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Leofitz, WangGuard will check your user base for spammers and delete them.

See https://wordpress.org/plugins/wangguard/

The author says that “WangGuard not only protect your site from sploggers, spam users or unwanted users, WangGuard cleans your database from them. No plugin or service does this, only with WangGuard you will get this feature,” and I believe him. His English may not be too good, but the plugin is really outstanding.

There’s just one consideration for you: In order to have your database cleaned up, you will have to submit far more than 500 queries the first month. Perhaps you can arrange to pay for a month?

Here’s my suggestion to reduce database queries after that. (It worked for me.) Buddypress allows for the customization of User Profiles. Add a couple of questions that require a certain amount of intelligence to answer and make them required. That means the form will not be submitted either to WordPress or to WangGuard if the required fields are not filled out. It’s not fool-proof, but it decreased queries on my very busy site to just a few a day.

Incidentally, I added a question, “How do you plan to participate?” Among the choices offered the user are these:
“I want to increase my online presence.” and
“I want to sell my stuff.”

We don’t need anyone not bright enough to figure out that these replies do not make the user desirable. Now all I need is a script to automatically kick out users who choose these replies. 😉 (As it is, they can be manually deleted if other users report them.)

I don’t know what happens to a group when all the users are unsubscribed, so this may not be precisely what you are looking for. But WangGuard will make your site secure against almost all sploggers. (One registrant passed all tests on our site, and we had to delete manually, but that person must have registered manually too.)

Good luck!

Inge (http://ssnet.org)

@dswd depends on the project. If you’re creating a WP theme and want to make it compatible with BuddyPress, simplest requirements are: the_title() and the_content() and using jQuery which comes bundled in WP. That’s it. BuddyPress is compatible with nearly all WordPress themes.

@soloacademy
Covered this here:
http://bphelpblog.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/buddypress-redirect-to-profile/

Hi, I have latest 1.7.2 version of Buddypress and latest version of wordpress but all I see is the tab for “My Posts” but without any post in it even if those members has 5 , 100 or me 1000 posts , is it updated for latest version, still working?

I wonder how would the wordpress and buddypress member tables work together. I exported a csv wordpress data file and want to import it buddypress. Does the tables or fields will match? Your help and suggestions will be greatly appreciated. =)

Yep. @slaffik’s also done a BP-specific version, should you ever need a BP-specific content: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-default-data/

I haven’t used this plugin but it looks as though it will do what you need:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/demo-data-creator

@benjino
Try following 3) Logged-out menu in this tutorial:
http://wpmu.org/how-to-build-a-facebook-style-members-only-wordpress-buddypress-site/

Well @DJPaul kicked it off with the initial patch based on feedback from a couple of devs on this ticket:

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

The codex entry needs a little additional editing and linking to my earlier page on 1.7 template compatibility.

So I’m rather new at WordPress so I think I’m missing something. I would like to accomplish basically the same thing as DKerrigan, not showing the bio field but some others. I think I can just reuse that code and change the field I want to be shown but where should I put that code? I thought I had to change groups-loop.php with the new code but that does not seem to do anything.

Thanks!

Hi,

I did this, after some digging into the $bp object after the registration form is posted. Not tested properly in the wild yet, so you might want to double check before using this. Done via WordPress 3.5.1 and BuddyPress 1.7.2.

add_filter('bp_core_signup_send_validation_email_message', 'custom_bp_change_activation_email_message');
function custom_bp_change_activation_email_message($message) {
	//	Get some globals
	global $bp, $wpdb;

	//	Get the slug of the activation page
	$slug = $bp->pages->{"activate"}->slug;

	//	Get username from the signup form just posted
	$username = $bp->signup->username;

	//	SQL query to get activation key for that username
	$sql = 'select meta_value from wp_usermeta where meta_key="activation_key" and user_id in (select ID from wp_users where user_login="' . $username . '" and user_status=2)';

	//	Getting the activation key from the database
	$activation_key = $wpdb->get_var($sql);

	//	Make activation URL
	$url = sprintf("%s/%s/?key=%s", WP_HOME, $slug, $activation_key);

	//	Custom message with activation key
	$message = "Yayy! Thanks for signing up! Please confirm your account!\n\n$url";

	return $message;
}

I’ve got this in a theme’s functions.php file, but not sure if that’s the right place for it. Would it be better in bp_custom.php?

Ta,
Alan.

It isn’t currently possible to have personal AND friend’s activity in the same activity feed. I have raised a ticket (#4988) but until then if you somehow find a way then please post here

@hungrygolf

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-multi-network/ ?