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@projectslimited – yeah, welcome to the club! I had one bp site with registration turned off for 18 months.. turned it on to test some thing – hours later – dozens of new “groups” and spam accounts.

My main site I depend on buddypress humanity as main line of defense.. but also add the plugin “good question” (changing the defaults on these two!)

I also use “geo ip block” on all wp sites now. (changing some defaults)

that seems to help 95% – then I got so tired of the manual spammers that I added the apache gep redirect thing from maxmind lite.. and block all visits from Russia, China, Ukraine, and a few others completely.

Saves a ton of bandwidth and server resources – and makes it easier to find the cdir blocks of US and UK ISPs to block via htaccess (none of my web site visitors are using COLO Crossing Transport to visit my site- so all their cidrs eg:
23.94.144.0/20
23.94.144.0 – 23.94.159.255

blocked…

I have been messaging with a wordpress plugin author about modding his plugin that pulls info from failed logins and puts them into iptables – suggesting a few mods that can make that info useful to those of us who do not have access to or want to get into iptables modsec stuff – hopefully those suggestions will come into a new version of that plugin later this year.

with my multi-site setup I use a ‘new blog defaults’ plugin to set any new blogs created to automaticcaly have the noindex setting in wordpress, and noinded nofollow settings from yaost.. so even if one manual spammer gets in and makes blog – it does no good, and does not show up on the radar of the other spammers.

I recently had to block Japan entirely as I started getting daily spam hits from there.. of course each person’s setup will vary – I can’t block all countries on all my sites, so some sites I set the ip geo block to whitelist just one or two.. on other sites I setup a blacklist to block 20 or so..

Just looked it up

 * Filter SQL query strings to swap out the 'meta_id' column.
 *
 * WordPress uses the meta_id column for commentmeta and postmeta, and so
 * hardcodes the column name into its *_metadata() functions. BuddyPress, on
 * the other hand, uses 'id' for the primary column. To make WP's functions
 * usable for BuddyPress, we use this just-in-time filter on 'query' to swap
 * 'meta_id' with 'id.

Seems as though it’s used to make WP *_metadata() functions compatible with BP.

I agree it sounds as though you’ll need a bookmarking plugin as the “core”. There are most probably lots to choose from in the WordPress Plugin Directory. My advice is set up a WordPress site locally for testing, install BuddyPress and try out some of the bookmarking plugins to see which suits your idea best.

Sadly, I’m not here with an answer, but another manifestation of this same problem.

Am running WordPress with bbpress and BuddyPress, Twentyfourteen theme, everything updated except I’ve not yet gone to BuddyPress 2.3.3.

My login is “Prof L”; so is my user name. To the best of my knowledge I’ve set “admin” nowhere in BuddyPress……but to private message me, “@admin” is required!

Update: OK, I see that in email settings, one of the options reads as follows:

A member mentions you in an update using “@admin”

So somehow that has been set to my “handle” (is that the right BP term?) But again, I never to my knowledge entered “admin”, nor does it display anywhere on the front end of the site.

I will try the plugin mentioned up thread, and report back–but wanted to testify that this problem is real and ongoing….

afaik, there is no option.
Try this in your theme/functions.php

function larnoult_remove_bbpress_notifications() {
    remove_action( 'bbp_new_reply', 'bbp_buddypress_add_notification', 10, 7 );
}
add_action( 'bbp_loaded', 'larnoult_remove_bbpress_notifications', 99  );

You may need to tweak the priority settings.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/remove_action

To the best of my knowledge, you can’t have 2 themes activated at the same time. You should choose a WordPress theme and then make use of the BuddyPress Template Hierarchy to customise the BuddyPress portion of your website.

You can put anything you want in $message

For example:

$subject = ' this is the subject line for the message';
$message = 'this is the message';
wp_mail( $admin_email, $subject, $message );

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_mail

Hi,

Thanks for posting. Are you using an older version of WordPress?

In BP 2.3.3, we added support for WordPress 4.3 in the Activity and Groups dashboards without checking for older WordPress installs.

This is how the fatal error occurred.

To fix this temporarily until we release a new version, apply this patch to BuddyPress:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/6606/6606.01.patch

BuddyDrive is a good solution.

You may have some URL conflicts?

For example, I may have a page called WordPress here:

example.com/wordpress

Then if I install a second instance of WordPress in a sub dir called wordpress, I’d have:

example.com/wordpress

It’s all I can think of.

You’d need to think about your database too. That could cause some issues.

These plugins should address parts of #12:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-local-avatars/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-identicons/

I do list “plupload.full.min.js” and other similar scripts in Autoptimze “Exclude list”

If you don’t include required files, things tend not to work.

Check out Theme My Login. I’ve used it alongside BuddyPress many times and can say it works well.

@karllundgren – neat site and tutorial there I agree.

It seems that is a premium theme, not a free theme from the wordpress repository, and it’s certainly not the default 2014 or 2014 wordpress theme – which means you chance of getting answers here (about theme display issues) in the bp forums are pretty slim.

You should direct this question to the theme author. I would be interested in what they come up with as a solution.

Don’t want to vouch for security without actually testing it, but I like the idea of allowing field values to be parsed for oembeds, so I’ve created a ticket to capture the idea: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6603

Hmm. Related to https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/9716/trunk/src/bp-core/admin/bp-core-admin-schema.php and https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/9695

@reggie3 what version did you upgrade from?

You may adjust existing menus or use the buddypress menu.

BuddyPress Links in WordPress Menus

@jeremymh,

Plugin author stopped support on wp.org repo since a few weeks.
sLaNGjIs Team do not provide support on wordpress.org forum and reviews system!

If you get an issue, you have to ask here now https://github.com/sLaNGjI
This is also the reason why nobody answered to your question on support….

FYI, i found this in the plugin review ! You’ve nothing to loose to try that.

In plugin’s ReadMe, it’s stated that:
* Work on all WordPress version from 3.1+ to 4.2+
* Compatible with bbPress and BuddyPress (for front-end hide).

BuddyPress settings has an option to show/hide the Toolbar to users, which is working properly since a while. I’m not aware of any toolbar trouble who should be resolved in BP’s core in regard of a third party plugin.

Conclusion: don’t use a plugin who has no decent support. Do it yourself or search another plugin. Sorry !

You want to create an event via the update form on the activity page?
afaik – that is not possible.

You can create events that will also generate an entry in the activity stream.
This plugin will do that: https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-simple-events/

Gardenia is not BP ready.

Create first a child theme. Add a new folder to wp-content/thems/
wp-content/themes/gardenia-child/
Now add a new file and call it style.css
Copy this header comment into it (/* & */ included):

/*
Theme Name: Gardenia-child
Description: child theme
Version: 1.0
Author: XXX
Template: gardenia
*/

Save.

In that folder, add another one called buddypress and another one in this folder called css

Go to wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/css/ and copy buddypress.css file into the css folder you created in the child theme.

In legacy/buddypress/ directory, is a js folder. Copy the whole folder into child’s buddypress directory.

End result should be:

/gardenia-child/
/gardenia-child/style.css

/gardenia-child/buddypress/css/buddypress.css

/gardenia-child/buddypress/js/buddypress.js
/gardenia-child/buddypress/js/password-verify.js

Go to dashboard > Appearrance > Theme and activate Gardenia-child.

Done ! The theme shows BuddyPress properly.

@sharmavishal,
read from here:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/resolved-restricting-users-to-one-group/

See if you can do something with 2nd plugin mentionned in topic. If not able, you have to ask for on Group Hierarchy support.

We only support BuddyPress here.

@ericks89,

There is a way, if you use BBPress Signature. 😉 Modifying bbp_get_reply_content filter.

Here an example fetching 3 xprofile fields called Signature, Industry and Type. Change it to your need. Code goes into bp-custom.php or child theme functions.php

function my_bbp_reply_content_append_user_signature( $content = '', $reply_id = 0, $args = array() ) {
	// Default arguments
	$defaults = array(
		'separator' => '<hr />',
		'before'    => '<div class="bbp-reply-signature">',
		'after'     => '</div>'
	);
	$r = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );
	extract( $r );

	// Verify topic id, get author id and potential signature
	$reply_id  = bbp_get_reply_id       ( $reply_id );
	$user_id   = bbp_get_reply_author_id( $reply_id );
	
	// Get fields data. Caution: name is case sensitive.
	if(function_exists('bbpress') ) {
		$signature = xprofile_get_field_data( 'Signature', $user_id );	
		$wowi = '<br>'. xprofile_get_field_data( 'Service', $user_id );
		$wowt = '<br>'. xprofile_get_field_data( 'Type', $user_id );
	}
	else {
		$signature = bbp_get_user_signature ( $user_id  );
	}

	// If signature exists, adjust the content accordingly
	if ( !empty( $signature ) )
		$content = $content . $separator . $before . $signature . $wowi . $wowt . $after;

	return apply_filters( 'my_bbp_reply_content_append_signature', $content, $reply_id, $separator );
}

if ( !is_admin() ) {
   // remove the original BBPress filter
   remove_filter( 'bbp_get_reply_content', 'bbp_reply_content_append_user_signature', 1, 2 );
   // add our custom filter
   add_filter( 'bbp_get_reply_content', 'my_bbp_reply_content_append_user_signature', 1, 2 );	
}

May this help. 😉

xProfile data is a BuddyPress thing and user meta is a WordPress thing. Which one you use will depend on whether you plan to always use BuddyPress. If not then taking the user meta approach will ensure your plugin will work on all WordPress installs (even when BuddyPress is deactivated).