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I don’t understand the difference between users and members. We have thousands of spam users and it’s not possible to mark them as spam either when we delete them. It feels like they have a negative effect on our site, but maybe I can just leave them there?

Most are using this field to SPAM with any idea’s on how to remove it?

I had the same issue and I want to share here what I did to make activation emails reach the inbox (especially in Gmail):
– added SPF and DKIM DNS records in order to certify that the e-mails are legitimate, especially if your host uses a third party service to send them, or they get sent from a different domain
– changed the default “from” e-mail address and “from name” fields using a plugin. I used WP-Mail-SMTP plugin that also allows me to use my own e-mail address (like a google apps one), but there are plenty others that you could use

After these steps the e-mails were still being marked as spam by Gmail and the only thing left was to edit the activation e-mail content itslef. Thank you Paul for adding the option in Welcome Pack plugin. I enabled “Customise the emails sent by BuddyPress, either in plain text or rich HTML versions.” I then edited the content and subject by adding more text and there it was, activation e-mail wasn’t marked as spam anymore.

I hope this helps someone else as I spent quite some time making it work 🙂

I had problems with WangGuard as well. If you’re site is for a invites-only, you could always try using the “Easy Invitation Codes” plugin. There’s a nice BP-compatible version in the developer section: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/baw-invitation-codes/developers/ (The link just under “Other Versions”.) It works great and is simple to set up.

After installation, all you’d have to do is create a code and send it to the people you want to join. When they register, all they’d need to do is add the invite code, like “ARTROCKSSPAMSUCKS”, into an added field and you’re set.

There is one tiny glitch – but don’t panic! The altered plugin still connects to the regular WordPress plugin, so it will tell you that an upgrade is available after installation. It’s a lie! I did a cheat-fix to get rid of that notification by opening the bp-eic.php file and changing the version number from 1.0 to 1.0.4. And, while writing this message, I decided to try and alert the author of the conflict.

sounds like maybe akismet didn’t like the format of your post and thought it was spam same thing happened to me the other day.

have you considered akismet?

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users are submitting their info and the register page just simply reloads with no error.
created a locally hosted test server ………. got the website to function 100%

Have had similar experience but in the reverse

created a local site (though with a lot of customization) all well locally with registration 100%

put it up on a host and registration page just reloads with no errors.

Have no great experience but could it be version differences of php, or mysql etc. ???
or more likely as modemlooper suggests left over tables from a discarded plugin maybe a disable or auto activation plugin.

I think (though will not name as i’m not 1000% certain) one wp managed hoster had a reports of a similar type problem from a few clients and they eventually fixed it.

Stumped! there are a few results on google search terms —> buddypress register registration reload reloads refresh and a buddypress ticket (now closed) #4477

At first all registration was disabled regardless of theme.

Then as suggested in one of the google results I removed an anti spam addition from htaccess and i got back registration in bp default and the other themes.

but no registration yet for the theme that “caused” the problem

Also consider the honey pot method. It catches automated spammers but not human spammers.
https://github.com/pixeljar/BuddyPress-Honeypot

For human spammers you almost need to approve each user request. Which is a pretty big barrier to entry, I think. I’ve used this plugin to do that:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-registration-options/

Ok, I did what your asked me to do last night. I deactivated all the plugins and then activated the BuddyPress default theme. I get the same results. I sign up to be come a new member and I do not get the confirmation email. I have attempted to sign up with a number of email accounts that I have and nothing is going into my spam folders or my inbox.

I found this tips and guide.

Kill and remove buddypress spam registration

It works perfectly

For my part point 2 is not working at all. I mean as an admin I can do point 2 but as a moderator I can’t. ==> Edit, close, and delete any forum topic or post in the group

You should be able to do this as Group Mod. WP/BP versions? Have you done basic troubleshooting like changing to BP Default theme and deactivating other plugins except BuddyPress?

– I can’t access admin tab I am redirect to home group.

@laminedj – that’s where this all started and what the trac ticket (link above) is all about.

– Delete post is not present in group activity stream

Change to BP Default theme, the delete button/link is there for Group Mod in Activity Stream.

– I can’t ban users because I can’t access admin area

Group Mods cannot ban users, only Group Admins can do that. You can mark forum posts of such as Spam.

Note of warning one click installs can and often are problematic and not recommended. As for credible host, I take your word for that 🙂 Ask them to ensure your IP has a correct PTR record set and go to http://www.openspf.org/ and create a txt SPF entry to add to your MX records this will help certain email hosts to accept email from your server when it comes via your domain records or associates your MX records and the server as being allowed to send email on behalf of that domain and isn’t just some open spam relay.

Oh and yes perhaps the codex/ or that thread could do with a preface about the nature of this problem, sadly I have actually written in depth twice iirc on this issue when in the past there seemed to be a spate of this troublesome aspect, but not sure it’s possible to find those now.

Big problem is that many email providers latched onto a series of email protocols to use as a means of checking that received emails were from genuine sources  and not spam, problem was/is these protocols are not mandatory ones to have such as PTR records but due to this those sorts of records, as arcane and complicated as they are become necessary.

For the record you do not really need to be adding further plugins to WP to sort out what is actually  not an issue ever related to an application but rests at the server / domain level and in correct server sendmail or other versions of smpt/relay programs configurations and of properly configured email dns records, and requires a little technical knowledge when things don’t work out of the box. Plugins will try and bridge that gap between  correct configurations, and users technical knowledge and I guess if they work alls well and good, but better is that things are sorted out at the real point of  breakage.

So just to clarify this does not need to be done so that WP/ BuddyPress can send emails they have no problem sending emails as long as the server and domain records are correctly setup.

If  your emails are being continually dropped into spam folders it’s because the email server receiving them isn’t able to validate the server as valid for the domain and you likely need to set an SPF record and possibly reverse DNS records but the latter is usually something the host providing the IP address for the server needs to set.