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@Daniel – what happend to your plug-in? I read subscriptions are cancelled?

Closing topic. BuddyPress does not “make the database server crash.” Please make a new post with full details of your server/website, such as the URL, and any relevant web server or MySQL errors/warnings that you get. We can’t try to help when you don’t give us any information.

@modemlooper, that’ll be a cool option +1

You don’t have this in your Settings > Reading page? http://www.michaelkuhlmann.com/2010/02/19/how-to-display-activity-stream-in-buddypress/

My BP site at http://gamefilter.net is busy and growing… about 400 members at this stage, I think.

@jtcreate Not sure on that end — I’m more of a front-end kinda guy, with fairly rudimentary server-admin skills. I’m running a couple of VPS’s with 300Mb memory for the MySQL server and 600Mb for the web server, and that’s running a fairly busy BP instance, a very busy forum, and a few other not-very busy sites as well, reasonably happily.

I did notice a very signification reduction in resource usage after deploying and tweaking W3 Total Cache, though, for what it’s worth.

Hi Morticia. You don’t need to touch php files to add spacing between topics, it’s just changing styling – like adding padding/margin in style.css.

Your link above redirects to home page and http://glitchaddict.com/forums show no topics at all.

@v_andreev

There’s also this plugin that’s supposed to work with BP: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-activate-users/
And the code snippet in this thread works very well (I’ve used it): https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/get-non-activated-users/

@v_andreev

Did you try closing the window or tab, and then simply clicking the email link again?

Mine is doing pretty well but only a few months old if that. It is aimed at magicians and people with a love for the art. http://maskedmagic.com

Mine is working and growing well: http://housingstorm.com

BuddyPress doesn’t try to use any file called crossdomain.xml anywhere. What’s in your web server’s error logs, and did you complete the Forums Setup screen under the “BuddyPress” menu in wp-admin?

I think you need to fix WordPress before you use BuddyPress. I am assuming your host has disabled ini_set; research into if you can re-enable it.

came across http://blogs.ubc.ca/
appears to be a great example of what bp can do (3000+ blogs etc)

@nahummadrid @justbishop @modemlooper

modemlooper – you’re totally right, the script should be called from the header or an external js. Placing it in post-form.php only calls it for the whats-new form, and placing it in entry.php calls it repeatedly for every comment reply, leading to multiple instances.

I adapted your reset script suggestion for use with nahummadrid’s technique of using a read-only text input field to display the count:

`jQuery(‘#aw-whats-new-submit,.ac_form_submit’).click(function() {
jQuery(‘.charlimitinfo’).val(‘240’);
});`

`.charlimitinfo` is my count field
`.ac_form_submit` is a class I’ve attached to the submit input for activity comments (in entry.php)
240 is my chosen text limit

The only issue I’ve encountered is that if you post something via the whats-new form and then post a comment reply without refreshing the page first, the reset for the character limit for the comment reply doesn’t fire. I guess this is related to the bug in Buddypress that prevents the whats-new form functioning correctly after an update’s been made and the page hasn’t been refreshed – perhaps due to the use of multiple identical ids and nonce field ids in the activity stream? I’m no expert, just a guess.

@Shazar

Joining a site running Buddypress can be as simple or as convoluted as you want to make it for potential members. There are quite a few plugins that can be implemented for captchas; authentification via other networks like Facebook, Google, etc; profile synchronization with other networks; custom login pages and much more. An example of the basic BP account creation process can be found on one of my sites here: http://buddylite.com/register/

The only thing I’ve added to the default registration process on BuddyLite is a simple math captcha called Buddypress Humanity: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-humanity/
You can see a working example of one front-end post solution called TDO-Mini-Forms on the same site here: http://buddylite.com/buddybuilder-style-submission/ and the end results here: http://buddylite.com/category/custom-buddybuilder-styles/
You’ll need to login as a test user to see the form though… user = buzzer / pass = hellobirdie

On another site I’m currently working on, you can see an example of another front-end post form called Quick Post Widget: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/quick-post-widget/
See it here: http://kwitterz.com/share-your-thoughts-with-all-kwitterz/
Again, you’ll need to login… user = pjohn / pass = gollysarge

Hope this helps to get you started!

Thanks for the answers. @Mikey3D, I used the code as you directed and it worked great.
You said that I should let the user decide where to go and not the other way around. However, it’s not me that has decided that, rather it is the majority of social sites that directed users to their profile. Although, I must say that what you said is true also; a user should specify where they want to go although I haven’t seen that in practice. Great idea though.

@laconic you said that’s just the way it works, but shouldn’t we question why it works that way. I hope no one gets me wrong–I really want BuddyPress to work, however someone on the internet commented that there is no successful BuddyPress site. Which may not be true, but it gets you thinking–how many BP sites are actually successful? I would think by now at this stage in the development that there would be quite a few. Does anyone know of any? I found this link to successful BP sites. To those who contribute to BP, thanks I really do appreciate BP.

Thanks again gentlemen (I’m ASSuming you’re all men, if not, I apologise!) I tried both methods, but ended up gpong with the one laid out by @aljuk

Make sure the .htcaccess file is at the root of your WordPress installation at that it has permissions of 644. Also, make sure Apache is enabled to do the URL rewrites that BuddyPress requires: http://www.lavluda.com/2007/07/15/how-to-enable-mod_rewrite-in-apache22-debian/.

https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/changing-internal-configuration-settings/

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