Captcha’s are a waste of time as so many of them have been hacked/cracked. Plus regular people hate them.
I’ve found that the following system worked well:
Akismet
My update to an old plugin (not yet redone for bbPress) which restricts the number of links, and characters that people can post (until they have x posts).
Plus user orientated report & hide spam – ie, if a post gets x reports it is hidden and marked for moderators to review.
So even if spam gets through, users can quickly help mop things up. but I don’t worry about people signing up at all.
The problem is an ongoing one that even Matt has blogged about in recent past. Part of the reason they’re able to pass the human test it because they might be humans registering real accounts and making real posts. WordPress.org, bbPress.org, and BuddyPress.org all suffer from a similar problem. I’m about sick of it though. 
Same problem on my site, but I looked a little.
These spammy tags are from spams automatically detected as spam in Akismet, written by a user marked as bozo. (That’s the good part of it.) Nothing is visible from this user except for the tags.
As a quick and dirty workaround I deleted the tags and the referred tag-id in the MySQL tables term_relationships and terms. But it is a bug, this kind of tags should not appear. Generally tags from bozos should not be visible (its a join on usermeta on ID = usermeta.user_id where meta_key = 'is_bozo' and meta_value = 1).
But don’t expect a quick fix, its bbpress here. Even more important things need a lot of time.
Same problem on my site, but I looked a little.
These spammy tags are from spams automatically detected as spam in Akismet, written by a user marked as bozo. (That’s the good part of it.) Nothing is visible from this user except for the tags.
As a quick and dirty workaround I deleted the tags and the referred tag-id in the MySQL tables term_relationships and terms. But it is a bug, this kind of tags should not appear. Generally tags from bozos should not be visible (its a join on usermeta on ID = usermeta.user_id where meta_key = 'is_bozo' and meta_value = 1).
But don’t expect a quick fix, its bbpress here. Even more important things need a lot of time.
OMG! thanks for that Willabee, I will do a test tonight!
Sounds like someone found a crack in the bbPress wall.
Try making a ticket on the trac. Altough bbPress stand alone isn’t supported that much anymore, but I guess this asks for a critical update.
Sounds like someone found a crack in the bbPress wall.
Try making a ticket on the trac. Altough bbPress stand alone isn’t supported that much anymore, but I guess this asks for a critical update.
BuddyPress uses a intergrated form of bbPress, therefore it is not part of bbPress, but part of BuddyPress. Check on their forums.
Unless you installed bbPress WordPress plugin or bbPress stand alone and intergrated that.
If you installed the plugin, don’t hope for too much support on translation yet, if you installed the bbPress stand alone, then it should work, mine worked fine back when I was using those two.
A custom theme can always be the problem too!
BuddyPress uses a intergrated form of bbPress, therefore it is not part of bbPress, but part of BuddyPress. Check on their forums.
Unless you installed bbPress WordPress plugin or bbPress stand alone and intergrated that.
If you installed the plugin, don’t hope for too much support on translation yet, if you installed the bbPress stand alone, then it should work, mine worked fine back when I was using those two.
A custom theme can always be the problem too!
@ dudd, wildkyo
You can throw the twentyten bbp plugin theme in your original theme folder (excluding files like functions.php, just add those to your existing one). Then make a page with a template (in wp-admin), one with the name Forum Index will show up and you have integrated the bbp theme with your normal theme. ^^
This does kinda clutter up your theme folder, but it works for me. Don’t have time atm to wait for more flexible options.
Oops – sorry here info extracted from the WordPress directory bb-config.php:
/**
* bbPress Localized Language, defaults to English.
*
* Change this to localize bbPress. A corresponding MO file for the chosen
* language must be installed to a directory called “my-languages” in the root
* directory of bbPress. For example, install de.mo to “my-languages” and set
* BB_LANG to ‘de’ to enable German language support.
*/
define( ‘BB_LANG’, ‘nl_NL’ );
define( ‘WP_LANG’, ‘nl_NL’ );
define( ‘BB_LANG_DIR’, ‘http://localhost/”wordpressdirectory”/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/my-languages’ );
********************************************************************
The referenced directory contains nl_NL.mo with 644 file permisisons
Oops – sorry here info extracted from the WordPress directory bb-config.php:
/**
* bbPress Localized Language, defaults to English.
*
* Change this to localize bbPress. A corresponding MO file for the chosen
* language must be installed to a directory called “my-languages” in the root
* directory of bbPress. For example, install de.mo to “my-languages” and set
* BB_LANG to ‘de’ to enable German language support.
*/
define( ‘BB_LANG’, ‘nl_NL’ );
define( ‘WP_LANG’, ‘nl_NL’ );
define( ‘BB_LANG_DIR’, ‘http://localhost/”wordpressdirectory”/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/my-languages’ );
********************************************************************
The referenced directory contains nl_NL.mo with 644 file permisisons
Thanks for your reply.
I made my newsfeed in to a sidebar and called it from my bbpress and now i works great. Im not sure if thats the right way to do it but now it works.
Thanks!
Thanks for your reply.
I made my newsfeed in to a sidebar and called it from my bbpress and now i works great. Im not sure if thats the right way to do it but now it works.
Thanks!
@zaeri Thanks for getting back to me…
I believe that since BuddyPress was presented in Dutch and bbPress was NOT that the bbPress forum was the place to ask the question?
************************************
The bb-config.php was/is configured hence my consternation:
<?php
/***
* *** IMPORTANT ****
* This file will stop people from accessing your bbPress installation directly.
* It is very important from a security standpoint that this file is not moved.
* Your actual bb-config.php file will be installed in the root of your WordPress
* installation once you have set up the forums component in BuddyPress.
*/
header(“HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden”); die;
define (‘WPLANG’, ‘nl_NL’);
?>
define (‘WPLANG’, ‘nl_NL’);
?>
************************************
And yet the forum is still in English – I would appreciate any other insights please…
@zaeri Thanks for getting back to me…
I believe that since BuddyPress was presented in Dutch and bbPress was NOT that the bbPress forum was the place to ask the question?
************************************
The bb-config.php was/is configured hence my consternation:
<?php
/***
* *** IMPORTANT ****
* This file will stop people from accessing your bbPress installation directly.
* It is very important from a security standpoint that this file is not moved.
* Your actual bb-config.php file will be installed in the root of your WordPress
* installation once you have set up the forums component in BuddyPress.
*/
header(“HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden”); die;
define (‘WPLANG’, ‘nl_NL’);
?>
define (‘WPLANG’, ‘nl_NL’);
?>
************************************
And yet the forum is still in English – I would appreciate any other insights please…
The site is running Buddypress
This is the bbPress forum (not the BuddyPress one). Anyway you must change the language in the main configuration file.
The site is running Buddypress
This is the bbPress forum (not the BuddyPress one). Anyway you must change the language in the main configuration file.
Is this forum still active?
Is this forum still active?
My forum (http://www.nbascoreboard.net/forums) runs ‘Akismet’ and ‘Human Test for bbPress’ plugins. This prevents most spam. However, I’m having an issue where a spammer is making posts (‘xnpn’ plugin tells me so) but these posts don’t show up under ‘Topics’ or ‘Posts’ in my bbPress Dashboard.
The only evidence is the tag cloud on the right includes the tags. But then when I click the tag, I still don’t see the post. Have a look at the site linked above.
The spammer does show up as a User, but the profile doesn’t show any topics or replies. How can I combat this problem?
Thanks.
The news is in trac. There’s one ticket left in 1.1 and then it gets released. No sense in putting out a 1.0.4 to fix one bug that 1.1 will fix. Right now we’re in the middle of a WordPress, BuddyPress, bbPress trifecta release, so there’s three times as much testing to do to make sure nothing breaks.
If you can’t wait for a public release, download the trunk and do some testing.
The news is in trac. There’s one ticket left in 1.1 and then it gets released. No sense in putting out a 1.0.4 to fix one bug that 1.1 will fix. Right now we’re in the middle of a WordPress, BuddyPress, bbPress trifecta release, so there’s three times as much testing to do to make sure nothing breaks.
If you can’t wait for a public release, download the trunk and do some testing.
thank you for the link man!
thank you for the link man!
