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Akismet should help get most blog comment spam , and it also has integration with both BuddyPress and bbPress.

You shouldn’t need to disable the activity stream commenting – but try it.

There are several plugins re bbPress spam, such as:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/

@zewitchi

with new servers, I try to use these two plugins:
Have you tried “contact form 7” or “si-contact form” plugins to see if your server allows wp to send emails?

on some servers they both work to send an email to my admin email account – on some servers only one of those will work (without tweaking smtp settings and such)

in my limited experience – if neither of those work – then I would write my server people and ask them if some kind of mod sec or php limiting setting that the server company sets would be preventing your wordpress install from sending email via php.

There are other ways to get WP to send emails – but your server people will usually see something in the error log, or know that they have your account limited in some way that either they will change for you, or tell you that you need a different hosting plan in order to use features like that – since they are sometimes abused by the hosting account leasee, or spam / hack programs that hit unsecured php scripts.

(I’m no expert, just had some experiences. I’m sure others know more about this than I do)

btw I tried to sign up an account with your site, and used one of my non-gmail non-yahoo addys, which usually lets everything through (no spm filters and such) and I never got an email – so I would check with your host first.

hi @djsteveb,

thank you for sharing, and mentionned topic marked as spam.

Have a nice day.

@danbp –

those are interesting – I’d like to add that anyone considering integrating those should pay close attention to the terms of service, privacy policies, usage restrictions, etc – most that I have found that are “free” either crash ~ 20 users, or are hosted on third party servers that are not in your own control – so reliability, and privacy, third party ads out of your control – stuff like that I always found (aside from quick chat, which runs on own server using sql database I think)

to get a little fancier than quick chat, I have tried more then 50 free / freemium / and premium options out there.. but I had not seen that one pointed out at code canyon – I might buy it and try it to see how it works, unfortunately I have found that even most premium options fail with server load issues once about 20 people are chatting – especially if they use the same mysql that your wordpress is tapping into. I also need to find someone who can go over the code in that one to see how hackable it may or may not be – any suggestions for a security review person?

If you can budget a couple hundred bucks you could get into:

123flashchat, I can say that it is solid enough to keep running for months on end even with lots of chatters.. there is a wp integration kit avail for that premium program – but I have not tried it yet. The support is either really great, or no answer – but I think part of that is my email services auto-blocking stuff from a busy email server in hong kong – and some language barriers.

Another premium option with will require a red5 media server or something similar is av-chat by nusoft – it has buddypress integration that I use – will pull in bp avatars into the chat room and such – it’s pretty solid, and lots of customization options.
( https://wordpress.org/plugins/avchat-3/ )

I use these as single page chat rooms, not something site-wide on every page.

@danbp or @moderators – I am pretty sure the comment two above which links “cards” is just purely seo link spam 🙁 –

hi @fox_black

i’m pleased to see that you read the Codex. But sorry for your mention, there is also written a few words before: In BuddyPress 1.1 this all works with one click.

And if not enough, the paragraph title is Introduction for Forums in BP 1.2+

As of june 2015, current BuddyPress version is 2.3.1 and there is no forum included in BuddyPress, reason why you haven’t find any information.

Further on Codex you can read:
There are a couple of reasons why you might want to consider migrating to the bbPress plugin:

bbPress is being actively developed; the “Discussion Forums” component in BuddyPress is retiring as of BuddyPress 1.7. The retired component will continue to work, but no new features will be incorporated by the BuddyPress team.
bbPress has a bunch of cool features that BP Discussion Forums doesn’t: extensive moderation via the WP admin dashboard, topic splitting, revisions, spam management, favorites, subscriptions, and more.
See: https://codex.buddypress.org/legacy/getting-started/using-bbpress-2-2-with-buddypress/

If you want a forum aside BP you have to use a forum plugin and bbPress is recommended for that.

URGENT PROBLEM!

I am having the same problem. I just logged on as the administrator to delete a user and the only user that showed up on the list was myself. The wierd thing is that when you look at the user count for all users, all users are there, however, clicking on that link still only brings up my user. I deactivated all of my plugins and one by one began activating them again. I got to the BuddyPress Version 2.2.3.1 and activated it and that is when I could duplicate the problem. This is only recent and I am sure that I did an upgrade recently. Sunday was the last time I logged in and there were no problems at the time. For the time being I have left the rest of my plugins deactivated and I would be happy to give you access if you need a password or username to get in. My site is http://www.putznutzcabinfever.com. For the time being, and for security purposes I will be reactivating a spam plugin and one that limits the menu. These are STOP SPAM and ULTIMATE USER. So, you can go back to deactivating all plugins when you look into it. I just don’t want to allow signups or public access to some of the pages.

If I can help in any way, I will be happy to.

I found this answer to this issue by: @donalyza. He said:

“if you use phpmyadmin, you can easily export the 3 tables related to groups from site 1 and import them in site 2. phpMyadmin has natively import/export tools and avoids you to use an extra plugin to generate CSV or sql formated files.

xxx_bp_groups
xxx_bp_groups_groupmeta
xxx_bp_groups_members

xxx is the prefix you entered during the wp install. By default it is wp, but it is recommended to use another one. Spambots are too much in love with wp_ prefix. You’re warned ! :d”

I just tried it and it worked, however I had to edit my prefix accordingly to the database prefix I was uploading it to. I used “Coda” to do this, but any similar program works. The site I exporting from had “wp_bp_groups_members” and I changed it to “qou_bp_groups_members” which was the new site prefix.

I tries everything for spam and the only thing that worked was the WangGuard plugin. Works great at stopping spammers from registering and creating groups.
Now I have no spam trouble at all and it’s all i use. No capta or Akismet or anything else.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wangguard/

There is no magic recipe against spam.
Following some basic recommendation is a first step.
No user called “admin”, no tables prefix beginning with wp_ and so on.
Avoid publishing your site url as long as you have a “spam hole” is also a good practice….

https://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress
https://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam/Denying_Access

The account is blocked and marked as spam, uses this https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/update_user_status

never use “register” as url for sign up page. Spammers look for this. Go into permalink settings and change to something else sand save. URL redirects not right

It is not Buddypress that is causing the error, but reflecting that a comment has been submitted that should be moderated because it looks like spam.

If you want all the links to go thru, go to the Dashboard/Settings/Discussion/Comment Moderation
and change the number of links it allows to 0. (Or maybe just up it to what you are comfortable with.)

You should of searched the forum for many answers to this already posted.

There are a lot of options and solutions with this… for me, I use the plugin “buddypress humanity” on one of my sites, and a different / similar plugin “good question” on another site.

Change the default questions and answers… this stops most of the auto-bot spammers.. a few manual people may get through, but it cut does spam signups on my site by 99%.

One of my sites I disable “group creation” for all users, as that seems to be a target for many of them.

I also use another plugin with my bp+wp / multi-site … which sets “blog defaults” so that any user who creates a new blog has settings automatically enabled that “block this site from search engine indexing” – if someone signs up and creates a site and adds original content, I will go in an manually change that setting.. most people who “create a site (blog on multi-site) – don’t use them, or are spammers – so I don’t need them sucking away page rank juice or clogging up the activity stream with BS.

random thoughts from another BP user…

Shouldn’t a User promoted to Group Moderator be able to moderate content in that Group, regardless of their WP Role and capabilities?

Sounds logic, but No. See documentation in bp-core/bp-core-caps.php for the “why”. 😉

Since BP 1.6, group moderators can only delete, move, spam group forum content.

External reference.

hi @dani-girl,

intersting question, but thought you’re wrong about Directive 95/46/CE. You have a too strict opinion ! If it would be real, nobody in Europe couldn’t use WordPress and probably also many other CMS’s.
Which is the EU country you are off ?

An e-mail is a personnal data and the directive applies. But…

WordPress need it (username, email and password) to work on registering. That is a legitimate and technical reason, which is allowed.

You don’t collect it illegaly, or by roundabout and the user has access to it any time. Emails never appear publicly on WP and are used for internal purpose only.

Opt-in is mandatory since 2002 in Europe. This means you have to prevent/ask the user before he sign in.
If you clearly write and expose publicly (and easy to access) your policy, explain why you ask the mail, that you freely remove any user data on demand for example, you can ask for an email. This is also valuable for cookies. You should inform the user that you use them… Resaling and forwarding emails for commercial purpose is of course forbidden, but only IF your site has no direct reason to do that. (e-commerce is not a direct reason 😉 )

On the other side, as site owner, you can’t use your members email for advertisement or any other mailing action without their agreement. Or you will be considered as spammer. Which is also illegal in EU.

http://www.cnil.fr/english/data-protection/official-texts/