[Simon Wheatley]

Hi Madloki,

The “don’t cache pages for logged in users” is a fairly sensible one to have ticked, obviously. It’s just to give maximum flexibility I think, as the plugin is used across many different kinds of sites.

If you look in the WP Super Cache settings, in the “Accepted Filenames & Rejected URIs” section, you can probably specify part of a URL (perhaps “forum”) which should mean a page isn’t cached. You can check whether a page has been cached by looking at the bottom of the HTML source code, where it should say in an HTML comment.

Good luck!

S

[Simon Wheatley]

The plugin is proof of concept code, you need to decide under what circumstances you want to allow group creation. At the moment, as you say, everyone is restricted… perhaps you want to base it on user capabilities? Have a look at the WordPress function current_user_can (support forum tag) and use this in rgc_validate_group_creation something like this (untested):

// Stop the creation of a group unless the current user can manage options

function rgc_validate_creation( $allowed, $group_details ) {

// User is OK to continue if they can manage options

if ( current_user_can( 'manage_options' ) )

return true;

// Otherwise they can't

bp_core_add_message( 'Sorry, you are not allowed to create groups.', 'error' );

return false;

}

[Simon Wheatley]

OK, but bear in mind you will be editing the core files, which is Not A Good Thing ™.

Apply this diff to plugins/buddypress/bp-groups.php: https://trac.buddypress.org/attachment/ticket/1150/hook-to-stop-group-creation.diff

Then use this plugin code as the basis for your own restrictions based on whatever you want: https://trac.buddypress.org/attachment/ticket/1150/restrict-group-creation.php

[Simon Wheatley]

Doh! Good point. I did say untested.

You could try adding the line to your functions.php in the theme?

[Simon Wheatley]

If the front end is blank white but the admin section is visible, it might be because the theme directory has been moved from where WP is expecting to see it… try going to the appearance section and resetting the theme.

[Simon Wheatley]

I’ve proposed a patch to add a hook which would allow the restriction of group creation through a plugin, and provided a plugin which demonstrates it’s use in this trac ticket: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1150

How does it look?

(Also, not sure whether trac keywords should be comma separated?)

[Simon Wheatley]

WPSC has a “don’t cache for logged in users” setting, which you might want to use given the nature of a BP site.

I’ve seen various people also recommending WP Object Caching, which can reduce the load on the DB server and might be worth looking into *if* your performance bottleneck is the DB… if it isn’t, then it could make matters worse. Use the page generation time and (to a lesser extent) the number of queries information that the default templates show in an HTML comment at the bottom of most templates to test your options both with and without whatever caching you put in.

Useful links: Overview of WP Object Cache from 2006 for an intro, various flavours of Object Cache (APC, eAccelerator, filesystem) (if you dig around you’ll also find one which works with memcached).

[Simon Wheatley]

You could (probably, I haven’t tested this) use the following in wp-config.php to remove the admin bar from the WP Admin area only:

if ( is_admin() ) define( 'BP_DISABLE_ADMIN_BAR', true );

[Simon Wheatley]

You can add the following to your wp-config.php file:

define( 'BP_DISABLE_ADMIN_BAR', true );

[Simon Wheatley]

Argh! I thought I’d exhaustively checked all the functions in BuddyPress before embarking on mine. Oh well.

Thanks Andy!