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@modemlooper, i dont know youve got one hell of a monster plugin. (BP extended settings) that does more than expected bruv. i just test it, welldone. only pple like you we want on bp.org. nice one bruv.

@gamelord

Just for the record and as it’s important to understand how things work, you didn’t really need to go through all the DB editing which is best avoided. BP needs these pages for url path purposes only, they do not need to be automagically created all that you need do is create these pages with any name and then select them from the BP page settings and these pages are empty! pages they do not and should not have any content or other options set simply a title.

@tommycopeland BuddyPress Like has not been updated since BP 1.2. Deactivate that plugin, log out, then log in again. Then check if you can create group forum topics.

@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

@Quint Did you get an answer from Brajesh about this?
I have a similar problem ( not exeactly the same) One thing: how do you disable group gallery, I do not have that option in bp-gallery stting

Drupal and ‘Commons’ is not intended or aimed at non developers so the comparison is somewhat null and void, it’s a developers platform.

This thread isn’t really suitable for this forum and it has been mentioned to newpress before.

Use this code in either your functions.php or bp_custom.php:

`add_filter( ‘bp_blogs_activity_new_post_content’, ‘my_activity_content’, 2, 10 );
function my_activity_content($activity_content, $post, $post_permalink){
$postid=$post->ID;
$activity_content = get_the_post_thumbnail( $postid );
$activity_content .= bp_create_excerpt( $post->post_content, 25 );
return $activity_content;
}`

This creates the content block of your activity stream. In the example it adds the thumbnail for the featured image and it creates an excerpt.

check out this plugin hasn’t been updated in over a year but it worked as of 1.5 (may require you to use the old admin bar under 1.6) we haven’t yet upgraded.

BuddyPress Ninja

Speaking as a dabbler (not a PHP coder) who’s been poking around with Drupal Commons and BuddyPress a while:

Drupal Commons Pros —
One very nicely designed feature set
Very close to being ready out-of-the-box
Well-suited for professional or corporate use
Blog well-integrated with other features

Drupal Commons Cons (compared with BP) —
Somewhat configurable, but within a relatively narrow range
Small number of themes
Themes difficult to customize after a point
Not ideal for non-business users; neither warm nor fuzzy
Blog has very few features
Getting plugins for additional features to work is often more challenging
Drupal community, while very friendly, doesn’t address the non-technical user as readily as the WP/BP community; they’re not quite, but almost, exclusive to developers. In fairness, they’re very helpful to beginning developers.

Hope this helps.

iOS 6 is only a few months away. It will allow image uploads. However, the cropper in BP does not work. This will get fixed. Be patient, there are a lot of people contributing to bringing awesome features but it takes time.

Went into the plugin code and found the lines relevant to auto joining (lines 29-30 of bp-forums-screens.php and I don’t see anything regarding BP_DISABLE_AUTO_GROUP_JOIN so I’m guessing it was removed some time in the last 11 months. I commented out those two lines and my test users no longer auto join when posting new topics or replying. I realize I may have to redo this if BuddyPress gets updated in the future…

Try using. A plugin named “Buddypress Pending Activations” it lets you check for accounts that have not yet activated their account, resend activation keys, manually activate accounts, and even delete inactivated accounts in bulk.

Frank, if you don’t know if you’re using an object cache, then you’re probably not You should see decent performance improvements from adding one, assuming your server has sufficient spare RAM, etc. There are lots of articles in Google about different ways of enabling object caches in WordPress, so take a look.

The simplest approach is to use https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/apc/ or W3 Total Cache https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/

Hi, in my site i have more than 11000 members

i use zlib compression extension (it must be enabled in your php server config) in header.php

ini_set(‘zlib.output_compression’, ‘On’);
ini_set(‘zlib.output_compression_level’, ‘1’);

try it and see the difference.

else try this ways :
http://wpmu.org/11-ways-to-make-your-wordpress-site-faster-and-leaner/

I’ve done some more testing and it looks like the super admin for the blog can post to groups without becoming a member but no one else can. As soon as I use a test account to post to a forum that account gets auto added to the group.

It seems like a major assumption on BuddyPress’ part that people will always want to auto join groups….why didn’t they even think to make this an option?

@tommyhoang what did you do to get this working? I’ve got bp-custom.php in place but it doesn’t seem to be doing anything. I just created the file using my ftp client. Is there a particular way I need to add the file in order for BuddyPress to recognize it?