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THis is a great plugin but I have some issues. Does anyone else have the problem where the user can sign up and post to the stream via “latest activity” and edit their profile BEFORE I can moderate in admin? Shouldn’t technically the user have ZERO privileges until approved? What happens is that all spam registrations, show in stream as added. I asked the plugin author in his forum but he is unresponsive. Anyone have this working properly? Thanks in advance!
BP 1.1.3
WP 2.8.6
PHP 5.2.8
Last time I posted an error with the default theme on the Members page if Friends is disabled. Now, enabling the Friends feature gave another error, this time it’s with mySQL.
This error message shows up on the ‘Friends (0)’ tab within my user profile page:
WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ') ORDER BY FROM_UNIXTIME(um.meta_value) DESC LIMIT 0, 10' at line 1 for query SELECT DISTINCT u.ID as id, u.user_registered, u.user_nicename, u.user_login, u.user_email , um.meta_value as last_activity FROM wp_users u LEFT JOIN wp_usermeta um ON um.user_id = u.ID WHERE u.spam = 0 AND u.deleted = 0 AND u.user_status = 0 AND um.meta_key = 'last_activity' AND u.ID IN () ORDER BY FROM_UNIXTIME(um.meta_value) DESC LIMIT 0, 10 made by include, require, require_once, do_action, call_user_func_array, bp_core_do_catch_uri, load_template, require_once, locate_template, load_template, require_once, bp_has_members, BP_Core_Members_Template->bp_core_members_template, BP_Core_User->get_users WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ') ORDER BY FROM_UNIXTIME(um.meta_value) DESC' at line 1 for query SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT u.ID) FROM wp_users u LEFT JOIN wp_usermeta um ON um.user_id = u.ID WHERE u.spam = 0 AND u.deleted = 0 AND u.user_status = 0 AND um.meta_key = 'last_activity' AND u.ID IN () ORDER BY FROM_UNIXTIME(um.meta_value) DESC made by include, require, require_once, do_action, call_user_func_array, bp_core_do_catch_uri, load_template, require_once, locate_template, load_template, require_once, bp_has_members, BP_Core_Members_Template->bp_core_members_template, BP_Core_User->get_users
I really am not sure what this is about. Is it to do with mySQL version that I’m running?
Topic: Spam, Spam and more spam
I shouldn’t joke about spam as it is quite a problem with buddypress. I’ve tried so many things and I am out of ideas. In this Forum there are lots of suggestions but everyone still seems to be SOL or just hanging on.
Where I have failed:
BP Registration Options
This would be great if it worked. But, it still allows users to register. Worse, is that they show up under Site Wide Activity on the home page for everyone to see that you are getting spam. It would be great if there was a fix for that. For anyone with lots of spam, start here, at least you can have some options: http://webdevstudios.com/support/wordpress-plugins/buddypress-registration-options/
Not to get sidetracked here but this is a cool plugin I found for the Sitewide Activity Widget:http://buddypress.org/forums/topic/advanced-recent-site-wide-posts-widget
With BP options I get several errors, which I will share since the Forum by the Plugin’s Author seems to not get much response. http://webdevstudios.com/support/forum/buddypress-registration-options/not-working-and-have-errors/ – Maybe we can work some things out here bc I am not the only one with problems with this plugin.
SI Captcha
http://wpmu.org/si-captcha-anti-spam-wpmu-and-buddypress-plugin-contest-entry/
Well it works, or at least shows on the registration page. BUT, the crafty bots or slave laborists just fill in the codes and it’s a waste as well as an extra step for a user that is worthless.
ReCaptcha
Here is another great one.
http://buddypress.org/forums/topic/buddypress-spam-1
But it only shows on the comments and NOT on the registration page itself. It’s been “modified” to work with BP, but I can’t get it to work. Again, slave labor can overcome this one quite easily. Think I am kidding about the slave labor: http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20080311/human-captcha-breaking/
Here is an entire group for spam lovers like myself:
http://buddypress.org/groups/fighting-spam-splogs
There are some good tips in that link above here are a few swings I took:
http://wordpress-plugins.feifei.us/hashcash/
No dice for me. It seems to work for comments but not the registration page.
http://www.poradnik-webmastera.com/projekty/invisible_defender/
Same again… No dice for me. It seems to work for comments but not the registration page.
http://www.svenkubiak.de/nospamnx-en/
Giving it a whirl now… I’ll keep you posted.
http://www.hybrid6.com/webgeek/plugins/wp-spamfree
Same again… No dice for me. It seems to work for comments but not the registration page.
Here is my favorite and WAS my most hopeful option:
http://www.bp-tricks.com/tips_and_tricks/stopping-the-sploggers/
Guess what, still getting spam. Loads of it too. You would think a little core hacking would throw them off. Tsk tsk…. not these bots/humans. A little tip here for the changing of the slug and the code you add to the config files – Don’t forget to put the define statements BEFORE the STOP EDITING HERE LINE in the config.php. That had me and others scratching our heads for a while.
How about this one:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/signup-code
Yeah why don’t we just go ahead and give the user a puzzle via snail mail and they can can send smoke signals once they get it. Or better yet just send them a link to Facebook and save everyone some headache. This MAY work but it is too much to ask of a user.
Maybe a few checkboxes will throw the bots off:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/terms-of-service
Guess what? No dice.. still getting spam.
.htaccess solutions:
http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/spam-blogs-and-buddypress/
This one seemed hopeful. But no change, still getting spam.
# BEGIN ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .yourbpsignupslug*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*yourhomedomain.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
RewriteRule (.*) http://die-spammers.com/ [R=301,L]
# END ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION
You can try banning IPs but an .htaccess tidbit or by using most of the plugins above. But IPs are a dime a dozen to spammers and thats a total waste of time if you ask me.
In Summary:
Short of rewriting the registration page and my own plugin for spam I am at a loss. Any tips would be helpful. Hopefully this post will help some others with the same problem. Sorry for the sarcasm but it’s how I survive the insanity.
Site: http://hoopsjones.com
BP Version 1.1.3
WP – 2.8.6
When I try to reactivate BP after automatically upgrading I get the following error:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare bp_activity_install() (previously declared in /home/technope/public_html/arduino.za.net/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity.php:19) in /home/technope/public_html/arduino.za.net/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity.php on line 52
I don’t know if my other actions would have resulted in this, but before upgrading BP I update WPMU I did the following.
I deactivated the BP plugin and all other dependant plugins. But before clicking “upgrade automatically” I went to go and mark sum blogs and users as spam, because I had an attack of the spambots again. Then when clicking automatically upgrade it upgraded without any problems but when it was time to activate the plugin then the above fatal error occured.
My BP site is running with a modified version of the parent theme which has worked fine since before the previous update.
I am running WPMU 2.8.6 and upgraded BP from 1.1 to 1.1.3 (I might have missed an upgrade because I haven’t had time to work on the site in the last month or two)