{"id":32191,"date":"2010-05-17T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=32191"},"modified":"2013-07-09T20:51:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T00:51:05","slug":"kill-buddypress-private-messaging-spam-with-new-must-have-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/kill-buddypress-private-messaging-spam-with-new-must-have-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"Kill BuddyPress Private Messaging Spam With New Must-Have Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Post<\/a>Chances are that you’re not building a BuddyPress site as a free platform for people to sell Viagra or make “long time relationships”, right? Don’t let spammers use your site for their purposes.<\/p>\n

BuddyPress Private Messaging spam is one of the most annoying and unprofessional inconveniences that your users can experience on your site. A sudden onslaught of spam can endanger the overall success of your site. Not only does it waste your users\u2019 time but it also opens up your Buddypress community to a host of other questions in the minds of your patrons: \u201cDoes this site have viruses? Who is getting my private information? Do I really want to be a part of this community?\u201d<\/p>\n

Spam can make a user\u2019s experience feel inconvenient and unmanaged, especially if you’re trying to promote your community as a directory or a niche-specific site for discussion. You to be able to keep your registration open for anyone who would like to join, so the last thing you need is your user numbers diminishing because of a pesky spam problem. So how do you stop the occasional spammer from slipping through and communicating to your real users? I\u2019m glad you asked.<\/p>\n

BuddyPress Private Messages for Friends Only<\/h2>\n

A new plugin is here just in time, as some of you have already been receiving private messaging spam, both on the buddypress.org forums and on your own installations. Check out the BuddyPress Private Message For Friends Only<\/a>, written by r-a-y<\/a>. Previously, you could accomplish this through a hack<\/a> posted by Rich Fuller. Now all you have to do is download this plugin and drop it into your site to add an extra measure of protection against spammers on your BuddyPress installation. Simply install and activate, and your site will now change to not allow private messaging for users unless they are already friends.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a nice error message for those who attempt to send messages to users with whom they are not yet friends. And there is no error message for site administrators, who are always allowed to send messages to users. Some have complained that the error message is only in English some translations will be included in the plugin\u2019s next release. In the future, the plugin will allow PMs for reciprocal follower relationships when the BP Following plugin is released.<\/p>\n

Take a moment to address private messaging spam and stop spammers in their tracks today!<\/p>\n

Note:\u00a0<\/strong>BuddyPress Private Messages for Friends Only hasn\u2019t\u00a0been updated for more than 3 years, but since this is a lightweight plugin with only a few core functions, it doesn\u2019t need constant updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chances are that you’re not building a BuddyPress site as a free platform for people to sell Viagra or make “long time relationships”, right? Don’t let spammers use your site for their purposes. BuddyPress Private Messaging spam is one of the most annoying and unprofessional inconveniences that your users can experience on your site. A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4099,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,235,4],"tags":[20],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-32191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-community","category-misc","category-plugins","tag-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182041,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32191\/revisions\/182041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32191"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=32191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}