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Search on BP is a long way off during the current release. I have an integrated search page, but it won’t search content inside of forum posts, just titles.

From what I’ve seen SOLR is very powerful and integrated with WP makes WP search faceted and extremely useful, I’d love to get it set up on my BP site, but it’s a little over my head and would probably require some extension to this plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/solr-for-wordpress/

Recently I’ve added google custom search to my BP site, but as it’s indexing from the front end there are a lot of “pages” to crawl and it doesn’t seem to index them that well, I’ve also recently found the the member search isn’t finding people that I know are there.

Although I did hear rumblings that BP 3 will start to address search – we shall see, it’s a really tough one to crack

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3651

It’s been fixed in trunk, but not in the 1.2 branch. If you want to try applying the patch to your site, try applying these changes to your files: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3651.

file from bp-default theme https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.2.8/bp-themes/bp-default/members/members-loop.php

I haven’t really explored it much, apart from getting the css to match various site designs…. I’ve tried to avoid using it but the spam (particularly the spam registrations) gets to be annoying. Adding this and the problem goes – apart from what appears to be the odd human spammer…

You could change where it says CAPTCHA Code to your own message – It’s an option at the bottom of the admin screen.

It would be nice to be able to place a text line above the graphic and above the captcha code line….

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si-contact-form/ and https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/ work well for me with buddypress….

== Looking into the DB I can see that the redirects column in wp-options is pretty large and I would imagine this is where the problem stems from, but I’m not comfortable manually editing this table. ==

Go to wp_options table via phpMyAdmin. Copy what’s in your wp-options table and paste in text editor. There’s a pattern to the madness of the serialized data which is sometimes very messy to edit by hand. Some plugins which have been deactivated and deleted still leave some nastiness behind and you would have to delete the section. Sometime back, I found the virus of a hacked install listed in wp_options table as well.

What’s good about doing it this way is that you can save what was originally in the wp_options table in a text file and keep in a safe place while you make changes via phpMyAdmin. When something goes wrong after making those revisions, you can always paste back the original content from the txt file you saved.

For an overview of what serialized data to expect in your wp_options table which could also help you ID what’s going on, go to http://yoursite.com/wp-admin/options.php or localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/options.php

Cool, I’ll close it.

BuddyPress doesn’t interfere with user registration at that level. I think you’re almost certainly doing something wrong if you are needing to create your own hash for the password, etc. The authentication class is overridable, and most stuff can be done via the ‘authenticate’ action (I think that’s the name). I would rethink the approach you are taking, and do a bit more research — the wordpress.org forums may have had discussion about hooking into the registration process, and certainly the codex does.

Something like the profile – audio, video and gallery – widgets by slushman https://profiles.wordpress.org/users/slushman/

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-links/ – caveat – it hasn’t been upgraded lately

`I can most assuredly say he did not rip off the premium one and stuff it in the repo.`

Correct. I spent many hours of my free time coding that plugin. If you don’t believe me, just ask my wife, who had to put up with my constant complaining about Ning’s crappy json files.

I don’t sell plugins myself, but I don’t have a problem with people who do. And I most certainly would not go out of my way to hurt those people financially, if their only “crime” is charging for their work. (Occasionally, there are other issues to be considered.)

It’s specious of you to argue that, on the one hand, the world needs more volunteers, and at the same time to pull this kind of stunt. Pulling the rug out from someone’s business will not make them “see the light” and start volunteering here. It will only make them angry.

“as what happened with the ning to buddypress importer.”

Actually, I’d like to correct you on this as well. There’s a ning-to-buddypress importer plugin in the repo written by boone – one of the BP devs. I can most assuredly say he did not rip off the premium one and stuff it in the repo.

The site in question is alreayd releasing “lite” version of their plugins in the repo. Quite a number of them at this point.

You’re waiting for them to “come around”. They will not. Their pricing model makes them enough money to have kept at it now for four years.

What you’re doing, however well-intended, sets a precedence that makes it seem okay for people to do this to anyone. Like myself, for example. Yes, I sell plugins as well. While technically you could do the same to me, it would not endear me towards helping you. Ever.

Paul is pointing out that rather than helping people in this forum with their buddypress issues, you’re basically advertising for paid services. THAT is the problem.

It’s hard to remove a post and let you see the response, so I’m closing this one. Please refrain from posting any further about this, it’s beginning to look like spam (this is the third post that I’m aware of, in the last few days). Heck, the title of this thread is the sort of thing Google’s going to pick up on, which I know is your intention.

In terms of people selling or advertising premium BuddyPress services on this site, there’s a balance between promoting your plugin in situations such as responding to a relevant topic, i.e. “how can I do x?” and you reply, “my premium plugin z can do that for you!” (which is okay), and outright advertising or spamming (which isn’t). Announcing a new premium plugin or theme is fine, but posting an announcement or advert each week isn’t — that’s spam.

Blatant advertising or spamming is not allowed; BuddyPress.org community support is about community support, it is not a free-for-all marketplace. This isn’t the place for that type of thing.

Specifically regarding your site, there are extra considerations. You appear to be re-selling GPL’d plugins and themes[1] (I have only taken a quick look at your site). As long as you had purchased these GPL’d themes or plugins originally, then you can turn around and give that theme or plugin to anybody you want. The GPL is about redistribution. My understanding is that this viewpoint is entirely correct.

However, I think you’re missing the big picture. It may not be illegal, but I don’t think it’s ethical. The authors of those works which you are profiting from worked hard to create something. By re-selling their works, I believe you are disrespecting those authors and the larger community. To me, it’s as simple as this: if this sort of behaviour discourages even one individual from creating a new BuddyPress plugin or a BuddyPress theme, because they’d like to try to make some money from it, then the community has been harmed by having one less choice.

I feel this threads falls between an announcement of a service and an advertisement for that service, considering your repeated posts, with debatable ethics. I apologise on behalf of our moderator team; we should have got in contact with you after your first post, and we’re sorry that it seemed we were picking on your posts. However, you could have posted another topic and asked what happened to your previous posts; we would have seen it.

I am paul@byotos.com if you would like to discuss further in private, or you’re welcome to start a new topic and start a discussion about the ethics of re-selling GPL plugins/themes, but maybe that sort of discussion would go best on the wordpress.org forums, rather than here, as it would be seen by a larger audience of WordPress plugin and theme authors (relevant, of course, because your site appears to have WP and BP-specific themes listed).

[1] This assumes that everything in those plugins/themes is covered by the GPL, such as images or any other files, as opposed to just the PHP source.

If you want to help grow the WP AND BP community’s then you can do so by developing and sharing your own plugins or themes.you’re not helping if you rip off others,
it doesn’t mean if it’s GPL that everything should be free.In my opinion all those premium services are helping the grow of WP and BP that’s also a small part why WP has become so popular and if there are more such services for BP then BP will grow as well.

if you’re not a developer or designer but still want to help then you can help by donating to people like Paul or Andrea_r.

I’m writing a response to this.