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October 7, 2014 at 7:24 am #205212
In reply to: Marked as spammer, but why?
boriskamp1991
ParticipantThank you for your reply,
When I hover over the one user that is not an admin I get to see ‘spam’, so it looks like WordPress does not see it as a spammer. the other user is an admin, so why on earth would Buddypress mark that as a spammer?
I registered a new user and it is marked as spammer right away by BP, WP does not because I can click the ‘spam’ button from the users list.I installed BP on my other local test site and there it works fine….
I guess you guys need more info so please let me know as Im really in need of solving this.Thanks!
October 6, 2014 at 6:42 pm #204858In reply to: Marked as spammer, but why?
shanebp
ModeratorWhat versions of WP and BP ?
Go to wp-admin -> Users, rollover a user, click spam / not spam.
Trying creating a new user from wp-admin.
Try registering as a new user from the front-end.
What happens?September 29, 2014 at 4:56 pm #202525In reply to: Buddypress Error / Problem on one server/host only.
Henry Wright
ModeratorHi @valuser
I’d guess this is a memory issue. The error message tells us that the following query fails and that 4194276 bytes is needed.
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT b.blog_id) FROM wp_bp_user_blogs b LEFT JOIN wp_blogs wb ON b.blog_id = wb.blog_id WHERE wb.deleted = 0 AND wb.spam = 0 AND wb.mature = 0 AND wb.archived = '0' AND user_id = 1Have you looked into what is currently used as the memory limit?
Try increasing your memory limit in your php.ini file like this:
memory_limit = 32MSeptember 9, 2014 at 3:51 pm #191021In reply to: [Resolved] bp_moderate capability?
danbp
Participantwp roles and bp capacities are two diffrent things.
bp_moderate has a specific usage applied to the site admin only. If you read what is written in bp-core-caps.php, you’ll see this comment at line 200* Temporary implementation of 'bp_moderate' cap. * * In BuddyPress 1.6, the 'bp_moderate' cap was introduced. In order to * enforce that bp_current_user_can( 'bp_moderate' ) always returns true for * Administrators, we must manually add the 'bp_moderate' cap to the list of * user caps for Admins. * * Note that this level of enforcement is only necessary in the case of * non-Multisite. This is because WordPress automatically assigns every * capability - and thus 'bp_moderate' - to Super Admins on a Multisite * installation. See {@link WP_User::has_cap()}. * * This implementation of 'bp_moderate' is temporary, until BuddyPress properly * matches caps to roles and stores them in the database. Plugin authors: Do * not use this function.BuddyPress groups moderators are not authorized to enter the admin dashboard or the group admin on frontend. Group moderators can only delete, move and spam group activities or topics. If the group has a forum, they wil have the same capacities.
If you want a user to be able to access the admin dashboard, you can give him an editor role (which is a wp role).
If you want to allow him access to the group admin on the front-end, you promote him to group admin. This setting doesn’t allow that user to enter the site admin. He’s only a group admin (with a wp role of subscriber, by default) and not a site admin (admin or super-admin (MS) ).
September 8, 2014 at 6:55 pm #190961In reply to: Managing group creation
xprt007
ParticipantHi
The index.php file is clean, …
I used the plugin “Change DB Prefix” which enables a db prefix table change & in wp-config.php with a click. Good since the db has 175 tables 🙁 … ;), thi sbeing a community site with a number of functions.
I added BuddyPress-Honeypot, … but does it not matter it seems to have had no changes since 2012?
I temporarily disabled Wanguard to see if the 2 steps above + existing antispam plugins can handle this. Will then see about the .htaccess issue tomorrow etc.
Many thanks & kind regards
September 8, 2014 at 11:59 am #190926In reply to: Managing group creation
ParticipantHi
Thank you for all the responses.
Well, the issue of spam registrations & comments with the above mentioned plugins in addition to SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam, Wordfence Security (?), etc had worked for months & was manageable, occasionally getting something in sometimes after weeks. I also blocked all IPs of spammers who would tried to login, etc.
A few days ago, though I started getting a barrage of bot-registrations + groups with bogus content created. New registrations would come in as soon as I deleted some.
Since it was late in the night in the middle of a very busy period, I thought someone probably getting similar issues could mention some quick solution I could find the following day.
It was not my first time in the forum. Some of the above solutions were found through searching the forum, which i agree should be the first step.
So far – in addition to the above plugins I first added JP User Registration Blacklist, WP-SpamShield and also reluctantly disabled user group creation. (Is there a plugin that enables moderation of user created groups, allowing the moderator to approve user created groups?)
That stopped the group creation, but spam registrations continued coming. So like recommended above, installed Wanguard, though this being a small site which currently gets in very little income, it is not yet worth paying for it. I hope the free wanguard account can work for a while.
That since yesterday only let in one or 2 registrations by some criminals, this being one of them – details shown by some plugin:Benutzername: clairmcconnan
E-Mail: synfhongegizi@mail.ru
Angezeigter Name: Claire McConnan
Vorname: Claire
Nachname: McConnan
….
IP Address : 107.181.70.207
Reverse DNS : 107.181.70.207
Reverse DNS IP : 107.181.70.207
Reverse DNS Authenticity : [Possibly Forged]
Proxy Info : No Proxy
Proxy Data : 107.181.70.207
Proxy Status : FALSE
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE : enNames & emails suggest they mostly originate from Russia.
danbp suggested using .htaccess to block Ru-based submissions. I will look into BUT – on an unrelated Drupal-based site, I ever had a much more serious attack, with as many 25,000 attempted login/post attempts a day(!), which were blocked by the Drupal mollom plugin BUT that constantly filled some DB table, probably logging visits/attempts, to several 100MBs a day, causing me problems with the webhost. Source of attacks was Russia, ukraine, China & Poland.
The only solution that worked was adding literally several 10,000 lines of complete IP(blocks(?)s from those countries I got from some site to the .htaccess that blocked them out. Only that helped.
Later on, though – months on, the web host removed that .htaccess file, because my site account was supposedly overusing server resources. I am not sure that had anything to do with the IP address lines in the .htaccess file, but the good thing is that a similar attack has not happened again.
An .htaccess solution that only involves naming a country ( … ^(.*).ru/(.*) …) & not its thousands of IPs would of course be great & preferable, but I will do a search & see. My site does not need a single Russian & so can do without the country.
Ultimately, for the time being – what I would need is a functioning free solution until the currently small site can pay for itself, later on. This particular site had not had anything similar in over a year, assuming Wanguard cannot be used …
Anyway, thank you all.
September 7, 2014 at 9:08 am #190696In reply to: Managing group creation
ParticipantOver 170 topics are tagged with “spam” on this forum.
https://buddypress.org/support/tag/spam/September 7, 2014 at 9:02 am #190694In reply to: Managing group creation
Hugo Ashmore
Participant@xprt007 What else have you tried before asking this question here?
#1 would have been searching the forum archives for possible solutions from past threads (one of great benefits of forums are ever increasing db of information and help derived from questions & replies)
#2 would be to check the WP plugin repo searching one something like ‘spam’
In addition to danbp’s advice try installing Wanguard which seems to do a fairly good job along with perhaps a simple registration submission question – believe something called ‘BP-humanity’ might work.
btw I edited your topic title to remove ‘urgent help’ that’s not considered an appropriate phrase to enter on subject titles 🙂
September 6, 2014 at 5:25 pm #190319In reply to: Managing group creation
Participantmy 3 word recommendation: disallow group creation !
And prevent your users, if they need a group, that they have to ask you to create it for them.A good pratice to avoid spam, is to use another table prefix as the default wp_table_name. Bots really like this prefix to rape databases. 👿
Aside you can also try to stop some spambots via htaccess.
Search on the web for more information on how you can do this.Here 2 lines you can add to htaccess to block some russian spambots (without any waranty)
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^(.*).ru/(.*) RewriteRule ^.*$ - [F]September 4, 2014 at 5:12 pm #189631ModeratorThe best way to debug this if you’re sure only certain individuals are affected is to find out what’s different about them:
- What role are they?
- Are they activated members?
- Are they marked as a spammer?
- Do they have any friends?
- Anything else?
Some (maybe all) of these won’t be related but with something like this when there isn’t much info to go on, the only way to debug is trial and error.
September 3, 2014 at 12:02 pm #189029In reply to: [Resolved] how to export/import groups
Participantif 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_membersxxx 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
August 31, 2014 at 6:35 pm #188834In reply to: Activate component
bp-help
Participant@sam01389
Activate component? Not entirely sure what you mean. A user registers on the site then they are sent an email which may or may not go into that users spam folder depending on the server after which they are instructed to click the activation link in that email. If your users are not receiving this email after registration then you may want to check your servers error logs and report back.August 26, 2014 at 2:48 pm #188510In reply to: Register CSS Style
Jencina
ParticipantI’m sorry I can’t do that.
I’m my register.php page there are two <div .
<div id="my-custom-registration">and<div class="register-section" id="basic-details-section">:Mod Edit// tinypic link removed as too spammy and using re-directs to other sites.
I’m trying to do that in CSS with “#my-custom-registration” and “#register-section”, but no luck.
Sorry for my ignorance
August 13, 2014 at 12:28 am #186508ModeratorYou’re looking at a symptom, not the problem.
If users are marked as spammers, then activity comments will be marked as spam.
So that part is working properly.The real question is, why are users being marked as spammers?
To show comments regardless of spam flag, try this in the activity-loop.php template:
if ( bp_has_activities( bp_ajax_querystring( 'activity' ) . '&spam=false' ) ) :August 13, 2014 at 12:24 am #186507milosnikolic
ParticipantOk I found it… After changing 2 default settings for spam from ham_only to false it works and shows everything now.
But I can’t figure out why they are marked as spammers in the first place after the 2.0 update.
August 13, 2014 at 12:13 am #186505ParticipantOk here I found this:
“Added new “hide_spam” parameter to the entire Activity template loop stack; defaults to true, except if specific activity items have been requested (for backpat reasons).”I found “hide_spam” in 3 files in buddypress but it’s already set to false? How can I disable this option?
Is it here in bp-activity-template.php:
// If a user is a spammer, their activity items will have been automatically marked as spam. Skip these.
if ( $comment->is_spam )
continue;$user_ids[] = $comment->user_id;
or here
@type string|bool $spam Spam status. ‘ham_only’, ‘spam_only’, or false
* to show all activity regardless of spam status. Default: ‘ham_only’.August 13, 2014 at 12:00 am #186502ParticipantYes I thought so but one of the first things I tried is to disable all plugins except Buddypress and it was still happening. I tried it again now – bbpress error is for something else it seems, as users still get marked for spam even when it’s disabled.
August 12, 2014 at 11:37 pm #186494ParticipantYes it was a typo, I meant “is_spam”. Yes I tried switching and the same thing is happening, it’s not for all users, but most have the problem. When I mark for spam/unmark in the users list their old activity shows up (when they were marked for spam, and it’s reset to 0 in the table), but as soon as they log in and try to post it goes back to marking their activity as 1 in is_spam column, and not showing anything (and not giving them access to bbpress forum also).
August 12, 2014 at 11:32 pm #186493ModeratorThen the problem is in those files.
There is no column ‘spam’, the column name is ‘is_spam’.If you switch themes to a WP theme like 2013, do you still get those errors?
August 12, 2014 at 10:46 pm #186490ParticipantIn phperrorlog I get this error:
WordPress database error Unknown column ‘spam’ in ‘where clause’ for query SELECT ID FROM lb_users WHERE ID=1 AND spam != 1 made by require(‘wp-blog-header.php’), require_once(‘wp-includes/template-loader.php’), include(‘/themes/Cinematix/bbpress.php’), get_sidebar, locate_template, load_template, require_once(‘/themes/Cinematix/sidebar.php’), dynamic_sidebar, call_user_func_array, WP_Widget->display_callback
August 12, 2014 at 8:24 pm #186487ParticipantYes I’m using a custom Buddypress theme (Cinematix) but it’s updated to the newest version and no one else has that problem. bp-custom.php doesn’t exist. I tried switching the theme also and same thing is happening.
Is there a way to disable buddypress flagging users for spam, so that is_table field isn’t being set to 1?
July 26, 2014 at 2:20 pm #185602In reply to: No Activation eMail
ModeratorA couple of things to try:
- Check your spam email folder
- Check with your hosting company that their mail server is set up and working
July 18, 2014 at 11:45 am #185240In reply to: company name/fonction list member and link profil
victord34
Participantsorry for spam.
And thanks @bphelp . And i see your BP Remove Profile Links. He is great !BUT Now
in profiluser page i have the FIELD3:
<tr class=”field_3 field_poste-occupe field_type_textbox”>
<td class=”label”>Poste occupé</td>
<td class=”data”><p>poste occupé cest ca</p>
</td>
</tr>i would like “include” the <td class=”data”> content in your Code ‘field-name’ : $bphelp_my_profile_field_3=’Field-Name’;
thank you.
and sorry bad english im french ^^
July 10, 2014 at 1:09 pm #184948In reply to: PHP my admin.. I messed up!
UrbanFix
ParticipantPlease note: i have no legitimate users only spam!
July 7, 2014 at 10:37 pm #184872In reply to: bp_get_the_thread_recipients reporting extra names
adamt19
ParticipantWhat I think I’ve learned:
wp_bp_messages_recipients needed some work before spam content was safely deleted
not paying attention to wp_bp_messages_recipients, and simply deleting data from wp_bp_messages_messages and wp_bp_notifications …meant that when bp_get_the_thread_recipients is called, subsequent conversation IDs got confused with data left over in wp_bp_message_recipients, and additional recipients were pulled into the conversation.
This was pretty much the worst possible thing that could happen on a social network (especially a dating site) so, hopefully these notes help someone else. This occurred as a result of my deleting message spam (in an incomplete manner) so hopefully there are some qualified plugins for spam prevention and message moderation that I simply haven’t stumbled upon yet.
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