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IF: >> wp-admin >> Site Admin >> Options >> Allow new registrations >> Only user account can be created

is chosen, you can not have blogs, the logic stand… this is a little flaw in WPMU, not buddypress… this will be corrected with WP3.0

Change the register slug and add more required options on the BP signup page. The sploggers look for the defaults, so change ’em.

Another good option is to change your registration page slug.

There is nothing protecting spammers from registering on testbp.org. I get some occasionally, but I nuke them with “mark as spam” as soon as they pop up. I found since with the new default theme spam has reduced significantly.

SI Captcha is a good spam prevention method. There really are a lot of options, but don’t search for “BuddyPress spam prevention”… this is not a BP issue, it’s a WordPress issue. You need to search for WordPress spam prevention instead.

@jittopjose : SI CAPTCHA works like charm with BP. It protects my site from spam registrations/ comments since about a year.

@Andy – so you don’t know of a solution to this? How is it solved on testbp.org?

This is a problem with WPMU and spammers simply wanting to register spam blogs. I’ve not really seen the problem on standard WordPress, and with blog registration disabled.

This is actually one of the greatest issues with WPMU/BuddyPress at the moment. Many people seem to have this problem and when I ask in Twitter nobody seems to have a solution to this. I noticed the problem on a community website I was (am) a member of and then again on a new installation for a community website I am building. Spammers just keep registering.

Is this more of a problem with WPMU than of BuddyPress?

Is somebody out there NOT having this problem?

http://www.bp-tricks.com/tips_and_tricks/stopping-the-sploggers/

Si-Captcha was ineffective in controlling spam registrations on my site. I have to delete 10-15 spammers daily.

I recommend the SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/

Don’t know how BP_REGISTER_SLUG behaves, but have you tried

bp_core_redirect( $bp->root_domain . '/register' );

or

bp_core_redirect( get_bloginfo( 'siteurl') . '/register' );

?

Can i enter this thread with a question:

I want my network only be visibe for logged in users. i put the following code in bp-custom.php but it leads to a redirct loop and i don’t see the mistake:

function restrict_access() {



global $bp, $bp_unfiltered_uri;



if (!is_user_logged_in() ) {

bp_core_redirect( $bp->root_domain . '/' . BP_REGISTER_SLUG );

}

}



add_action( 'wp', 'restrict_access', 3 );

Any hint for me?

I would love to see this, and actually I think it would be prudent to keep people’s activity out of the stream until they have been a member for a selectable amount of time, say 2 days, 3 days, a week. Perhaps even have an option fot amount of posts or something. This would keep the spam blog posts they make from pushing the legit ones off my front page.

I would also like to see this filter turned off if logged in as admin, so we could administer the the spammers better – I often go to my front page and look at the activity stream to find the spammers – so if this filtered my view, than it would be harder to hunt them.

Good idea – maybe a plugin will be created like this one day.

Here’s a plugin to handle like Wildrot (and myself btw):

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/plugin-force-login-for-member-pages

@Wilbrot, you have the example of a well managed community…

btw, your plugin here would redirect anybody in any situation to the registration page,… even google etc…

That’s not quite correct - only non-logged-in users are being redirected :p

let people browse your site, they will register if they see fit.

Agreed, partially at least: I’ve been running a BP community a while ago where I used a similar snippet: Guests could browse the site freely as long as they did not try to access members’ profiles. If they did, they were redirected to the registration page. Helped a whole lot to generate registrations - with a surprisingly low percentage of “dead accounts”.

btw, your plugin here would redirect anybody in any situation to the registration page,… even google etc… i’m not sure this logic is good… let people browse your site, they will register if they see fit.

That’s what we call a snippet.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_redirect

Hi, I think I’ve done everything correctly.

On my register page – the username is removed , but when I say “complete sign-up” , the page just remains on the register page and no registering takes place.

I used normal windows notepad to create the javascript file and saved it in my registration folder of my own theme.

Don’t know?