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I’m working on this one in particular, but it’s in my free spare time.

Bpdev (nicola) is a bit behind with development, as far as I know. But he’s been active again lately so it might work again with the buddypress 1.2 release.

I’m planning on getting this to work with my bbpress forum and inline blog editor. Don’t really need to load that huge wysiwyg editor from wordpress admin.

actually Xevo, each person think that their prefered theme mean to become official and by default… that is by experience… rofl…

you can even see it, Andy decided that his new theme would be the default of 1.2…. rofl

Topic renamed to make the purpose clearer and marked the topic as ‘not a support question’.

Ask the original creator if he wants to do it.

Personally I don’t see why this is better than all those other wordpress themes.

actually as private messages were not in WordPress, there is no akismet filter on its content, compared to posts and comments… maybe someone can add this to the posting actions ?!… it’s just 2 lines of code.

—FYI—

1. Which version of WPMU are you running?

-WordPress MU 2.8.6.

2. Did you install WPMU as a directory or subdomain install?

-subdomain install

3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory?

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4. Did you upgraded from a previous version of WPMU? If so, from which version?

-no

5. Was WPMU functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress?

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6. Which version of BuddyPress (BP) are you running?

Version 1.1.3

7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version?

-no

8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated?

yes-i unistalled all – issue still remains

9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes?

-standard

10. Have you modified the core files in any way?

-no

11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php?

-no

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

–builtin

13. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files.

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14. Which company provides your hosting?

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Anyone have any luck using sign-up question or wpmudev’s sign-up code? They both work great on a regular MU install since the person signing up has to answer a logical question or enter a code that they have received previously. The problem is when you activate those plugins, they work on the WordPress registration page and not the BuddyPress Registration page. Those would likely solve all the problems if we could get them to work together.

I’m developing a site that we want only approved, or in some cases paid members to be able to sign up, but I can’t get either of those plugins to work with BuddyPress. Anyone been able to do that, or know how it would be done?

nexia – please submit a ticket on trac.mu.wordpress.org so the problem is at least highlighted.

this is an easy hacking technique, i’ve done that 3 times yesterday when trying to create users/blogs…

you can delete these users by going in the _signups table… the problem is that WordPress is not taking into consideration the registrations that are not completed, they store them in the signups table and they can not be reached when you check for users… so when a user create an account with a blog, the whole process is created but not verified… you can then visit the site without being logged in and without a trace.

WP 3.0 is different in that technique… but i suppose we could find a tweak right now.

Sounds like someone exploited a WordPress vulnerability on your site.

Are you using the latest version of WPMU / BuddyPress?

If so, did you upgrade?

You might want to read these posts:

https://wordpress.org/development/2009/09/keep-wordpress-secure/

https://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked

stwc’s summary of methods does seem to stop a lot of spam, but I’ve still been having some. I tried SI Capthca (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress) but that seemed completely ineffective.

My latest weapon in the war has been to modify Invisible Defender (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/invisible-defender) firstly to make it work with the buddypress registration page and secondly obfuscate its hidden fields by giving them random names and values:

http://bcbc.co.uk/mu/blog/2009/12/11/wordpress-registration-spam/

Glad you got it working. It’s possible to change, but not easy. Of course, ensuring you’ve backed up EVERYTHING:

In the Admin, go to the Site Admin -> Blogs page. For each blog, click the edit link. You’ll then want to update the fields to be consistent with the *new* location you want each blog (i.e. check Domain, Path, Siteurl, Home, Fileupload Url).

Then, there’s one line in the wordpress config file that tells WPMU to use subdomains instead of subdirectories. Change:

define('VHOST', 'yes');

to:

define('VHOST', 'no');

You just need another theme for BP activated on the BP blog. That’s the terminology you’re looking for.

this thread might help:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/intergrating-bp-with-existing-wordpress-theme

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/extending-wordpress-themes-post-experiences

Updating my previous post, if anyone is curious, a wikimedia styled wordpress theme was just released. Combined with my earlier plugin, you could already make a wordpress wikimedia for a normal install.

You can download it here.

Why not just use the already worked on wp wiki plugin which has the basics?

This would be great. I’d also prefer a simple purpose-built solution that leverages the tools already built into WordPress… but any solution would be awesome at this point.

I agree. We are doing a number of Stakeholder Engagement programs with Local Government in the UK. The #1 driver for our customers is improving communication throughout a geographically diverse workforce. Local Government is awash with failed intranets/collaboration websites, with ms sharepoint the most common platform. There is big opportunity to build discrete tools like you say (project management/document management etc) on top of wordpress, buddypress. Buddypress will win because it’s focused on engagement not transactional processes. Getting the community engaged is the real challenge and Andy P and the wordpress team naturally understand that.