Hi,
I have the following problem:
At my BuddyPress-Installation (everything up to date) the activity comments aren’t shown. At first it seems to work, but after log in with an other user, the comments writing with this new user are not shown. They are in the backend, so the way to database is okay …
I hope it was understandable … Does anybody know something about that problem?
Thanks a lot!
Hi guys.
Is there a way to block the spambot registration?
A plugin that could be integred in buddypress?
Or anything else?
Regards.
I’m working with the current version of wp and buddypress. This is the website:
http://www.thespiritualpath.de
My Problem is the Who’s online widget which shows users still as online after they logged out. When I looked into the php core files I found that the widget should check for a user online every five minutes, but even 10 or 20 minutes after the user logged out, the widget still shows him as online. I tried setting the time interval to 1 minute, but that had absolutely no effect.
Emptying browser cache didn’t help as well, so I guess this isn’t a browser problem, I also checked with IE instead of firefox, same problem here.
Could someone help me please?
Okay, In which case I’d like to override the some of the core ajax functions within this script. Is it as simple as adding filters or would I have to create a new file & folder buddypress/buddypress-functions.php and write a new set of ajax actions?
@sooskriszta totally agree with you on your 3 (relatively) objective tests – this is why I suggested 2 key features that need to be improved in buddypress *immediately*:
1) spam fighting
2) fragment caching
First, 99.9% of buddypress communities have to deal with spam and it is mission critical (who wants a website overrun with spam? users leave, google rank drops, etc.). How many forum threads are opened again and again about people asking for help dealing with spam? how many different methods need to be cobbled together? it just makes sense to take the best practices and build them into the core.
Second, performance is an issue that is more and more important not only because speed is a do or die issue (there is ample evidence of a direct link between a website’s speed and its success in converting and in pageview counts)
with buddypress, regular caching plugins simply do not work, we need fragment caching, and we need it YESTERDAY!
there is already a tentative step in the right direction with rarst’s fragment cache plugin but this should be developed into a full solution and built into core.
everyone will benefit from improvements in caching and it will make a MASSIVE impact on the overall quality and success of buddypress as a platform
/drops mic
Dear Mr. Buddyboss…
Once again, thank you so much for the informative and specific reply. Two gigs of ram it shall be!
I wish I could attend your lecture…I really do. I’ve not been to a WordPress/Buddypress anything yet, and I am dying to go. Absolutely dying. I want to get far more involved with the WordPress/Buddypress company/community. We are both students (married, older etc) and are living on student loans…so for now, travel for us is limited to the bus đ
I have another question unrelated to capacity-should I start another thread, or may I ask it here?
cheers!
Anonymous User 7600456Inactive
Hi @boonebgorges,
Thanks for the reply. I went ahead and set up a clean install of WordPress with BuddyPress and bbPress and all is working as it should. So, this means that it isn’t anything actually wrong with BuddyPress but a conflict somewhere with something I have customised along the way.
When I work out what it is I will post back here.
In the meantime, thank you for your hard work and good luck with the release!
Best,
Joseph
And tables are not suitable for mobile devices
@sooskriszta Noted. But it can be done. If you look again at the BP survey results via mobile device, the table is responsive with some modifications made on Coyler’s code. Morever, as hnla mentioned in earlier post which I agree with, you do not change semantic markup to suit devices.
when 62.31% people list Responsive and 41.33% list Responsive, mobile-first as their Preferred BP Theme Features, to which specific aspect do you think they are referring?
Refers to whether the theme’s responsive styles (via CSS media queries or JS solution) were prepared for mobile viewing or for desktop viewing first.
1GB RAM is a minimum, 2GB RAM is ideal. As you scale up you may need more. On a good server setup you can actually see live (via SSH) how much of your RAM is being used up and how much is free. If you’re bottlenecking, you can contact the hosting company to add more RAM or bump you up to the next server. That is not the same as migrating to a new host… if it’s within the same company they should handle it for you seamlessly in the background.
Another option is to use Amazon (AWS) instead of a private server and it just scales up automatically as needed – they mostly charge by data rather than by server. They will be more expensive for most sites and will be slightly harder to set up, but they are also incredibly scalable.
A CDN isn’t really a “cache” in the way you imagine W3 working. It’s only caching resources (stylesheets, images, javascript files, etc) but not caching “content”. Your resources usually don’t go stale because they are not updated often. And if you do it properly, the cache can be broken any time you update a resource (by adding a version number to the enqueue in your theme). The version number gets appended to the URL of the resource, so if it changes the CDN thinks it’s a different file and immediately serves up a new file.
Content does go stale. By content I mean the data that is outputting for everyone to see right on the website. Like a profile, activity page, member directory, etc. This is the stuff that plugins like W3 are primarily used to cache (among other things as well).
You can integrate a CDN very easily using WP Super Cache. You can just turn off the content caching stuff and use it only for pushing your resources into a CDN. It’s a set it and forget it kind of setup for the most part.
If you happen to be in the Miami area on May 9, I’ll be speaking about scaling BuddyPress at the BuddyCamp (1st day of WordCamp Miami). http://2014.miami.wordcamp.org/
Should be a fun event.
I just created a file called bp-custom.php with the following code:
<?php
// Buddypress hacks and mods will go here
define ( ‘BP_ROOT_BLOG’, 2);
?>
I am sure that 2 is the correct number for my Tech Connect subsite. However, as far as I can see, Buddypress is still installing in the main blog. I still see the Buddypress option under settings on the main blog, and I don’t see any real options on the subsite. What am I doing wrong?
I thought that i may need to re-install Buddypress, so I deactivated, deleted it, and then reinstalled it. No luck. Anyone have any ideas?
Many thanks!
SKParticipant
It’s that time in the development cycle again.
BuddyPress 2.0 Beta 1 is out.
As the core team quashes bugs, and hopes for a breather to revel in the glory, here’s the last call for 2.1 features scope. What are your top 5 feature requests for 2.0?
(if there are Trac tickets, feel free to post links, but please ensure they are for features not bugs)
Iâll get the discussion going with my top 5:
- Upload profile image at activation https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4132
- Use taxonomies instead of/in addition to BP Xprofile tables https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4796
- Hierarchical groups https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3961
- Find members or friends close to me (my address or current location)
- Allow admin to select fields to display in user âexcerpsâ on Groupsâ user list page https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4126
Dear
I want to know if it is possible to add the Facebook Like Button (or some other Like Button) to the pictures loaded in the Album section of the Buddypress Album plugin.
Thanks
SKParticipant
@im4th Honestly, I don’t see why BP Media should be involved since:
1. They are not even close to being the top media plugin for BP. rtMedia is (source http://mercime.github.io/buddyPress-2014-survey-results/index.html)
2. By their own admission, they have taken so many manhours to build simple functionality that it seems their approach is almost prohibitive for BP core team.
I think we should look to work more closely with rtMedia, who have built in a very short period of time a much more feature-rich and popular option than BP Media.
Also, I strongly feel we should leverage the media management capability that is already built into WordPress.
SKParticipant
@henrywright i agree with you on that definitely, but adding some functionality that some plugins offer as built into buddypress would also help because your adding less weight from these plugins too no?
@mcpeanut I am probably the person that asks most often for stuff to be included in the core. However I beg to differ with you on this as a general principle.
I think you are right – if everything I need is in the core then the install will probably be faster than having a barebones core and 500 different plugins that I need to achieve the functionality I need. With you on that.
Problem is: everyone’s “needs” may be different. That’s why WordPress and BuddyPress are extensible systems. If there are 500 features in the core and I need only 50 and the core is slower because of that, then I would be one of the people complaining about “bloat”.
So, it’s essentially akin to drawing a line in the sand and hoping you get to the goldilocks area: a core that’s not so bare as to not be useful and not so bloated as to be inflexible or noticeably slow.
I think there are 3 (relatively) objective tests that the developers can employ when considering whether to include a feature in the core:
- Will the feature be useful for (or used by) a sizable majority (60%+) of users
e.g. media management capability
- Will the feature be used by only a significant minority (5%+) but is mission-critical for those who use it
Mission-critical is defined as a feature without which the whole premise of the site of community (that uses the feature) will fall apart. e.g. activity widgets, facebook likebox, Genesis connect etc are not mission-critical but multisite, multilingual and hierarchical groups are
- Do we need the feature for strategic reasons
i.e. for marketing, competitive or usability reasons, e.g. new user activation workflow revamp
Passing any one test should put the feature on the roadmap. If multiple tests are passed, it should be a priority.
SKParticipant
@mercime P.S. In the survey results you’ve posted http://mercime.github.io/buddyPress-2014-survey-results/index.html (awesome job by the way), when 62.31% people list Responsive and 41.33% list Responsive, mobile-first as their Preferred BP Theme Features, to which specific aspect do you think they are referring?
@pswanson22
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/customizing/changing-internal-configuration-settings/ has the following:
Set which blog ID BuddyPress will run on:
define ( ‘BP_ROOT_BLOG’, $blog_id );
Where $blog_id is the actual blog id number…
I am managing a few different school-related websites at http://sites.unishanoi.org. One of them is a site called Tech Connect that is at http://tech.unishanoi.org. I would like to have Buddypress installed and focused around that particular sub-site. When I installed Buddypress, all of the login and profile pages were based on the main site, not the sub-site. It seemed like the way to fix this was through Buddypress Multi-network (even though I don’t anticipate more than one network). I installed the multi-network plugin, enabled the buddypress multi-blog setting in my wp-config.php file, but now I get error messages.
The Multi-network plugin site said that when you install the plugin you have to re-activate Buddypress on the plugin page. Right now, there is no option to do that. In addition, if I go to the Settings>Buddypress>Pages page, I get this error: “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.” This comes when I am logged in as a super-admin for my multi-site.
Do I need to be using the multi-network plugin? Is there another way to focus all the buddypress activity on the subsite? If not, how do I deal with this permissions error?
Thanks in advance for your help!
hlo
i want to start a buddypress site
can i host buddypress in shared server? how many user shared server can handle?
thank you buddyboss! How much ram do you feel would be adequate.
I guess the other thing is, a CDN is going to be acting like a cache, and so, since a buddypress site can’t use cache any way (or it serves stale content) things like W3 etc should not be part of the install?
cheers
You could be using an older theme, which needs the new notification templates.
Contact the theme developer and tell them to look at the following change:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/7688/
Take note of the five additional files that need to be created and the change to /members/single/home.php
Anonymous User 7600456Inactive
Hi,
First, thank you to all the brilliant developers. BuddyPress is the biggest release since you got rid of theme dependencies.
I have been running BP 2.0 bleeding edge on a test site and just updated to 2.0 Beta 1 and nothing new is appearing on the activity stream when I publish a blog post or comment on the forums etc.
The site I am running it on has a custom theme and lots of plugins/custom code so it could be a conflict rather than a bug.
Usually I would test this thoroughly but other people are also working on my development site and I don’t want to mess them up be changing themes and disabling plugins.
I saw someone commented on this thread and although I had difficulty understanding what they were saying they do say “activity moudle broke” which could mean someone else is having the same problem.
I hope this is helpful.
I have installed buddypress and now want that all users/members except admin should be redirected to groups page after login. I have written the code in a file mu-plugins/bp-custom.php
<?php
add_filter("login_redirect", "bp_my_groups_redirect",10,3);
global $user;
function bp_my_groups_redirect($redirect_to_calculated,$redirect_url_specified,$user) {
if(empty($redirect_to_calculated))
{
$redirect_to_calculated=admin_url();
}
setcookie("bp-groups-scope", "personal");
/*if the user is not site admin,redirect to his/her groups*/
$user = wp_get_current_user();
if (in_array( "administrator", $user->roles ))
//return $redirect_to_calculated;
return admin_url();
else
return "/groups";
} ?>
But, now all the members are getting redirected to groups page along with administrators. I want to redirect the administrators to wp dashboard. Please let me know the correct code. Please help.
You could create sidebar-buddypress.php and change the BuddyPress page you are using to load this particular template:
<?php get_sidebar('buddypress'); ?>
That would be one way of doing this.
Hi.
I am running wordpress 3.8.1 and buddypress 1.9.2, recently I have noticed the notifications show up with a number but when I mouse over it’s blank, when I view notifications there is nothing there as well.
I do not have any plugins that would interfere with this, I have the ntifcations feature turned on in the buddypress setup. Can anyone point me in a direction on where to look to fix this?
