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@mcpeanut I didn’t come across this issue. Kaine Labs is working hard to smash bugs. They plan on releasing an update this month. Thank you for investigating my issue. 🙂

Glad to see you again on here @mcpeanut. Do share your BuddyPress website and story behind it when it’s ready!

@mcpeanut I’m unable to test right now but can you give this a try on Twenty Fifteen or Twenty Sixteen and if the problem persists, would you mind opening a Trac ticket for this? Copying and pasting some of what you’ve wrote already should be fine.

The core devs might not see this forum topic.

Ref: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/

Agreed @mcpeanut, the speed improvements alone are worth the upgrade. PHP 7 also has some useful features that us developers would love to use. Problem is, most cheap hosts will still be on something like 5.4 so we can’t use any of the new features in our plugins.

To get an idea what version of PHP WordPress users are on, take a look at these…[Read more]

Thanks for the links @mcpeanut, I’ll check out HHVM!

@mcpeanut

I am currently testing my buddypress install on one of my servers with nginx

Are you using Nginx with php-fpm? I’ve been tempted to do that for BuddyPress. It’d mean moving all of my .htaccess directives to Nginx server blocks but I think the effort would be worth it for the performance improvements.

Hey @mcpeanut

Check out the Nginx WordPress article; it may help whilst you’re waiting for a response.

Hey @mcpeanut!

The pandemonium is rarely related to WordPress core or BuddyPress core (the core devs usually issue a fix before we even know there’s a problem). So it’s a great idea to keep up to date as you’ve already mentioned.

The tricky part arrives when we look at plugins. Whilst WordPress does everything it can to make plugin developers…[Read more]

Hello,

I am Andrew from the CometChat team.

@mrgiblets, am sorry that you have faced load issues. We have some very large sites like Date.com using CometChat without any issues. So there will be some tweaking required to help resolve your issue. Mostly, we will have to re-write your integration and remove the WordPress bootstrap and the load…[Read more]

Hey @mcpeanut,

There’s no right and wrong way but this is what I do:

Put all of your global CSS properties into style.css. for example, styles that related to your header, footer and main templates and then conditionally enqueue stylesheets that are used less regularly so that they’re only loaded when absolutely necessary.

Hey @mcpeanut

I don’t think there’s any reason why these shouldn’t have ajax functionality. It may well be planned, but I’m not sure? Take a look through the open Trac tickets to see if anything is in the pipeline.

Hey @mcpeanut

Thanks! If you have any feedback once you’ve given it a spin, then I’d be grateful for it 😀

+1 @mcpeanut
Posted there.

@mcpeanut good point. I think < 10 is a manageable number when it comes to updating. As you say, when you go above that number, you run the risk of bringing on a headache when it’s time to upgrade WP. Also, until WP bumps the required version of PHP to 5.3+ and namespacing becomes available, function naming collisions is another problem because…[Read more]

@mcpeanut

Not really that big of a list 26, ive had a site running 75 plugins efficiently

That’s the highest number I’ve heard of 🙂 But, if things run smoothly then why not! 😀

@mcpeanut

glad you got it working! 🙂

Oh one last thing henry it turns out i didnt need to use the echo $count; at the end because it was causing it to echo 4 times on the page

That’s strange. I’m not sure why that would be happening because the echo statement should execute once only. Perhaps you’re running the code inside a loop which causes…[Read more]

Hey again @mcpeanut,

I’ve had a little bit more time this evening to look at this for you. I found that the notifications component provides a public static method get_total_count() which can be used to get the unseen mention count. You can use it like this:

$query_vars = array(
'user_id' => get_current_user_id(),
'component_action' =>…[Read more]

Hey @danbp

More about this:

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/function-examples/bp_notifications_add_notification/

@mcpeanut isn’t trying to add a new notification, instead the aim is to get the ‘unseen’ mention count.

Hi @mcpeanut,

Bug confirmed at my end using Twenty Twelve, WP 4.1.1 and BP 2.2.1. No plugins installed.

Can you open a ticket on Trac, reporting what you’ve found?

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/

Hey @mcpeanut

bp_friend_get_total_requests_count(), bp_notifications_get_unread_notification_count() and messages_get_unread_count() are actually functions. I do believe each returns a count. Regarding comments, are you looking for a function that gets the comment count?