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I’m new so I don’t know what trac is, and whether this is an issue or if I’m doing it wrong.

if this is a common problem someone should add a ticket in trac.

Same issue (details below)

In this file {themename}\members\single\member-header.php, is the following code:

		<?php
		/***
		 * If you'd like to show specific profile fields here use:
		 * bp_member_profile_data( 'field=About Me' ); -- Pass the name of the field
		 */
		 do_action( 'bp_profile_header_meta' );

		 ?>

I have some custom profile fields, so I replaced the ‘do_action’ with these:

		<h3>About Me<h3>
		<?php bp_member_profile_data( 'field=About' ); ?>

		<h3>Birthday</h3>
		<?php bp_member_profile_data( 'field=Birthday' ); ?>

When I click on the Edit Profile link, I can change visibility settings, and it appears to save them. BUT the saved settings don’t do anything. In another browser where I’m not logged in at all, I can always see all of the fields listed, no matter which settings were chosen.

Advice?

@jf_trumpet what exactly is running slow? If the site is accessible you can run it through the Pingdom speed check at http://tools.pingdom.com to see what resource is loading slowly.

WordPress is very zippy as it arrives out of the box – try deactivating BuddyPress to see if there is any improvement in load speed. That way you’ll know if it is in fact BP that’s the problem.

The best way to tackle the problem is to narrow it down.

@bphelp I looked through the BP improving performance page and did not see any mention of what you said. Why aren’t VPS/Dedicated servers more highly mentioned on this page?

Do sites which use BP almost always have a dedicated server or VPS? I’m new to the BP world so all this information is good to learn.

@buddhatunes not familiar with how Buddyboss is wired. But it should follow template hierarchy supported of BP https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/template-hierarchy/

@hollyspress or check out documentation at https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-components/

I can see why you’d look at bp-core-avatars functions.

But have you tried just replacing the avatar calls in templates with your own function?

You’ll have to hunt down the calls in several templates, but probably easier than messing with core-avatar filters given that you don’t want anything from bp avatar code anyway.

Try it in something like the members loop first:

Members Loop

Of course, in your theme, create an over-ride of the members-loop template first.

@number_6

BuddyPress doesn’t rely on 3rd-party support as far as I know. oEmbed support is provided by WordPress.

Take YouTube for example. If you paste a YouTube video’s link into your blog post, your WordPress blog (the consumer) will make a request to YouTube (the provider). YouTube then responds with an oEmbed response. The HTML therefore gets pulled from the provider’s server.

That is how I understand the process to work. Hope it helps.

Unfortunately I couldn’t migrate bbpress to buddypress and so deleted bbpress (and my buddypress forums) to go for a fresh install.

No migration needed, both plugins work together https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

My issue is that when I navigate to the root forum directory it returns my WP archives page!

If you followed instructions from link above, what slug do you have for your forum archive? Did you create a page specifically with that slug for your forum index and added shortcodes to show all forums and/or topics

@hughshields first thing, back up the theme folder in your server to your hard drive.
– Deactivate the Suffusion Template Pack plugin
– Delete the following folders, if any, from your Suffusion theme folder in server: /activity, /blogs, /forums, /groups, /members, and /registration
https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/bp-17-upgrading-template-packed-themes/

@jf_trumpet Where are you hosted? BP can be sluggish on shared hosting plans.

Improving Performance