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You could also use this plugin:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-show-activity-liked-avatars/

Wide subject and several answered on this forum.

Askimet covers comment spam and doesn’t avoid clever spam bots to hit directly the DB.

Basic recommandation is to use table prefix different of the classic wp_. This calms down most bots.

A closed door is always a challenge for any spammer. WP is not fort Knox and depending your host, what YOU did and many other security details, this has no end in fact. If your site is Facebook, you’ll probably receive more spam than if it would be mykittycat homepage. Glory has a price ! 😉

Some htaccess rules against reputated spam server and one or to plugins aside what exist natively in WP should be enough to protect you a little from massive spam.

For example: buddypress honeypot + ban hammer for BP

or more simple and rought
http://mattts.net/development-stuff/web-development-stuff/wordpress/buddypress/anti-spam-techniques/registration-honeypot/

… + searching this forum, maybe you can find more tips. 😉

The site i’m currently developing with Buddypress (my first buddypress site) is totally Ajaxed using Ajaxify WordPress Site Pro.

All profile tabs are now ajaxed as well as everything else.

There is a small issue with messaging but the plug in developer is fixing that as we speak.

Hey @mcpeanut

I don’t think there’s any reason why these shouldn’t have ajax functionality. It may well be planned, but I’m not sure? Take a look through the open Trac tickets to see if anything is in the pipeline.

Hi @andrew55,
add this snippet to bp-custom.php. Now you can use shortcode [profilo] in any blog post, blog comment, page and BP notice. Note that activity walls are stripped, the shortcode will not work/appear there.

For bbPress topics and replies, use this plugin. Read the doc, as you’ll have to check user capacity to get it to work for participant.

function bpfr_link_to_profile() {	

	return ' <a href="'. bp_get_loggedin_user_link() .'">View my profile</a>';			
}
add_shortcode( 'profilo', 'bpfr_link_to_profile' );
add_filter( 'comment_text', 'do_shortcode' );

Guys I have cometchat installed on a current wordpress site and I’ve had to deactivate it after much back and forth with their support team (who are very good it has to be said).

I bought the Professional Edition and also purchased the Comet Service to reduce load on my server.

Sadly it hasn’t worked out well.

Every time cometchat gets even slightly busy (30+ chatters in a room) it brings down my entire website. I disabled comet service and tried running it solely on my own dedicated server (which is pretty powerful 12 core / 64GB ram / 1Gbps pipe + 1Gbps burst) but the same issue kept happening.

After some debugging it all boils down to the fact that, whether you have comet service activated or not, the script “calls home” to comet’s servers every time somebody loads it in their browser. The problem that was taking my site out is that their servers couldn’t handle the load and were returning 504 errors which was wiping my site out (as the comet chat scripts are loaded aright after the opening <head> tag, preventing the rest of the site from loading).

They tried a few things to fix it for me, but ultimately the script still needs to contact their servers and their servers can’t handle the requests.

It’s a shame because it is a really good script and when working, works flawlessly. The integration with WP is brilliant, although, as mentioned above, any messaging done via comet chat stays in comet chat and can’t be translated elsewhere on your site.

There is this WP chat plug in that I’ve had to revert back to (had it prior to buying comet chat) but it’s a bit clunky and is a bit of a resource pig – https://wordpress.org/plugins/quick-chat/

It does work though. Hope that helps 😉

Weebly is a site buider with his own tools to do that.
BuddyPress is a WordPress plugin. 2 different concept, 2 technologies.

The answer is no. 😉

Can you detail your installation please ?

Where is WordPress installed ?
Where is BuddyPress installed ?

Hi @clifton11221

Just looking through the Plugin Directory, I came across this plugin that might help:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-disable-activation-reloaded/

@hnla Sorry, my apologies. Please also read “But then, things may change also – who can say –”
I think @mariatrier can get helped by your positive suggestions on her actual problem 🙂 Thanks.

@mariatrier Have a look at this page also http://barn2.co.uk/live-chat-wordpress-plugins/

There’s private messages built in, but this is rather old school. You can’t leave the conversation as you can on FB, you can’t upload files to the conversation etc. I am after something like Facebook chat/messaging system.

Personally I would like PM and chat to be separate. But then, things may change also – who can say – please submit issues with lots of real world example at https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/report

Some chat solutions worth looking may be https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=buddypress+chat

Changing these titles isn’t the easiest thing, but BuddyPress does provide 2 ways you can do it. However, hacking core files like bp-activity-loader.php is definitely not one of them. [Never hack core files — have a Google if it’s not obvious to you why you shouldn’t]

Ok the 2 solutions are:

1. Use a language / translation file
2. Use the template hierarchy

The string “Site-Wide Activity” is translatable — all the strings are. You can implement a language file that translates ‘Site-Wide Activity’ into whatever string you’d like. Have a search for translating BuddyPress strings / POT files / poedit. There’s also a documentation (they call it the Codex) page on it: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/customizing/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

The second solution is to use the template hierarchy. If you don’t provide a specific template for your activity directory, BuddyPress will use the page.php file from your theme and ‘inject’ the title “Site-Wide Activity” where page.php makes a call to the_title().

You can override this by implementing your own template — create a file called index-directory.php inside /buddypress/activity in your site’s theme. Copy the basics of page.php into that file, and replace the_title() with your hardcoded title for the page.

You can read more about the template hierarchy here: https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/template-hierarchy/

Neither solution is simple, you’ll either have to get your head around using poedit, or need some basic PHP coding skills and an understanding of the principles of templates and themes in WordPress. In the future, it would be nice to see a settings panel in wp-admin to configure these basic strings.

[p.s. if you don’t want to use poedit, you could take a look at plugin solutions for string translation, e.g. codestyling localisation]