule (.*) http://mydomain.com/spam-prevention [R=301,L]

# END ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION

Still the spammers are getting through.

Turning off blog creation / new user registration is not an option… otherwise, there would be no point in trying to offer a blog platform / social community.

Asking users to wait until their application to join is approved, or asking them to fill in additional fields at signup will just hamper the chances of them signing up and using the site.

Anyone have any suggestions?

I don’t want to tell clients: “we’ll build on BuddyPress for you, but you might have to remove 100s of spam blogs every week”

Note: the problem is worse than just the backlinks they create, it also reflects badly on the professionalism / appearance of your site, as their spam posts show up in activity streams, in aggregators (such as showing recent site wide posts and so on).

This is a serious problem.

Note: a lot of these registrations come from a small number of IP addresses, is there anyway to block certain IP addresses from registering?

He means either a) install Buddypress with regular, non WPU version of WordPress, possible since BP1.2 or b) go into your Site Admin–>Admin–>Allow new registrations and disable it in the WPMU dashboard.

@dwenaus:

Go to example.com/blogs when you’re logged in.

You should see the “Create a Blog” button next to the h3.

This is only if you have blog registration open on WPMU of course!

@Michael Removing via CSS is not the same as dealing with it server side. CSS is simply a presentational language which is applied to the DOM, in order to have been able to remove via CSS requires that the elements had been outputed by the server, i.e sent to the browser; the form elements still exist. If grabbing the page using CURL or some similar means you would have that section of the form available.

Wrapping the form section in a php conditional means that as normal the file is passed to the parsing engine to process and compile into the final file to send to the browser, it sees my instruction to ignore that section so simply never includes it in final output.

I do not claim this is the best approach but it works, I do not want users to take a blog initially I would rather it a considered decision once members. Using this approach I have had no further spam blogs (other than real human twits signing up) still get user signups but at least no blogs are created.

@Andrea_r

Thanks wasn’t aware of that plugin, however do think that given the options exist exist in the backend that they could have been better thought through or even simply better worded.

@josh101 How did use rpx to take care of the Facebook connect issue on your site? I tried it out but it doesn’t seem to work with BP 1.2 or the registration pages.

anyone knows any simple plugins to use for email activation on new registration?

on wpmu it sends the activation email and on single wp it doesn’t. There might be a workaround for this and maybe a plugin.

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By the way, which software are you using to edit your language files… Poedit?