BuddyPress.org

I have used Bad Behavior. It’s ok.

I found the best solution so far has been BuddyPress Security Check.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-security-check/

It knocked out the majority of spam for me, and I’ve tested many spam plugins. You’ll still get some spammers, but hopefully less.

Most spammers leave links in forums. BuddyPress could really use a method to block new users who post links pending approval.

This plugin puts users in moderation on signup:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-registration-options/

But that still requires you to manually activate everyone…

Not sure why that doesn’t work. You might want to download this plugin (which supposedly works with BuddyPress) and investigate their code to see how they’re doing it.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/embedly/

There actually is a plugin that accomplishes this (the initial request) to some extent. See:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-user-account-type-lite/

This would be a really great core feature. It would allow you to have member types with different profile data collected based on the first condition.

Some examples:

• teacher/student
• employer/applicant
• man/woman
• manager/employee
• etc.

A membership plugin is generally used to determine user roles and capabilities (and to charge users for access). All WordPress users should be automatically also BuddyPress users. One hiccup is if they have not ever logged in they may not display on the front end in the main BuddyPress members directory. I believe it only shows users if they have some activity, such as a login or register. If they predate BuddyPress activation they MAY need to do something before they appear in the Members directory, but rest assured they do have BuddyPress profiles that they can access with their existing WordPress login credentials.

I have submitted a ticket for this request

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5428#ticket

Akismet is a good plugin to have enabled. It’s free for personal websites and is completely unobtrusive:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/akismet/

But think of your fight against spam as a ‘strategy’. No single plugin will do the job. You’ll probably need to deploy a combo of plugin(s), manual moderation etc. Spammers are always changing their tactics so your strategy will need to change from time to time also.

How about using the following plugins:

1. Stop Spammers by Keith Graham
2. Captcha by BestWebSoft.

FYI: I have no relation with the plugin creators

NOTE: Just make sure you also have access to the FTP in case you you are locked out from the admin. Since I do not know what other plugins you have on your site — Some plugins are not compatible with others (e.g I used different CAPTCHA plugin and it locked me out). If you are locked out from the admin just use the ftp to DELETE or RENAME THE plugin folders to disable THE “bad plugins”

This will be the case with all themes. BuddyPress content is not included in the default WordPress search. It is a common request for people to ask for a “unified” BuddyPress search but that does not exist out of the box at this moment in time.

To get you in the right direction:

BuddyPress Global/Sitewide Unified search update for BuddyPress 1.5+

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/whats-the-best-way-to-get-a-unified-search-that-includes-all-site-content-including-blog-posts/

Did you try this plugin?

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

WordPress uses “oembed” for automatically converting pasted links into embeddable content. It does not support those two sites.

You can see the full list of supported sites here:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds

The simple answer is you will need to use their full embed code. Example:
http://verold.com/blog/2013/1/14/tutorial-embedding-your-project-on-the-web#.UwvSRvRdUTs

You would have to embed the full iframe code.

@oscar582234,

Try the above combination of tips by @henrywright and mine…

Additionally, use the following plugin to create your First Name and Last Name fields as XProfile Fields:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type/

Then use the above plugin to sync them as necessary!

@boblebad,

What you trying to create is a bit interesting and it might take about 3 or 4 plugins to manage fully… So follow the steps below and you’re well on your way:

Foremost, Install this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type/
(NB: That is for the More Profile Fields Option)

Step 2:
Install this plugin to achieve the “ticking off boxes, and also make them searchable, like vegetarian, vegan, smoking a.s.o. ?” that you asked:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-better-directories/
(Although the plugin is a little old, the author is a BuddyPress core developer – see if you can work something out with him)

Step 3:
The 4 Membership Plans Stuff is best handled by the free version of the plugin below,
https://wordpress.org/plugins/s2member/

Step 4:
About the Profiles Completion Meter (35% Completed and so forth, but without the quality stamp!)
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-profile-progression/

The quality stamp part is best worked out with the developer of Sweet Date. Just request custom development services from him and you’re good to go.

Glad you found my suggestions helpful. re mobile, any good theme would give you that functionality so make sure to test them at different resolution sizes and check total kb size (how bulky the theme is) also.

also, check out: https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddymobile/

This plugin would be your best solution. https://wordpress.org/plugins/agreeable/

Although I haven’t used it myself, I’ve read good reviews:

SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam
https://wordpress.org/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/

> I don’t know what to put on the “Template:” line.

You put the name of the parent theme there, I guess something about Weaver.

The link that hnla provided includes a link to
https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

It’s a lot to take in at first – but you really need to _read_ the docs.

Rick, glad that we’re clearing up some confusion. To confirm, yes, messaging is totally different than posts. Please read the codex links provided. Also, if you really want to take buddypress for a test drive, set up a development site either on a live site or right on your own computer using http://www.instantwp.com/ and then add some “fake” users and messages, and data using this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-default-data/

And then jump in there and click around like crazy, edit, message, post, and see what happens! this is the best way to really check things out without doing any damage to your own site. Nothing compares to getting your hands dirty and mucking about (in a safe test environment).

This way you can really understand what messaging is, what private messaging is, broadcasting from admin to all members, etc. You can also add/remove plugins and check out their functionality, all in the comfort of your own computer’s hard drive or a test environment set up at a test domain/host that you control/own.

Also, keep in mind that buddypress has many features but you do not have to enable them! for example, there is a feature for groups. But you don’t have to enable it! you can add a forum (using bbPress) but you don’t have to! you can have private messaging so members can send private messages to each other… but, you guessed it, you don’t have to enable this feature. Also, another powerful feature is that you can give members of your site the ability to start their own blogs! this is called “multisite” but you can choose to enable this or not. Same goes for “friend connections” feature… etc.

My suggestion is to start with a very simple starting point and then as your community grows, add features that they require or need. It is a far too common mistake for new buddypress users to just turn everything on at the start.

If you don’t want to restrict your membership in any way or to collect money online from them then you don’t need anything else other than buddypress and wordpress. But look through the membership plugin links I provided to familiarize yourself with them and their features just in case. A few are completely free and still have tonnes of features.

Finally, keep in mind that spam registrations do happen. There are many guides and tools to mitigate spam membership registrations. Here’s a good start:

Preventing Spammer Registration

Google is your friend for more info on spam fighting.

oops, looks like I linked to the wrong url for the broadcast message plugin (from admin to all members)

:/

this is the right plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/mass-messaging-in-buddypress/

ok, let me see if I understand you — if not, correct me 🙂

1) you have a website at: http://www.betterpresenting.com/
2) you have created another separate website at http://www.summitcommunity.org/ where you want to install buddypress and create a community website for a conference

ok I think before we even get to the ‘messaging’ or ‘post’ issue, we have to clarify something.

As of now, http://www.summitcommunity.org/ forwards to http://www.betterpresenting.com/community/

Buddypress automagically works seamlessly with your existing theme so it looks good… this wasn’t always the case so thank the developers who added this feature just a few months ago! moving on from minor digression…

So it looks like you don’t have two separate sites but your domain at summitcommunity.org is 301 redirecting to http://www.betterpresenting.com/community/ and this is where you have installed buddypress.

Is that correct?

If this is correct, then we can move on to the other question you posed.

I went back and read you original post that you referenced above:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/installing-bp-into-a-portion-of-a-site/

In that message you write:

“If I understand correctly (a reach at best), posts become messages. But I post at betterpresenting.com about a great many things, not just ones that would be for the conference community.”

Posts do not become messages. Posts and messages are separate things. ok?

A post is well, a blog post. I’m sure you know what that is.

A message is an internal message sent from one member to another (if you have enabled this feature of buddypress – you don’t necessarily have to! or from admin to members)

https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-components-and-features/messages/
https://codex.buddypress.org/component/private-messages/

Also, admin can send a ‘broadcast’ message to all members with this plugin:

BuddyPress Live Notification

Hope that clarifies words and definitions so we have a standard vocabulary with which to communicate!

Now, if I understand the rest of your original message accurately, what you’re saying is that you run a website and have an annual conference and would like to know how buddypress can help you with both. And you want to make sure there is a way to keep the conference ‘stuff’ separate from the other regular website ‘stuff’.

To solve this, you don’t need subdomains or extra installs of wordpress or any of that. Here’s what I would do:

I would install buddypress as a plugin in your existing wordpress blog (the ‘main’ site). Then I would use the buddypress features to run your annual conference by also enabling a membership plugin.

Using the membership plugin you can post ‘conference’ related material and pages which ONLY THE MEMBERS SEE and interact with. To someone who just comes to your site, all they see is your regular blog/site… until or if they ‘login’ and have paid or are accepted as ‘conference’ participants.

People who are members of the conference (aka buddypress + membership powered) site can see and interact with both the conference portion of your site as well as the regular part of the site.

If I have hit the nail on the head and accurately understood your needs, here are some reference material:

http://chrislema.com/comparing-wordpress-membership-plugins/

How to choose a WordPress membership plugin

If not, let me know!

Hi Rick, I think you need to clarify exactly what you’re trying to do. What you write is very confusing and may have lead to your and others’ frustration in attempting to help you:

“But our main site has an active blog and I don’t know how to separate posts that are intended to be read by the entire world and shown across the entire site from messages that are intended to go just to the Summit community.”

Are we talking about messaging? as in private and internal messaging between members and between admin and members? or are we talking about blog posts that are read by all or some parts of the community?

If you want to restrict blog posts to just members, this is extremely easy and there are many plugins that handle this.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/private-community-for-bp-lite/

as well as s2member and other ‘membership’ plugins which work with buddypress to create tiers to separate content (pages, posts) so that you have control over who sees or reads what.

So please clarify EXACTLY what you are trying to accomplish and hopefully the community here can help you.

Hi,

You can install WordPress via Softaculous and then you can install BuddyPress plugin or any other plugin from WordPress admin panel.

Hi @stefwilliams

Enhancement suggestions can be made here:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/

There are lots of plugins dealing with newsletters
https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=newsletter

There are quite a few plugins that will integrate mailchimp.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=mailchimp

You could just set up a group called “Idea Wall” and let the ideas flow there.

You could use this plugin to create mandatory groups that users can’t leave.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-mandatory-groups/

The Group management functionality in the dashboard could help you sort users into the appropriate group.

Something like this would allow you to have users select groups when they are registering

https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-registration-groups-1/