[@r-a-y Keymaster 9 years, 1 month ago]

BuddyPress doesn’t use shortcodes.

Instead, it relies on connecting specific WordPress pages to BuddyPress components.

Read this section for more info:
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-components/#settings-buddypress-pages

[@r-a-y Keymaster 9 years, 2 months ago]

If you’re just relying on the basics like username, password and email address, you should be able to look at various WordPress user import plugins:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/user+import/

And then to modify one of them to fit your current database schema. If you’re able to export your data to CSV, then you could probably use one of the available plugins.

However, for avatars, you would need to write a separate script to import them though.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 9 years, 2 months ago]

You mention forums specifically.

If that is the case, you should use bbPress conditional functions.

See this page for more details:

bbPress Conditional Tags

If you have more questions, post on the bbPress forums as BuddyPress is not bbPress:

– BuddyPress = community
– bbPress = forums

[@r-a-y Keymaster 9 years, 2 months ago]

add_theme_support( 'buddypress' ) is for custom BuddyPress themes not relying on theme compatiblity.

I would remove that line from your theme’s functions.php and then load a BuddyPress page to see if the default BP styles show up as expected.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 9 years, 2 months ago]

Your developer would need to write an import script to parse your old database tables to match the BuddyPress DB schema.

No way around it, unless you manually create each user and fill in each user’s data one-at-a-time. This would be painful if your existing site is quite large.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 9 years, 2 months ago]

You shouldn’t rely on PHP conditionals for CSS targeting.

Use your browser’s developer console and check the various body CSS classes and then target the ones you want to use in your CSS stylesheet.

Why not use something like?

body.forums .YOUR-SELECTOR {color:red !important;}

If you must use PHP conditionals, use the ones that BuddyPress provides:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.9.1/src/bp-core/bp-core-template.php#L2034

View the list of functions in that file for all the ones you can use.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 9 years, 2 months ago]

Do you see any debug error messages when you enable WP_DEBUG?
https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress

In wp-config.php, set WP_DEBUG to true, WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY to false to prevent error messages showing on your site, and WP_DEBUG_LOG to true so error messages are logged to wp-content/debug.log.

Next, when the activities disappear, check the log and see what it says.

Also, always strip down your install to see if there is a problem with plugins or your theme. For instance, your caching and DB plugins could affect this. Try disabling some plugins to see if the problem persists.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 9 years, 2 months ago]

A username, email address and password is required.

If you activate the Extended Profiles component, then the first field “Name” is also required. A “Surname” field will need to be created by yourself, but once you do, you can set it as required if you want.

If you want to do comparisons, Twitter does not ask for a last name either.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 9 years, 2 months ago]

What version of BuddyPress are you using?

Can you upload the avatar that you wanted to use somewhere so we can test?

[@r-a-y Keymaster 9 years, 2 months ago]

bbPress handles its integration into BuddyPress, not the other way around.

You should look into what it would take in bbPress to alter the slugs for BuddyPress groups. I don’t believe this is possible at the moment from what I remember though.

You might want to check out the bbPress forums as well:
https://bbpress.org/forums/

[@r-a-y Keymaster 9 years, 2 months ago]

You’ll want to see a very similar thread to yours:

Template modification not shown on website

[@r-a-y Keymaster 9 years, 2 months ago]

You can check the “Users > Pending Accounts” page in the WordPress admin dashboard. Then, you should be able to just delete them from there.

It might be worthwhile for BuddyPress to have a built-in script that removes pending accounts that are older than a month or so.

Also, just to get some clarity, would inactive users be causing BuddyPress to slow down all functions on my website, such as loading a member profile, or the activity page?

Not really.

If you indeed do have a popular website with many users that are concurrently logged in and performing operations, then this will slow down your site. You will need to utilize object caching plugins and the like (I believe WPEngine already has something built in for this). You might also need to consider upgrading your WPEngine plan.

We’re also thinking of doing some performance enhancements in the next version of BuddyPress that will decrease the amount of code that needs to run on non-BuddyPress pages.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 9 years, 2 months ago]

I’m guessing you have disabled Search Engine Visibility in WordPress.

If you have, view the following:
https://github.com/boonebgorges/buddypress-group-email-subscription/wiki#1-bbpress-doesnt-record-its-forum-posts-into-the-group-activity-stream--why

[@r-a-y Keymaster 9 years, 2 months ago]

The problem is with the function used to generate the active member count.

On your site, you have a ton of inactive users, which is causing the SQL query to be very large. I’m guessing you installed BuddyPress on a really big site recently and your users haven’t logged in yet? I’m guessing your site has a ton of pending users that you haven’t deleted yet?

BuddyPress can do better here, but in the meantime, one way to mitigate this SQL query is to generate a script that will backfill an activity timestamp for all your inactive users one way to mitigate this query is to delete all your pending users (the ones that haven’t completed registration) like Shane mentioned. This will stop WPEngine from killing the query.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 9 years, 2 months ago]

A user can also use the sticky admin bar to access the “Create a Group” link.

Hover over your name in the top-right hand corner, then mouseover “Groups” and you should see the create link.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 9 years, 2 months ago]

Your line numbers do not match up with v2.9’s, which is why I recommend re-installing. Not sure how re-installing will cause problems unless you have directly modified core files in the past.

Regarding bp-custom.php, a quick search on Google would have explained what to do with it. Regardless, here’s the link to find out more:

bp-custom.php

If the code snippet I provided didn’t work in your theme’s functions.php, it most likely will not work in bp-custom.php either.

The other potential issue is there might be a plugin conflict.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 9 years, 2 months ago]

What would you need specific documentation for?

I would just recommend doing a file search within the /bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/ folder for certain things that you need to modify.

That way, you’ll be able to know what file to edit for template mods.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 9 years, 2 months ago]

Cannot duplicate this.

You might have a javascript conflict.

Try disabling all plugins except BuddyPress and try again. If it works, then it’s a plugin conflict somewhere. If you’re running a custom theme that has purported BuddyPress support, also switch to a default WordPress theme.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 9 years, 2 months ago]

Try cover-image-header.php instead since a default install will have cover images enabled.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 9 years, 2 months ago]

What is the “latest buddypress version” for you?

If you were using v2.9.0, then the patch I linked to should apply cleanly. There should be no changes between your copy of /bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php and v2.9’s /bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php.

If your version is v2.9.0, then I would recommend re-installing BuddyPress from the wordpress.org plugins repository.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 9 years, 2 months ago]

What version of BuddyPress are you running?

If you are not on v2.9.0, upgrade or upgrade on a test site if you need to before upgrading on your production site.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 9 years, 2 months ago]

The video showcases a plugin called BP-AUS, which is a 3rd-party plugin not officially affiliated with BuddyPress.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 9 years, 2 months ago]

I cannot duplicate this report.

Can you test and see if this is due to a plugin conflict? Try disabling all plugins except BuddyPress to see if the problem still occurs.

Also try switching your theme.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 9 years, 2 months ago]

@eyedraw – Oops, sorry. I misunderstood your problem. Going to reopen your thread.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 9 years, 2 months ago]

You probably watched a video for a premium plugin.

BuddyPress doesn’t offer this functionality by default.