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I tried one more thing before starting over. I had one plugin that I never deactivated to see if it was the problem: Si Captcha. That little rascal! It works so well, but it was keeping my members from becoming the admins of their own newly-created sites. I guess it has to do with spammers. I will see if there are any settings.

Every time something happens that I can’t explain, I feel like I’ve won the lottery but I can’t find the ticket. I hate that feeling. I really do.

These spammers are nothing more than high school thugs standing in the entryway of school, knocking the books out of peoples hands when they walk through the doors. I don’t know why there always has to be someone talking the fun out of something truly amazing such as BuddyPress. It really disappoints me to see spam accounts.

If I find out anything about si captcha, I’ll post back here.

Peace.

Kevin

@mercime I understand what you’re saying, I really do. I tried everything. When I was able to successfully activate BP 1.7 beta, I received multiple posts on the activity stream — four of them right in a row. Here’s the really weird part. When I went to the BP default theme and posted from there, the little button wouldn’t appear to post the text. My site had some severe issues. It tried to, and a hard refresh sometimes made it appear. After making a post, the button disappeared again.

I ultimately reverted back to the Stable BP version, and everything worked fine. Then, to make sure I won’t face an upgrade issue down the road when the new release is issued, I uploaded everything from scratch. Totally wiped it all clean and created a new database with a different name.

I know this solution sounds like turning off a computer with the button on the tower — a big no no for professionals, but I’m still learning. A week ago I could barely navigate my multisite, and today I’m really moving through it. I even created custom page names this time to assign to BP.

Last week after I installed BP 1.7 beta, I tried several times to change me permalinks. Mostly due to appearance and robot spam (renaming register page to something else).

A new install today has afforded me the chance to really make a good solid base for any and all WordPress and BuddyPress upgrades in the future.

I’m really learning a lot about databases and domain add-ons (for clean URLs). This past week I’ve taught myself to use cPanel for almost everything. I use FileZilla now for mostly uploading zip files.

I hope I don’t wear out my welcome here with my issues. I really appreciate everyone’s help. I find myself often reading posts that are two and three years old. All informative. It’s all very interesting, and I’m really learning a lot.

Thank you for your time. I really appreciate it.

Kevin

Thanks @Chouf1 forsuch a  detailed response. Unfortunately WPMU is not an issue, I’m quite familiar with it and run it on alternative sites already. My current project is where my difficulties began.

WPMU with multiple sub-sites and mapped domains are all pre-configured and ready to roll. (Users can register, I can upload and post images etc etc)

BUDDYPRESS: The problem I have experienced over the past week has been Buddypress & bbPress is failing me.

What I’m therefore trying to achieve, or at least figure out  is exactly why….

Every time I step forward, from the point I’m at right now and install Buddypress with bbPress things fail! Problems I’m experiencing are as follows.

An inability to edit, spam, stick etc. Any ‘Sitewide Forum’ – (Group forums are fine)

E-mails do not get sent to subscribed users.

Site registration fails, email is sent but link with auth code in fails and no user is created.

What I’m trying to do here on my 6th complete new install is break things down step by step to see if its a process issue.

Theme is fully BP & bbP friendly, and all pages display excellently when BP/bbP is installed.

For the record I can also state that I use Buddypress on an alternate singular site with WP, no issues whatsoever.

This is my first BP WPMU Install and I can only say its been a complete nightmare, thus far. Hence why I asked the questions I have, trying to breakdown every aspect of my install, process of elimination.

Questions again –

Does one enable define ( ‘bp_enable_multiblog’ true ) prior to BP installation or directly afterward, or does it not matter.

Should one network enable BP & bbPress upon installation or not?

I have followed The Definitive Guide To BuddyPress & bbPress Configuration, over at http://labzip.com to the letter also, but on the last five occasions my WPMU BP bbP istall has failed, as described above.

Yes, savage troubleshooting headache…

P.S- Thanks for your Root Blog explination 🙂 Much appreciated.

any idea?
It keeps emailing 🙁
today too. i kick he/her out. but still registered and sending.

Okay. Thanks @hnla. I’ll do that right now.

I can confirm that this issue was SQL related, A fresh install on clean database resolved the matter.

Just out of curiosity (I have posted on BBPress support) and on the off chance someone may have had the same/similar issue over this neck of the woods. Once a forum/group forum post is created, I’ as keymaster cannot, edit,close, stick, merge, trash or spam them? The page simply refreshes with no action taking place.

Fingers crossed, someone, somewhere has had and indeed resolved the matter.

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I will give the Honeypot Trap plugin a try as I believe you are all correct and it’s spam.

Think I’m going to go to BBpress forums only at first and then reintegrate Buddypress later as there’s a few too many complications with BP right now.

I finally yielded, and messed up (so to speak) the function messages_screen_compose, adding conditional custom redirects with if else statements like…

`
if(wp_get_referer()){//to check origin of form submission, returns false for self submission
bp_core_redirect(wp_get_referer()); //custom redirect, as this isn’t self submission
} else {
bp_core_redirect( bp_loggedin_user_domain() . $bp->messages->slug . ‘/view/’ . $thread_id . ‘/’ );// this was originally there, for submission from original php file
}
`

As I think the issue is ‘resolved’, for time being, I should document the solution here.

I intended to use buddypress private messaging as feedback form, with various feedback options like Question, Suggestion, Feedback etc. Thus, I created corresponding users (Question, Suggestion, Feedback etc.) who will receive the feedback. The idea is super-elegant from my purpose, as not only the submissions be automatically segregated and stored in database, but responding to the feedbacks would be as simple as responding to PM, all without the hassle of email, spam etc. An added benifit is, users can draw attention to various issues site wide by @mension, like :@question What about this?”

So I tried to imitate the buddypress compose form, and I succeeded, except the redirect problem as described here.
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/create-a-feedback-form-using-buddypress-messaging-functionality/

What I was doing was, creating a duplicate form, but calling the original form action (fooling buddypress 🙂 ). I did so, because, I don’t even know how to submit the copy-pasted form I created, and get the same thing done as the original compose.php was doing when it called itself (self submission).

Anyways, this hack with unforgivable modifications in buddypress files works beautifully. I feel I’ll have to go through the plugin route finally though, as this is make-shift arrangement (but will work as long as I don’t update the buddypress plugin 🙂 ).

Thanks shane for your help.

@mercime Yes, I even made a fake user so I could check it myself to make sure it was not going to spam. No email came