@vapvarun
Thank you for replying. I can’t tell you how it happened because I do not have a clue, but I am no longer seeing the “has been marked as a spammer” in the extended profile for any of our users. I checked every one of them manually. Perhaps it was actually deleting UltimateMember (set to remove all data on delete) and its related files that did it, but everything appears to be working as it should now.
Thank you again!
@otkwebmaster let me know if you are using any plugin for spam detection or it’s displaying spammer inside users extended profile?
Once I restored the site back to its original state, I thought “ok maybe I have to install buddypress BEFORE removing Ultimate Member. So I did, created brand new pages for the buddy press pages and still all the users including me, were marked as spammers..
I am confused..
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Hello,
We would like to migrate from UltimateMember 2.0 to Buddypress. I attempted this by deactivating UltimateMember and related extension plugins. After installing Buddypress all of my current users including my admin account were marked as spammers. I searched for about an hour, but could find no fix for this. Thankfully I was wise enough to do a complete backup before doing this and ultimatley I had to restore the back up as I could not find a fix.
Can anyone assist with this?
Which plugins are you talking about? Some plugins can work for years after the last update.
I recommend moderating new sign ups using BP Registration Options and coupling that with required registration fields that allow you to judge who is requesting signup. ( “About me” for example, spammers typically fill this with spam, so a dead giveaway, “location” is another one, spammers rarely declare their location to be that reflected in their IP address).
Hi,
I am searching for a way to block unwanted people to register.
There is a lot of spam on my website.
I have read some other topics about this but the plug-ins advised are nog updated for 1 or even 7 years so they are not accurate.
Worpress 4.9.5
Buddypress 2.9.4
Theme KLEO (bought 3 weeks ago, no version mentioned)
URL http://hondengek.nl
Who can help me?
@jgflores
As per my understanding
— BuddyPress does not save any data related to IP address inside cookies.
— All the profile fields which you have created for your users are kept inside your WordPress database only, not linked to any 3rd party application. If you are using Akismet plugin for spam protection for BuddyPress, they will check logged in member IP address to cross check with their spammer’s database log, again that’s not the BuddyPress thing.
@bizzibi @cassihl If you are only looking for BP notification only not as email for new topics, you can try
https://github.com/buddydev/bbp-bp-notify-new-topic
For bbPres email notification, you can check
bbPress Notify (No Spam)
Not sure. It might be getting blocked on delivery by spam filters, perhaps due to the content of the email.
As an experiment, you could try editing that email type in the wp-admin and removing all the default words and text and links (after making a backup of this email). Enter some “testing” text of your choice, and then see if that gets delivered.
I think the only way to avoid this is to manually moderate new signups using BP Registration Options. At least that’s what I do and I’ve never had a spam group created.
Hello,
After a spammer sent some messages to all our users, I blocked them then deleted the messages via MyPHPAdmin.
Things were fine but now when I send a message it sends to random users! It looks fine when composing, but after it is sent it is always sent to
random user, random user, correct user
This happens in ALL themes, using WP 4.9.5
http://www.accessibletravelforum.com
Hello,
I meet 2 worry with buddypress:
1) When a person clicks on “forgot password” an email and sent and arrives in the spam message in the form of SPAM
2) When she click on the link sent by email to reset are password it sends her to the wordpress login page and does not ask her to change password or whatever
Sorry google translation
Hi
In the past I had many problems with spam accounts, so I want users to be activated manually. When they create their account they shouldn’t be allowed to post or reply and after activation they should have normal member permissions. Does anyone know how to achieve that?
That’s great, well, glad you found the culprit, Askimet should be seamless, only interfering with potential spam.
thank you so much for the note, to deactivate the plugins.
It was the “Akismet Anti-Spam” that caused the trouble.
Now, I can comment as I want….
Thousand thanks 🙂
nice greetings Sandra
Hello all,
Sorry if this has been answered before. I promise I tried to search the forums first. I saw similar situations, but not exact.
Twice now, I’ve had a user register on the site, verify their email and even upload a profile image… Then they are somehow able to send one of those hokey Nigerian Prince messages to every member of my online community of thousands of members. The entire thing seems more of a manual process for the spammer than an automatic one, but I guess I don’t know. For me, this is humiliating.
1) How is this spammer doing this?
2) How can I stop it from happening?
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!!
You can disable activity completely in the Dashboard>>Settings>>BuddyPress page, you can choose to disable this component. However the issue is likely to be down to the plugin that is checking for spam on the activity component of BuddyPress, which plugin is that?
As soon as I activated BuddyPress in WordPress.com, my blog followers started receiving a bunch of notification emails about new posts on random topics such as [account] [members] [register] [login] etc.
I had to deactivate BuddyPress as it started spamming my blog email followers. Any idea why this happened and what caused it?
Right thanks @derrickhall.
So is there any Buddypresss admin/dev that could jump in and help out with how to disable that?
It´s really a privacy concern and issue because groups are somewhat a private entity and updates should stay inside the groups themselves and not be spammed in the general forums update stream.
Thanks!
Hello there
I really have 2 issues
I am new to this plugin and need some help, please!
First Issue
Ok, so when someone successfully completes their registration they receive the following onscreen notice e.g.
You have successfully created your account! To begin using this site you will need to activate your account via the email we have just sent to your address.
I am trying to customise the notice to say e.g.
You have successfully created your account! To begin using this site you will need to activate your account via the email we have just sent to your address. If you do not see your email in your inbox, please check your junk or spam folder account!
To attempt to make the customisation, in file manager, I follow the path: httpdocs/wp-content/plugind/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legasy/buddypress/members/register.php. I add the additional text in the PHP file but the changes do not show up on the front end. Can anyone please advise me on this?
Second Issue
The issue I am having is the fact that I don’t have access to the register page unless I attempt to create an account. The register page somehow redirects to the home page even though the Buddypress settings are set to register.
Thank you in advance
Hi, it looks like the issue is unexpected behavior from Outlook.com:
BuddyPress New User Activation Emails & Resends not working
Ending up in spam is not surprising. Email is complicated, and you can check the web for guides about improving email deliverability from your server. Here’s one:
8 Best Practices To Improve Your Email Deliverability
I’m new to buddypress. I am testing adding a new user. The new user doesn’t receive an activation email. After several hours. Still no email. None in junk or spam folder. Nothing. I heard I might have to set up WP Mail SMTP. Is that required?
Did you install any sort of anti-spam plugin? Many of them tend to treat university email addresses as spam as it is a common tactic for email spam?
Also, check with your host to see if they are running something like apache spamassassin and see if that’s preventing you from receiving the spam emails. (while typically its used for inbound emails its always good to see). Otherwise, you can also try using a plugin like.
Easy WP SMTP
And setting it up via SMTP to see if that helps any.
Hello friends,
I have a pretty big problem. It turns out that I have BuddyPress installed on my website a news magazine. The problem is that when someone registers as a new user if their email is hotmail the confirmation message does not arrive, but it does not even reach the spam tray, it does not arrive. I’ve tried with Gmail and it’s going well.
For this reason I requested help to support from my hosting provider. They told me that the problem was in one of the mail headers that BuddyPress sends to activate the account and it is this:
List-Unsubscribe: <>
The mail includes this header that is correct, what is not good is that within <> there is nothing, there should be an email or a link to unsubscribe. As they tell me in support it is very likely that this incomplete header is causing Hotmail to completely discard this email.
Can you help me solve this problem? There are many users who use Hotmail, so the problem is quite serious.
Thank you very much and best regards
