I created a page for each component in this plug-in and I don’t know what to do next.
@dleit It depends. You could start adding Member Profile Fields and/or Create Groups and/or install Group and/or Sitewide Forums if you need forums.
btw, spammers have been removed 🙂
I found with one site on one server – any emails sending via php had a weird return header thing from my server that did not get through some of this big three email clients no spam lists..
a plugin similar to https://wordpress.org/plugins/postman-smtp/
may change your wp to send via an smtp account on your server instead of php using a weird default server header.. you may need to create an smtp account for that work.. and even so there are other factors that could limit your email getting through.. (some shared servers are on backlist, some web hosting companies are given minus points, even if your web site is on the up and up)
There are a lot of things that could cause it to fail the ‘real mail’ test at some of these services..
For me, the plugin “good question” fixed 95% of spam regs.. similar to “buddypress humanity”…
I am also seeing the @mentions not working on my site.
BuddyPress 2.2.1 running on the Engine theme from Industrial Themes. Theme and WP both at latest versions.
Plugins (but I can’t see where any would cause a conflict):
Anti-spam by CleanTalk
Custom Login
Custom Permalinks
Gravity Forms (and PayPal and User Registration add-ons)
MailChimp Lite
Updraft
Use Google Libraries (maybe it’s that one?)
Yoast
And some admin plugins.
I have got 1500 new members in 4 days and “they” all open up a Group and write their ad’s
Using Pie Register with Google reCaptcha and email verification, but that does not stop it.
Is it someone who has made a business to spam BP’s Communities?
Pls pls any ideas, I thought it should stop by itself when the spammer run out of ads, but NO
Site http://www.thaiforum.xyz, email me at ola@coolaola.com
Strange… My Google Analytics does not show any abnormal traffic, so how does the spammer come to the site? Beats me
Best Ola
wilson1987 ‘site is not powered by WordPress and of course has no BuddyPress istalled.
Out of topic, troll, and marked as spam.
Hello, I didn’t see the replies for this topic. errm. I was on latest BP and WP at the time of the report. There is a few plugings, group calendar, send invites, Announcement only, group email subscriptions, rendez-vous, and RTmedia. I haven’t noticed it recently, but I have also locked the site down to paying members only, tends to slow down the spambots…they are too mean fisted to pay for the minimal subscription.
@krisidious Sorry for the inconvenience. Your posts were caught in spam queue for some reason and I just released this one earlier. Thank you for your patience. cc @henrywright
@rosyteddy Nothing in spam. Found one for a different post you made — please do not “delete” any topics you have started just because it has been resolved by removing all the content and title in the original topic post, it went to the Pending posts folder. cc @henrywright
@rosyteddy @henrywright checking spam queue now.
Keep trying to post and only one post has shown up… would love to join the conversations here and gain some insight and advice. frustrating not being able to post. Is it a spam problem?
These may help
wordpress.org/plugins/export-user-data/
wordpress.org/plugins/wp-users-exporter/
buddypress dot org/support/topic/exporting-xprofile-fields-to-csv-etc/
[ My previous reply here had many more links, and it just vanished on hitting submit without any alert message, probably was caught as spam]
Thanks
I mean if its a admin notice for all users, it should never be able to close for regular members. It should stick like a sticky thread in a forum. This would probably have members that are tired of spam too, agree with this also. I just had a member sign up on my website, and immediately they just created 7 spam groups for their business. I would like them not able to close warning messages to the whole site of members. I can understand like admin able to close it, but not the rest of the members.
On the widget for Sitewide Notices, once you close it, it never shows up again. When I want to let new users know there is no spam allowed, I don’t want them to just close the message, because they will never see it again. That is a no no for trying to stop members from doing things, because if you are warning them that their account will be deleted, they can just say they never saw the message.
Is there a way you can have an option in BuddyPress or in the widget for an option to either have members close or not to close the sitewide notices. There is no option for it anywhere on BuddyPress at all. I even looked in the widget code, and nothing. I think if this is as important as spam warnings, this is an important feature.
All right, here we go:
http://inviteshare.net/groups/world-wide-news/forum/
Noone can create any any topics under this Entire forum. It’s not just one topic, but instead, none works. So, for the public groups, anyone should be able to post without joining this. Even the members are complaining about it. If needed, I can give you moderator/admin access to the forum for your helping me out.
WordPress 4.1 running OneCommunity theme.
bbPress 2.5.4
BuddyPress 2.2
18 active plugins.
Achievements
Akismet
bbPress
BP-WP Profile Reviews
BuddyPress
Contact Form
Mass Messaging in Buddypress
myCRED
Quick Cache
Register IPs
SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam
Simplr User Registration Form Plus
Stop Spammer Registrations Plugin
TinyMCE Advanced
WP-Polls
WP Slimstat
WP SMTP
WP User Control
Not multiblog that I can see – I have installed twice and still missing “Register” and “Activate” pages. All help displays settings I can’t see. Irony is I have a constant spammers registering as WP users, but I can’t find a way. I have Woocommerce and “Canvas” theme active, but have deactivated both with no change in outcome.
@jessiewordpress
I would assume they are listed as pending because they did not get click an activation in email yes.
Now does that mean that your server sent an email correctly and they actually recieved the email? Who knows.. sometimes my bp emails get auto-blackholed for some email services and users will never get an email from my bp site if they have say “gmail” or yahoo or something… (there are different methods for sending email via wordpress, some are less “flagged-as-spam-automatically” than others.. sometimes users do get the emails but they end up in a junk folder..
sometimes it’s spammers trying to setup a fake account and they never will click on activate…
if you start to get a lot of these, you might want to look into how your wp install is sending emails, what the headers look like, and see if you can adjust with something like a “wp mail via smtp” plugin or something.. and if you need to manage a bunch of pending users you might want to see if https://wordpress.org/plugins/unconfirmed/ is working with current bp version..
random thoughts, hope they help.
@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.
It seems I have received 3 registrants in the last two days that are not legit. Is there a way to prevent this?
Thanks!
Spam bots are clever, that’s it.
Hello,
I am interested to something I have noticed.
A user registers, but is “never active” but still manages to create a spam group and add a lengthy description ect ect.
Is this something wrong, or something that is known to be possible?
Thanks
Alright, so I’m having a bit of a weird issue. My site went live about 24 hours ago – before then, everything was working fine. We went into a “freeze period”, no plugin or coding changes. Went live, and after a bit the members page decides to stop work.
Mysite.com/members takes an insane amount of time to load (despite all other pages being fine). Mysite.com/members/?s=searchterm is also having the same problem. Mysite.com/members/username is fine.
Once the page loads, its either entirely blank (just the page name and sidebar), or it loads the header (member search, order by menu, all members and my friends buttons), and one or two user listings as normal with blankness after.
My only possible explanation is that we did somehow manage to register 3,000 non-spam accounts in 24 hours, and the page is struggling to load it (even though only 2,200 are considered active on buddypress). But all other pages are working fine (including activity, which basically never stops updating). Anybody know how to fix it?
I recently updated BuddyPress and now it keeps giving me the following error message:
The following active BuddyPress Components do not have associated WordPress Pages: Search Page. Repair
I’ve tried making a Search page and selecting it on the settings page, but it refuses to accept it. One thing I noticed was when I made a Search page (mydomain.com/search) I couldn’t view it, it just took me to mydomain.com. I tried changing its url to mydomain.com/searchbp and I could view it, but it still wouldn’t take in the settings.
Not sure if this matters, but I should also point out that I don’t use BuddyPress’s register/activate pages. I modified it awhile back (don’t ask me how, I don’t remember) to use the default WordPress ones because I use a plugin to verify their username is also a valid Minecraft username to prevent spam bots.
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
