I’ve just started getting massive spam the last two days as well. I’ve been using reCAPTCHA and it seemed to be working up until recently. I can’t seem to use akismet, I don’t even see it in the list of plugins for my bbpress.
Does anyone know of some type of plugin that would require admin approval for posts with links in them? That would go a long way for me.
I would like the ability in 1.1 to be able to have the posts of anonymous posters to be held for approval from a mod. Registered users would not need approval.
Hi guys I’ve created a facebook connect plugin, I had submitted it for approval yesterday, within few hour I got email “Your plugin hosting request has been aproved at http://plugins-svn.bbpress.org” but when I went to that site it’s not working?? and it seems plugin isn’t approved and not listed.. I’d like to know if it was rejected for some reason.
Thank you.
Plugin url : http://www.aboutconsumer.com/downloads/facebook-graph-connect.zip
@rumpyhw
To the best of my knowledge you cannot deactivate registration in the admin panel. However, there is a plugin available that will make it so you(the keymaster) will have to approve all registrations.
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/approve-user-registration/
Or to protect your forum even further there is also a plugin that allows approval of all posts and topics
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/approve-user-registration/
Hope this helps,
RedBull
@rumpyhw
To the best of my knowledge you cannot deactivate registration in the admin panel. However, there is a plugin available that will make it so you(the keymaster) will have to approve all registrations.
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/approve-user-registration/
Or to protect your forum even further there is also a plugin that allows approval of all posts and topics
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/approve-user-registration/
Hope this helps,
RedBull
The plugin caused readability problems. A fix was never provided. I followed the advice to stop using it. Has it been updated?
You couldn’t be as kind as to tell us WHICH PLUGIN you’re talking about could you?
The plugin caused readability problems. A fix was never provided. I followed the advice to stop using it. Has it been updated?
I just had a look at topicstarters forum. THis is a kid who wants to spam the board. Just bozo him. Built in plugin.
Marius,
Though I’ve given you code before and you’ve never came back to me when I’ve asked if it worked (or God Forbid) say Thank You:
May I suggest:
http://www.kevinjohngallagher.com/downloads/bbpress/plugins/kevinjohngallagher_recount_reminder.zip
Marius your previous bad experience with mass delete may have been caused by failing to do a full recount in admin after deleting many posts.
Wouldnt reccomend either Akismet nor Mass Delete plugin.
Maybe it is interessting but we have just modified the moderator new post modification plugin (https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/moderator-new-post-notification/) a little for the very same reason so we can moderate the first posts of new members. Those are now set to spam automatically and then can be reviewed first. It works together with the Akismet plugin for the moderation naturally.
You can download the modificaiton here (we use 0.9.0.6 so not sure it works with 1.x):
http://www.zenphoto.org/trac/attachment/wiki/ZenphotoPlugins/moderator_notification-moderate_firstposts.zip
Besides, I actually wanted to post this on the plugin’s comments but it seems I can’t.
Sweet, I will give it a shot. Thank you!
You can mass delete the posts using this Mass Edit plugin:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/mass-edit/
This is also useful – it lets you put certain IPs into a blocklist:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/blocklist/
Good luck!!
my forum is attacked by few hundred haters from other forum under the same username.
http://justinbieberzone.com/forums/page/3
I downloaded user-approval plugin but it won;t work. it mess up the config and everybody can;t log in.
any help?
Hey All
Looking for a way for the admin to approve any newly registered users using the latest version of bbpress.
I know there’s a plugin out for this, but it doesn’t seem to work past version .9
Has anyone figured out a way to do this (or a workaround) that works for version 1+?
This is very vital to the forums I’ve set up so I’m really hoping there’s a fix out there!
thanks in advance for any insight
Surely this is a simple thing?
Not overly, its not inherantly how bbPress (or WordPress really) works, as Moderation (or lack of tools i order to fascilitate this properly) is really one of bbPress’s major downfalls.
That said, I typed in “approve” to the plugin search and found these plugins on the first page:
Approve User Registration
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/approve-user-registration/
BB Moderation Hold
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-moderation-hold/
Zaerl Visibility
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/zaerl-visibility/
I’ve not read their descriptions fully, but the sound like they do the job you’re after.
What plugin did you find that was out of date? Maybe it can be updated.
HIi folks,
New BBpress user here.
I have a sensitive forum (political) and Id like to be able to approve users when they register.
I have found a plug to hide forums from non-registereed users.
The only plug I found that comes close to what I want is out of date.
Surely this is a simple thing? Can anyone point me in the direction of a plug in that would allow me to approve new users? (I have searched)
Any help gratefully appreciated, sincerely.
Thanks!
Taoli
Do you want to be able to approve topics/posts before they even appear on your site?
If so, this plugin is great but it only works with earlier versions of bbPress:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-moderation-hold/
I don’t think there’s a “hold for approval” moderation plugin that works with 1.0? But if someone knows of one, please post a link! It’s come up a few times in the past few weeks…
Kevin, before I changed from SMF to bbpress I checked the extensions. I use the following plugins:
Activated:
allow images
image rezizer
bbvideo
Bavatars
BBcode Buttons Toolbar
BBcode Lite
bbPM
bbpress signatures
bbpress smilies
bbpress user directory
bozo users
members online
Not activated:
Askimet (do not like it)
Remove topic forum (unfortunately there is no updated version, it would be a cool thing for users who like SEO-friendly pretty urls)
open-ID (no facebook login and does cause problems with the current bbpress version; wait until its updated)
bbpress polls (causes some problems with my template)
bb topic views (did not find out how to change the language; does not work with poedit and in the files I did not fiend the word “views” so I cannot translate it in german)
ignore user (needs to be updated for the current bbpress version)
All this plugins are nice but with all this bbpress is ways apart from SMF. Thats why former members complaint about the change from SMF to bbpress. SMF allowed to write drafts before posting and other things not mentioned yet…
Regarding the spam problem: SMF and wordpress did solve that problem (wordpress has a lot of good spam protection plugins as well..no need for askimet). I have a pr 5 page and no problems with spam. Register option 3 usually is secure enough. Email-address needs to be proved and there is a captcha-code. If this is not enough you can use register option 4 (member approval) With member approval the admin has to activate new members. With this spam can be avoided. Further SMF had a sophisticated bozo-user ban protection. You could ban by member-name, ban by IP-Number, ban by email address etc.
Regarding the design of the new forum:
The new forum design is better than the design of the old forum. I am not a designer, therefore I don’t think like a designer. I am somebody who likes to have the overview. The new theme is better to keep the overview. On the top you have the latest posts. Beneath you have the different categories and subcategories. This structure is easy to understand. Further the new design allows me to place more ads. Also I work with a drop down menu. Did you use it? It helps too to keep the overview.
Hello,
wp/bb sync used to work very well for me but all of a sudden i’ve got this problem:
the comment from bbpress to wordpress appears blank, no words in it. There is the name of the author, comment isnt in approval but is published on the site, counted in bbpress… just EMPTY, lol.
Plugin works perfectly the other way round, from wp to bb.
I am using WP version 2.9.2. and BBpress Version 1.0.2.
Does anyone has any advice, please? I really dont know how to get it back to work, i have tried and failed so many times, already.
Thank you very much.