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December 12, 2018 at 7:01 am #282722

In reply to: Open groups: Let all members post in every group without joining

mikeboltonca
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Sorry for the delay in replying, @binaryfabric. I just happened to notice your message in my spam folder.

I didn’t make any more progress with that problem, unfortunately. I’ve also changed jobs and don’t manage that project anymore. Good luck to you!

December 7, 2018 at 12:28 pm #282552

In reply to: Login issues after registration
tibbalds
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A few more details

1. Which version of WordPress are you running?
V5

2. Did you install WordPress as a directory or subdomain install?
We access the wordpress site online

4. Did you upgrade from a previous version of WordPress? If so, from which version?
No, it’s a new website, build within the last two months

5. Was WordPress functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress (BP)? e.g. permalinks, creating a new post, commenting.
Yes, however we installed buddypress early on in the website’s creation.

6. Which version of BP are you running?
Version 4.1.0

8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? If so, which ones?
11 plugins (some were installed after the issue first occurred.
- Akismet Anti-Spam v4.1
- AMP v0.7.2
- bbp style pack v4.0.3
- bbPress v2.5.14
- Contact Form 7 v5.0.5
- Custom Twitter Feeds v1.2.10
- Flamingo v1.9
- Jetpack by WordPress.com v6.8.1
- MultiLine files for Contact Form 7 v1.2
- Peter’s Login Redirect v2.9.1 (after issue in an attempt to fix)
- The Events Calendar v4.7.1
9. Are you using the standard WordPress theme or customized theme? 10. Which theme do you use ?
Standard theme – Ixion v1.1.5-wpcom

11. Have you modified the core files in any way?
No

12. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php?
Not that I know of

13. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in?
bbPress v2.5.14

14. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files.
Not sure how to access this

15. Which company provides your hosting?
Wordpress
November 27, 2018 at 5:16 pm #282214

In reply to: Different avatars being set……?

lookingahead
Participant

OMG…THE LINK DID NOT POST LOOOOOL…..

Because I’m like a ‘spammer’ or something right? Hahaa…

DEAR GOD.

MAN I HOPE THIS ONE WORKS LOOOOOL:

https://buddydev.com/using-different-default-avatar-buddypress-users-based-profile-fields-member-type/

November 27, 2018 at 5:08 pm #282213

In reply to: Different avatars being set……?

lookingahead
Participant

Screw it. I tried to post the code in various ways, but I don’t have time to spend trying to post A SIMPLE COMMENT FFS.

Go to this link and use the code specified in the file.

I hope it’s still available years later when someone stumbles across this comment thread.

BuddyPress forums need some sort of fix for this crap. What an incredible waste of time and energy, just to post a helpful comment that contained code. I’m not a freaking spammer. I mean, if your forum software is needing to be THAT sensitive to fight spam, make us do captchas or some crap to verify we’re ‘human.’

Ya know, I get why spam filters exist, but when they make a site UNUSABLE FOR ACTUAL USERS then your technology is worthless.

Anyhow…lol, end of rant. Here is the link:

I hope this solution helps others as much as it’s helped me. <3

November 23, 2018 at 5:06 pm #282133

In reply to: Codex Issue…Error on Avatar Help Page, Please Resolve

lookingahead
Participant

@venutius oh thanks for the suggestions, appreciate the plugin links…but they don’t accomplish what i need to do

i need specific avatars for classes of users, ones that correspond to the styling and hierarchy of my site

so identicons being ‘fun’…? sadly i don’t need fun, lol….i need a streamlined business look and fun with random identicons won’t work

and creating local gravatar avatars for users that ‘don’t have one’ is also random — not corresponding with my site; if i wanted to have default gravatar avatars populate i’d just choose the options that come with WordPress by default — that already is an option

and gravatar is incredibly cumbersome with its pinging to the servers where the gravatars are stored….it may seem minor to many, but it does burden a site

plus, gravatars have weak coding that allow the email address of the user to be ‘scraped’ by bots

so to protect my users from future spam and to keep my site as speedy as possible AND to have my site avatars correspond to the styling of my site i need gravatars to never ever ever be used, and nothing random either

November 20, 2018 at 5:21 pm #282059

In reply to: Knowledge exchanging community

metani
Participant

and if you want template design you can check it ‘my template’

edited: link removed – link had no WP or BP content – if posted again, this user will be marked as a spammer.

November 19, 2018 at 8:19 pm #282050

In reply to: Hackers Getting In….

Venutius
Moderator

Ah great! Glad that one is solved. It’s only half of the solution though. These bots will still plague your site with registration requests. To get rid of those try https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-google-recaptcha/ thi sworked like a treat on my sites, totally eliminating spam bot registrations (for now…).

November 17, 2018 at 6:18 pm #281962

In reply to: buddypress post to activity feed sends to all members

Venutius
Moderator

I’m not sure anything’s been done with it due to potential issues with spamming users. To work around this my suggestion would be to install one of the BuddyPress Mass Messaging plugins and email all with a link to the activity post. It’s a bit clumsy I know.

November 12, 2018 at 2:20 pm #281801

In reply to: How can I disable all user profiles in BuddyPress?

lookingahead
Participant

and FYI — i’m actually happy to report that i fixed this issue, but BP FORUMS HERE won’t let me post it LOL….apparently i’m using a keyword that some plugin thinks is ‘spam’…LOL. i’m enclosing all my code in code tags, so….no idea what the deal is. will come back here and post when i get the chance to figure out how.

October 21, 2018 at 10:32 pm #279275

In reply to: No “Create Group” button is visible
tsortore
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Here is my theme and a list of plugins, most of which came with the premium theme. There have been no complaints I’ve found of the groups not working “out-of-the-box” with this theme.

*** These were the only plugins that did NOT come with the theme.

Theme: WOffice
Active Plugins:
- Akismet Anti-spam
- All in one WP Migration
- BP xProfile Location ***
- BuddyPress
- Buddypress Xprofile Fields Custom Css Classes ***
- DP Pro Event Calendar
- Eonet Live Notifications
- File Away
- GamiPress
- LocateAnything ***
- Slider Revolution
- Unyson
- User Role Editor ***(suggested and tested compatible plugin)
- Wise Chat
- WP ERP
- WP ERP – PDF Invoice
- WP Bakery Page Builder
Still no luck getting group creation working.

Thanks for your response! Any ideas?
October 20, 2018 at 8:52 am #279212

In reply to: Any of Plugin OR Possible to create System of Activation Code instead of E-Mail

shanebp
Moderator

Please do not spam these forums.
That includes posting the same topic in multiple forums.
Your duplicate topics have been deleted.

October 2, 2018 at 4:56 am #276909

In reply to: Buddypress disappeared?

jameswee
Participant

Unpacking the package…

Upgrading the plugin…

Backing up the old version of the plugin…

The update cannot be installed because we will be unable to copy some files. This is usually due to inconsistent file permissions. bp-notifications/screens, bp-notifications/screens/read.php, bp-notifications/screens/unread.php, bp-notifications/actions, bp-notifications/actions/delete.php, bp-notifications/actions/bulk-manage.php, bp-members/screens, bp-members/screens/activate.php, bp-members/screens/profile.php, bp-members/screens/directory.php, bp-members/screens/register.php, bp-members/actions, bp-members/actions/random.php, bp-activity/screens, bp-activity/screens/permalink.php, bp-activity/screens/friends.php, bp-activity/screens/directory.php, bp-activity/screens/mentions.php, bp-activity/screens/groups.php, bp-activity/screens/favorites.php, bp-activity/screens/just-me.php, bp-activity/actions, bp-activity/actions/unfavorite.php, bp-activity/actions/delete.php, bp-activity/actions/favorite.php, bp-activity/actions/spam.php, bp-activity/actions/post.php, bp-activity/actions/reply.php, bp-activity/actions/feeds.php, bp-core/admin/sass, bp-core/admin/sass/hello.scss, bp-templates/bp-nouveau, bp-templates/bp-nouveau/sass, bp-templates/bp-nouveau/sass/_nouveau_messages.scss, bp-templates/bp-nouveau/sass/_nouveau_invites.scss, bp-templates/bp-nouveau/sass/buddypress.scss, bp-templates/bp-nouveau/buddypress, bp-templates/bp-nouveau/buddypress/members, bp-templates/bp-nouveau/buddypress/members/activate.php, bp-templates/bp-nouveau/buddypress/members/register.php, bp-templates/bp-nouveau/buddypress/members/index.php, bp-templates/bp-nouveau/buddypress/members/single, bp-templates/bp-nouveau/buddypress/members/single/blogs.php, bp-templates/bp-nouveau/buddypress/members/single/profile.php, bp-templates/bp-nouveau/buddypress/members/single/friends.php, bp-templates/bp-nouveau/buddypress/members/single/notifications.php, bp-templates/bp-nouveau/buddypress/members/single/home.php, bp-templates/bp-nouveau/buddypress/members/single/groups.php, bp-templates/bp-nouveau/buddypress/members/single/settings.php, bp-templates/bp-nouveau/buddypress/members/single/messages.php, bp-templates/bp-nouveau/buddypress/members/single/profile, bp-templates/bp-nouveau/buddypress/members/single/profile/change-avatar.php, bp-templates/bp-nouveau/buddypress/members/single/profile/edit.php, bp-templates/bp-nouveau/buddypress/members/single/profile/profile-loop.php, bp-templates/bp-nouveau/buddypress/members/single/profile/change-cover-image.php, bp-templates/bp-nouveau/buddypress/members/single/profile/profile-wp.php, bp-templates/bp-nouveau/buddypress/members/single/cover-image-header.php, bp-templates/bp-nouveau/buddypress/members/single/plugins.php, bp-templates/bp-nouveau/buddypress/members/single/default-front.php, bp-templates/bp-nouveau/buddypress/members/single/friends, bp-templates/bp-nouveau/buddypress/members/single/friends/requests.php, bp-templates/bp-

September 22, 2018 at 10:47 am #276652

In reply to: error: your account is marked as sending unwanted content.

Prashant Singh
Participant

Hi,

You must be using Anti-Splog plugin.

Please check this thread: https://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/why-have-our-super-admin-accounts-been-marked-as-spam-when-we-marked-a-blog-as-spam

Thanks

September 20, 2018 at 9:55 am #276602

In reply to: PM Spam

proweb01
Participant

I installed this plugin and all PM spam stopped ever since. It requires a person to be your friend before they can PM you. https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-private-message-for-friends-only/

September 19, 2018 at 9:54 pm #276594

In reply to: PM Spam

DL
Participant

I just tried disabling BuddyPress PM’s but any member can still send public messages to any other member which still results in an email notification sent out, so a spammer could still use that.

September 19, 2018 at 9:52 pm #276592

In reply to: PM Spam

DL
Participant

@prashantvatsh Thanks, I didn’t realize that every user could see the /members page and then if they click to a members profile they see the public and private messaging buttons too.

It seems that every new registration on the site automatically becomes a Buddypress member. So then they can see the membership list and message any other user without being a member of any group.

This isn’t good, easy for manual spammers to register and send PM spam to members.

August 15, 2018 at 6:54 pm #275692

Topic: Registration form not working

in forum How-to & Troubleshooting

Phoenix
Participant

Hello, everyone!
After I have filled the registration form WP redirects me to the Homepage. In users list (Dashboard) I don’t see new user too.
Steps which I tried to resolve the problem:
1) WP in simple mode, not WPMS
2) Dashboard – Settings – checkbox “Users can register” checked
3) Disabled all plugins and checked BuddyPress registration function
4) Changed theme to another one. (I use OneCommunity theme by default)
5) Installed WP Mail SMTP (tried to send messages via php wp_mail & smtp). Both variants work for WP, also checked to send messages via Contact form 7 etc. BUT not sending any mail from BuddyPress
6) Tried to reinstall BuddyPress plugin, still not working
7) There is no hosting problems too…
8) I don’t see another user accounts in Users dashboard.
9) Switched between old and new BuddyPress templates…
10) Additional information:
– WP version 4.9.8
– BuddyPress 3.1.0
– Activated plugins (15): Anti-Spam by CleanTalk, bbPress, BuddyPress, Contact Form 7, No Category Base (WPML), OneCommunity Shortcodes, UpdraftPlus – Backup/Restore, UpdraftPlus – Backup/Restore, Wordfence Security, WP Mail SMTP, WP Sitemap Page, WP-Polls, WPBakery Page Builder, Yoast SEO Premium, WP Recaptcha Integration.
11) There is no any php errors (when I enable debug) and js errors in browser console.

I can’t find another reason why didn’t registration form not working…. Domain – barbiusa58.info
How I can fix it? Thanks in advance)

July 9, 2018 at 7:20 pm #275127

In reply to: Spam Users Registering. Stop ’em. What’s the current best practice?

djsteveb
Participant

Using ‘good question’ or similar plugin,
‘graphic captcha’
‘ip geo block’
unfortunately spamshield had some meltdown with the wp.org people so it’s out, but similar functionality for logins and such is in ‘shield’

you’ll never stop the manual spammers, if you could stop them, you would be stopping legit users..

on my multi-site I use a plugin that makes all new blogs/aka sites that are created automatically set as ‘search engines do not index’ in settings.. this helps too..

the bp plugin that limits the amount of private messages that can be sent is nice (BuddyPress Private Message Rate Limiter),

one one install I disallow user’s group creation ability – and ask them to send me a note about any new groups that should be made.

also enjoy “register ips” – so I can ban really bad cidrs..

June 25, 2018 at 12:19 pm #274707

Topic: Bulk Remove Pending Users

in forum How-to & Troubleshooting

supeherotim
Participant

Hi,

My website has been having massive issues with spam users registering. We have managed to fix this issue but still have 50,000 pending spam users.

Is there a way to build delete all the pending users?

Many thanks

June 23, 2018 at 6:35 am #274651

In reply to: Not a spammer but marked as a spammer

xprt007
Participant

Hi

I have never actually used the feature of adding custom or editing profile fields. Under Users => Profile Fields, there’s nothing, I guess meaning none have been added manually.
On the Edit User => Extended Profile tab, the only options there are Update Profile from pre-selected “Spammer” to “Active”, which does not work, View Profile and Edit Profile Photo.

So I do not see where I could delete that field.

…

June 21, 2018 at 2:31 pm #274622

In reply to: Spam Users Registering. Stop ’em. What’s the current best practice?

mrditt
Participant

@dggerhart I was able to register for your site without a confirmation email and post “test” comment to your general group. Enabling email confirmation to register will help. Using a checkbox for your Privacy Policy GDPR compliance, is needed and will help too. I would give the Honeypot plugin a try on your staging site (disclaimer, I don’t use, and it’s old) but what it does is pretty simple so it could be ok. Admin notification of new users will help. Manually checking email addresses and questionable profiles (if you have more profile fields) will eliminate the obvious spammers and most are obvious. You can manually approve new users if that won’t be overwhelming. On a different note, you might want to block your dashboard access and you have some html tags displaying. Also a registration menu item (it was hard to figure out how to register) are some things I noticed too. I hope you find this helpful

June 21, 2018 at 12:45 pm #274613

In reply to: Spam Users Registering. Stop ’em. What’s the current best practice?

Shashi Kumar
Participant

Hi David,
This is very common problem that we all are facing with the Buddypress websites. The combination of registration process that I am using to stop it
1. I have enabled social login as it is very easy for users to login with almost no spam users. Every users is having a google or facebook account. It increases the engagement of users also.
2. Restrict sign up with only a few legit and popular email domains like GMAIL, YAHOO, MSN aor anything u want. You can use BP Restrict Signup By Email Domain plugin.

June 20, 2018 at 7:17 am #274573

In reply to: Spam Users Registering. Stop ’em. What’s the current best practice?

Venutius
Moderator

I still use Wanguard, it still works for checking the validity of email addresses. I notice recently however that I’m getting a large number of spam registrations from domains ending with .xyz or .top so I ended up forking r-a-y’s plugin BP Restrct Signup by Email Domain, turning it into a blacklist intead of a whitelist. My new plugin is called BP Blacklist Signup by Email Domain, I’ll be uploading it to the repository later. This seems to be working well on my systems so far – not had any spam registrations get through for the last few days whereas without it I was getting about 8-12 per day.

June 20, 2018 at 2:47 am #274570

In reply to: Spam Users Registering. Stop ’em. What’s the current best practice?

Dggerhart
Participant

Thanks for the suggestion, Varun. I’ll read about it.

For the record, here’s a link for anyone reading this in the future:

Preventing Spammer Registration

Discusses the options, and ‘wares to deploy … but seems really dated.

WordPress.com suggests:

https://github.com/pixeljar/BuddyPress-Honeypot

But I can’t verify it’s compatible with the newer systems (6 years old.)

My problem persists, but seems to run in spurts…

June 15, 2018 at 1:40 pm #274457

In reply to: Not a spammer but marked as a spammer

Venutius
Moderator

Would that be Wanguard? That certainly used to flag users as spammers. Not sure how it could do that if it is no longer running.
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