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

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

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.

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

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]

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]

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.

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.

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

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! 😀

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]

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]

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.

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/

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?

In version 1.0.2, I’ve addressed the problem of the mystery-man displaying for existing users when the plugin is first activated. There’s now no need to wait until their next login to get their identicon. Identicons are available for display for everyone when needed.

Thanks for your help.

I have tested it on a few themes and it seems to have conflicts on couple of themes bacuse of my use of theme specific activity instead of supplying with the plugin.

I am looking on to improve it and I saw your…[Read more]

Considering you’ve tested unsuccessfully on an unmodified Twenty Twelve – Thirteen – Fourteen, it might be worth making the core dev team aware of the problem by opening a Trac ticket:

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org

Hopefully your new server is working well for you! Just thought I’d give an update on how mine is going.

I went for the managed option to try to save a little time but that was a mistake. I should have opted for the root server because 1and1 refuse to make any changes to the config of the managed servers. I should have guessed that…[Read more]

The same code as either a plugin or as part of core should weigh the exact same on a site. Plugins only slow down or bloat a site if they are written badly. In theory you could have 100 plugins running with not much noticeabe impact on performance. Then you could have one bad plugin that grinds your site to a halt.

@henrywright i agree with you on that definitely, but adding some functionality that some plugins offer as built into buddypress would also help because your adding less weight from these plugins too no?

@mcpeanut I am probably the person that asks most often for stuff to be included in the core. However I beg to differ with you on this as a…[Read more]

On a slightly different note, but still related, you might find this page of some use:

Changing Internal Configuration Settings