First off, has anybody noticed BuddyPress sites being super slow as of late. Also, I’ve activated a theme called “Custom Community”. It has the option of adding widgets to the left sidebar. However, when I viewed the site, the left sidebar wasn’t there.

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I’ve not noticed any delay in any of my BuddyPress sites. Perhaps it’s just a coincidence with the particular ones you’ve been visiting?

As for Custom Community – you’ll need to do a few things. Make sure you’ve added widgets to the sidebar in the WordPress Dashboard and also make sure the sidebar is being called properly in the theme template files – such as sidebar.php, homepage.php (or frontpage.php or something similar). Also make sure the the CSS files in the theme are positioning the sidebar to the left of the content. Do you have link you can share?