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@nasongo,
Over 16.700 groups with only 2 having 4 members and 99% having 1 member, looks to me like your members are allowed to publish anything without control.

Group content is a huge collection of external links, and of what i’ve seen not very related to your site (The worlds Premier Staffing Solution).

Have you being spammed recently ?

there are several wp plugins that can redirect a user upon login to specific pages.
I can’t put more than two links in a reply without getting moderation held / akistmet spammed.

not sure if / how this works – seen it – never played with it:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-my-home/

might also take a peek if these can updated / adapted..
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-profile-widgets/

BuddyPress Cover
Content Aware Sidebars

several others – now do any of these work with the current version of wp / bp ? I don’t know.
Do they work with the default theme and then cause issues if a different theme was used? don’t know.

Do they cause conflicts with other plugins? have not tested.

@ravan – I would think multi-site is the best way to go for this. Use like a new-blog-defaults plugin to auto make their new sites a certain theme and have pre-populated content to make it easy.

Of course you would setup a single site blog, give each new user editor privelages and manually create a page for each person.. I did that once.. I think the way multi-site seperates things is a little less messy – and a “full blown multi-site” is not that big a deal these days – back in the early wpmu days it was a lot – these days adding the couple lines of code and telling wp to put the new blogs -err “sites” into a subfolder is not much to deal with.

I have found as long as you use a blog defaults plugin to set a bunch of settings for each one automatically (users must be logged in to comment) – stuff like that – you can save server resources and not have to worry too much about users who are not paying attention to comments spam and the like.

This works for me
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-group-organizer/

Your anti spam not working use stop spam control plugin

Group organizer plugin maybe?

Also use anti spam plugin for registration

@kakumeionline – if your post had three links in it – it will be held for moderation and not appear unless someone approves it.

If your post did not have three or more links in it – then I think akismet has flagged your ip addy as a spammer perhaps – and it got sent to the spam box.

Sometimes adding certain words like “how to add a field for users to choose their S3X, and if they are L3sbian, G@y Trans – will keep a post from saving I think.

Random thoughts from an end user – I don’t really know how the internals of this BP dot org really work (not a forum moderator or anything)

So these are my guesses

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