BuddyPress.org

Can someone give solution that users that wish to sign up dont use buddypress signup page, instead they use regular wordpress signup which is much much safer.

Then all you need to do is install SABRE and spammers are gone. This is urgent request because i dont wish to have spoammers on my sites, same goes for everyone else, i m getting hit by 20 spammers per hour.

BTW nothing mentioned in this topic works!!!!

@Boone,

….Not sure about your email problem – has your friend checked the spam folder?…….

I am very sure this issue is related to bug within your Plugin:

During the Step “Send Invites”, I clicked on the link “Send invitations by e-mail”. Then I entered the e-mail of my friend into the first e-mail-field. Then clicked send. Then I received the message “Invitation successfully sent”.

Then I hit the back-button of my browser to go back to the Tab “Send Invites” as there is the button which says “Finish” (for finishing the Group-Set-up).

The e-mail never reached my friend.

Ah, if you only need it once, then it’s easier. Build a list of all members

$query = "SELECT * FROM {$wpdb->users} WHERE spam=0";

$members = $wpdb->get_results( $query, ARRAY_A );

Then loop through $members and do the operation that dre1080 mentions above:

foreach ( $members as $member ) {

$user_id = $member['ID'];



$args = array(

'per_page' => 10000,

'show_hidden' => true,

'user_id' => $user_id

);



if ( bp_has_activities( $args ) ) {

global $activities_template;

$count = $activities_template->total_activity_count;

} else {

$count = 0;

}



echo $user_id . " " .  $count . "<br />";



}

I haven’t tested this but it or something very similar to it should print a list on the screen of user ids along side their activity counts.

Ah, if you only need it once, then it’s easier. Build a list of all members

$query = "SELECT * FROM {$wpdb->users} WHERE spam=0";

$members = $wpdb->get_results( $query, ARRAY_A );

Then loop through $members and do the operation that dre1080 mentions above:

foreach ( $members as $member ) {

$user_id = $member['ID'];



$args = array(

'per_page' => 10000,

'show_hidden' => true,

'user_id' => $user_id

);



if ( bp_has_activities( $args ) ) {

global $activities_template;

$count = $activities_template->total_activity_count;

} else {

$count = 0;

}



echo $user_id . " " .  $count . "<br />";



}

I haven’t tested this but it or something very similar to it should print a list on the screen of user ids along side their activity counts.

tested again and an opted out email that I try and send a new invite to results in the message body textarea being added to subject line textarea.

for reference the option to allow user to customise both subject line and message body are checked but the user has not actually added or changed any of the default text displaying.

On a slightly odd note and harking back to my email issues invites were being flagged as spam while all other site emails i.e registration emails were arriving as expected normally , now this has changed despite me having changed nothing!! inviites are correctly being received and not flagged as spam any longer .

*sigh* it’s a black art, server email configuration

Just ran test on 0.5 on live test site.

Ran process from start to finish with all dashboard options in effect and used and all ran perfectly, checked DB and all screens no issues what so ever, congrats on that.

Ran second test but this time testing Opt Out and that equally ran smoothly.

A few things have occurred to me though:

Perfect world it would be nice to have access in admin to textarea to set the text that is displayed on the Opt Out confirmation screens that would ensure we could add any thing we thought necessary for our own particular circumstances.

In a similar vein having allowed users to configure the email message area it occurred to me that I would like one further textarea that admin might use to set a footer to the email for any disclaimers we might think necessary and that we DONT want changing by users.

I have a possible concern over the legal requirements of Opt Outs with respect – in our case – to the UK Data Protection Act and have asked our legal chap to think on it , my concerns may be ill founded but I’ll report back if they are confirmed.

Last little point and which is more an issue I have to resolve but sent invites arrive and are dumped to my spam folder yet registrations and all the attendant confirmation emails arrive correctly.

Tim, regarding your other post, if you don’t provide the information we’ve requested, it’s really, really tricky to know where to start diagnosing the problem.

EDIT: it looks like your reply was marked as spam automatically by the forum. I’ve just unspammed it.

I am running akismet, and hashcash currently, along with SI contact form. Anyone know if I can include WP-SpamFree ontop of those other plugins?

Akismet, WP-SpamFree Anti-Spam, WP Hashcash, search for other anti-spam threads in thisforum

I know this sounds picky but those captcha images are really ugly.

Maybe it requires some backend server/email configuration to not get caught in the spam filter? The point being that person sent the request, they should get a response to that email if there is one.

– The Reply To idea is very good. I’m using wp_mail, WP’s built in mail function, which in theory should allow me to feed in some headers. I will give it a try – but no promises on this one, as I’ve had trouble making the WP default reply-to address work correctly in the past and don’t feel like tearing any more hair out over it

This is a nice idea but I would tread carefully. it sounds like a classic SPF issue? my original problem at the start of testing this plugin were not receiving the emails that turned out to be our google business account marking them as spam, which wasn’t happening before but haven’t had a chance to track down what has changed.

Obviously I like this plugin a lot. Added it to my test site and everything went really smooth and easy. Just a few comments/bugs:

-It would be a great feature to customize the subject line (similar to the body). Would also likely want to include the name of the person requesting in the subject. As a side note, Facebooks email invite has a subject that says “Check out my photos on Facebook” Interesting way to get people to read the email.

-Email Invite should have the “reply to” from the person that invited them. Maybe it requires some backend server/email configuration to not get caught in the spam filter? The point being that person sent the request, they should get a response to that email if there is one.

-In the invite I sent it had an apostrophe and when it got to the email it shows the apostrophe with \’ in the email. Needs to be filtered/sanitized somehow?

-Would be really nice to have the email field auto-populated. Otherwise, people can sign up with a different email address and then it doesn’t update that the invite was accepted and that person never gets the group/friend invites (I tried). Granted, a lot of people have only one email, but would also save them time if it pulled in the email into the email registration field.

-Personally, I’d prefer it to just add the person to the group and make the requesting person their friend instead of sending them 2 more emails which could be confusing since you’ll get a total of at least 4 emails after activating (New Account, New Blog, Group Request, Friend Request). Maybe this could be an option that can be turned off or on.

Nice work. I love the person’s name on the registration page. I think touches like that could be expanded upon to really increase sign up rates.

Hashcash 4.5.1. doesn’t work for me anymore…

It does look like the spammers are starting to break through Hashcash again. I just got a new splog signup 11 minutes ago.

I give up, I’m just going to ban the proxies if its the only solution.

Do the rules need to be insert at a particular position in the .htaaccess?

The .htaccess solution posted above is working sweet for us.

Actually, because our site has such a wide niche and entices people to speak their mind, not sure that we want anyone from a proxy IP to have access anyway, so this kills two birds….

I had failed to do my code merge correctly

Never been a fan of CVS/Subversion, always get confused when it comes to merging,tagging, checking out, et al

Back to the Opt Out debate:

I’ll be updating our privacy statement to include, in the email address records section, acknowledgement that members can send invites to NON members and that those email addresses are stored in our DB but that we will remove any address on request.

As for the email I would be wanting a statement at the bottom of the email notifying the recipient that they may use the Site Admin link to request that their email address be removed from our DB records and no further emails be sent to that particular email address.

Checking through the Can Spam Act suggests that one of the primary compliances is for a clear and definite Opt Out notification.

The Act itself is, it’s to be noted, a Federal USA piece of legislation, so not necessarily binding on other countries, naturally emails sent to American addresses might be deemed to fall under the act but this area of international law and boundaries is a particularly gray area, but I’m going to have a chat with our legal chap to see what his position is on the Act, it’s probably a case though that it doesn’t hurt to reference it in the sent email.

PS: I think it is also interesting, that testbp.org now has a huge spam-problem too… Andy always mentioned, that it was ok… but it seems not anymore…