Block, Suspend, Report for BuddyPress

Block, Suspend, Report for BuddyPress is a must-have plugin for EVERY BuddyPress installation.

For a full list of features, documentation, screenshots and videos, head to the plugin page.

Each tool is explained further below.

Block

The Block tool allows your members to block another member. They simply click on a ‘block’ button, either on another member’s profile, or on the member list. Once blocked, neither member can send a message to the other. Each member’s profile pages become inaccessible, and display a simple message. Neither can view each other’s activity updates, or replies, and neither can send a friend request to one another.

• A simple solution to deal with disputes between members.
• Prevents escalation of abusive or unacceptable conduct between your members.
• Lets your members deal with disputes by themselves, saving you time.

Suspend

The Suspend tool allows you, as an administrator, to suspend a member. Available only to administrators is a ‘suspend’ button on your member’s profiles, the member directory, and the admin users screen. Once clicked by you, all of that member’s sessions are terminated, and they will be unable to log back in, instead seeing a custom message explaining the situation.

• Quickly deals with members who have breached your acceptable standards policies.
• Allows you to disable an account – until now, you would have to delete the account, or mark them as a spammer.
• Keeps their profile, uploads, messages and other assets ready, should you decide they can return to the site.
• See all your suspended members from the back end.

Report

Flag inappropriate, abusive, or otherwise unacceptable behaviour to the site administrator. Each member’s profile now incorporates a ‘report’ button. This creates a new report, which administrators can see in the backend. You can specify a report type, similar to social media networks such as Facebook, to designate that report as ‘spam’ or ‘abusive’ and so on. You can set Block, Suspend, Report to email you when a new report is received.

• Gives your members peace of mind that the site is open to moderation.
• Allows you to deal with any report in your own time, without having to respond to internal messages or other notifications.
• Set a threshold to automatically suspend a user when a number of reports are received.
• Mark new reports as read/unread
• Mark reports as unsubstantiated
• See number of unread reports from the menu or the dashboard

Block, Suspend, Report for BuddyPress Premium Editions

The Premium editions adds the following features:

• Pre-approval system for new activities and group posts
• A ‘Latest Reports’ box in the dashboard
• A ‘Most Blocked’ box, showing your site’s worst offenders
• Integration with Paid Memberships Pro – enable blocking and reporting for certain levels only.
• Assign a role to a suspended user
• Automatically receive new features as they are built
• Ability to add custom CSS to match your theme’s styling perfectly
• Premium email support

Plus, a super-charged report system:

• You can allow a huge range of content to be reported and moderated, not just members themselves:

WordPress Comments
Activity Updates
Activity Comments
Groups
Private Messages
Forum Topics
Forum Replies
rtMedia Uploads

• Create your own report types, or edit the default ones.
• Add your own reports from the backend, ideal for when your members flag content directly to you via a private message or similar.
• Whitelist any user roles that cannot be reported
• Blacklist members so they can’t send reports (ideal for malicious complaints)
• Quickly moderate (hide) any activity from the dashboard
• Add your own moderators who have front-end access to the reporting system
• Let your moderators deal with reports, suspensions, activity moderation

Fully Tested With

• Beehive Theme
• BP Better Messages

Not compatible with

• Vikinger Theme