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if there is a conflict contact the respective plugin creators:
http://rtcamp.com/support/forum/buddypress-media/
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-album/forum/please use the correct forum to receive the fastest response
Craig, here is contact info:
http://www.twitter.com/yoast
http://www.facebook.com/jdevalkhttps://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-seo
This is for ALL BP users, please contact Joost but obviously be polite and gracious in submitting your request.
Craig, as Paul mentioned there really isnt one right now. But there is something we can do. The best bet is for every buddypress user to contact Joost (Yoast.com) the guy behind the best WP SEO plugin and ask him to integrate buddypress into his amazing plugin.
I’m sure if he sees enough interest expressed he’ll respond.
sorry, can’t help you but just wanted to say that I’d be interested in this feature as well
sounds like you need a good host! these popular and large hosts are usually not the best option, best place to find it is at http://www.webhostingtalk.com
there you will find excellent shared hosting – you dont need dedicated unless your site is getting a massive amount of traffic – but there are all sorts of hosting solutions there, they are the experts
just go there, look at the shared hosting offers and ask for recommendations with your specific needs, you’ll get immediate and great suggestions
@cyber49 have you tried contacting Joost? He’s usually very responsive to such requests
@frank13 W3 total cache is very powerful but it requires an expert to configure it properly – if you are new to caching, get someone who knows W3 inside out to set it up for you
there are many blogs who snapped the plugin in place without properly configuring and they not only received no improvement but screwed up their blogs – so do not take it lightly, it is a plugin like no other
I’ve already brought up this issue but I’m glad to hear another voice added to mine
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120720_MQ_TYJ/the waterfall analysis shows the bottleneck occurring right at the start:
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120720_MQ_TYJ/1/details/
might be an issue with ngix or something else, the fact that the site is not optimized at all… take a look at those scores to the top right… doesn’t help either
a CDN would be nice, so would W3 caching plugin but there are also very very simple actions that can be taken in the .htaccess to improve performance
quick question, what is the arrival date of 1.6 final?
thx
@modemlooper, changing his profile/username will only show activity going forward, not retroactively
@sp12 what modemlooper is trying to say is that there is a strange feature at buddypress.org which hides your activity stream (due to spam concerns) so a way around it is to change your profile and edit your name field to something else other than 12sp (I changed mine from Synaptic to Asynaptic)
when you make the change you’ll be able to then see your activities on this site going forward, but you will NOT see activity prior to making the change, so your best bet is to recall keywords and then to search google like this (remove quotes of course):
“site:buddypress.org KEYWORD”
and hope that it has been crawled in google.
This “feature” to fight spam has been a source of questions by MANY users here at buddypress.org so much so that it seems the best bet is to either change it or to at least INFORM people once they register that they must change their name/username to be able to see their activity!
No idea why mods ignore this – it would not only cut down on confused questions but also improve usability of the site since prior activity is never shown, even when the change is made.
re merger, fair enough
re performance, the bottleneck isn’t DNS but it does occur right at the start, the waterfall shows:
“Time to First Byte: 4388 ms”
And “Start Render 5.325s” that is way way off
If that didn’t occur you’d have a more reasonable, but not yet optimized, load time of 2.64 seconds
as way of comparison, take a look at a site that does everything it can to optimize load time:
internal pages are also very slow:
@modemlooper, I don’t know about anyone else but I appreciate the frack out of wordpress, buddypress and automatic!
we’re all friends here and have the same interest: how to make WP+ BP even awesomer!
@frank13 the list mentions one of the most powerful ways to speed up any wordpress install:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/it is a bit of a slog to *properly* select the right features for your particular install but W3 is pretty powerful – just be careful, the plugin is dangerously good – meaning that if you don’t know what you’re doing it can $#&! your site
my suggestion was for two reasons, I don’t understand why testbp.org exists because that functionality can be performed by buddypress.org
also, buddypress.org is for some strange reason very slow
look up your site using this service and see ifyou can find bottlenecks:
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120720_0E_TC8/ (3.3 second for testbp.org)
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120720_3N_TDF/ (7 second for buddypress.org)
Thanks @mercime I noticed that the activity stream shows up once you change your name/user name but not retroactively. That is the activity of the user before that change does not show up.
May I ask if this weird requirement (that the user name and name be different) is a standard buddypress thing or if buddypress.org customized it somehow?
Paul, if I may offer a suggestion:
Combine buddypress.org and testbp.org
and hopefully that will also resolve the slow loading times that plague buddypress.org (for some strange reason, testbp.org is much snappier)
nope, doesn’t work, it says “Sorry, there was no activity found….” just as @magicroudnabout ‘s screencap shows above
frank, it only displays 5 of 22 because of this (wrote earlier)
Second, only the posts and replies that you made after making the “Name (required)” change are shown, anything you may have written previous to the change will not be shown
@frank13 I followed the instructions of @mercime and changed my “Name (required)” to Asynaptic (from Synaptic)… ??! nothing changed
I still can’t find a way to see all my posts or replies – the link still just 301’s
to clarify, going here to attempt to view the topics you’ve started (once logged in):
https://buddypress.org/community/members/synaptic/forums/topics
301’s to this URL
https://buddypress.org/community/members/synaptic/forums/????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
EDIT: apparently you can see a list of yours and others posts/replies here
https://buddypress.org/community/members/frank13/
or
https://buddypress.org/community/members/USERNAME
But there are 2 caveats, the previous link I provided should show you this since that is what the menu selection says “Forum>Topics Started/Replies/Favorite Topics” but for some reason it doesn’t, go figure (dogfood)
Second, only the posts and replies that you made after making the “Name (required)” change are shown, anything you may have written previous to the change will not be shown
I asked this exact same question – this is obviously an important issue for people, who knows how many other times it has been brought up (and ignored) – can the developers please address it?!
one of the best ways to develop something is “eating your own dogfood” but the corollary to that idea is the continuous improvement of the “dogfood” because you are being forced to eat it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food
for some weird reason that just doesn’t apply to buddypress! we’re stuck eating dogfood… lol
can we please combine testbp.org and buddypress.org and implement these “dogfood” improvements please?
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120713_2S_3T0/1/details/
another VERY annoying factor is the horrible hosting for buddypress.org – the load time is horrendous! throw on a caching plugin, I dunno, heard of varnish? use a CDN or maybe just switch hosts? there are many affordable hosting solutions that would provide for much faster load times
thank you
Are you sure this isn’t already part of the code?
If I understand you correctly this could be easily achieved with the existing cubepoints plugin where one user gives +1 to another user
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120712_PD_195/1/details/
between 5-6 seconds of load time and that’s just the homepage, the internal pages take a bit longer
should be easy to solve this, remove bottlenecks, install caching, and or move to better host
ok, now I understand, this is a measure in place to prevent spam, thanks @modemlooper and @mercime appreciate the help
I’m not entirely clear why the 3 things are linked together:
1)stopping spammers’ posts from appearing in activity streams
2)username and name variables
3)activity stream not shown in a person’s profile page (https://buddypress.org/community/members/USER-NAME/activity/If the key issue is stopping spammers from polluting activity streams (1) why not do that? why involve (2) and (3)?
is it just how buddypress is coded that makes it a necessity that if we want to implement 1, then 2 and 3 must also happen?
Compare:
https://buddypress.org/community/members/mercime/
(list of activity…………………..)
https://buddypress.org/community/members/synaptic/
(Sorry, there was no activity found. Please try a different filter.)
why?
