What kind of hosting is everybody using here? I’m just about to launch and expect around 30 concurrent users. I’ve gone for a semi dedicated option but am interested in what others use and where they see slowdown.
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@djpaul. Yes I’m using MU. So I have to manually add users to my one MU blog? That sounds extremely time consuming an inefficient.
Why aren’t they automatically added?
@nathanielrenton I don’t know why this is happening.
anyone is intense debate plugin compatible with buddypress ?
@sayhitoarvind This is not a BuddyPress issue. It’s more like the WordPress Anyfont plugin is messing up your multisite installation. Similar to a multisite/anyfont issue I saw in WP.org forums https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-anyfont-issue-after-enabling-multi-site-in-wordpress-304?replies=2
Do resolve the Anyfont plugin issue with the plugin developer and also any multisite installation issues at https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite before installing BuddyPress. You need to have a stable and sound WP installation before installing BuddyPress, otherwise it’s going to be a rocky road.
Log in to WP.org forums with same username and password used here.
I only recently started using Buddypress. I’m not familiar with how things were in 3.0.
Is there a user setting that I need to change to have them appear under the members list?
I want to keep my site’s theme consistent. I’m making a site for a Star Wars: The Old Republic guild. I’ve got 156 avatars. Ideally, I’d like users to be able to choose from these avatars in addition to uploading one of their own. But let’s start with something even easier. If they don’t have a custom avatar, instead of default to Mystery Man, I’d like to default to one randomly chosen from the 156. Could I just do something like this:
`$tmp = glob(‘avatars/*.gif’);
if (is_array($tmp))
{
$flist = array_merge($flist,$tmp);
}
$default_avatar = $flist[array_rand($flist)];
add_filter( ‘bp_core_mysteryman_src’, $default_avatar );`
My fear in trying this out, is that every time it displayed any default avatar if would pick one at random. What I’d like is to do the randomization once in assigning an avatar to a user if they don’t have one.
I tried everything I could think of, I found the “reply(#)” area in the “blogactivity-loop” and copied it to the index page, but it always shows “0”, I don’t know enough PHP to know if you have to call a function first or what makes it enter the correct number.
So i have changed it to a link that says “Click to See Comments” not that great but its a personal site and it at least makes sense and isn’t as confusing.
Does anybody have any ideas?
@imjscn No, I haven’t tried that. Does it help?
I got the same problem, any luck @dharmen99 
?
Yep, thats it. I didn’t follow the authors instructions, well until I wanted to edit the comment section it wasn’t necessary, I guess. Below is what the plugin author says:
“If needed: Copy and modified the /theme/activitycomments/ files to your default theme (important to keep the folder activitycomments into the root default theme directory)”
So I added the “activitycomments” folder to my child theme, and I am editting the file “activitycomments/blogactivity-comments.php”
‘
<?php
if ( post_password_required() ) :
echo ‘
‘;
echo ‘
‘ . __(‘Enter the password to view comments.’, ‘buddypress’) . ‘
‘;
return;
endif;
if ( is_page() && !have_comments() && !comments_open() && !pings_open() )
return;
?>
<?php printf( __('You must be logged in to post a comment.’, ‘buddypress’), wp_login_url( get_permalink() ) ); ?>
‘
Thanks everybody for the help 
– Create a child theme.
– Copy over the file index.php from activity folder of bp-default theme to childtheme/activity/index.php
https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/tags/1.2.8/bp-themes/bp-default/activity/index.php#L10
– Add the slider to above or within the content div or wherever you want in that index.php file
What if I want to do more than just replace the one default avatar?
What if I want to provide a gallery of avatars users can choose from (by uploading a bunch of avatars to a folder)?
Ideally I’d like to allow users to select from the avatars I’ve uploaded, as well as allow them to upload one of their own.
@gregfielding thanks for the info … my main issue is for logged in users and the very busy activity stream …. is there anyway to not display all the activity ? maybe that will load the page faster ..i use the activity stream as my homepage …. and it is very painful to hit it when logged in its sometimes a couple seconds before you see anything…. i am in the process of getting hyper db running on 2 mysql servers but what is a bummer is that even when their are 10-20 people signed in at same time its still slow …. actually even when there are only a couple the darn activity stream still lags …innodb tables….maxcdn ….w3 total cache..opcode apc
…any tips to improve the main activity load time?
@LPH2005 THANKS FOR THE REPLY …. i already have a cdn http://maxcdn.com which pulls files so you don’t have to upload ….. other than that i don’t see what else cloudflare will do to speed up the database queries affecting the activity page …. my thinking is maybe limit the homepage activity stream to query only important stuff and leave out the friend connections etc…what do you guys think or do you know how to do this? i’ve seen a plugin that blocks certain activity items from being stored to the database does that mean they won’t be displayed on activity stream also? any ideas on how to speed it up would be great if anyone has lots of activity i’m sure has seen this issue
Nice one @pcwriter. I think my favorite theme, FunkyBuddy, will be cooler still with the header image rotator
== I think I got it, it is maybe a plugin that I am using: “BuddyPress Activity Stream as Blog Comments” ==
Glad you found the real source and sharing the info. I didn’t expect that and I guess neither did @chouf1 @gunju2221
i experienced same thing with wp fb autoconnect thank you @partyfrikadelle for narrowing it down …worked great on a theme that uses buddypress template pack…but when i used it on a buddypress default child theme no luck …it worked sometimes meaning eventually it did create an account but did not transfer the user avatar image. andy peatling built a plugin facebook buddypress connect that worked with the buddypress default theme
@rogercoathup https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/tags/1.2.8/bp-core/bp-core-settings.php
the bad way – change `’position’ => 20, to ‘position’ => 10,` and vise versa in core lines 21 and 22
or an easy way
`remove_action( ‘bp_setup_nav’, ‘bp_core_add_settings_nav’ );
add_action( ‘bp_setup_nav’, ‘bp_core_roger_settings_nav’ );
funtion bp_core_roger_settings_nav() {
global $bp;
// the stuff
}
looking for the best way
@WWDay3
What theme are you using? Is it BuddyLite?
We’ve chatted a bit in the forums there, that’s why I ask.
I think I got it, it is maybe a plugin that I am using:
“BuddyPress Activity Stream as Blog Comments”
I haven’t found the place to edit yet but I have a new place to search!
that’s true ,lot’s of things are hidden.
We’ve built a lot of sites on BuddyPress now… if I’d time to write about it, I’d unfortunately probably be agreeing with woothemes.
There’s a lot of great functionality ‘hidden’ in BuddyPress, but the API / template tags need some serious work – especially removing all the html they unnecessarily throw in – design & presentation decisions belong in the theme not in the API (and particularly not in the ‘get_’ functions).
If you want to break away from the default theme & basic structures, it’s not easy to theme BuddyPress: too much time is spent stripping out / rewriting unwanted functionality, rather than adding building your site and adding features.
