Adding Username Availability Checker To BuddyPress

Picking a username is a very hard task for everyone. So this plugin allows you to check for the availability of a user name on BuddyPress registration page. It's very useful plugin and it also gives a pro look to your BuddyPress registration page.

It makes easy for your readers to pick a suitable username, without refreshing the page. This plugin is developed by Brajesh Singh of BuddyDev.com.

How To Install BPDev Username Availability Checker:

• Click here to download this plugin.

• Go to WordPress Dashboard > Plugins > Add New > Upload

• Upload .zip file that you downloaded from the first step.

• Upload/Install and activate the plugin “Username Availability Checker”

Now it's time to check this plugin by logging out of your BuddyPress account. That's it for this time. Don't forget to join BuddyDev Premium Club for more BuddyPress plugins.

How To Delete Unconfirmed WordPress Users

In past, I shared several articles to manage your WordPress users, such as changing usernames, and restricting usernames. It's time for another article related to WordPress users. It's really important to manage all users, even more if you're using BuddyPress.
Some registered users of your site may not really confirm their id by clicking on activation links, which really sucks, as they're just wasting your database's little space. Activation emails may be caught by spam filters, deleted unwillingly, or simply not understood.

Boone Gorges and CUNY Academic Commons created a very useful plugin called, Unconfirmed, which creates a Dashboard panel under the Users menu (Network Admin > Users on Multisite) that shows a list of unactivated user registrations.

For each registration, you can resend the original activation email, manually activating the user, or delete them. It's a really great and must use plugin for all. If you got some extra money, you can also donate some to keep this plugin up in development at this link.

How To Install And Use Unconfirmed:

• Click here and download this plugin. Visit your WordPress' plugin page and install this plugin.

• You can also install this plugin from your WP's plugin directory.

• After installing, activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' admin menu in WordPress.

• Now visit Dashboard > Users to manage unconfirmed users.

Hope this will keep your community up and clean. Don't forget to leave your responses, and I'll try to help and reach you all.

Adding reCAPTCHA To BuddyPress Registration

We all hate spam and spammer way too much. They always annoy us everywhere on internet, our blogs, comments, Facebook, Twitter, forums, and everywhere. It's a great idea to prevent some of these spammers by using a CAPTCHA. It's impossible for them to pass a CAPTCHA, since they're just a spam bot without any brain.

Google's reCAPTCHA is a great way to knock these spammers out. Over 200,000 sites use reCAPTCHA, including household names like Facebook, Ticketmaster, Twitter and Craigslist. I have added a reCAPTCHA on my BuddyPress' registration at this link. It also looks good and professional. It's easy to add reCAPTCHA to your BuddyPress' registration page, you just need to read this tutorial carefully. Here we go:

Installing BuddyPress reCAPTCHA:

First we must install BuddyPress reCAPTCHA on our WordPress. You can download this by clicking here.

• Click here and download this plugin. Visit your WordPress' plugin page and install this plugin.

• You can also install this plugin from your WP's plugin directory.

• After installing, just click on active.

Finish with this part. Now, first we'll create our reCAPTCHA keys then we'll add our key to this plugin. This doesn't have a user panel, so we have to do it manually. Let's start our second step:

Getting Our reCAPTCHA Keys:

Now we need two reCAPTCHA keys from their website - first is public key, and second is a private key. Here is how to get both of these:

• Visit this link and login with your Google Account.

• Following form will appear, fill this form with your website url and click on Create Key:

• Now after clicking on Create Key,  you'll get both keys - public key, and the private key. Now copy these codes into a notepad document, and check next step:

Adding reCAPTCHA Keys To BuddyPress:

It's final step, and it's not that hard.You must edit the 'bp-recaptcha.php' file to make your settings.

• Visit your WordPress Dashboard > Plugins > Edit Plugins

• Choose BuddyPress reCAPTCHA plugin

• Now choose bp-recaptcha.php file

• In bp-recaptcha.php add your your public key and private key in following spaces:

• Click on Update/Save and That's IT!

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