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It’s hard to remove a post and let you see the response, so I’m closing this one. Please refrain from posting any further about this, it’s beginning to look like spam (this is the third post that I’m aware of, in the last few days). Heck, the title of this thread is the sort of thing Google’s going to pick up on, which I know is your intention.

In terms of people selling or advertising premium BuddyPress services on this site, there’s a balance between promoting your plugin in situations such as responding to a relevant topic, i.e. “how can I do x?” and you reply, “my premium plugin z can do that for you!” (which is okay), and outright advertising or spamming (which isn’t). Announcing a new premium plugin or theme is fine, but posting an announcement or advert each week isn’t — that’s spam.

Blatant advertising or spamming is not allowed; BuddyPress.org community support is about community support, it is not a free-for-all marketplace. This isn’t the place for that type of thing.

Specifically regarding your site, there are extra considerations. You appear to be re-selling GPL’d plugins and themes[1] (I have only taken a quick look at your site). As long as you had purchased these GPL’d themes or plugins originally, then you can turn around and give that theme or plugin to anybody you want. The GPL is about redistribution. My understanding is that this viewpoint is entirely correct.

However, I think you’re missing the big picture. It may not be illegal, but I don’t think it’s ethical. The authors of those works which you are profiting from worked hard to create something. By re-selling their works, I believe you are disrespecting those authors and the larger community. To me, it’s as simple as this: if this sort of behaviour discourages even one individual from creating a new BuddyPress plugin or a BuddyPress theme, because they’d like to try to make some money from it, then the community has been harmed by having one less choice.

I feel this threads falls between an announcement of a service and an advertisement for that service, considering your repeated posts, with debatable ethics. I apologise on behalf of our moderator team; we should have got in contact with you after your first post, and we’re sorry that it seemed we were picking on your posts. However, you could have posted another topic and asked what happened to your previous posts; we would have seen it.

I am paul@byotos.com if you would like to discuss further in private, or you’re welcome to start a new topic and start a discussion about the ethics of re-selling GPL plugins/themes, but maybe that sort of discussion would go best on the wordpress.org forums, rather than here, as it would be seen by a larger audience of WordPress plugin and theme authors (relevant, of course, because your site appears to have WP and BP-specific themes listed).

[1] This assumes that everything in those plugins/themes is covered by the GPL, such as images or any other files, as opposed to just the PHP source.

To prevent spam, the fonctionnality you want to use is not avaible. You can see tthe function in bp-messages-templatetags.php:522

Anyway you can add a button, which opens the send message page, but you need to add manually the user name.

Open from your_child_theme/groups/single/members.php
and add the function ` ` in the place you want.

You can also learn to your user to use the profile page of their contact to send them a private massage.
The number of click to do this is the same i think.

It’s your choice

Cool! I’d like to try the code too. Thanks for the info.

Edit – no spam links please. – Mercime

few things I’d like to change :
if you’re looking at your own profile then you should see friends activity as default instead of your own,makes more sense to me.
comments on your own activity should not repeat as activity in your own stream.
allow users to delete and filter comments and @ mentions on their profile. that way users can delete unwanted comments and @ mentions (SPAM)
if user is not your friend then he should not be able to comment on your activity stream.
and of course privacy settings are very important.

Few other cool things are ,you may know this user and birthday notifications.

Nope. They have a history of going to spam boxes, so you might check there.

The links are nonced, so I can’t recreate the link for you. It looks like http://example.com/members/username/admin/delete-user/?_wpnonce={random string} or http://example.com/members/username/admin/mark-spammer/?_wpnonce={random string}. You could create widget that shows up when an admin visits a user page.

When a user registers, an email is sent out with an activation link. The user must visit this link to activate their account before they can log in. I’m in a hurry, so I can’t do it right now, but there are a few plugins, and even some code snippets on this forum that will allow you to bypass activation. It’s not recommended on a live site to help block spam users.

Yes there is. As long as you are a super admin, just visit the spam user’s profile page, and you’ll see “Admin Options” show up in the buddybar (the toolbar at the top of the page). In the drop-down you’ll see the options to delete/spam.

what queries are you guys using to delete spammers?
what is the fastest procedure within BP?

Thanks dianat – going to your wp_users table and set user_status to 0 works perfectly. And for those who want the SQL for that, it is:
UPDATE `wp_users`
SET `user_status` = 0
WHERE `user_status` = 2

I’m looking at the annotated revision log https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/branches/1.2/bp-blogs.php?annotate=blame&rev=4066 I can see why Subscriber blogs aren’t showing up. What I *can’t* see is why they ever should have been. It looks to me like the code has always intended for Subscriber blogs to be excluded. A recent change in WP blog role management must have made the code finally fulfill its intended purpose.

How to fix: You could write a short plugin that runs every time add_user_to_blog fires, and adds the blog to the BP user’s list using bp_blogs_record_blog(). Ideally there would be a more configurable way to make this work; it’s worth an enhancement ticket on trac.

The short plugin would work something like this. Totally untested.
`function bbg_add_subscriber_to_blog( $user_id, $role, $blog_id = false ) {
global $current_blog;

if ( empty( $blog_id ) )
$blog_id = $current_blog->blog_id;

if ( $role == ‘subscriber’ )
bp_blogs_record_blog( $blog_id, $user_id, true );
}
add_action( ‘add_user_to_blog’, ‘bbg_add_subscriber_to_blog’, 15, 3 );`

The other part of the equation is to sync the whole shebang, which will have to be done once. Something like this (also untested) might work:
`function bbg_record_existing_blogs() {
global $bp, $wpdb;

if ( !is_super_admin() )
return false;

/* Truncate user blogs table and re-record. */
$wpdb->query( “TRUNCATE TABLE {$bp->blogs->table_name}” );

$blog_ids = $wpdb->get_col( $wpdb->prepare( “SELECT blog_id FROM {$wpdb->base_prefix}blogs WHERE mature = 0 AND spam = 0 AND deleted = 0” ) );

if ( $blog_ids ) {
foreach( (array)$blog_ids as $blog_id ) {
$users = get_users_of_blog( $blog_id );

if ( $users ) {
foreach ( (array)$users as $user ) {
$role = unserialize( $user->meta_value );

bp_blogs_record_blog( $blog_id, $user->user_id, true );
}
}
}
}
}
add_action( ‘admin_init’, ‘bbg_record_existing_blogs’ );`

Be forewarned that the latter function should only be run once; comment out the add_action() after it’s done its work. And it’ll only run if the Super Admin visits a Dashboard page. And it might be resource intensive, as it will recheck blog membership for every blog on the system. Use at your own risk.

Am attempting to implement some of the ideas from this forum, particularly those from the post https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/buddypress-spam/?topic_page=3&num=15#post-69499
Would really appreciate some guidance in order to do this correctly. Some of this may appear stupid –

My Set up is the following-BuddyPress installation on a subsite.

a) Multisite with subdirectories http://examplesite.com/ – http://examplesite.com/subsite1 – http://examplesite.com/subsite2 – http://examplesite.com/subsite3 etc etc.
b)BuddyPress installed on a subdirectory. say on http://examplesite.com/subsite3
c) So that there is a consistent signup interface I have redirected the signup of http://examplesite.com/ from http://examplesite.com/wp-signup.php to http://examplesite.com/subsite3/register via a plugin Quick Page/Post Redirect. Before doing this the signups at http://examplesite.com/ were going to http://examplesite.com/wp-signup.php and from anywhere else were going to http://examplesite.com/subsite3/register.

Question 1
With regard to
1)# BEGIN ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION
2)RewriteEngine On
3)RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
4)RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .wp-signup.php*
5)RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.examplesite.com. [OR]
6)RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
7)RewriteRule (.*) http://examplesite.com/goaway.html [R=301,L]

A) In line 4 what do I replace .wp-signup.php* with ? Is it .register.php* ? or is it .subsite3/register.php ?? or is it something else ???
In line 5 do i replace !.examplesite.com. with anything ? say !.examplesite.com/subsite3. ???

Question 2
With regard to “changing the register slug”
A) does this mean changing the name of the file register.php ??? or something else ??? and inserting define( “BP_REGISTER_SLUG”, “your-registration-slug” ); with the new name replacing “your-registration-slug” say retsiger.php or with some other name?
Would it then be necessary to go into the plugins like say Buddypress Humanity and change any references to register.php to whatever its name has been changed to or is that taken care of by the define( statement )) ??

Question 3
If the site was http://www.examplesite.com/ instead of http://examplesite.com/ would there be any changes to your advice ?

Question 4
In my .htaccess file there is already a line “RewriteEngine On” . Do I still include line 2 of the above?

Question 5
Is there any particular place in the .htaccess file where the above code should be inserted ?

Many Thanks

This feature would be great ,that way user can delete unwanted spam on his activity or @mentions .I’ve setup an filter on comments for now to prevent spam posts on activity.
example: if you’re not friend with an user you can’t comment on his activity.

looking forward to this feature

Unfortunately, from the BP end, the only way you can do this is to give users super admin privileges. This will improve in future versions of BP, but for now that’s how it works.

You might be able to finagle something on the Dashboard side. I believe that WP also requires you to be a Super Admin to spam users, but there are custom role plugins for WP (I think https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/role-scoper/ will do it, but others can correct me) that will let you, say, allow Editors to mark users as spam, or to create a new role for that purpose. They’ll have to do it from the Dashboard, but it should work.

As I’ve mentioned emails not being received is not really a WP/BP issue it’s a server configuration / email records spam filtering one, certain hosts are known to cause issues -many employ plugin solutions to bypass problems although that doesn’t really resolve issues.

I would suggest you try a search of the forum posts as there have been many threads started on the subject.

You would know if you were using Multisite as setting up a WP install to run in Multisite mode is a manual procedure where you have to first add a line to wp-config then a new option appears in the dashboard to set up a network.

If you’ve added users from the backend then log in as that user on the main site.

Non receipt of activation emails could be any number of issues but generally it’s a server based one rather than WP and/or emails from the server are getting rejected by the receiving server if it thinks your server is not allowed to send emails from your domain name, also check spam boxes ion case they’ve been dropped in there

Same problem here: legitimate users registering and being marked automatically as spammers.
I am running on WP3.1 with a single main blog. Any help is appreciated!

I’d recommend TigerTech and CloudFlare for free CDN and enhanced security. Gee, I feel like I’m an ad. No, I don’t work for them but started using CloudFlare the other day (used TigerTech for a long time). CF cut out thousands of spammers on my site and stopped many threats (hundreds).

It’s not difficult, you should have two options on the buddypress bar there should be an Admin or User Admin link on that will be the option to mark as spammer or you can go to the dashboard -> admin or network admin -> users and check user, select mark as spam from bulk actions drop down.

https://buddypress.org/search/?f=spam

Thank you so much for this post. I used the WP Activate Users plug-in and problem solved!