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Email should work but much can go wrong including things connected to plugins, themes and functions.php or bp-custom.php files.

Presuming the email didn’t go into spam, and WordPress sent emails before installing BuddyPress, then one thing that can be tried is disabling all plugins except except buddypress and the ( un-customised ) bp-default theme.

If this is a localhost/dev site then php / server has to be correctly configured and/or upgraded for email. Alternatively WP Mail SMTP may be useful in this situation…

The main email address is set on the wordpress Settings > General page.

There may be other issues with buddypress in some situations. For more info see: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4689 and relevant links on that page.

Do they end up in the spam / junk / trash folder?
Have you tried the suggestions in BuddyPress isn’t sending out emails (eg. activation emails, email notifications) on the following page: https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/frequently-asked-questions/ ?

buddypress is not doing anything to stop it.

And pray tell what is BP supposed to do about it? Be nice to get some suggestions!

fwiw spam is a pandemic or appdemic issue it affects nearly all CMS / forum apps out there on the net, the issue is not one that can be effectively dealt with one can only stem the tide and also fwiw it’s up to you the end user of this frely provided software to put you various traps and safeguards in place, and to be massivelly pro-active in the fight, if on the other hand  – as some have wailed, that they return to their site after a week and it’s all full of spam well…

So posts  – and they are quite frequent – that point the accusatory finger at BP ought to stop doing so, it is NOT BP’s issue it’s yours!

And there are a whole heap of approaches one can take and a million threads on the subject, oh and it’s not just above specific apps or plugins  a little knowledge of how to manipulate resources such as .htaccess  can help.

buddypress is not doing anything to stop it

i don’t think that’s a fair statement at all. everyone here knows how important this issue is and everyone here is doing their best to incorporate features that help without any downside. the article you mention is also referencing wanguard which sounds like a tool to fight slog regs but there is potential downside (blocking legit users who have been incorrectly flagged by wanguard for some reason or another).

Depends of the settings of each user mail software or webmail configuration.

Hi,

you can also use WangGuard. Coupled with Askimet, it’s terrific. Even if not a 100% bullet proof. WP Ban is also good. If you have access to the site error.log you can also deny access to some recurrent IP’s with htaccess

That said, nobody can give you the best recipe at this time.

Nice tutorial!. Nice tips to use. Spamming is bad for business and buddypress is not doing anything to stop it. I own a buddypress site and followed this tips here

This work like a charm. No spam registration

akismet deals with a bit of spam activity (bp support is relatively new but it seems to be learning fairly quickly) but spam registration prevention is a rather sticky wicket anything you do to prevent registrations by spammers also has at least the potential makes things more difficult for legit users. I’m about to try out wang guard for that heard good things about it.

@jig4physics weird issue. I would backup database, then via phpMyAdmin. Go to wp_users table and click on Edit link on the first row (if you’re the admin/super admin user ID is #1). In next panel, change user_status value from 2 to back to 0

It sounds like maybe you’re confusing two different things:

How the roles were added and removed.
How the users were granted those roles.

I know how they got there, and how they were removed. I’m curious why your users have those roles at all.

bbPress 2.2 and beyond have their own secondary user roles, that do not mix in with WordPress’s role picker. Basically, to avoid exactly this kind of scenario, where users are left without roles at all.

bbPress 2.2.3 should be automatically granting users a forum role when they login and browse the site. Whether or not they have a WordPress role on the site shouldn’t dictate their ability to create activity stream content. The only users that can’t create content in BuddyPress are spammed or deleted users.

Do you have some other role-based custom thing happening on your site that’s interfering somewhere?

Hi,

don’t try to prevent spammers. They already know how WP is working. 😀

So you have many unconfirmed subscriber anyway. In such case, you could resend the activation email or delete the unconfirmed account. A small plugin do this very easely:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/unconfirmed/

I use it regularly on my 1.6.2 network without problems. 😉

> once they find out that they have to activate their accounts etc then they just don’t bother any more

Unfortunately, time has shown this not to be true; it certainly lowers the amount of spam accounts, which is why activation is on by default. Spammers are either automated or just won’t bother to read any notices you show them.

Hi,

Thanks modemlooper for the input. However, IP addresses and spam control are administrative functions. They are useful for the site administrator or may be the moderators, but not the lay user. Request you / BP designers to consider amending the design appropriately.

It’s  normal in forums to show ip address. Basically it’s telling the user that if you spam we know your ip and will ban you.

Check out http://akismet.com/how/#gs0

akismet needs to be activated with api key and if you are using it on a multisite network the wp config file needs to be modified in order for it give your entire network blanket protection. akismet is a built in plugin for all wordpress sites.