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@liping – was about to post that this may need to go into bp-custom.php rather than functions.php

This order of invocation issue should really be addressed. Changes like tab orders, removing tabs, etc. should be theme specific – i.e. you may want to run a site where you switch themes – with the presence or not of tabs being determined by the theme.

Unfortunately, needing these things to be in bp-custom.php means they affect all themes, not just the one you want it for.

Anyway, thanks for the heads up on bp_core_new_nav_default() function… I’d removed the general tab from settings… and was searching for a way to remove the default link to it that still remained.

Removing Login link – Open up active theme’s functions.php file and add
`remove_action( ‘bp_adminbar_menus’, ‘bp_adminbar_login_menu’, 2 );`

More information at https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/modifying-the-buddypress-admin-bar/

There are many different privacy and/or membership plugins for single or multisite installation. Just search for them in WP repo under privacy or membership

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/network-privacy/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/more-privacy-options/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/s2member/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/private-buddypress/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-private-community/

@bowromir That would be incredible!

I was wondering the same thing. I just purchased Digital Access Pass and was wanting protect the entire Buddypress install from non members. Any ideas?

Does your web browser report any JavaScript conflicts?

It’s pretty easy to do that @Pisanojm! I’ll write about it on BP-Tricks today or Monday!

Adding bp_adminbar_notifications_menu() in your header will probably work (as long as it’s nested inside of a `

` element), but you will need to modify the styles. You can go in one of two directions.

One, you can try to bring over the styles from bp-default/_inc/css/adminbar.css. You can import that entire stylesheet into your child theme with this line at the top of your child theme’s style.css:
`@`import url( ../../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/adminbar.css );
(See https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/ for more info on BP child themes.) The downside of doing this is that, depending on your theme and the element in which you’re trying to nest the notifications menu, you’re going to have a really hard time getting it to look good with your theme.

The other method is to skip bp_adminbar_notifications_menu() altogether. Instead, copy the entirety of that function from bp-core/bp-core-adminbar.php into functions.php of you child theme. After you’ve copied it, change the name of the copied function (to something like wwday3_adminbar_notifications_menu() – it doesn’t matter, you just have to avoid duplicate function names). Then – and here’s what will make your life easier – change the markup, and in particular the CSS selectors (classes and ids) being produced by the function, so that it matches the CSS selectors in the existing dropdown menus you’re trying to integrate with. Then, in header.php of your child theme (or wherever you’re currently trying to call bp_adminbar_notifications_menu()), make sure to call this new function instead.

I will try batche too, seem it solves the problem partially.
@gregfielding , did you try to deregister the js/css and re-register manually? I setup another domain for this. under this domain, one subdomain for css, one subdomain for js. and put them on Cloudflare. Since all your blogs loading css/js from this domain, it should help a bit.

Another tool I’m thinking is the WP Multi Network plugin developed by JJJ. I haven’t tried it. From what I’ve reading, it can networking wp site from different domains. So, the idea is to use this plugin to get the network, then, cache the blogs, leave the community site un-cached. What do you guys think?

… and so you open up your instyle’s page.php file and compare the HTML structure of that page file with the HTML structure of the template files transferred to your instyle theme folder during the BP template pack process.

For more info about the whole process and a sample walkthrough:
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

What I really need is a way to CDN the avatars… this would be a huge help, but so far no one has come up with a good way to do it other than @apeatling on the BP-Demo site, but none of us know how he did it yet…

@Haxs1990 I see a right sidebar here http://elegantthemes.com/preview/InStyle/?page_id=135
if this is the Instyle theme you’re referring to

Looked in trac for a similar situation which would be fixed in BP 1.3. There’s a similar issue for hidden groups but the leave button showed up https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2668

The set up right now is that If you are the only group admin, you can’t leave the group, thus the “Leave Group” button will not show up in group header. Since you already mentioned there are two group admins then the “Leave Group” button should show up.

Log in BP trac https://trac.buddypress.org/ with same username and password you used to log in here. Add new ticket and share BP/WP versions and steps to replicate your issue.

WP/BP versions? Have you deactivated plugins except BuddyPress and changed to default theme with that configuration?

@aljuk: One thing that I did that might be of interest: only update the “active x ago” indicator when the user generates an activity that gets logged publicly (i.e. goes to the activity stream)

Like this:

`
remove_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘bp_core_record_activity’ );
add_action( ‘bp_activity_add’, ‘bp_core_record_activity’ );
`

@takeo I think buddypress is great! When I see people say this system is confusing it just make me confused on how they could be confused. The system is very straight forward. Do you want forum click yes and install bb press done next topic. Want groups click yes done next. For me Im running a 70+ plug-in wp-ms 3.1 bp 1.2.8.1 running a chat script. Not to forget being the leader of the whole thing then some one is using less then 30 plug-ins on single site saying this is hard. Really.Go run a phpbb 3.0 forum and try to install a social network there with a cms. To hard? “3 @mentions (99% of users are like… WTH is that?)” More like 0.3%. Wake up to 2011. We move forward why spend 2 years simplifying a system for just a small number. I dont know a line of php but I can run my site.

@all welcome to 2011

If this helps anyone…I have a multisite blog farm with buddypress and have a solution that seems to work pretty well. I can’ use W3TC because I have multiple databases.

I use memcached and batcache which speeds up the main site and all sub-blogs tremendously for non-logged in users. Batcache only applies to visitors – which protects nicely against traffic and load spikes from Digg, etc. I have a browser where I have never actually logged-in to my site that I use to test and pages routinely load in under 1 second.

But, for members, batcache doesn’t help. I’m using widget cache and gravatar caching plugins, as well as Cloudflare as a CDN. This combination works well and my page load times are tolerable but not great. PageSpeed generally from 75-85 and YSlow from 66-76 (though YSlow doens’t recognize Cloudflare yet so I think they are docking points unnecessarily).

The biggest drag on my load times – and I think for all of us BP users – is the time it takes to load all of the separate JS and CSS scripts. Of got about 30 of each. Tis the price we pay for using child themes and lots of plugins. And minifying doesn’t work, it just makes the site go screwey.

I would love to see expert advice or a tutorial for how to enable parallel loading of CSS and JS from different domains. Or, maybe there is a way to copy all of the JS files into one file. Or, a way to pick-and-choose which JS files to load in the footer (I can’t simply put them all there because some functions break).

Hope this is helpful.

What you want isn’t possible EXACTLY as you describe it.. But with this plugin you can get pretty far:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-profile-search/