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  • #322485
    TKServer
    Participant

    It isn’t that the emails are not being sent. It is that the emails are not making it to the destination, either blocked by ISP’s or somehow caught in spam or something.

    #321792
    TKServer
    Participant

    Once in awhile a bot or user will get into the site and send out a bunch of unwanted messages to lots of users. Is there a way to delete all mail, clean up notifications, and clean up recipients, related to a specific user? I’ve gone into the db and eliminated the messages themselves, and the notifications, but I can’t figure a way to clean the table wp_bp_messages_recipients. Without setting this table straight, users see that they have unread messages, but since I deleted the messages they can’t do anything at that point. So they always think they have unread messages.

    oguruma
    Participant

    I think I want to try and use a Forum plugin to handle my registrations. The reason is because I’d rather avoid the email confirmation process, and use ReCaptch instead for spam control.

    The problem is that there’s Extended Profile meta that I would want to capture and insert at the time of user creation.

    What’s the right way to insert that Profile Data if I wanted to use another form plugin for user registration?

    #321482
    Llewen
    Participant

    Note: I am submitting this again because for some reason my initial post was marked as spam. I’m assuming because I edited it after I submitted it.

    What is happening is when I try to make a change to the Components section in BuddyPress settings, I get the infamous “Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page.” when I try to save the settings and the settings do not take effect.

    I am able to successfully enable and disable settings on the Options tab.

    I have followed all the steps on several sites that talk about sorting this error, including reinstalling WordPress, deactivating all plugins, enabling debugging, using the default theme, regenerating permalinks, etc. etc.

    The account has administrator role, and bbp_keymaster capabilities, from my attempt to fix the problem by installing bbPress. Deleting the database and starting over is not an option, even though this is a new site, I already have content.

    What is odd is, when I get the error in WordPress, there are no corresponding PHP or Apache errors, and when I enable debugging, no errors are logged.

    The only explanation I can come up with is that I have enabled IPv6/dual stack support on my network and it appears that the connection IP from my account isn’t consistent. Sometimes it connects with the IPv4 address, sometimes with the IPv6 address. That’s the only odd thing I can see in the Apache logs.

    Site URL: https://displaced.zone

    • WordPress Version: 5.8.1
    • Directory install in root directory
    • Upgraded from WordPress 5.7.1
    • WordPress functions properly, other than this one problem
    • BuddyPress Version: 9.1.1
    • Not upgraded from a previous version
    • Other Plugins: BP Better Messages, Comments Like Dislike, Top Bar, WP Cerber Security, WP Mail SMTP
    • Theme: NS Minimal with minor css tweaks
    • Core files have not been modified in any way
    • No custom functions
    • bbPress not installed, although I did install it to see if it would fix the problem
    • No server error logs, which is weird
    • Self hosted on a home network. I’m not a novice at this, I have done this for years, including a previous WordPress website where I had BuddyPress installed in the same environment, and did not have this issue. The only thing that has changed is the IPv6 support.
    • Server OS: Debian GNU/Linux, Bullseye, typical LAMP stack
    • I have tried both the Legacy and Nouveau BuddyPress themes
    • I have made no changes to BuddyPress template files
    • The only other information that might have a bearing on this is that I am not running WordPress “The Debian Way”. I have copied all the files, including the symlinked php libraries, out of the Debian file structure and am running them out of a folder in my home directory. Apache is running as that group and user. But again, I have done this for an entire year, successfully, with another website. Running WordPress this way allows me to use the built in WordPress update system, which doesn’t function as expected if you run WordPress “The Debian Way”.
    silviach
    Participant

    @dggerhart did you solve your problem with spam users ? I have the same

    fractalier
    Participant

    Hi:

    It appears I have over 20,000 spam entries in my website’s MySQL database. Because of this, my website became inoperable. I was helped discover this by other technical folks…he said,

    “It looks like these entries are coming from the BuddyPress plugin. Each of these entries is a BuddyPress group. You should be able to delete the groups within BuddyPress. It also looks like removing user 2321 would go a long way towards preventing the spam that you are seeing.”

    Being rather new to the WordPress environment, and BuddyPress in particular, I cannot see how to do that. Can someone help? Thanks in advance.

    I am using WP 5.8.1 running the “Type” theme and BuddyPress 9.1.1 and the site is worldtalkfree.com. My email address is fractalier@aol.com.

    #321139
    Naomi
    Participant

    I’m running WordPress 5.8.1 running Astra theme.
    Buddypress 9.11

    This is an odd question, but I did something that I now can’t figure out for the life of me on my http://www.charlottemasoneducation.org website to require admin approval for registration. In other words, when someone tries to register, I have to approve them before they can engage with the site. I looked through all my plugins listed below and one of them is giving this functionality, but I can’t figure out which one and how. I want to replicate it on another site I’m working on but I’m not able to figure it out. Any help would be appreciated.

    I thought maybe BP Simple Private, but that only makes the site private, it doesn’t provide the approval process functionality.

    Akismet Anti-Spam
    bbp style pack
    bbPress
    Better Notifications for WP
    BP Simple Private
    BuddyPress
    Code Snippets
    Easy Digital Downloads
    Elementor
    Essential Addons for Elementor
    Events Manager
    Events Manager – OpenStreetMaps
    InfiniteWP – Client
    MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress
    Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg
    UpdraftPlus – Backup/Restore
    WooBuddy -> WooCommerce BuddyPress Integration
    WooCommerce
    Wordfence Security
    WP Mail SMTP
    WP RSS Aggregator
    WP-Optimize – Clean, Compress, Cache
    Yoast SEO

    #320998
    wackao
    Participant

    There is no backdoor, but yes there is a lot of spam which will enter. The groups are indexed by google and users use it to spam.
    You can add the Google captcha easily, I am unable to locate a plugin at the moment.
    You can check this link : https://buddypress.org/support/topic/simple-recaptcha-for-buddypress-register-page/

    p.s : Seems like a missed opportunity. I can upload on wp.org and share with you later this week. Let me know if you need it.

    #320992
    Tom
    Participant

    I have had thousands and thousands of bot signups every day with thousands of spam groups being made, I have a captcha on my signup page and I have custom required field, yet somehow thosuands of automated bots are signing up and spamming my website! Its out of control, Ive tried a few plugins and nothing seems to stop them!

    is there a back-door in buddypress? or a vulnerability that is being exploited?

    website: https://piratemc.com

    Steve Taylor
    Participant

    I’m trying to solve an issue with replies to activity comments that aren’t appearing on the site (even though they’re in the database and not marked as spam). I tried posting a new reply to an activity comment as a test, and when the reply was posted, it came with 2 errors, SQL queries which failed because the table ‘wp_bp_optouts’ doesn’t exist.

    I’ve no idea if this is related to my original problem, but I want to see what the situation is with this missing table anyway. I can’t see it in the database. It’s possible there was an issue because we froze our version of BP a good few major releases back, then upgraded to the latest recently. However, I made sure to upgrade sequentially through the intermediate releases in order to pick up any e.g. database changes, and we’ve not noticed any issues until now (many months after our big upgrade). We’re currently on BP 9.0.0, WP 5.8.

    benrobin
    Participant

    Hi, I am wondering if where could I find the total number of notifications in database? I search it up in the source code and I found

    $notification_item->total_count

    However, I can’t find a column or any value in the database.
    I need to delete all notification counts because some intruders successfully registered my Buddypress and he/she send all spam messages to all my users. I already deleted all the messages, but counted notifications are remained. Kindly, help me. Thanks.
    Buddypress Notification Count

    #320149
    dccs52
    Participant

    Hi

    Currently inherited a website which has a terrible spam issue with BP.

    Simply put no measures were taken so it ran rampant. I have sorted this, but am now left with a very bloated DB.

    Having used

    SELECT * FROM wp_signups WHERE active = 0;

    I get the list of all inactive users.

    From here could some suggest the best way to remove all the data attributed to these inactive spam users?

    It boggles me that there isn’t something online.

    The reason i ask is i note the usermeta table is bloated along with the wp_signups, so i assume there is some relationship data in there, which ideally needs to go along with the inactive spam signups.

    Any guidance appreciated.

    And yes all is backed-up.

    cassel
    Participant

    I found out that the registration page for BuddyPress, when set in the dashboard overtook the page I had customized. To avoid that, I gave it is own page, so that my “normal” login was the customized one.
    However, I notice that the Buddypress registration is letting a lot of spam registrations in, since it is not using captcha. Is there a way to disable it completely so I can just keep my own page the way I set it up?

    shendeluth
    Participant

    Hello,

    The problem is, we are recibing user registration petition with only email without other fields. How is possible if i have a correctly validation fields system? This users are spam in all this special situations. I’m using Stop Spammers antispam plugin and it register this spamer but not block becasue it detects is ok.

    I have a register page customized with another url and blocking acces with usual registration url or usual acces. In this page i’m showing only all required fields from my xprofile fields list.

    I’m using Buddypress 7.3.0 and WordPress 5.7.2.

    Our system works like this:
    If i don’t fill all fields i can’t send this information and it show message error if i don’t fill some fields so form validation is working ok. When some user send this registration form correctly the system send a email with all information to system email and user is stand by to be activated using “user > manage signups” tool. User can be activated only by an administrator user.

    This screenshot shows when is a normal user registration: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NXahXVctAt76atlhrJ8-Hl5-KokKZqIF/view?usp=sharing

    This screenshot shows when is an spamer with only email (it doesn’t show xprofiles fields, when other usual registration petitions show all fields empty or not empty): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YC2fF_g3pnrPyD7kFQaJUE9Gt_ZBzHlK/view?usp=sharing

    I don’t know why can do this this users I need some help.

    Thank you.

    shenkwen
    Participant

    As far as I understand, sending email using STMP will greatly decrease the rate your emails got into the spam folder. Then how come Buddypress doesn’t have a setting to let user use SMTP?

    If I get it right, by default, the email sent by Buddypress will be from wordpress@mysite.com and it almost always gets into spam folder. What is Buddypress’s recommendation to solve this issue?

    shenkwen
    Participant

    I’ve been using WPLMS theme which includes Buddypress. Right after I install the theme, users won’t get the activation email when they create an account. Although in the user list page, the “email sent” field is “1”.

    Then I install Buddypress on a plain 5.7.2 site with the 2021 theme. This time the users can get the activation email from wordpress@mysite.com(although it’s in the spam folder).

    Now I go back to the previous site and deactivate all of the other plugins and change the theme to 2021, still, users won’t get the activation email. This kind of verifies what the WPLMS’s support says, this is probably not their problem.

    Both sites are on the same Linode VPS server so they have the same host setting.

    Now I am stuck here. Can you show me a way to debug this?

    #319746
    slapsazillion
    Participant

    I’m having issues deleting Signup Fields?

    You can see the Nickname and First Name fields don’t have a remove option. I also tried clicking edit and it would not work?

    Any advice? I tried posting a new topic, but it keeps getting flagged as spam :'(

    #319485
    wbcomdesigns
    Participant

    @zee300 you can try https://wordpress.org/plugins/cleantalk-spam-protect/ it will help to auto-block them.

    csemlak
    Participant

    Hello. I want to migrate from ultimate member on my site. I have switched off ultimate member and only have buddypress on. Regardless none of the users show up on the members page. In addition, users are showing as spammers.

    I want all of the user profile date to migrate if possible. My own user profile as an admin does not even show up.

    I really want this all to work, but I am also a novice at this. So I could use some help. THanks!

    #319120
    epgb101
    Participant

    Hi..
    I see a Spam link in Users list (Edit | Delete | View | Spam). There is a vague explanation of it’s existence on this site – but no explanation as to what it does (that I could fin – appolgies if I missed it). Can anyone explain what the effects of clicking ‘Spam’ are?

    Thanks
    Ed

    #318684
    wbcomdesigns
    Participant

    @tekboss might be email are getting stuck in spam folder, try to use any SMTP service, and you can try with updating sender name and sender email id

    #318397
    Varun Dubey
    Participant

    @foilerone
    to check logs email are sent or not, you can use the email log plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/email-log/
    Email may also be stuck in spam folders, due to default WP Sender headers.

    elliesatt
    Participant

    I am getting registration spam by the bucketloads and I’m not sure how to combat this effectively.

    What I’ve done/considered so far:

    • Activating Recaptcha v3 (done)
    • Hope that email activation weeds out some of the spammers
    • Googling has advised hiding /wp-login.php?action=register since many spambots target this, but I’ve not been able to do this successfully, BuddyPress seems to redirect this to its register page.

    I’d be super glad for any advice on:

    • Hiding /wp-login.php?action=register
    • Any other spam-killing things that I should be doing

    Thanks!

    #318139
    kristianyanchevv
    Participant

    Hello. I can’t to find in settings of BuddyPress , how to aprove first as a administrator when some of the user’s want to create a Group in my website ( I want this as my security and as spam or obscene actions of a user) .
    When someone comments on a group or topic i found how to disable or enable hi’s comment , but for creating a groups i don’t know how.

    Thanks in advance for the help.

    #318130
    funkydiver
    Participant

    Is there a way to stop each reply indenting… it makes the messaging very quickly unreadable on any screen.

    It’s not Theme related, as I’ve switched it to different themes and it’s still doing it.

    Also, the same with spam being repeated.

    New to BP, so apologies if it’s something simple I’ve overlooked.

    http://fringenetwork.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/indent.jpg

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