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Hi, we have installed a plugin – WP-Approve User on the site, which queues all applications for joining the site pending approval. Currently the setting is: Membership = “Anyone can register”, and new user default role = “Inactive”. This arrangement is working well; however we have a set of additional profile fields in the ‘base group’, where we compulsorily require prospective members to enter data. Would like to know how the site admin can take a look at what data was filled in in the additional fields, before deciding who is a genuine applicant and who is a potential spammer. Is this possible?
The site is http://psychotherapyandcounseling.org. Thanks in advance.
Topic: My Spam Success Story
I was on tour for two months this summer and normally I’m pretty good about keeping on top of the spam, but on the road the only thing I had time for was content, not maintenance. Apparently the message got out that nobody was policing the site and it started getting hammered. I came home to find spam membership accounts coming in every two minutes and new spam user groups being created faster than I could delete them, spam in the forums, spam comments hitting the blog from the spam user accounts. I felt like I was on a sinking ship for a few weeks. Seriously. But that appears to have been solved and I’m amazed. Here’s what I did.
1) First thing I did was to change permissions so that users could no longer create user groups. That kind of sucked, but I needed to stop the spamalanche. I then installed the Buddypress Group Management plugin. It’s a little outdated – I’m running the most current versions of WP and BP – so it doesn’t appear within the BP system preferences and it actually set up a separate Buddypress area just for itself, but who cares. It gave me a clear roster of all of the groups on my site and the option to delete them from the management page and 90 minutes later hundreds of spam groups were gone, no new ones were rolling in and I had a smile on my face for the first time weeks.
2) I installed another plugin called Spam Destroyer. I don’t know how this plugin works. There aren’t any settings that go with it. It said all you needed to do was install it and it would take care of the rest, was highly rated, and the developer claimed to have great success with it on his own site. Fifteen minutes later I had only a couple spam user registrations get through and even though they spam commented on a dozen blog pages, I was really freakin happy.
3) I then installed the Stop Spammer Registrations Plugin. This one checks comments and logins 15 different ways to block spammers.
Guess what? It’s 24 hours later and I’ve had zero spam registrations come through. Zero. I’ve had zero spam user groups created. I’ve had zero spam comments in the forums. I haven’t even had a single spam comment show up on my blog. I’m honestly completely flabbergasted and grateful at the magnitude of how well this worked so if you’re having a similar problem give this a shot. It’s only been 24 hours – but the past 24 hours have been bliss.
Is there a way to enable private messaging only between 2 users? I believe having multiple users enabled rise my chances of getting spammers..
Topic: adding new members
I’m planning on importing all of our members into buddypress – around 1,000 people. I will also need to monthly update the information.
While testing importing (using s2Members) I noticed that whenever I import people, they don’t show up as members in buddypress until they login the first time. Upon further research, I’ve discovered this is by design with BuddyPress to prevent spambots.
Although I appreciate the security, this puts me in a bad place. Part of the point of having this on my website was so that our members can search through the member directory so they can connect with other members. That assumes that all 1,000 of my people login first, which just isn’t going to happen.
I moved my whole website over from Joomla to WordPress assuming I’d be able to get BuddyPress to do this (which we could do on our first site).
Anybody have any ideas for me on what to do?
Wayne
Activation emails not being sent/received so set up BP Disable Activation to at least get new members.
This of course is leading to spam so tried adding CAPTCHA,it works on the comments section but not on the registration page.
My first attempt at this so stumbling blindly along!
Any ideas?
Hi @bojan85,
add this code to your functions.php file
function bp_admin_is_my_profile( $my_profile ){
global $bp;if( ( $bp->current_component == BP_MESSAGES_SLUG )
&& current_user_can(‘manage_options’) ) return true;
else return $my_profile;
}
add_filter(‘bp_is_my_profile’, ‘bp_admin_is_my_profile’, 1);but i think is not good idea to read the messages of members
, try to use anti spam plugins.Hi everyone, is there anyway to let admins have access to members private message? I would like to get notified or see when a message is Sent and received. This would help me sleep better at night so I know members don’t get any spam or inappropriate messages just because of joining my community.
Is there anyway to enable this or is it impossible with buddypress?
Cheers.
Topic: @mentions not broadcasting
I have a user who is saying that they aren’t getting notifications (email or toolbar) of @mentions. I can’t replicate the issues with any of my test accounts, the email’s not in spam, and she does not have the setting turned off.
Wondering if anyone has any thoughts.
Buddypress Version 1.6.1
WordPress 3.4.2As title suggests, friendships are missing both in the friendship requests pending page and the group invite friends page (for group admins)
For Pages:
user-profile/friends/ – current friendships do show
user-profile/friends/requests – do not show despite active pending statesThe message “You have no pending friendship requests.” continues to show up.
Likewise groups/Group-Name/send-invites/ does not show a list of friends to invite to group for the group admin.
I recently had a lot of issues with bbPress and had to remove the plugin manually (deleting through FTP because I would receive a query error by clicking on the deactivate button – for that plugin only) and I’m wondering if this has affected the friends core plugin for my installation of BuddyPress.
The site has been customized quite a bit, and as a live site for a client, I can’t re-install Buddypress in hopes that it will fix the friendships area if that means that all current users would be deleted. If I can re-install Buddypress without affecting MySQL then I might consider it.
I’ve found the area in MySQL that handles friendship requests, and can manually change the 0s to 1s with these new friendships showing up on the site, so I know that part is working. But for some reason its not translating to the site on its own for users to validate the requests themselves.
Where do I look to see why friendships are not being acknowledged by buddypress?
I wish I could give a link to the site for you, but it’s under a members-only script.
I’ve also tried searching out related topics, but haven’t found any that have this specific issue nor any resolves for those that are close.
1. Which version of WordPress are you running? 3.4.2
2. Did you install WordPress as a directory or subdomain install? Directory
3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory? root
4. Did you upgrade from a previous version of WordPress? If so, from which version? Not recently
5. Was WordPress functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress (BP)? e.g. permalinks, creating a new post, commenting. Everything else functions well.
6. Which version of BP are you running? 1.6.1
7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version? Fairly sure I started with 1.6.1.
8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? If so, which ones? 24 – Too many to list.
9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes? customized
10. Have you modified the core files in any way? I don’t believe so.
11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php? not in that file
12. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in? Manually disabled bbPress – am concerned this might be part of the problem. I’m not sure if I downloaded this on its own or if it came part of BP. If separate, they were downloaded on the same day.
13. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files.
WordPress database error Table ‘mydb_ivdb4wp.pd’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT DISTINCT u.ID as id, u.user_registered, u.user_nicename, u.user_login, u.display_name, u.user_email , pd.value as fullname FROM wp_users u LEFT JOIN wp_usermeta um ON um.user_id = u.ID LEFT JOIN pd ON u.ID = pd.user_id WHERE u.spam = 0 AND u.deleted = 0 AND u.user_status = 0 AND pd.field_id = 1 AND u.ID IN (19) ORDER BY pd.value ASC LIMIT 0, 20 made by require(‘wp-blog-header.php’), require_once(‘wp-includes/template-loader.php’), do_action(‘template_redirect’), call_user_func_array, bp_template_redirect, do_action(‘bp_template_redirect’), call_user_func_array, bp_screens, do_action(‘bp_screens’), call_user_func_array, friends_screen_requests, bp_core_load_template, load_template, require_once(‘/themes/AggregateNEW/members/single/home.php’), locate_template, load_template, require_once(‘/themes/AggregateNEW/members/single/friends.php’), locate_template, load_template, require_once(‘/themes/AggregateNEW/members/single/friends/requests.php’), bp_has_members, BP_Core_Members_Template->__construct, bp_core_get_users, BP_Core_User::get_users
14. Which company provides your hosting? GoDaddy (VPS)
15. Is your server running Windows, or if Linux; Apache, nginx or something else? Linux / Apache
Using WordPress 3.4.2 / BuddyPress 1.6.
I’ve noticed that Akismet is not adding “mark as spam” buttons/links to comments in BuddyPress. It trieds to use bp_activity_comment_options to add them after “Reply” and “Delete”.
Also, BP Moderation (http://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-moderation/ ) should be using bp_activity_comment_options to add a “Flag” link to comments, but adding this action does nothing.
So my question is: is the bp_activity_comment_options action actually functional yet?