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I hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I am looking for a plugin that will let me block or suspend members from posting to buddypress pages. I do not want to block them from the entire site, just block from posting buddypress content. I want them to be a “Read Only” member. I am currently using a wordpress plugin (User Role Editor) that lets me do this for wordpress core features, but it does not cover the buddypress pages. My reason for wanting to do this is to weed out spammers. I created a user role called “Pending” using the plugin I mentioned. I am giving new members who I think might be spammers this role. I have set the role as read only and have been able to block them from using most of the site, but does not work for the buddypress pages. Anyone know of a buddypress plugin that has this type of features. I am requiring members to upload an avatar if they wish to post content to the site. No Avatar then their a read only user. Once they upload a profile photo, I change their role status so they can post content. I have other spam features in place, however some spam users still get though. I am trying to do this to weed them out and keep them from posting spam on my sites. 95% of the users on my upload a photo anyway so it does not seem to be an issue for members. I also do not require the photo to be a selfpic.. they just have to change it from the default one.

Thanks,
Jeffrey
http://www.portaltaxi.net

Newest versions of wordpress/buddypress in place.

Hi, The site that I’m working on is on a free server and all the activation emails goes to the spam folder. I had no choice and disabled the email verification with some hack that I found on this forum and it works fine. The problem is that after registration the screen that tells you to check your email is still appearing. I want to change the text in the screen to “Thank you for registering” or something like that but I can’t find the file that I should modify.

Those anyone have a clue how to do it?

Wordpress 3.8
BuddyPress 1.9.1

Hi everyone,

Virtually our registrations appear to be coming from the IP address of our server, as opposed to the IP address of the registrant’s ISP.

Is there a setting somewhere we missed, or are the spambots managing to spoof their IP?

If that’s the case, I’d imagine we’d run into problems if we try to block our own IP address?

For the most part, Buddypress is great! However, as a theme/php developer, its great strengths (ease if use and installation) also become its weakness. Customizing the Activity feed beyond CSS (ie: building your own template), the labyrinth of procedural code, the dated codex, and the hooks and actions becomes quite the challenge.

Now, if you just want to customize the title, change colors, or modify the layout a lot of that can be achieved by CSS.

But if you want to access activity data beyond it’s intended scope (say, for mobile app development, API layers, or just becasue you want to get your hands on it!) then this guide is for you!!

Prerequisites:
Basic PHP Knowledge
WP Theme development experience (even child-theme)
Experience using the fabled ‘functions.php’ and template tags.

Ok, so if you meet the prerequisites allow me to share with you the best bp function ever (well, maybe not ever, but the best one for me, right now, haha)

take a look at /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity/bp-activity-functions.php – line:900ish and say hello to pandoras box!

/**
 * Retrieve an activity or activities.
 *
 * bp_activity_get() shares all arguments with BP_Activity_Activity::get(). The
 * following is a list of bp_activity_get() parameters that have different
 * default values from BP_Activity_Activity::get() (value in parentheses is
 * the default for the bp_activity_get()).
 *   - 'per_page' (false)
 *
 * @since BuddyPress (1.2)
 *
 * @see BP_Activity_Activity::get() For more information on accepted arguments
 *      and the format of the returned value.
 * @uses wp_parse_args()
 * @uses wp_cache_get()
 * @uses wp_cache_set()
 * @uses BP_Activity_Activity::get() {@link BP_Activity_Activity}
 * @uses apply_filters_ref_array() To call the 'bp_activity_get' hook.
 *
 * @param array $args See BP_Activity_Activity::get() for description.
 * @return array $activity See BP_Activity_Activity::get() for description.
 */
function bp_activity_get( $args = '' ) {
	$defaults = array(
		'max'              => false,        // Maximum number of results to return
		'page'             => 1,            // page 1 without a per_page will result in no pagination.
		'per_page'         => false,        // results per page
		'sort'             => 'DESC',       // sort ASC or DESC
		'display_comments' => false,        // false for no comments. 'stream' for within stream display, 'threaded' for below each activity item

		'search_terms'     => false,        // Pass search terms as a string
		'meta_query'       => false,        // Filter by activity meta. See WP_Meta_Query for format
		'show_hidden'      => false,        // Show activity items that are hidden site-wide?
		'exclude'          => false,        // Comma-separated list of activity IDs to exclude
		'in'               => false,        // Comma-separated list or array of activity IDs to which you want to limit the query
		'spam'             => 'ham_only',   // 'ham_only' (default), 'spam_only' or 'all'.

		/**
		 * Pass filters as an array -- all filter items can be multiple values comma separated:
		 * array(
		 * 	'user_id'      => false, // user_id to filter on
		 *	'object'       => false, // object to filter on e.g. groups, profile, status, friends
		 *	'action'       => false, // action to filter on e.g. activity_update, profile_updated
		 *	'primary_id'   => false, // object ID to filter on e.g. a group_id or forum_id or blog_id etc.
		 *	'secondary_id' => false, // secondary object ID to filter on e.g. a post_id
		 * );
		 */
		'filter' => array()
	);
	$r = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );
	extract( $r, EXTR_SKIP );

	// Attempt to return a cached copy of the first page of sitewide activity.
	if ( 1 == (int) $page && empty( $max ) && empty( $search_terms ) && empty( $meta_query ) && empty( $filter ) && empty( $exclude ) && empty( $in ) && 'DESC' == $sort && empty( $exclude ) && 'ham_only' == $spam ) {
		if ( !$activity = wp_cache_get( 'bp_activity_sitewide_front', 'bp' ) ) {
			$args = array(
				'page'             => $page,
				'per_page'         => $per_page,
				'max'              => $max,
				'sort'             => $sort,
				'search_terms'     => $search_terms,
				'meta_query'       => $meta_query,
				'filter'           => $filter,
				'display_comments' => $display_comments,
				'show_hidden'      => $show_hidden,
				'spam'             => $spam
			);
			$activity = BP_Activity_Activity::get( $args );
			wp_cache_set( 'bp_activity_sitewide_front', $activity, 'bp' );
		}

	} else {
		$args = array(
			'page'             => $page,
			'per_page'         => $per_page,
			'max'              => $max,
			'sort'             => $sort,
			'search_terms'     => $search_terms,
			'meta_query'       => $meta_query,
			'filter'           => $filter,
			'display_comments' => $display_comments,
			'show_hidden'      => $show_hidden,
			'exclude'          => $exclude,
			'in'               => $in,
			'spam'             => $spam
		);
		$activity = BP_Activity_Activity::get( $args );
	}

	return apply_filters_ref_array( 'bp_activity_get', array( &$activity, &$r ) );
}

This magical function, dubbed bp_activity_get() will allow you to get just about every piece and part of an activity feed even OUTSIDE of a bp loop. Not only that, but it allows for you to run filters through it, meaning you can grab activities by group, by member, sitewide, or just ONE activity if you want.

Here’s a sample function I made that grabs the 8 most recent activities and puts the keys I found important into an array. If you’re familiar with the wp $post object, this is quite similar:

/**
* Dumps a list of the latest activities. May be used with pagination by setting $current_page
*
* @posts_per_page	INT, Default is 8.
* @current_page		INT, which page you are on, Default is 1.
*
* @var_dump 	ARRAY, activity items.
*/

function get_latest_activities($posts_per_page=8,$current_page=1) {
	$args = array (
		'page'	=>	$current_page,
		'per_page' => $posts_per_page
	);
	$pre_rec = bp_activity_get($args);
	$activities = $pre_rec['activities'];
	$results = array();
	foreach ($activities as $activity) {
		$record = array(
			'ID'		=> strip_tags($activity->id),
			'TYPE'		=> strip_tags($activity->type),
			'TIME' 		=> strip_tags($activity->date_recorded),
			'AUTHOR' 	=> strip_tags($activity->display_name),                
			'TITLE' 	=> strip_tags($activity->action),
			'CONTENT' 	=> strip_tags($activity->content),
			'ITEM_ID'	=> strip_tags($activity->item_id),		
			'REL_ID'	=> strip_tags($activity->secondary_item_id),		
		);
		array_push($results, $record );
        unset($record);

    }
	foreach ($results as $record) {
		var_dump ($record);
		print "<br>###################<br>";	
	}	
}

So now, I could place any piece of the data, anywhere I want. You could also (if you wanted to) create template tags that are much more custom. You can also get the data outside of the loop, throw it in the <head> section for SEO purposes, and on and on and on. Maybe you want to throw a widget on your site with the latest activities? This method will do it.

Let me know if you have any questions, I hope this helps, because it took me way too long to figure this out and the current documentation did not help.