BuddyPress.org

It blows my mind that this is not a core feature of WPMU, WP, or BuddyPress. It is the most obvious first defense against sploggers and spammer-members.

There is a plugin called Pie Registration that claims to do user moderation of unverified users before they are allowed to post. It seems to be a resurrection of an older (discontinued?) plugin called Register Plus. Find it here: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pie-register/

Will check it out now.

EDIT: It says that the feature “Moderate all user registrations to require admin approval” will only work when Email Verification is DISABLED. I can’t get it to work, though.

Also found this:
“Register Plus plugin seemed to be working fine in 2.9.2, with custom logo and all, but now I’ve just discovered that it only sends the registration email if the registration is done in IE. In Firefox or Chrome the mail is not sent. How can this be?”
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/376015

Hey Robin! I also migrated from Ning to Buddypress. You will find the forum participants/moderators here to be quite responsive and informative. In fact, I have received hints from generous forum moderators that were very helpful in getting my blog setup. Basically, any question you search for on google with regard to setting up wordpress/ buddypress many times will point to this site. You will find that other people have asked similar questions and received answers from those who already know how to do it.

If you can get someone to help you set up a wordpress blog/website, then you can become accustomed to the admin control panel for wordpress. From there you can install the buddypress plugin and get your social network up and running. Ning webmasters still have till July to move it or lose it, so you have time to learn the wordpress/buddypress stuff.

I would suggest test WordPress/WordPressMU with BuddyPress out of the box at http://testbp.org/ (except header image which was added by Andy). Same username and password as you used in this site.

I am game for getting involved in such a project. What frustrates me about Facebook is that they had the opportunity to link into the LOD cloud and did not take it. Their “Open” graph API pirates the concept of microformats, RDF, and schemas that have been around for years. They pretty much just took the ideas and made their own version. Bad form, I say!

What is missing from this conversation, though, is the idea that a distributed social network is not as much about where the data is and who controls it as it is about how the data is defined or “marked up.” So, yes, each person has that “virtual calling card” you define above, but it is in a standard XML file like RDF using a specific schema or “vocabulary” common to people who use a particular service. That RDF file, though, belongs to me, the user, and I can choose to add my affiliation with a specific network to that file or not.

Seems to me that what Mu (or the very excellent WordPress 3.0) needs is its own “vocabulary” within the LInked Open Data cloud to be a truly “open” distributed network.

Just my 2 cents…

@rossagrant – Not certain that these core hacks will be in for v1.2.4, but I’ll see if I can sway the dev team

Re: profile loop – http://testbp.org/members/andy/profile/ – it’s the part right underneath the profile tab.

I just noticed a small bug and just put out v0.51. If you can’t wait for WordPress’ plugin repository to update, you can manually download the files here:
https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/buddypress-usernames-only/trunk/

Did you find anywhere in your googling where a blank page means php errors and you should check your error logs?

Part of the problem might be running BuddyPress in a subdirectory. We use some tricky URI parsing to dynamically trap and trigger the pages that don’t actually exist. To do this, we count the slashes and put the slugs in the “correct” positions, which in your case are one level off.

You could .htaccess your way out of this by redirecting, but your best bet is to install it at the root of your site.

For those only having the trouble with /register and /activate, make sure you have member registration turned on. Since it’s off by default on single site WordPress, that has gotten me a few times.

You’ll also need to make sure you have Arabic installed for WordPress, and if using multi-site, Arabic must be set as the site language in site wide settings.

It sounds like you may have a hook sequence firing issue. In other words, your added action function might not be getting fired. This could be an issue with your code or even the BuddyPress code.

You can download my plugin WordPress Hook Sniffer to see if that might be the case. It takes awhile to figure out how to use my plugin but the two articles I wrote should guide you through the process.

Has anyone solved this yet? I am still getting this error.

I can configure, add BuddyPress, activate plug in and themes, etc.

Clicking on http://computername.corporatedomainname.com/wordpress-mu/ (where I am installed) lets me go to the BuddyPress home page (and very exciting it is too). Then clicking on the “Members” tab give me a http://computername.corporeatedomainname.com/wordpress-mu/members/ and

“Object not found!

The requested URL was not found on this server. The link on the referring page seems to be wrong or outdated. Please inform the author of that page about the error.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 404?

I’d try using a SMTP plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/smtp

@scwcreative Set permalinks to other than default and save

And what did support@apollohosting-inc.com say when you contacted them?

This could have been caused if you installed WP/MU via simplescripts, fantastico, etc. Delete previous installation including htaccess file generated and wp-config (if MU) and drop database tables.
Do manual upload of WP or MU via FTP or cpanel and install.
Go to dashboard > Settings > Permalinks and run it.
Do FTP/cpanel upload of BuddyPress plugin.
Activate BP plugin and go to BP settings page to enable components.

If you need a sidebar widget in author’s blog then you could use
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-profile-widget-for-blogs/

Ok, I had the same problem, and I got that “Mail From” plugin and it works as far as the From line coming from the community name instead of from “WordPress.” However, emails are still going to the spam folder. Is there no way around this at all?

Thanks to Sarah Gooding, I found this plugin which mostly works with WPMU 2.9.2 and BP 1.2.3: http://www.thinkinginwordpress.com/2009/10/autoactivate-users-and-blogs-at-buddypress-signup/ Only problem is that it still sends the activation email despite the email already being active.

My hope is to incorporate the code from Andy so that it will work with both WPMU and WP and then make it so neither one sends the activation email.

If anyone has ideas why it’s sending the activation email in WPMU, I’d appreciate any help. Seems like it might be a priority issue, but I haven’t yet figured that out.