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I think it somewhat depends on the kind of network you have but I generally recommend against open registration for blogs and, instead, have people request a blog with you instead. Yeah, it’s a bit more work and yeah, it takes away some spontaneity – but the reality is you’ll have tenfold the amount of work with monitoring for SPAM blogs AND people that do the spur of the moment “let’s start a blog” thing are not your long term bloggers either. What’s the benefit of having 100 inactive blogs on your network? I’d rather have 5 that update daily with solid, quality content. As with many things in life, quality trumps quantity any day of the week.

So, it may sound a bit counter-intuitive but I’m all for slowing down to speed up with blogs/members that are worth your effort.

1. not to be a dick but it would help a lot if you could create a better topic title than WTF??

2. that error smells really fishy…almost spam like. scary. curious to see what comes of it

It can, but the amount of spam accounts will increase dramatically. The reason for sending the account password via e-mail is to prevent spammers from simply entering a known username and password and creating 1000’s of spam blog posts on wordpress mu.

I have a similar situation, where I have a current site with 15k users, username and passwords. What I used is this plugin. It works well on wordpress and buddypress.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/external-database-authentication/

When a user logins, it checks my “other” database for the username, and validates the password against it. This means they don’t need to do the e-maiil thing, as their e-mail was already validated on the old site. It then creates the user in wordpress and the user doesn’t notice anything.

How you could do this for your friends, just make a table of all the friends, and set the same password for everyone initially, and ask them to change it. I only suggest this for very small beta sites with friends you trust, like less then 10 people.

Brad

http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta

change function in bp-blogs/bp-blogs-classes.php ->

function get_latest_posts( $blog_id = null, $limit = 5 ) {

global $wpdb, $bp;

if ( $blog_id )

$blog_sql = $wpdb->prepare( " AND p.blog_id = %d", $blog_id );

$post_ids = $wpdb->get_results( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT DISTINCT p.post_id, p.blog_id FROM " . $bp['blogs']['table_name_blog_posts'] . " p LEFT JOIN {$wpdb->base_prefix}blogs b ON p.blog_id = b.blog_id WHERE b.public = 1 AND b.deleted = 0 AND b.archived = '0' AND b.spam = 0 AND b.mature = 0 $blog_sql ORDER BY p.date_created DESC LIMIT $limit" ) );

for ( $i = 0; $i < count($post_ids); $i++ ) {

$posts[$i] = BP_Blogs_Post::fetch_post_content($post_ids[$i]);

}



return $posts;

}

to

function get_latest_posts( $blog_id = null, $limit = 5 ) {

global $wpdb, $bp;

if ( $blog_id )

$blog_sql = $wpdb->prepare( " AND p.blog_id = %d", $blog_id );

$post_ids = $wpdb->get_results( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT DISTINCT p.post_id, p.blog_id FROM " . $bp['blogs']['table_name_blog_posts'] . " p LEFT JOIN {$wpdb->base_prefix}blogs b ON p.blog_id = 1 WHERE b.public = 1 AND b.deleted = 0 AND b.archived = '0' AND b.spam = 0 AND b.mature = 0 $blog_sql ORDER BY p.date_created DESC LIMIT $limit" ) );

for ( $i = 0; $i < count($post_ids); $i++ ) {

$posts[$i] = BP_Blogs_Post::fetch_post_content($post_ids[$i]);

}



return $posts;

}

Note this part ON p.blog_id = 1 – this is blog ID you want to see on your front page & news.

I am having issues with recaptcha on signup after an upgrade.

I have all new recaptcha plugin installed, new BP, WPMU 2.6.5., new recaptcha key.

When I register with recaptcha on it loops between initial sigup page and blog title page.

Turn off recaptcha , all is good.

Need recaptcha , I get way too much spam signups.

Any ideas?

Alrighteethen, I’ve given up on a reg form on a custom login page.

Even simpler, from a code standpoint is a message on the login page that says “This is a private site. To join, please email the site administrator.” with a spam-proof mailto link. I can then manually sign them up. Pretty clunky, but it sounds like BP will be better at this kind of thing someday soon.

Nothing in spam-folder (I did this several times). Be waiting…

I highly recommend something like this, especially for signups. Spammers target MU blogs to auto-register and then auto-create/post blogs.

I’ve had a problem similar to #1. The email is actually sent but the recipient’s email server just blocks it. They never get it. It doesn’t get sent to ‘spam’ like gmail or yahoo. They just don’t get it at all.

hotmail

Right? Try complaining to Microsoft.

You don’t

EDIT: That was a bit harsh. I don’t know any way of doing that. I don’t think I want people to be allowed to do that. Spam city. I can have a 1000 junk blogs by somebody generating 1000 emails? No thanks.

One of the issues with this would be that spammers could create their own BP sites and gain access to hundreds of other sites.