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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?

Hi gamelord, just trying to grasp what is going on here so forgive me if going over stuff you’ve done already.

You can reset pages under BuddyPress under Settings > BuddyPress. Is that available to you?

Useful information.
I’m using the BP-default theme. I’ll have a play around and then most likely use the plugin.
Many thanks @modemlooper

Kinda Piggybacking off the iPhone Uploads having a “Upload from Url” might work well as an alternative that way it can be worked around to still allow phones to upload images.

Just a thought.

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