Hi @ubernaut
Yes, if WangGuard detect a user as splogger and you mark it as not splogger, he is flagged as “Checked Forced”. That will force to WangGuard to accept that user as good user at your WordPress.
But if you mark a user as Splogger, and then, you mark it again as Not Splogger, he is flagged as Checked user and he is removed from WangGuard database.
Thanks, I have uploaded the plugin to wordpress. But I didnt understand what you said earlier: “Log in with new admin and visit profile page of old admon then in admin bar there will be link to unmark”
Where do i find the profile page?
I have downloaded it, but it is in .gz format. I tried uploading it to wordpress plugins but it failed.This page appeared when I tried:
The package could not be installed. PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature
I’m looking to create a site that lets you reference Amazon products in your Buddypress posts. This and this integrate Amazon products with a storefront such as WooCommerce on your WordPress site. Is there any way I can add a field to the status update bar to search for and add a link on the bottom of the post to one of the products, much like you see on tech news sites that reference a gadget? I have some HTML and CSS knowledge, but I don’t really know where to begin. I know this is a very very specific thing. The end result could act like when you post a comment on a product page and it shows up in your activity, except you don’t need to find the product first. Any help would be appreciated greatly.
Thanks!
click download gist button and then upload it to WordPress
I would like to offer two ideas for consideration:
1) Integrating basic anti-spam capabilities into core
2) Improving performance via fragment caching
1) I realize that there are already good plugins that deal with spam, both comment and multisite blogspam. But being spam, it is a cat and mouse game and I feel that buddypress should have some basic anti-spam protection out of the box. For example, a hidden text field via css as a honeypot. Users who are not at all comfortable coding or editing files can turn this on or have it on by default (rather than try to follow guides like this: http://www.pixeljar.net/2012/09/19/eliminate-buddypress-spam-registrations/)
2) This was touched on in the recent buddypress panel discussion:
(caching: 19min – 22min)
After spam, the biggest issue that I’ve heard is with performance. I think we should start to address this. For more info and details see this thread.
One of the challenges of using caching plugins like WT3 is that they don’t work for signed in members of buddypress sites. But a fragment caching system can still cache parts of the page which are ‘static’ and would not change as a result of the user activity.
Sorry but how do I install this plugin into wordpress?
SKParticipant
API so we could build mobile apps
Just “API” is a bit vague. Do you, perhaps, want to create a ticket, with exactly what you are after, at https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ ?
I assume you are aware of the existing API https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/action-reference/
@modemlooper Thanks, I did know about hiring a coder to build a plugin. But you’ll note that’s not what I asked.
The article lays it on a bit too thick but it does have a point. For example, the ticket on custom post types has languished without any attention after a great initial discussion. And it has been punted several times already.
This is arguably an important feature. And it is 2+ years old. With the last activity being 6 months ago with trishasalas commenting and not receiving any feedback or response (except the punt).
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3460
I don’t want to get bogged down in this specific feature or ticket, I’m only using it to illustrate that, well, things can be improved on.
Do you really think that there is no room for improvement? That the status-quo is honky-dory a-okay? Because you don’t have to be negative or have a jaundiced eye to realize that things can always be improved. And it is obvious that the development process for both bbPress and BuddyPress can be improved when important tickets are ignored, marginalized and peripheral improvements come in way over their delivery date.
I would like to start a constructive dialogue on how we can improve things. If no one here is interested and thinks that there is no need or room for such improvement, then I’ll be happy to go back to lurking.
SKParticipant
BuddyPress 1.9 Beta 1 is out.
Last calls for 2.0 features scope. What are your top 5 feature requests for 2.0?
(if there are Trac tickets, feel free to post links, but please ensure they are for features not bugs)
I’ll get the discussion going with my top 5:
- Upload profile image at activation https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4132
- Allow admin to select fields to display in user “excerps” on Groups’ user list page https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4126
- New profile field type: Number https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4694
- Use taxonomies instead of/in addition to BP Xprofile tables https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4796
- Hierarchical groups https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3961
Never done it myself, but i think comment_form accepts some arguments for that kinda of thing. Though since your question is more wordpress related, and you have buddypress installed I’d use buddypress activity comments rather than the wordpress ones anyway
The community decides the direction of BP not Automattic. JJJ is still project lead. Most decisions about BP happen in the IRC dev chats.
list of new features
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/roadmap
If you want new festures you can add a topic here and if it gets good feedback you can open an enhancement ticket on trac.
If you wish to sponsor features you can get a dev to create a new plugin
yeah that article was obviously written by someone who does not actually participate (or lurk for that matter) in the weekly meetings.
Fact is jjj actually put a ton of work into this release of budypress. The part he was working on i don’t even understand because, like yourself i am not a developer. but i do understand it enough to know its the kind of thing very few people may appreciate but makes those few (devs) lives much easier. i also know it took a lot of his hours to make it happen. 10up just today or yesterday announced that they devoting 100% of @helen ‘s time to wordpress so i don’t think it’s accurate to suggest that jjj won’t still be able to spend a good chunk of his time on buddypress.
like any open source project it’s success or failure is defined by the people who volunteer their time and efforts to build and promote it, so if you feel like you’d like to do that, a good place to start might be the regular weekly irc meetings or simply start following the BPdev blog which can be found here:
http://bpdevel.wordpress.com
i would say there should probably be an easier way to find that site on buddypres.org though.
:/
I would really like to contribute to buddypress but I’m not a coder. Is there a way for me to help? For example, would it be feasible to ‘sponsor’ a trac ticket and hire a coder/freelancer to address it?
I read this article: http://wpmu.org/what-not-to-expect-in-buddypress-1-9/ and while I don’t like the negative tone, it has some valid points. BTW I had no idea JJJ left! Is Automattic sending someone else to help out in his place?
I want to be positive. I’m interested in discussion how we can improve and how I can be a (small?) part of that.
IMHO the most important way to help buddypress is to organize and prioritize the project. Right now it seems a bit random. The way tickets are addressed, future roadmap, new features, etc. doesn’t really seem to have an over-arching order.
A lot of this is up to Automattic and WordPress as an organization because they call the shots. But there are things we can do on the ground as well. For example, here’s a simple way that we can treat new features.
Instead of letting tickets pile up (future release has 440 right now) or discussion forum ideas gather dust, let’s put them in a simple list and have the registered users of buddypress.org vote on them. This way we get a very quick idea of how popular certain features are and which direction the current users are interested in. Of course, this is only a way to get preliminary info and I’m not suggestion mob rule!
BuddyPress is a wonderful and the people and community is great. If we engage in some “meta-discussion” we can really turbo charge it.
ps same goes for bbPress!
Sorry, forgot to add the details:
1. Which version of WordPress are you running?
3.7.1
2. Did you install WordPress as a directory or subdomain install?
Directory
3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory?
Root on server / subdirectory on localhost (I have two copies for emergencies like this but this time both are behaving badly)
4. Did you upgrade from a previous version of WordPress? If so, from which version?
Yes, 3.6.1
5. Was WordPress functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress (BP)? e.g. permalinks, creating a new post, commenting.
Yes
6. Which version of BP are you running?
1.8.1
7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version?
1.8
8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? If so, which ones?
Yes: AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget / BuddyPress Template Pack / Edit Author Slug / Login With Ajax / Popular Widget / Video Thumbnails (disabled all plugins save for BuddyPress and the behavior continues)
9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes?
Customized
10. Have you modified the core files in any way?
No
11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php?
Yes (2 lines - excluding php open and close tags):
<?php
add_filter( 'bp_use_wp_admin_bar', '__return_false' );
define ( 'BP_DISABLE_ADMIN_BAR', true );
?>
12. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in?
Not running bbPress
13. Please provide a list of any errors in your server's log files.
None
14. Which company provides your hosting?
nearlyfreespeech.net
15. Is your server running Windows, or if Linux; Apache, nginx or something else?
Linux: Apache (both localhost and server)
I have also just removed the avatars folder and it does indeed create one as well as the userid folder although that remains blank (no files are placed there) and the same error as my original post appears. Hope that helps in solving this.
I do not currently have access to my site, so I can’t provide the WordPress Version, BuddyPress Version, or a working link to my site:
http://www.historiaobscura.com
They shut me down today for using more than 3GB in the activity tables on my BuddyPress.
I have been told to ask BuddyPress,org about these tables:
wp_bp_activity_meta, wp_bp_activity.
What is in these tables and is it okay to delete them?
Specifically, I we delete these tables, will comments on articles made on the site disappear?
Thanks.
Is WordPress installed in the root or in a folder? sounds like the install got borked. In future I would always use the admin to update WP. Also, this error has happened before when WP was installed using a one click host installer.
Yes it was working before, and no it is not multisite. I used svn to update WordPress.
Thank you @henrywright-1,
this would be a nice alternative to my own approach, but what about my original idea? Remember you asked the same question in another thread few weeks ago.
If there would be a way to pass over the different user-roles to xprofile-fields there would be no need to create templates. You could output the field in the member-loop and make it searchable. This would be the simplest way. What do you think about it?
As an example: a user registers on my site as “band” (which is a wordpress user role). The selected field would be inserted into a (maybe) hidden xprofile-field also called “profiletype”. This field could be echoed everywhere inside buddypress (clickable, searchable). I know this could be done with only xprofile-fields too, but without the possiblity to use bp-xprofile-acl an the advantage of different user capabilities. Am I clear?
Whenever a user tries to upload an avatar, they get this error message:
Upload Failed! Error was: Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads/avatars/1407/avatars/1407. Is its parent directory writable by the server?
This started happening after I updated to the latest version of WordPress. It seems like it is pointing to the wrong path for some reason. Is there a way I can fix this?
Just curious is there some easy way to get a default set of dummy content in BuddyPress like we have at WordPress.
– Few Users
– Few Groups
– Some Replies
– Some Messages
– Some Friends
– Some Activity
Just so you can work around it and get a better view of how everything will look like, now i’m still adding Lorem Ipsum’s all over the place.
@bphelp Thanks, unfortunately that didn’t work either.
For anyone wondering. I found a plugin that finally blocks the BP feeds. It is for wordpress but did the trick. The plugin is here:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-feeds/
