BuddyPress.org

https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

I’d love someone to help with a quick review and fixes for accessibility issues for BP-Default 1.3. There is unlikely to be time to do a 100% full sweep, but every little improvement helps. I’ve made some initial tickets:

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3263
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3264

If anyone uses an assistive device for interacting with websites, or has specific knowledge testing in these areas, any general feedback would be appreciated; you can check out http://testbp.org/

Primarily because it makes the URL match that of the component that generated the activity. If you think search engines have issues with 302 redirects, I would be very surprised, but if you can provide some evidence and make a ticket on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/, we can see if there’s anything that we can do.

`Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /path/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/registration/activate.php:3) in /path/wordpress/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 897`

As @r-a-y suggests, in my experience at least, that kind of error is almost always malformed PHP files — trailing spaces, unclosed brackets, stuff like that. If you’ve pasted functions into your functions.php or bp-custom.php, look there first, then any other template files you’ve edited.

I use bp-moderation for that, Pisanojm. It’s abandoned, I think, and has UI problems in the backend, but users can flag content and it shows up in the backend for me. It’s clunky and I wish it was still being actively developed, but it works fine once you’ve edited the admin screen hooks per this to make sure the UI shows up in the dashboard.

“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.”

It’s not mysterious – it;s a symptom of exactly what I described. The hosts on the receiving end are killing the emails that are sent because they were *automated*. Changing the from address so it come from a “legit” email, instead of wordpress@yourdomain, made it so it got delivered.

stevieg – It’s probably because the following theme hooks are missing in Template Pack:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.2.8/bp-themes/bp-default/functions.php#L339

stwc – If you’ve customized your BP theme files to oblivion in your WP theme, then don’t upgrade / reset the template files!

You’d have to set up multisite to give your users separate blogs so they can post.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
http://wpebooks.com/2010/09/how-to-enable-multisite-in-wordpress/

I doubt it. A-lot of components are not there that look like buddypress.

If you look here: https://wordpress.org/showcase/mashable/ They didn’t set the “flavor” to buddypress.

I do not know if fishhook theme is a child theme or not, but try looking in

wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/members

This is where buddypress default theme should be located relative to your wordpress installation if you are using wordpress 3.X (maybe 2.9) or greater.

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.