bbPress-related questions should be posted on the bbPress support forums. Try opening a new topic over there so those guys can help with the problem you’re having.
It probably isn’t a good idea to remove some of these JavaScript files because you’d lose functionality and maybe even break stuff. The alternative to removing the files would be to move them to your website’s footer so they execute after your page content.
So it looks like your requirements are covered. My advice would be to set up a test install and try out all of the features to see if they meet your requirements.
I’ve no idea what you might have read but you can accomplish this via hooks. Specifically, the bp_profile_header_meta could be what you need. Try adding this to your theme’s functions.php file:
function my_output_user_role_function() {
if ( user_can( bp_get_member_user_id(), 'manage_sites' ) )
echo 'Role: network administrator';
}
add_action( 'bp_profile_header_meta', 'my_output_user_role_function' );
Note: You can change the text Role: network administrator to whatever you like.
if ( user_can( bp_get_member_user_id(), 'manage_sites' ) )
echo 'network administrator';
Note: Untested. There’s a slightly different method of getting the member’s ID depending on the exact context you need. I suspect bp_get_member_user_id() will work.
Post comments definitely scale. Personally, I’ve not had experience with a site that receives a massive amount of activity comments but as @djpaul points out, these should scale just fine too.
As @djpaul mentioned earlier, the terminology is important because ‘comments’ can refer to 2 things:
post comments
activity comments.
Post comments are handled by WordPress and are stored in the wp_comments database table (see here). Activity comments are handled by BuddyPress and are stored in a custom table created by BP called bp_activity (see here).
I’ve found the most important quality you should look for in a hosting company is support. A host that offers good support and is accommodating to your needs is worth a million bucks (my own personal opinion and from experience).
You can create a child theme and then add your custom CSS to your child theme’s style.css file. Check out this article on Child Themes to get you started.
You can use bp_core_remove_nav_item( $parent_id ) to remove items from the navigation array. $parent_id is the slug of the parent navigation item. So, for example:
I’m using the bp_nav_menu_args filter hook to modify the args sent to bp_nav_menu(). The code assumes you’re using bp_nav_menu() to display your navigation menu. By changing the value of $args['echo'] to false, a string containing the nav menu markup is returned (i.e. not echo’d to screen).
The 2nd line is just a conditional to govern which pages the filter function applies to.
I didn’t get the chance to test it myself. Can you provide more info on how it isn’t working?
