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People will chime in but anything recommended by WordPress should be good. Just remember BuddyPress has more overhead in displaying content and will use more resources.

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@ A Swede in Greece

You could try this plugin:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/
But you’ll want the beta version as it fixes an issue with BuddyPress
http://www.blogseye.com/beta-test-plugins/

Also, you should look into installing ZBBlock.
http://www.spambotsecurity.com/zbblock.php

== I successfully set up Multisite with my Buddypress site and everything looked like it was working well until any members tried to create a new site. ==

Deactivate BuddyPress and make sure that you can create subdomain/subdirectory sites without any issues. If there is, please resolve multisite issue first before activating BP again – https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite

If you can create subsites in your WP install, then activate BuddyPress plugin only, go through the BP Installation Wizard — make sure you choose pretty permalink and choose for BP-default theme. Then create a blog/subsite and check if subsite is working.

@famous BP 1.7 is not due anytime soon. There’s just still so much more to be done and everything should be settled and tested before any documentation is finalized/released. So if you’re going to launch this month or early next month, recommend either create bp-default child theme OR use WP theme with BP Template Pack plugin OR use BP-ready WordPress theme.

The most basic rendition of BP components will just be like how the bbPress plugin forums are rendered with very minimal effort on your part and you can add customizations via shortcodes, style.css or functions.php files. That’s all there is to it. The trac ticket seeks to provide options for developers to customize the structure of each BP component page further, among other things.

Has this changed at all since you last posted?
I had the same question and got here.
I am new to BuddyPress. It seems ridiculous that a site admin couldn’t alter profile details of a user on his site.
In my case, I want to pre-populate a site with an set of guaranteed users whose info I want to enter for them.
Surely, if BuddyPress was just a part of WordPress alongside it, all BuddyPress user profile info should be accessible and editable under WordPress user profile admin, not just the core WordPress fields?

You definitely need an Akismet API key; for most people, these are free, so there shouldn’t be any problems. Your WordPress install probably already has the Akismet plugin installed, but you can install it from the Plugins Directory if it’s missing.

you can use this plugin as well https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-extended-settings/

Not exactly, but check this out https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-pack/

You can change text strings like “Oh bother! No forums were found here!” in core by adding filters in your theme’s functions.php file
– http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2010/01/02/mangling-strings-for-fun-and-profit/
or this one which is the same but implemented differently
– http://www.viper007bond.com/2011/07/13/changing-core-wordpress-strings/

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4639

@snowlas – Sorry! I didn’t test that snippet.

I just tested this and it will work:

`
/**
* Removes BP’s redirect from the regular WP registration page.
*/
function my_remove_bp_register_redirect() {
remove_action( ‘bp_init’, ‘bp_core_wpsignup_redirect’ );
}
add_action( ‘bp_loaded’, ‘my_remove_bp_register_redirect’ );
`

Snippet belongs in `/wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php`.

I took a look at bbPress last night to see what it was doing differently.

Note: this is becoming more into a dev discussion than anything so bear with me!

bbPress does things differently in `bbp_template_include_theme_supports()` compared to BP in `bp_template_include_theme_supports()`.

bbPress:
`https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.1.2/bbp-includes/bbp-template-loader.php#L13`

BuddyPress (trunk):
`https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/bp-core/bp-core-template-loader.php#L236`

We could probably mirror the same changes as bbPress by adding the page conditionals in `bp_template_include_theme_supports()` like bbPress does.

What do you think, @djpaul @johnjamesjacoby ?

Update: Just read through the dev chat and it looks like Paul is already working on something!

To make your WP theme compatible with BuddyPress, you need to install/activate the BP Template Pack plugin, then go through Appearance > BP compatibility process.
– https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/#the-process-at-a-glance
– https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/#template-packed-wordpress-themes

I’ve found that BP Humanity helps with spam robots but not human spammers.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-humanity/

For human spammers, you may need to approve each user.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-registration-options/

I think a better bet is to collect that info on the BP registration page and then not display it on the user profile (that way you’ll still be able to use it in other ways). With BP 1.6. you can change the visibility of each xprofile field to friends only, logged-in users, or public (and force that level or allow the user to override your selection). (Visible to admin only is coming in BP 1.7, btw, which would totally fix you up.) At the moment, you can modify your theme template file (themes/yourtheme/members/single/profile/profile-loop.php) to hide some fields like this:
`about line 17:

<?php $no_display_fields = array( // Enter the field name of any field that you don't want to appear on the user profile.
‘E-mail’,
‘Name of Field Hide’,
‘Another’
);

if ( bp_field_has_data() && !in_array( bp_get_the_profile_field_name(), $no_display_fields ) ) : ?>`

It’s a hack, but it works for me (until BP 1.7).

bbPress gets that “for free” because it uses custom post types and therefore WordPress’ template hierarchy. Let me see what I can do for BuddyPress.

Yes, thank you. I’ve seen your ticket and patch at https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4634
The same issue was posted before at https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4608

== but im not able to find a way to allow members to post a blog. ==

Not quite sure what you want;
a) users able to publish a post in (single WP site) – just make default role of those who register as “Author
OR
b) users able to create blogs and publish posts (WP multisite) – you need to create a network first https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

You might try https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-pending-activations/

Try this: http://wpmu.org/wordpress-appointments-plugin/

This is default BuddyPress functionality. You might try https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/

@ahmedselim https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/restrict-usernames/