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Just in case it was actually taken seriously the after the spam comment I made was meant to be tongue in cheek

Good luck with the site Bowe and I concur with the “not a paid endorsement” brigade the site does look good

“Spam!!!”
*sees the topic is about his own theme*
“Absolutely NO problem with this!”

Thanks for creating this topic Ross, I’m really glad you like the theme I’m putting up for sale. And Boone thanks for promoting my already outdated video as well My intention with the new BP-Tricks site is not to only sell a premium theme, and offer some kind of subscription service (I’m not a big fan of subscription models for Themes).

BP-Tricks will hopefully become a resource for great BuddyPress tips and tricks. Selling the theme is just a great way for me to keep BP-Tricks running, earn some money and hopefully improve the quality of BuddyPress Child Themes.. The theme is GPL and cool stuff that I add to it will all be shared in the form of Tutorials on BP-Tricks. The actual design elements and the support are what people are paying for (similar as WooThemes does this for example).

Everyone can submit code/design/inspirational Tricks through a form or the backend, and by doing so you’ll earn Awards ( @DJPaul his Achievement Plugin FTW!) and badges awarded by me. The best new trick each month earns a nice price (currently a Free theme, but I’ll try to get some sponsors) and they get listed on the frontpage in Widget of Fame

Besides that the Activity Stream is purely meant to be a source of information displaying ONLY new Tricks, external Tricks (BP-Links from @MrMaz) and external member blogs from our members (if you blog about BuddyPress or anything related to it) you can add your RSS feed to your profile and people who follow you get your updates in their stream. This plugin will be released to the community when the site launches next week.

There’s also a customized search feature which only searches the BuddyPress network (BP.org, BP-Tricks, WPMU.org, Etivite.com, BuddyDev.com, ShabuShabu.eu etc) and a bunch of other stuff which I probably forgot to tell.

All the site features remain free, and also the site will be Ad free for as long as I earn enough to keep it running without loosing money on it.

I hope this makes my intentions clear, and that it will become a place where you can enjoy great BP Tricks from not only me, but from anyone, without getting the feeling that I’m out for someone’s money.. because that is certainly not my intention If you want to have access to the site before launch to look around and submit some Tricks for the community just let me know, and I’ll make sure you’ll have access and be a part of the cool kids

Spam

Not generally an advisable thing to want to do, privacy, spam concerns etc etc

It’s just spammers isn’t it! When bots sign up, they have to or think they have to fill any form fields they find so they simply place random characters. Are these actual users or spammers?

Just adding to this rather than creating a new topic:

I keep getting an error when trying to upload an avatar (on here):

Upload Failed! Error was: Unable to create directory /home/buddypress/public_html/wpmu/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/avatars/6656263. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

Also get a ’page not found’ whenever trying to search through search pages with multiple pages

And when I do look through searches there seems to be endless spam.

Appreciate there seem to be only a very small number of people keeping things going on here and they obviously give an awful lot so I really don’t want to offend, but it does seem that it’s not the best advert for using buddypress.

That said I’m using it anyway and looking forward to it too!

@jordashtalon

Ah right… I think that “Bulk Action” only becomes available in WP3 if you have enabled Multisite. And not too sure if WP-Activate is compatible with Buddypress. Here’s an auto-activate plugin that is compatible with WP3 single:
http://buddydev.com/plugins/buddypress-premium-plugins/plugin-bp-auto-activate-auto-login-redirect-to-profile-automatically-activate-your-new-user-signuplog-them-in-and-redirect-to-their-buddypress-profile-on-signup/

It’s a premium plugin, but the small fee is well worth all the cool stuff @Brajesh puts out almost weekly. He’s also a great help if you ever get yourself into a coding kaffuffle.

You can also test the plugin here:
http://plugins.bpdemos.com/bp-auto-activate-auto-login-wp3s/

Hello Philip…

I just registered successfully on your site… My guess is that the person didn’t check for their validation e-mail… I’ve had huge trouble with gmail accounts going to SPAM every-time so I’ve made sure that I talk about the spam/junk folder…. Also, you need to make sure that the folks are aware of the e-mail… I’ve spent a lot of “words” talking about this on the musicpln.org.

Also, what plugin are you using for your “novice status” counts in the upper right sidebar?

@philip-hesketh

Presume this is while they still have an active session on the go?

same issue here on 1.2.5.2
https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2575

It ought to block spammers properly. What version of BP are you testing this on?

Also https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-activate-users/

Go to the domain.com/member/account and use the pull down from the admin bar to mark the account as “not a spammer”

@jordashtalon

In your WP dashboard, go to “Users” and check the box next to the name of the user highlighted in red. Then, select “Not Spam” from the “Bulk Actions” dropdown (top or bottom of your user list). Click “Apply”. Should do it.