Thanks tibmix!
Thanks for trying out the plugin. I have no idea why that bug would be occurring, but I’ll look into it soon for you and see what I can work out. It seems to be working fine on my test installation, but I have a slightly different version on my live site.
Once I’ve done some testing (probably tomorrow evening) I’ll post back here, hopefully with a solution.
@ryanhellyer Because I make use of BuddyPress I installed “Spam Destroyer version 1.4.3 beta” plugin.
The immediate consequence was that any attempt to post or create a new topic ended in “ERROR: Your reply cannot be empty.”
I had to disable it for now.
I found no setting for this plugin and I agree to help you test it. Be aware I’m not a developer, just a WP regular user.
How do we proceed?
Hi,
I’m trying to implement some anti-spam measures and one recommendation is to change the default BP registration slug.
I’m not sure I fully understand this process. I gather that I need to define the new slug but then what? I presumed I would need to copy register.php to match the new slug.
However, I have tried putting the definition in wp-config.php (before the end definitions section) but nothing happened. I’ve created bp-custom.php in the root of the plugins folder and this doesn’t have any effect either. I’m presuming either the registration slug will break or automatically change if the definition is successfully registered.
So far, I can still go to mydomain.com/register and get the BP registration form.
I’m using BP 1.7
Here’s the content of the bp-custom.php file.
Any ideas where I’m going wrong?
thx
gotcha not to try and make you explain why or anything since i probably wouldn’t understand the answer anyway but a LOT of wordpress sites do use JetPack i pretty much consider it a prerequisite for any site that wants traffic.
Thanks for all your hard work in the good fight against spammers and sploggers though!
Jetpack is not currently supported. I might get around to testing it with Jetpack in the future, but I haven’t found the time to do that yet. Jetpack makes things very difficult to test wtih.
so i read this plugin is not currently compatible with Jetpack is that correct? thanks!
whoohoo! awesome work
btw there’s spam comments on the bpdevel blog
The default email notifications from BuddyPress are ugly and are normally sent to spam for most people. There are a couple of ways it could be better:
– Integrate plugin “Welcome Pack” email component by default; greatly prettifies the default notifications
– Change the From: address from the default server’s address. This could be the name of the member that triggered the notification (i.e. whomever sent you a message or mentioned you, etc.), but from noreply@yoursite.com. I’m saying Member Name (Community Name), from noreply@yoursite.com.
If the second suggested change is room for another plugin, can someone point me to where one could start?
@synaptic,
such a plugin already exist for buddypress. Give a try:
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bp-moderation
The’re also some fix on the support forum
I’m looking for a plugin which would allow regular BP members to mark another member or their contributions as spam. The result wouldn’t be to automatically ban or erase the spam marked action but rather to flag it as spam and then have admins look at a list once it reaches a pre-set threshold.
So for example, if 10 users mark a post or comment as spam, then it goes on the list of possible spam for the admins to look over and they then decide. In effect you’re crowd sourcing spam detection. Disqus has a similar feature where anyone can use the ‘flag’ symbol to notify moderators or admins that a comment is inappropriate or spam. See this for more: http://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/466224-flagging-comments
I found this plugin, but it has only part of the functions I’m looking. It gives the admins the ability to mark as spam:
One Click Mark Spammer for BuddyPress
You need to style that, layouts as such are for the end user to build, the old-ish bp-default had one particular layout that best suited all requirements, if you wanted something different you needed to create that as a theme.
The grid layout style therefore needs to be built, the markup is there and can be styled, there is even a guide to doing this now, by iirc wpmu on pollyplumbers blog.
Spam isn’t something that’s going to be tackled by the core to any great extent WP relies on plugins to combat this- look for a thread on this forum asking for testers for a new spam plugin that is looking very promising.
Hi!
I would love to have this feature where instead of a paginated list of members and groups we have paginated grid layout for members (just like at http://leanin.org/stories/) and even groups. This would make it so easy and a visual treat for all members to connect with each other and find the groups they like. Each picture can link to the user’s profile and for groups each picture can link to the group’s page!
My second feature request is to reduce spam registrations without the need of additional plugins.
It may be too much to ask, but that would really make a difference for anyone who is using Buddypress :).
Many Thanks
Sonia
@binutz re time active -> use UTC +/- in Settings rather than city name and change to BP Default theme. Are you using a cache plugin by any chance? If so, which one?
re members count -> What do you mean that it’s wrong? Is this an installation which had registered members prior to installing BuddyPress? Then members have to log in at least once to be “counted”
re users’ avatars missing -> You mean the only the mystery man is showing up or that even the mystery man is not showing up? Are you developing locally or online? Change to BP Default theme, are the avatars showing up?
re email activation issue -> Are you sure that your installation is sending those activation emails in the first place? Or, have your users checked in their email spam folders? Where are you hosted?
Thank, Ryan. Will take a look.
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Thanks! I’ll give the link inside that thread a try
The Spam Destroyer plugin definitely won’t stop comma seperated lists. It doesn’t even look at your post content in fact.
Second post to activate followup notifications (can the forum mods assume we want to know about follow ups and work on an opt out basis, please).
Definitely need something to can the spam. I had to disable Akismet on one site because it prevented comma separated lists being posted. Will Spam Destroyer allow comma separated lists to be posted?
@sdglhm have you asked user who is not receiving the activation emails to check in spam folder?
It should be more “accurate” since it’s not using heuristic techniques to detect spam. Those sorts of techniques should work very well in concert with what my plugin does though. Anything that gets through the Spam Destroyer should be fed through Akismet for checking, in theory leading to an extremely low amount of spam.
it’s an interesting plugin no doubt i know it’s probably a bit early to be able to give a real apples to apples comparison but i’m just wondering how the accuracy compares to API based spam/splog prevention such as akismet or wangguard.
The plugin seems to be working fine so far. I haven’t received any complaints so far.
I’ve posted a new version for download:
http://geek.ryanhellyer.net/products/spam-destroyer/
The main difference with this new version is that it lets me track statistics on how well the plugin is working on your site (assuming you opt-in for it). This should help me work out how well the plugin is working without having to pester people for updates on the plugins progress 🙂
Seems successful to me!
I’ll delete this in a while or is that post I found marked as spam the one you wanted to post up ?
