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March 15, 2016 at 11:21 pm #251309

In reply to: How to delete the Name field from Registration?

David Bisset
Participant

Using Gravity Forms is one solution, yes. It’s easy once you have the plugin itself PLUS the “user registration” plugin they offer which i think is open only for the developer license. It completely replaces the BuddyPress registration form. I use it for a variety of sites that need more complex registration forms (there of course is a tradeoff, but one of the pluses is that Gravity Forms are rock solid against registration spam).

March 12, 2016 at 2:07 am #251134

Topic: Disable or Hide Private Message Button

in forum How-to & Troubleshooting

namrons
Participant

In an effort to prevent spam I would like to hide the “private message” button only if you are not already friends with someone. Can anyone suggest any code to achieve this?

March 10, 2016 at 9:14 pm #251005

In reply to: bp_core_add_message error custom

mcpalls
Participant

the link is
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-messages-spam-blocker/

March 7, 2016 at 4:05 pm #250805

In reply to: Activation mails not send after update

Paul Wong-Gibbs
Keymaster

@dcstyle Not directly for your issue (the success says as far as we can tell, it was delivered to the email server — if you didn’t receive it and if it didn’t get marked as spam, the mail server could have rejected delivery for all kinds of reasons.

We will have a couple of fixes coming into BuddyPress 2.5.1 this week which have a chance of affecting your problem. I think we need to wait for 2.5.1 to come out, then you can update to that, and test again.

March 6, 2016 at 10:19 am #250751

In reply to: Activation mails not send after update

Paul Wong-Gibbs
Keymaster

@ingeb1983 @dcstyle @ingeb1983 Hi. If any of you are still using BP 2.5 and still have problems and are NOT using “WP-Mail-SMTP” or “Easy WP SMTP” plugins, maybe could you help me test something?

Download this plugin and activate it (it’s called “BP Email Debug”). Then do something to get a BuddyPress email sent — something that you know was working in previous versions that is broken now.

This new plugin should send an email to the Site Admin email address (wp-admin Settings > General > Email Address) containing information that will help us to better understand the problem.

You only need to get 1 or 2 of these emails; you can de-activate the new plugin afterwards (otherwise you could spam yourself!).

Then please share the content of the email here, or email it to me if you don’t want it public.

Thanks

March 5, 2016 at 9:27 pm #250736

In reply to: Emails are going into spam folder in Buddypress 2.5

Paul Wong-Gibbs
Keymaster

@neev07 I’m not sure there’s anything we can do to fix this yet, but you might be able to do some research and figure out if there’s any adjustments we can make.

I suspect the content in the email is going to play a big part (e.g. number of links, images or not, and so on).

For example, you could get a bunch of email accounts on services like Gmail, Hotmail, and others, and creating accounts on your site with those email addresses. Do something in BuddyPress that sends exactly the same email to each user, and then you can check all the inboxes and see if ALL services are spamming the emails, or only some.

The results of that, plus some research on Google, might give us some ideas.

March 3, 2016 at 2:02 pm #250540

Topic: Problem in email “accepted your friendship request”

in group forum Installing BuddyPress

lanvalencia
Participant

I install the new version of Buddypress and i can put in my lenguaje the emails of the site and i translate all but the email “accepted your friendship request” do not send the page and i translate all very well and the situation is in “Recipient has had a friend request accepted by a member.” I look in my email of hotmail and i do not recive this email in the inbox and spam and the rest of emails working very well. Thank you.

February 23, 2016 at 9:56 am #250197

In reply to: Spam registrations – how to stop them?!

@mcuk
Participant

Hi @JackJJW,

Not used either on a live site as mine is still in development locally, but read good things about the plugins WP-SpamShield Anti-Spam and Wangguard. May be worth looking into.

February 19, 2016 at 9:46 pm #250093

In reply to: Hold Specific Member Types for Manual Activation
Andrew Tibbetts
Participant
Solution:

There is an action to hook to inside bp_core_activate_signup() that fires right after activating the account ( user clicked the link in the email ), so when the user hits /activate this will fire and reset the user_status to 3 ( 1 is spammer I guess ). Now to figure out the rest…

Here is the code ( the second function disallows the user from logging in with custom message ):
```
add_action( 'bp_core_activated_user', 'custom_bp_core_activated_user' );
function custom_bp_core_activated_user( $user ) {

	if ( empty( $user ) ) {
		
		return false;
	}

	if ( is_array($user) ) {
		
		$user_id = $user['user_id'];
	}
	else {
		
		$user_id = $user;
	}

	$member_type = bp_get_member_type($user_id);
	
	if ( $member_type == 'member_type_to_manually_activate' ) {
		
		global $wpdb;
		
		$wpdb->query( $wpdb->prepare( "UPDATE $wpdb->users SET user_status = 3 WHERE ID = %d", $user_id ) );
	}
}

add_filter( 'authenticate', 'custom_authenticate', 30 );
function custom_authenticate( $user ) {

	if ( is_wp_error( $user ) || empty( $user ) ) {

		return $user;
	}

	if ( 3 == $user->user_status ) {

		$member_type_name = bp_get_member_type($user->ID);
		$member_type = bp_get_member_type_object($member_type_name);
		
		return new WP_Error( 'invalid_username', __( '<strong>ERROR</strong>: All ' . $member_type->labels['name'] . ' accounts require manual confirmation from an admin. You might be contacted soon to verify your identity. You will recieve an email once your account is approved.', 'buddypress' ) );
	}

	return $user;
}
```
February 10, 2016 at 5:52 pm #249719

In reply to: after Plugin activation all users marked as Spam

calvin
Participant

Not too sure what is going on cos I have never experience this in all my buddypress installation even with the one installed after i had 1000 members.

But you may want to have a look at this previous topic, may help you https://buddypress.org/support/topic/not-a-spammer-but-marked-as-a-spammer/

February 10, 2016 at 4:22 pm #249714

In reply to: Automatically Send Activation Email and Activate New Signups Without Moderation

David Cavins
Keymaster

This plugin automatically activates new user accounts: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-disable-activation-reloaded/

I sure hope that you’re weeding out spammers on the way in, or this site isn’t open to the world.

February 2, 2016 at 3:22 pm #249405

In reply to: How could all activities for a user be deleted?

Slava Abakumov
Moderator

When a user is marked as spammer – all user activity/groups data is deleted. Only admins can do that, AFAIK.
There are no logs or records for this action. And this action is irreversible.

January 28, 2016 at 5:45 pm #249248

In reply to: Hide some fields on Registration form

Arvind
Participant

Hello
I had added a field to restrict spam registrations (“Re-write the second combination…. types) on my site registration page using a plugin. Now after few minths that I tried removing that field, I could not find / recall that plugin, and am unable to get rid of / edit this field
Can you please help?
Should I uninstall BP and reinstall?
Regards
Arvind

January 26, 2016 at 8:48 pm #249167

In reply to: Incorrect Buddypress Numbers Vs RTMedia Numbers

Slava Abakumov
Moderator

Try visiting this link inside your site /wp-admin/tools.php?page=bp-tools and recalculate members number.
Also the difference might be in the way plugins are counting – with or without activated users, with or without spam users etc.

January 15, 2016 at 12:53 pm #248726

In reply to: Wrong Member Count

Hammy Havoc
Participant

Having this issue too; had 20,000+ spam users, deleted them, still says I’ve got over 20,000 users when in actuality I only have a few dozen.

December 21, 2015 at 11:19 pm #247953

In reply to: Spammers let in/Real people kept out.
Henry Wright
Moderator
If I disable email confirmation then it opens the site to even more spammers.

Personally, I’d never do that because as you say it opens the door to spoof emails, and therefore much more spam.

I’d reach out to your users and try to find out what is causing the emails to go into their spam folders. For example, do they have custom spam filters set up? If so, what criteria do they use to spam an email?

Also, you can do things from a server point of view:
- Be sure you’re not on any blacklists
- Check with your host that your DKIM, SPF, sender ID and domain keys are properly set
- Try Googling for more things (there’s lots to look out for)
Refs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DomainKeys_Identified_Mail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_ID
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DomainKeys
December 21, 2015 at 8:44 pm #247952

In reply to: Spammers let in/Real people kept out.

joesegal
Participant

Thanks Henry!

If I disable email confirmation then it opens the site to even more spammers.
What do you do?

December 21, 2015 at 8:10 pm #247951

In reply to: Spammers let in/Real people kept out.

Henry Wright
Moderator

You could activate some kind of registration honeypot to keep the spam bots out. This technique has worked well for me in the past.

Example: https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/registration-honeypot/

Regarding the confirmation email problem, this seems to be a common problem and one that isn’t easily solved. Many things can result in email going into spam, most are usually related to your mail server setup or the user’s own spam filter settings.

December 8, 2015 at 5:21 pm #247534

In reply to: Notification emails after import

reedy
Participant

I deactivated all other plugins and code snippets in functions.php (none of which are related to buddypress) and users are still getting spammed with these emails. How on earth can I stop this from happening? I am getting so many complaints I just don’t know how to handle this.

Maybe I just need to comment out the notification emails and just remove the functionality entirely? This is driving me (and thousands of people) crazy.

Furthermore, I am concerned that I’m going to get into trouble under the UK’s anti-spam laws.

December 8, 2015 at 3:56 pm #247530

In reply to: Registration error note persists to next screen after successfully submission

Birgit Pauli-Haack
Participant

Testing it with all plugins turned off and activating them one at a time it turns out WP-SpamShield was causing this persistent screen notification.
Posted it on WordPress.org support forum for plugin: http://bit.ly/1NfTXxv

November 18, 2015 at 8:02 pm #246912

In reply to: How to fix Activations

r-a-y
Keymaster

– Make sure email is working from WordPress.
– Tell users to check their spam folder.

If that doesn’t work, some have had success with the following plugin(s):
– Mail From: https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?type=term&q=mail+from
– A plugin that sends email via SMTP instead of PHP: https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/smtp

October 18, 2015 at 11:08 pm #245670

In reply to: How to add Captcha in Buddypress Register Form?

djsteveb
Participant

I would suggest you skip the captcha on registration and instead use something like
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-humanity/

or the plugin “good question”

There is another similar to those.. in my experience these work 100 times better in preventing spam registrations..

I also use “ip geo block”

These took my spam fighting down from hours a day to a minutes a week.

October 18, 2015 at 9:11 pm #245658

In reply to: Displaying members roles in Members list

danbp
Participant

Which role is concerned ?

Does that member exist ? Is it pending or spammed ?
Have you tried with another display filter on member’s directory ?

October 12, 2015 at 8:27 pm #245391

In reply to: Can I @everyone when I message?

Henry Wright
Moderator

There is limited spam potential, but if groups have mods mods can ban / restrict membership. And the plugin would only be used by those who thought the benefits outweighed.

I thought the same thing!

If anyone knows how, maybe you could point me towards the general code scheme for this and I can work on it as well.

Keep an eye on my GitHub repo, I should have something available within the next day or two.

October 12, 2015 at 8:19 pm #245390

In reply to: Can I @everyone when I message?

JMunce
Participant

His guys. I guess it doesn’t do this already. If you are going to write a plugin, that is great. Is it also possible to learn the code (I wm my site so I am able to reduce plugins, even though I think the plugin will be very popular).

If you want to avoid “group” and illegal characters, you could maybe use what you said there: “@allfriends” or “@allgroup” or “@allfriendsingroup” (as different functions).

Or, if you had multiple groups and wanted to message one from your own stream, maybe @allgroup’groupname’

There is limited spam potential, but if groups have mods mods can ban / restrict membership. And the plugin would only be used by those who thought the benefits outweighed.

If anyone knows how, maybe you could point me towards the general code scheme for this and I can work on it as well. Might help in the future when something else needs improving.

Thanks,
JM
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