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@jessiewordpress in a way yes. Either because the activation email got caught in their spam folder, or they have not clicked on the activation link, or they did click on the activation link but did not log in yet.

@jessiewordpress – might want to check out either “good question” (change default question / answers!) – or ‘buddypress humanity’ as well. They have made a huge impact on the spam registration issues we used to deal with.

Spam bots are clever, that’s it.

Sometimes replies are maked as spam. That may have been the reason? Either way, it would probably have been better if the notification was cleared to avoid confusion at your end.

Feel free to open a Trac ticket to report the problem to our development team.

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org

I’ve approved the post that was previously marked as spam so it should be visible now:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/bp-2-2-broke-chat-and-messenger/?view=all#post-233839

Hi @hemant-ahir

echo bp_core_get_total_member_count();

This will display the total number of members for your installation. Note that this particular figure will account for all non-spam activated users even if they have done nothing on your site after activating their account.

echo bp_core_get_active_member_count();

This figure is the total number of members that have performed some kind of site activity after activating their account (i.e. active users).

Hope this helps.

Having re-looked over your code for bp_activity_add() above, try setting the activity type to new_blog_post

For example:

$activity_id = bp_activity_add( array(	
    'action'            => 'A link from NewsSite', // The activity action - e.g. "Jon Doe posted an update"
    'content'           => $post_content,        // Optional: The content of the activity item e.g. "BuddyPress is awesome guys!"
    'component'         => false,                  // The name/ID of the component e.g. groups, profile, mycomponent
    'type'              => new_blog_post,                  // The activity type e.g. activity_update, profile_updated
    'primary_link'      => 'false',                 // Optional: The primary URL for this item in RSS feeds (defaults to activity permalink)
    'user_id'           => bp_loggedin_user_id(),  // Optional: The user to record the activity for, can be false if this activity is not for a user.
    'item_id'           => false,                  // Optional: The ID of the specific item being recorded, e.g. a blog_id
    'secondary_item_id' => false,                  // Optional: A second ID used to further filter e.g. a comment_id
    'recorded_time'     => bp_core_current_time(), // The GMT time that this activity was recorded
    'hide_sitewide'     => false,                  // Should this be hidden on the sitewide activity stream?
    'is_spam'           => false                  // Is this activity item to be marked as spam?
  ), );

@thestylistquo – this sometimes depends on your server settings and your email client’s server settings. One server I run bp on will send wP emails using php that get through my own hosted email server and desktop email client just fine.. however with the default settings on my one server, emails sent by wordpress / buddypress will not make it through to most yahoo gmail email accounts… something about headers not registered or something.. I found a plugin that will force WP to “send mail through smtp” instead of php, which then gets emails through the various anti spm systems that some email hosting providers require…

I found a similar situation with contact form plugins… “fast Secure Contact Form” will not get emails through yahoo email addys (even with tweaking the smptp settings in the plugin) – with my server, however “Contact Form 7” gets emails through to yahoo accounts just fine… what the two different plugins do to modify sent from headers or whatever, I don’t really understand…

Then of course there are server ip blacklists and crap like sorbes that block things.. and even when they get through to my desktop client, sometimes outlook or kaspersky will flag them as spam and push them into my junk mail folder…

Not sure any of these issues are affecting you and your setup, but maybe that info will get you look in the right direction. I forget what gmail and yahoo call that header registering thing or whatever – they have info posted somewhere.

@disha76

1. We don’t have Liking in blog posts, only on activity streams posts.

2. You can see your own Likes in a tab, but not another user’s Likes. You see if they Liked a specific post, but the tab to see all of their Likes is only available to them for privacy reasons.

3. Works fine with Multisite. When we release our next theme we’ll be moving all theme demos to a single multisite install, already doing our beta testing there and it works fine. Works with BP Activity Privacy too (this is a popular companion plugin for many people using BB Wall plugin).

4. True, cannot tag directly on photo
Cannot do multiple photo upload simultaneously (this is a big feature request, will be built)
Media files not integrated in WP media etc (sort of, they are actually stored in WP Media, but user does not have access to all of that on front-end)

5. Blog posting is done in admin like other themes. We do not yet have front-end blog posting. That will come in a future plugin we have planned.

6. Wall does not have every FB feature, but has a lot. The main purpose of it is to let you post on each other’s activity streams. Out of the box BP doesn’t let you do that. Our next theme has profile cover photos actually (coming soon). And we have a cover photo plugin coming soon as well.

8. Spam signups. We may make a spam solution at some point in time. This is a tricky one. Every solution you make only works for a bit, then the spammers figure out your tactic and update to counter it. It’s a cat and mouse game. We have some ideas, no timeline on this though.

I actually would have missed since this thread has become old! But thanks for responding at last.

1) Can I “Like” from a blog post and it will show in the activity stream? And vice versa?
2) Can an user see a collection of another users’ Likes? In the demo I saw this missing
3) How does the theme behaves in WP Multisite set up and/or with a standard 3rd party plugin eg buddypress-activity-privacy.1.3.3?
4) Media solution by buddyboss is separately priced but seems incomplete:
– Cannot mark directly on photo, see photo tagging in FB or other php scripts
– Cannot do multiple ( but max number settable by site admin) photo upload simultaneously
– Media files not integrated in WP media etc
5) How does the interface look like when one submits a blog – is he thrown out of the theme?
6) Less important – Wall comes as a separate premium plugin but does not let you post blog/event/location – nothing except photo. It has also only river display – some premium themes similarly priced offers both river and card display. No profile cover photo also ?

True, we used to have an open forum, but we had too many spam signups and closed it to customers only.

I will request you to make a custom solution for yourself to prevent spam signups. This will be more creditable stuff encouraging us to go for custom solutions to Buddyboss. Thanks again.

Hey guys, this is Michael from BuddyBoss.

@style960 Thanks for the kind words 🙂

@ronia

Can you please share a link?

The next theme will be available later this month, so check back at buddyboss.com every so often and you’ll see it advertised there. It is an entirely new concept.

If you really want to play with it now, send an email to support at buddyboss dot com asking to be a beta tester, and I’ll let you in.

@disha76

do you know how to contact the Buddyboss people for pre-sales queries?

Here I am, ask away 🙂

They seem to have no open forum

True, we used to have an open forum, but we had too many spam signups and closed it to customers only.

I submitted some queries via their contact form – and got no reply from them – its 4 days.

Sorry to hear. We are usually faster, but may have been slower due to the holiday season. What email did you send from? (you can PM me this if you prefer)

I visited the Buddyboss demo but it does not show how standard Blog post…

Here is a sample blog post:
http://www.buddyboss.com/demo/buddyboss/an-argument-for-simplicity/

Front-end posting…

We are going to build a plugin for front-end blog posting. In general we prefer to put big features in plugins rather than themes, so they can work with any theme. Then we style that functionality in our themes so it looks really nice.

Do the Buddyboss people frequent this forum ? If they do and answered such queries it would be a good sign indeed.

I check out buddypress.org forums pretty frequently and answer questions 🙂

@djsteveb

I found that most buddypress responsive themes are based on bootstrap – and since rtmedia loads a lot of bootstrap, and font awesome stuff, things would break when I put them together..

Agreed, bootstrap bloats stuff and causes problems. BuddyBoss themes (current and future) are just CSS and media queries. We’re not using bootstrap.

@style960 not yet. I have checked spam folder also. They have closed comment in the FAQ section and they have no pre-sales forum where one can register and ask question.

@sbraiden – I recently helped migrate a site off of wpengine because of performance issues and the price wpengine wanted for more horse power under the hood. Their next level of service was going to cost $3200 a month. I suggested linode.com and was also amused by the fact that wpengine runs on top of linode.

The page generation times for wordpress/buddypress/bbpress along with various plugins (gravity forms, buddypress xprofile custom fields type, gravity forms upload rules, gravity forms wysiwyg, gd bbpress toolbox, cloudflare…) was not good. It is still not where we want it either, unfortunately.

The site is quite active, pushing 30,000 members and over 1.3+ million rows in the posts table. On average the page generation times are about 1.5 seconds for logged in users. Adding a new bbpress topic/reply can time out sometimes though. (still on the list to track down and fix)

We utilize Cloudflare out front for a CDN and their threat/spam protection. Their service is free but if you need more page rules to balance out caching the pro service level is $20 a month.

On linode we have a node balancer in front of two 4 core app server nodes. The app server nodes each connect directly to their own 8 core database nodes in a master master setup. This will be changing down the road once the database indexes are trimmed down with some denormalization. The cost for the node balancer, two 4 core and two 8 core nodes is $260 a month but that’s also allowing for some room to grow, capacity wise.

Server software is a combination of nginx, apache (threaded), php-fpm, glusterfs (upload directory only), memcache, zend opcode cache and mariadb. Nginx is the web server in front of apache which serves up static files from the glusterfs file system. Nginx is caching the static content being served up by apache along with full page caching (fastcgi) for anonymous visitors. Cloud flare is also caching the static content and to date we aren’t having any performance issues with IO and glusterfs.

I hope this helps. It can be done but it takes some effort (and money) to do so.

Hi @atomonfire have a look at this thread which is quite related to your issue https://buddypress.org/support/topic/spambot-users/#post-230739
apart from that try plugins such as wanguard,bp security question.
I hope this helps
Thanks

hi @lucdkny, @colorfullady,

by default, the activity update is only intended for short and brief message to other users. Reason why the form is coming without any editor tools and doesn’t let you use any html tag.

If A+ or BP let you add images and videos, it’s because WP use automated oembed for such medias in any front-end editor, even the most simpliest like BP’s update.

If you want to mention docs, pdf, zip, or anything else, you might use some dedicated plugins. For example bp groups docs or Buddydrive. Each action made with help of these plugins will be mentionned on the activity feed. But to access the doc itself, users have to go to the mentionned group or profil.

I wouldn’t recommend you to get around these rules. File manipulation on front-end is delicate and a too easy opportunity for spammers or hackers. Don’t play with fire. 😉

Best thing I did to limit spam bot users is adding the free wordpress plugin “good question” – but change the defaults questions and answers.

I also reccomend si captcha plugin, and limit login attempts.

I always change the default settings on limit login attempts to be more strict than default.

I also add whitelist ip plugin for limit login attempts so I don’t lock myself out – lol.

It’s not buddypress but WP who manage registering and concerning bots, they go directly on your server.

A good starting point is to read the WP Codex:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress

And at least,
Never use “admin” as username
Never user wp_ as table prefix

If you search for “spam” on this forum, you will find many topics about this subject.
And the latest one, even if not directly related to your issue, is one of the sticky post on the forum homepage. https://buddypress.org/support/topic/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things/