thealchemist · Activity Streams

thealchemist started the forum topic ScholarPress Showcase in the group BuddyPress ScholarPress Courseware 1 year, 2 months ago

I’m intrigued by this application and may have some use for it in the future for a client or two. However, without screenshots or a link to a site actively using it, I don’t want to have to build my own sample […]

thealchemist started the forum topic I HATE MY HOSTING COMPANY! Site Crash and Burn … Need Valium and Help. in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 1 year, 11 months ago

Ok. As short a story as possible. Have WP/BP with all the bells and whistles. Over 1,000 members with 15,000+ pageviews, 2,500 new visitors every month. Hosting company shut it down because it was hogging CPU. Fine. I started a new hosting account for this client. Performed a full cpanel backup. Requested the hosting company [...]

thealchemist posted on the forum topic ScholarPress Showcase in the group BuddyPress ScholarPress Courseware: 2 years, 3 months ago

@Stas Sushkov Nice to see the courseware …

@jyakkudesu Good job!

thealchemist posted on the forum topic ScholarPress Showcase in the group BuddyPress ScholarPress Courseware: 2 years, 3 months ago

@upscguide … nice to be able to see the course in action. I’m a bit confused upon arrival, though; so from a usability standpoint you may want to give the home page a bit more clarity. … and the popunder at click is nasty making the site flicker with every link.

thealchemist posted on the forum topic Using Citizen Kane BP theme – How to Change Subsection Header Image in the group Miscellaneous: 2 years, 3 months ago

Thanks!

thealchemist started the forum topic Using Citizen Kane BP theme – How to Change Subsection Header Image in the group Miscellaneous: 2 years, 3 months ago

I am using autoblogging software on this site http://www.xbox-arena.com and, since I am not managing them at the time they post, a grey box shows up. I thought that was an image but I can not find it in the source files to replace it with the site’s logo. Any ideas on how to change [...]

thealchemist posted on the forum topic How to enlarge the Header image and add music? in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 2 years, 3 months ago

What do you mean by “add music?” do you mean to have music automatically begin playing when someone visits the site because, if so, DON’T.

thealchemist posted on the forum topic Application Pool Limit? in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 2 years, 3 months ago

Unless someone else has a WP-MultiSite with BP and an equivalent number of plugins, I have to assume that it is a server situation. It is, in fact a shared server, so that would account for the constant crashing. The actual error message is “Service Temporarily Unavailable The server is temporarily unable to service your [...]

thealchemist posted on the forum topic Application Pool Limit? in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 2 years, 3 months ago

I am using “Citizen Kane” I REALLY like the theme. Using it on http://www.xbox-arena.com, too.

thealchemist posted on the forum topic Application Pool Limit? in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 2 years, 3 months ago

Well, I’ve started trimming down some of the plugins … hopefully this will stop the 503′s.

thealchemist started the forum topic Application Pool Limit? in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 2 years, 3 months ago

I have a new site that’s grown rather quickly. NSFW http://www.lockedndenied.com with 423 members in 37 days or so. It is WP 3.0.4 and BP 1.2.7 with 30 Plugins. Achievements, Akisment, All in one SEO, BP Registration Options, BuddyPress, BuddyPress Chat Component, BuddyPress Community Stats, BuddyPress Group Forum Extras, BuddyPress Forum…[Read more]

thealchemist posted on the forum topic Chat Rooms, Chat Scripts – Any Recommendations? in the group Miscellaneous: 2 years, 3 months ago

The Results are in!
BOWOB does not function. Breaks the theme. Awaiting response from developer.
BP-Chat does not function. Been in beta 2 for ages. Does not recognize when members are logged in and the time for users to display in chat is so long most peeps gave up.
Looks like I will get cometchat.

thealchemist posted on the forum topic Chat Rooms, Chat Scripts – Any Recommendations? in the group Miscellaneous: 2 years, 3 months ago

@pcwriter … Thanks!

thealchemist posted an update in the group Buddypress-Ajax-Chat: 2 years, 3 months ago

Well, no way to post this on the developer’s site so will post here.
Chat crashes frequently. Often display a 503 error. Can’t seem to stay on when there are a lot of logins/logouts or multiple members in chat.
Is this error due to the plugin or to CPU/usage or server speed?

thealchemist joined the group Buddypress-Ajax-Chat 2 years, 3 months ago

thealchemist started the forum topic Chat Rooms, Chat Scripts – Any Recommendations? in the group Miscellaneous: 2 years, 3 months ago

Though not necessarily a BP thing I am looking for a good chat script. I have tried a few and decided to BuddyPress Chat Component but it is shutting down rather frequently and giving 503 errors. Is this due to the script or maybe server / CPU issues? Either way, do any of you use [...]

thealchemist posted on the forum topic I Wanna Poke Somebody! in the group Creating & Extending: 2 years, 3 months ago

Doesn’t do a thing. Create a menu item “Example Admin” with two fields “Option One” and “Option Two” and a “Save Settings” button … that’s it. An instruction link goes to a dead page.

thealchemist posted on the forum topic Widget Logic and Conditional Tags in Citizen Kane Theme? in the group Creating & Extending: 2 years, 3 months ago

@r-a-y Thanks for the suggestion. But did not work; and probably because the regular BP Activity Stream is not the home page for this theme.

thealchemist posted on the forum topic fyi: WP-reCAPTCHA works fine with BuddyPress in the group Third Party Components & Plugins: 2 years, 3 months ago

I have a completely different problem … CAPTCHA on comments appears fine. It is not appearing on the registration page: http://www.xbox-arena.com/register

thealchemist posted on the forum topic Removing thousands of spam users in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 2 years, 3 months ago

@hnla I know that there will be a segment of the population who will be prevented from joining because I am blocking IP addresses. But, I want/need these prevented in the first place and I do not understand why this is not addressed in the core and has to be something I must “hunt through the [...]

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