[@ewebber Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

@alexpee that line is on 1554 of your style.css file, that is forcing your text to align in the centre

[@ewebber Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

@alexpee you have set the text to align to centre in this line:
#horizontal-outer-widgets-1, #horizontal-outer-widgets-2 {text-align: center;}

[@ewebber Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

How are you creating the privacy policy field?

[@ewebber Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

have you switched registration on and can you go to yoursite.com/register?

[@ewebber Participant 14 years, 10 months ago]

BP Xtra Signup looks like it does what I need and a bit more!

[@ewebber Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

@Caderial are you using caching on the site at all?

[@ewebber Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

Do you know of a guide that includes locking down the database so that my users can’t write to it during the dns changes?

[@ewebber Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

@djpaul ah cool, it had me a bit worried there, but I see you have no activity either – I’ll keep checking back.
Thanks for the speedy response

[@ewebber Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

even this doesn’t show up https://buddypress.org/community/members/ewebber/activity/

[@ewebber Participant 14 years, 12 months ago]

I know this is an old thread, but I’ve been using this plugin http://buddydev.com/buddypress/allow-your-users-to-change-their-username-on-your-buddypress-based-site/ – of course the old activity items won’t update

[@ewebber Participant 14 years, 12 months ago]

I use this plugin http://buddydev.com/buddypress/allow-your-users-to-change-their-username-on-your-buddypress-based-site/ and point people to it after then connect with WP-FB AutoConnect

[@ewebber Participant 14 years, 12 months ago]

Try using this plugin https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-usernames-only/ which displays the username rather than the display name, this helps with using “@” replies and mentions.
I use this and adapted my profile pages to look like this: http://www.yeahhackney.com/members/ewebber/
You will still need a real name as well as a username

[@ewebber Participant 15 years, 1 month ago]

@LPH2005 cool thanks, I will give it a go – although for the moment I have moved my form to the bottom of the discussions page and added an anchor tag http://www.yeahhackney.com/forums/#newform

[@ewebber Participant 15 years, 1 month ago]

I’d be pretty interested in seeing how you get on with this

[@ewebber Participant 15 years, 1 month ago]

Search on BP is a long way off during the current release. I have an integrated search page, but it won’t search content inside of forum posts, just titles.

From what I’ve seen SOLR is very powerful and integrated with WP makes WP search faceted and extremely useful, I’d love to get it set up on my BP site, but it’s a little over my head and would probably require some extension to this plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/solr-for-wordpress/

Recently I’ve added google custom search to my BP site, but as it’s indexing from the front end there are a lot of “pages” to crawl and it doesn’t seem to index them that well, I’ve also recently found the the member search isn’t finding people that I know are there.

Although I did hear rumblings that BP 3 will start to address search – we shall see, it’s a really tough one to crack

[@ewebber Participant 15 years, 2 months ago]

Ok, I did this again and it’s worked!! hooray!
This time round I activated a wordpress (non-buddypress) theme before deactivating, which seemed to do the trick.
I’m now on WP 3.1.2 BP and 2.8, finally

[@ewebber Participant 15 years, 2 months ago]

Hi @boonebgorges it’s taken me a while to get round to this, after the last time I was a bit nervous to try it out.
I’ve reverted to an old .htaccess file, but it’s still not working, everything is fine until I switch off Buddypress and I get a 500 Internal server error. The only way back was to reactivate the plugin through the database.
Has anyone got any other ideas?
Thanks

[@ewebber Participant 15 years, 2 months ago]

@boonebgorges – I really appreciate your help on this. I think I have, mainly to do with expiration on files, do you think that will do it? I should be able to grab an .htaccess from the original wp zip file and overwrite the existing one.

[@ewebber Participant 15 years, 2 months ago]

Hi @boonebgorges I have a whole host of plugins running, 41 in total a lot of those are extending BP, I can list them if you think it will help.
I can switch all of those off and the site will run, it’s just when I switch off BP do I get the 500 error.

Cloudflare is a caching/CDN system

[@ewebber Participant 15 years, 2 months ago]

Do I need to switch off the buddypress theme before deactivating buddypress?

[@ewebber Participant 15 years, 2 months ago]

Hi @hnla it’s a 500 error – I will see if there is anything in the server logs

I do have cloudflare running, I’m not sure if that might be causing an issue

[@ewebber Participant 15 years, 3 months ago]

I think I might give cloudflare a go

[@ewebber Participant 15 years, 3 months ago]

picking back up on this thread: dropbox as a cdn has sped my site up, minify would have been useful as manually combining all those files would make upgrading plugins a nightmare. from my understanding caching on buddypress is difficult as the pages change too often, so caching gives odd results, blogs don’t have the same problem

[@ewebber Participant 15 years, 3 months ago]

Does anyone have an alternative to minify?

[@ewebber Participant 15 years, 3 months ago]

@gregfielding is that a CDN or an alternative to minify?