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@shanebp is right. If you want to buy a theme, buy a good wordpress theme. You don’t need a buddypress theme since they should all work work with buddypress out of the box.

The point is that the creator of a premium theme stands behind their work and will answer support questions. These questions may be specific to the theme and how it works so…[Read more]

I need an interface that organizes all the forum related tasks. I’m finding the setup with BuddyPress & bbpress to be a little intimidating.

It sounds like you just need a forum, which would be bbPress. The reason bbPress and BuddyPress are separate plugins is that this allows people to pick and choose according to their needs. What you need t…[Read more]

One more thing, you’ll notice that the labsecrets video link is from early 2012 (about 2 years ago) and at that time BuddyPress did have the ability to create its own forums.

Hi Barry, it sounds like you’re not clear on what bbPress and BuddyPress are exactly. So let me try to clarify it for you.

bbPress is a plugin for wordpress which provides you with forum functionality. And because it comes from the same folks who created wordpress, it works great with wordpress and other WP plugins.

BuddyPress is a plugin for…[Read more]

first things first, have you toggled that option?

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(last option box)

@bphelp thanks for your gentle suggestion. I take it in the best way possible 🙂

Now let me respond by saying that what you’re saying is valid. It assumes however that everyone has not only the inclination but the time and opportunity to learn to code. Here’s the thing though, we can’t all be a jack-of-all-trades as they say.

I can’t learn to…[Read more]

Here’s another crazy idea: run a crowd-sourcing Buddypress development project on kickstarter or indiegogo.

@boonebgorges thanks for that very illuminating and honest message 🙂

I totally agree with you and do understand that BP and bbPress are not comparable to WP in their development resources. That we only have a small handful of volunteer coders who advance the project and a similar group of non-coders who help out as and when they can.

It is…[Read more]

@bp-help wait, you’re telling me you’ve resolved the CPT issue that has been worked on for years on trac?

thanks @ubernaut +1

@modemlooper yes, I understand that but you’re missing the whole point… why has there been no prograss in 2 years? And yes, I do realize that it could be done as a plugin but again, that is missing the point! As it is, imho this mentality of functionality being in plugins vs. core has gone way too far.

I would like to offer two ideas for consideration:

1) Integrating basic anti-spam capabilities into core
2) Improving performance via fragment caching

1) I realize that there are already good plugins that deal with spam, both comment and multisite blogspam. But being spam, it is a cat and mouse game and I feel that buddypress should have some…[Read more]

@modemlooper Thanks, I did know about hiring a coder to build a plugin. But you’ll note that’s not what I asked.

The article lays it on a bit too thick but it does have a point. For example, the ticket on custom post types has languished without any attention after a great initial discussion. And it has been punted several times already.

This is…[Read more]

check this out: https://www.scalyr.com/cloud/

That is astonishingly expensive. You can find excellent non-shared hosting solutions for less than half that price. I suggest you head over to webhostingtalk forums and see the offers and also requesting quotes.

Your best option is to start with a host that you can grow with. Paying for rackspace when you don’t have the usage to justify…[Read more]

found it! add this to functions.php

add_filter(‘wp_mail_from’, ‘new_mail_from’);
add_filter(‘wp_mail_from_name’, ‘new_mail_from_name’);

function new_mail_from($old) {
return ‘ENTER NEW EMAIL HERE’;
}
function new_mail_from_name($old) {
return ‘ENTER NAME HERE’;
}

I found a new plugin! fragment cache plugin from Rarst:
https://bitbucket.org/Rarst/fragment-cache

anyone more knowledgeable care to take a look at the code and take it for a spin?

upon further research I found these:

http://tollmanz.com/partial-page-templating-in-wordpress/
in comments, TJ Thomas writes on May 6, 2013 at 8:51 pm:

I’m playing with BuddyPress and watching my load times disappear. (I’ve been using Redis in front of APC and have been getting 0.002 sec load times), but with the new dynamic of having a “so…

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