BuddyPress.org

@micasuh great stuff, glad you found the problem in the end!

@micasuh _e( $text ) will search for the translation of $text and print it to screen. If a translation doesn’t exist, it’ll print $text. You might also come across __( $text ). This does the same but it returns instead of printing.

So yeah, these functions are definitely related to translating.

@micasuh humm. Perhaps try grabbing a fresh copy of the BP plugin code? https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress/

Something may have become corrupted in the actual plugin.

@micasuh the .mo file is most likely being loaded from your theme’s functions.php file. Alternatively, it may be loaded from a plugin. Or, maybe even bp-custom.php (if you have one of those).

Look for something such as the following and try removing it to see if it resolves the issue:

if ( file_exists( WP_LANG_DIR . '/buddypress-en_US.mo' ) ) {…[Read more]

@micasuh BP shouldn’t add 20 seconds to the loading time so there is obviously an issue to be resolved somewhere.

Considering WP is zippy for you then that rules our your host being slow.

I’d try these steps:

1. Deactivate all plugins aside from BP (as you have already done)
2. Activate either bp-default or the Twenty Thirteen theme if you’re…[Read more]

@micasuh try running it through Pingdom to see which resource is loading slow…

@micasuh
I just know from experience that I had two BP sites running on a shared server and both ranked fairly high on google at one point. The host locked down both of them and I could no longer access them because they said it consumed more than 20% of the shared servers CPU resources. They told me I would need to upgrade to a VPS minimum but I…[Read more]

@micasuh
I will not argue that. A server that works well under a standard WP installation may slow drastically when BP comes into play. It definitely needs more resources than a standard WP installation.