BuddyPress.org

Here is a recap of some posts I posted at http://buddydev.com recently:

I use Bp-Cosmic-Pro Theme built of of bp-mag and have about one spam registration per couple of weeks (and it’s usually a real person that registers and gets through)… They are caught within minutes of posting something ridiculous and marked as spammers by the admins.

There are a number of reasons for that:

1. It’s a closed/ register only site (but free to all), (note: I do not require e-mail validation either)
2. I use BuddyPress Humanity Anti-Spam Plugin
3. I use Si-Captcha Anti-Spam
3. Multiple Profile fields are required to be filled-in at registration as an ANTI-SPAM measure – in part.
4. I have a TERMS and use that Requires THE CHECKING of a box to register.
5. I use the bad behavior plugin to keep out the crazies and use the Blocking-list feature of it.

Occasionally, I get the I can’t register e-mail, but it is rare and there is a note for people to contact me if they can’t register properly… I have 1700 active (non-spam users) on my site and virtually no SPAM.

I believe one of the keys to success here is that it is a “private site” and as such it’s not indexed (I realize this could be a problem for many sites, but not my niche site). So, sites don’t scrape it as a potential source to attack.

I would also recommend the ANIMAL BuddyPress Captcha plugin.

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I usually think about SPAM protection in the form of a Castle for open community WordPress Sites:
1. The Moat: Programs like Bad-Behavior and plugins that stop bots/scrapers before they get “through” to the site.
2. The Gate/Drawbridge: Programs like Captchas, Math Challenges, Reverse fields that SHOULDN’T be filled in to “trap” bots from auto-filling.
3. The Keep: Programs like Akismet.
4. The Guards: Moderators with the ability to knock out spam when they see it.

The biggest issue with BuddyPress is that THERE IS NO KEEP (no. 3 above) for the Activity Streams…
As far as I know, there are not programs like Akismet or any of the “KARMA” / Comment anti-spam plugins that work for the BuddyPress group/activity/forum streams… DJ-PAUL has talked about making Akismet work on BuddyPress Streams at the BuddyPress.org site, but there is nothing yet that I know of yet –

If anyone does know of something that will “auto-moderate” the BuddPress Stream updates/comments, please let me know…

Regards.

pretty permalinks: https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

https://buddypress.org/2011/05/buddypress-template-pack-1-1/

https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

The only way I was able to surmount the same issue (emails not being sent, i.e. new user notification, password reset emails) was to disable the following plugin:

“BP Disable Activation”
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-disable-activation/

Once I disabled this plugin, the missing emails flowed again.

As such, I returned the site to its default state of requiring new users to confirm their accounts.

Good timing! Check out https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3243

@BrainiacWebDesigns

No, it’s not a simple edit on any specific page because those are links you’ve added to a WP Custom Menu. As they are stored in the database and called via the wp_nav_menu function, they won’t be visible in any file.

But it looks like it can be done with jquery. 🙂 Assuming you want to continue using WP Custom Menus for those links in your navigation (rather than hard-coding them into your header.php file), you’d need to target only those links contained within the specific <li> item in the menu. (According to Firebug, that would be .sf-menu li#menu-item-174 li a. Note that if you modify the custom menu after applying any rules to that specific li#, you may need to adjust the the following code ‘cuz the li# may change.)

jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
$(".sf-menu li#menu-item-174 li a[href^='http://']").attr("target","_blank");
});

To see how it’s done, see the 2nd example snippet on this page: http://css-tricks.com/snippets/jquery/open-external-links-in-new-window/
…as well as wp_enqueue_script: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_enqueue_script

Another way would be to use register_nav_menu to create an additional Theme Location under WP Custom Menus where you can assign a special menu coded to open all links in new windows. See the WP codex here for that: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_nav_menu

Hope this helps 🙂
…and have fun!

Update: Enabling the ‘Mail From’ plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/ solves the problem.

I’m not thoroughly satisfied with this solution because it is too mysterious , but at least it is a solution.

is_user_member_of_blog() is part of WordPress with multisite enabled. The bp-community-blogs plugin appears to require multisite.

To get your site back, rename the /plugins/bp-community-blogs folder to something else and visit yoursite.com/wp-admin/plugins.php.

If you’re after just a forum, check out the new bbPress plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/

As an aside, we’re going to use custom post types and therefore a lot of the regular WordPress loop in BP 1.4.

am sure its a clash between your theme files and the menu in BP? Am assuming you are aware that in order to get BP up and running, you need to have a BP theme… its different from any other wordpress theme… this might help you out: https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

I’m using BoWoB http://www.bowob.com/ its a plugin for wordpress but works good with Buddypress as well, not a buddypress addon or anything but it works and its free.

jobs.wordpress.net

Hello guys,

I’m interested in doing the same thing. Have you figured out a way of doing this without writing an SQL query?

I would be ok with hard coding the field I need to sort by.

My current query looks like this (default buddypress) but how can I have it look for a specific field value?
`$queryString = “type=alphabetical&action=alphabetical&per_page=150”;`

In WordPress I would use this `orderby=field_name` but thats not doing anything here…

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks,
C.

@gregfielding : The APC Object Cache Backed (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/apc/) plugin seems to work with Buddypress.

For the future, if it would be appropriate for the bundled BuddyPress theme to have an options panel (with the same type of idea as twentyeleven), I think it could make sense. However, always keep in mind Decisions not options. But for BP 1.3, bearing in mind that we want to have a beta as soon as we can manage, I am not convinced there is enough development time*.

What are the options that you would propose to have in a theme options panel?

Here is a guide from Rackspace – for their servers – but it’ll get you started.

http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/blog/2010/09/02/optimize-your-wordpress-site-with-w3-total-cache/

And here is another from bp-tricks

http://bp-tricks.com/featured/the-perfect-cdn-setup-for-buddypress-using-maxcdn-and-w3-total-cache/

1. https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network first with all plugins deactivated and using twentyten theme

2. Then allow Blog Creation in dashboard BuddyPress > General Settings

@naijaping hey my mentions tag is this ( @timothyjunior) I would have replied sooner but i really only look at my profile for mentions.

I just checked my own theme for this , and as you said it doesn’t list any folders so I can’t locate mine within wordpress either.

I edit my files threw cpanel. Did you edit your files like instructed?

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-jobs-board/
http://jobs.wordpress.net/

Here’s another spot to find people:

http://wpcandy.com/pros/experienced/with-buddypress

@Timothy : i created it at wp-content/themes/(My Theme)/members/single/member-header.php. but funny enough, i cant see members-header.php in my theme file at the wordpress dashboard. i can only see it through my FTC.

thanks

@svenl77
I would go to the trac: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/
and create a ticket for your ideas. This would give other dev’s the chance to look at it, and you can work it much easier than starting threads on the forum. It also keeps all the files you put up so its a good revision tracker.
And what most of us do is create a patch against the newest version of the trunk and the core dev’s check it out and either ad as/is or work to modify it to fit..

And I was wondering, if moving the sidebar can be done with just CSS why are we adjusting the markup for it then? I understand to avoid repetitious code but for backpat sake if css can do it, why create more hassle? PS, this is the stuff that can go on the trac.