Hello Team,
I am so impressed with the work you have done!
I’m having a little issue… whenever someone is registering they don’t get any message…. (even in the spam box)…
I see the name on the list but they cannot access… when I try to recover forgotten password I get this issue: The e-mail could not be sent.
Possible reason: your host may have disabled the mail() function…
I’m with bluehost…
Thank you for your support and great product!
I’d double-check that the admin email is correct at yourdomain.com/wp-admin/options-general.php
Then, make sure that the emails aren’t being zapped by your SPAM filter.
Do you get regular BuddyPress notifications (friend requests, private messages, etc.) to the admin email?
Is your email hosted on the same server as your site? You might try switching the admin email to gmail or whatever to see if the emails go to that other account. Because if your email account is the same as your website domain but you host your email elsewhere (ex. Rackspace, Google Apps), your server might be trying to send the message locally.
Hello,
I have stumbled to this topic while searching how to change the time of activation link before it expires.
So, @kriskl how much time it takes before activation link expires when registering to your site?
I have similar problem. The default time of 2 hours looks like very insufficient for users. We have almost no spam registrations and still there are many abandoned registrations.
On the net there is no easily reachable info how to change this configuration. I have posted two threads on WP.com, still no news. Hope some of you people can help or give an idea where is that php that sets the time period.
10x
https://buddypress.org/developers/nuprn1 rich! etiviti wrote a suite of plugins one of which is ‘BuddyPress Restrict Group Creation’
Don’t allow your members to sign up and instantly create groups set a time period they have to wait, spammers won’t wait, genuine members will not mind if it’s clear to them they have to wait a few hours, a day or whatever.
it’s no solution and pointless running as yet one more plugin, this is simply a Order Allow Deny Apache directive and would be placed in you httpd.config file preferably or in your .htaccess and then list IP or domains to deny. Blocking IPs isn’t something that should be done lightly as it can have repercussions and is only effective on domains if there is one specific troublemaker these spam bots use spoofed domains they will change on the fly so little point trying to block them.
Preventing spam is a multi faceted approach and the many areas and things that need to be done covered at length on the support forum, you need to use all of them to effectively reduce spam and if possible don’t let people sign up for blogs from the sign up page
@arezki … so … does this plugin block attempts to sign up? How does it determine if something should be blocked? I looked at the plugin file on WP.org and it isn’t very specific. I can go into my server cpanel and block IPs all day long and I still get tons of spambots. I get user activation keys and blog setups with out a spambot actually doing the compelte process. grrrr.
Andrea_r, can you put that into English please? Pretend I’m a total newb.
I haven’t found a good solution yet. Heck, I can’t even figure out how to delete spam groups that are now popping up on my site.
The trouble with a social network is, you don’t want to seal it off and make it so that no one can sign up. That would defeat the purpose. But you have to have a way of confirming new members are who they are. Using some kind of program that would check a member’s sign up credentials would be nice. A passport of sorts. Any ideas there? Facebook connect could work, I guess.
Actually I have an idea that might fix the issue.
Where in the core are the timespamps’s code located? Because if I take the code from 1.2.5.2, (where it works) and replace it in 1.2.7, it might fix the issue for us that are having problems. for example like is it in bp-tamplatetags.php?
@hnla I mean outdated as in the fix is already applied in 1.2.7.
Try to put the plugin: si-captcha-for-wordpress, this works on buddypress.
It’s not caused by the BuddyPress registration process, I can tell you that much 
Hi,
I have just installed the latest version of WordPress and Buddypress on my server. Changed language to Russian and added a few plugins on to Buddypress. For some reason when I tried to register an new account using my another e-mail account, the newly registered user is marked as a spammer automatically and not sent an e-mail with account activation link. I had to go into the admin section and mark as not a spammer. Does anybody know what is the issue with this please?
Is this caused with my SI Captcha plugin by any chance?
Is the blog they own or one of the blogs they belong to been marked spam if so, I think this happens to users created.
I am having the same problem. Any solution found on this at all?
Please help!
This issue is one that has been discussed at length in various threads over the months here, and many approaches to tackling the issue are given.
Please do a search for these threads and have a detailed read through and implement a few of the suggestions they provide.
I recently started a Buddypress site and noticed more than 2000 members within 2-3 days. I have not even written a single post or promoted the website. They all look like spam.
Latest wordpress 3.04 and latest buddypress installed.
Akismet 2.5.1 activated.
Platinum SEO pack activated
Allow new registrations : Both sites and user accounts can be registered.
Can someone tell me how to prevent this.
Although the membership gets activated by clicking activation link in email, then how
@JJJ: First off, thanks.
Secondly, is the thought to hook into Akismet for the various actions within Buddypress? Wonder if this is served best by making the existing Akismet plugin Buddypress aware since the same effort needs to happen with standalone bbPress, etc.
Ths should be fixed. Thanks for your patience.
I’ve caught wind of the spam and am away on holiday until Jan 3. I’ve pinged a few people about looking into it since I can’t directly.
Sorry. I know it sucks. One of my personal goals for the beginning of 2011 is to fix up buddypress.org so we can have some peace and quiet from spammers.
It’s being looked in to, and I’ll report back if/when there’s progress made.
Just for anyone’s edification I realized I can block IPs from accessing the site at the server level. My server uses cpanel and there’s a function called IP Deny Manager. Since the plugin “User Activation Keys” lists the IPs of everyone attempting* to join I can easily see the most offending IP addresses – and so far I have blocked 6 – the amount of spambot signups is waaaay down. Yes. The risk is that there are REAL people who are on this server who would probably like to use my site but are now blocked from even seeing it.
* I am also using the plugin “Registration Options”
So my site has been up for 9 days now and I am getting 30+ spambot signups a day and its getting tiring deleting the user, the activation codes and the sites these things create. I have noticed that they are generally all coming from 2 IP addresses. I would love it if I can simply block anything/one using that IP.
I am using the “Registration Options” plugin and its really not up to the challenge.
Well, my new site has been live for about a week and I believe the spambots have found me! Actually, I know they have because membership leapt by 40+ “people” all using firstlast as username and an irrelevant firstname######## in the profile.
Here’s the problem … All of the spambots get to the signup but I don’t think they verify because they aren’t showing up in the user list in admin BUT they show up in the member directory and the “Members” plugin! Anyone who signs up should not be put into either list until they verify.
This is maddening because it would be so much easier to bulk edit in admin versus via the admin bar.
I know there will always be spambots but why are they appearing in the member directory and the member widget but not in admin? And what can we do to prevent this?
@Djsteve Did we jump off the happy truck today? My site is using WP+WPMultiSite+BuddyPress and a dozen or so plugins and, personally, everything seems to be running rather smoothly. Yes, there are a few disconnected pieces here and there – but I have PAID for scripts and plugins that ended up having as many problems if not more.
And yes, user management and no connection to Akismet or an ability to put CAPTCHA into the signup form seems like an obvious gaffe but …
I wish users would remember to check spam/junk folders but that’s a people issue outside of our control.
I am fairly certain that Akismet will be connected in v1.3.
@mateko No. At this time it is NOT possible to resend activation emails to BP members and nor can admins manually activate members from the console.
I have not tried it yet, but you may try deleting a member from admin and telling them to re-register and watch the junk folder.
Hopefully these issues will be addressed in v1.3
have they checked their junk mail / spam folders?
If your users aren’t happy about this, just wait until they start using it – lol it’s a crude work in miserable progress imho – the signup issueS are just the beginning. I would consider buddypress more of a hobby thing for those who want to spend long hours in multiple forums trying to hash out why everything does not work well together. You will find spam robots have no problem signing up and activated dozens of accounts daily. Once your users actually get activated they will have a great time trying to sort out real blog posts from spam, they may wish they never signed up in the first place – especially if they create their own group.
