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Buddy Press Supporter and Pay to Blog plugins mutually exclusive?

Hi,

Is it possible to run both of these plugins?

I suspect they are mutually exclusive, but I have found nothing to indicate this other than they seem to overlap in function. Maybe a way to require PayToBlog at registration and charge for a requested themes or plugins. How many people know when they register what level of Supporter they want or need. Maybe supporter can require a charge at registration time and then later for upgrades to themes and for additonal plugins?

It would be nice if there was some indication of which plugins do not work together by design as well as in practice.

Kind Regards,

Larry

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 0:34:34
  • Andrew
    • Champion of Loops

    Hiya,

    The plugin weren’t designed to work together but there shouldn’t be any problems. You’ll probably want to remove the Supporter bits from the signup form though.

    Maybe a way to require PayToBlog at registration

    I’m afraid there aren’t any plans for that at the moment.

    Thanks,

    Andrew

  • tishimself
    • Syntax Hero

    Hi,

    “Maybe a way to require PayToBlog at registration.”

    As I understand it,PayToBlog allows the registered users to create a blog at registration time but decide later not to use/pay for it. Would I need to go back and delete such blogs after some kind of waiting period? A manual cleanup activity?

    I need to isntall and try it out so I can see ti in action.

    Kind Regards,

    Larry

  • tishimself
    • Syntax Hero

    Hi,

    Seems like a wonderful gift for the “spammers”. I already have turkeys creating blogs b4 my site is ready for use. I had hoped that paytoblog would require them to pay to create a blog.

    1. Is there any way to keep my site from being littered with unused blogs?

    2. Is there any help form the registration process to help minimize bad registations?

    So not only is the cart b4 he horse, but I get to walk behind with a shovel.

    Kind Regards,

    Larry

  • tishimself
    • Syntax Hero

    Hi,

    I installed it but have not dug into the details. Maybe I need to do some kind of options setup cause these spam blogs did not get caught and listing under that anti-splog list. Thos owm of my onw test blogs creations show up on the list.

    I enabled PayToBlog and reduced the number of optins to just a 1 year enrollment per instructionson another forum post(thank you!). I think blogs that have not been paid for come up as “this blog has been archived or suspended.” Is this a result of the paytoblog? My guess is that anti-spog will not see blogs that paytoblog has not processed payment for becuase it did not register those that were created by spammers after I enabled the paytoblog. Is this correct?

    Kind regards,

    Larry

  • Andrew
    • Champion of Loops

    Hiya,

    Is this a result of the paytoblog?

    Nope.

    My guess is that anti-spog will not see blogs that paytoblog has not processed payment for becuase it did not register those that were created by spammers after I enabled the paytoblog. Is this correct?

    Users have to activate their blogs before the blogs are actually created. So that may be what’s going on (users not activating their blogs).

    Thanks,

    Andrew

  • tishimself
    • Syntax Hero

    Hi,

    I implemented the .htaccess anti splogger suggested in another post to see it that helps. The sploggers are pretty frequent so I have a goood testbed.

    If they are actaully paying thru my *test* paypal account, are these actually real people? I suppose I will know when I switch to the real account with actual charges.

    Q: With paytoblog, is it possible to activate a blog that has not bee paid for? For example, when I invite someone to join, I might not want to charge that person. I’m not tried to invite someone yet.

    Kind Regards,

    Larry

  • tishimself
    • Syntax Hero

    Hi,

    Seems the update to .htaccess is not doing much to twart the spammers. They are coming in at a rate of some 20 a day.

    # BEGIN ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION

    RewriteEngine On

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .wp-signup.php*

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*my-woodcraft.com.* [OR]

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$

    RewriteRule (.*) http://www.fbi.gov/ [R=301,L]

    # END ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION

    Regards,

    Larry

  • Andrew
    • Champion of Loops

    If they are actaully paying thru my *test* paypal account, are these actually real people?

    If they’re going through that much trouble then they’re most likely manual sploggers. Once you switch to the live PayPal server that should put a stop to it.

    Q: With paytoblog, is it possible to activate a blog that has not bee paid for?

    Sure thing. You an manually extend (as in add days to the subscription) any blog via the Site Admin > Pay to Blog page.

    Thanks,

    Andrew