Please I’m desperate, I have a week with this.
After my upgrade to version 1.6.1 buddypress pages are gone, I can only see activity, I can not see the members page, I can see the user page, I can see groups, there is the registration page.
The following components have been associated BuddyPress to WordPress pages: No pages
Please I need urgent help
Wordpress 3.4.1
BuddyPress 1.6.1
My wordpress in: mysite.mydomain.com
My buddypress in: mysite.mydomain.com / community
@FIQ
I am already running Firebug and I was using Google Page Speed to monitor.
I immediately get `#request` and then the monitor tool sits and waits just as long as BP waits to build the page(s). Typically between 3-8 clock seconds.
@megainfo
Tried your 2 ini_set commands for zlib compression. That did not do it.
Moving on to the next set of suggestions by Sarah Gooding.
RE: https://buddypress.org/showcase/
I clicked around the first 5 showcase sites (excluding the german one), and they all run faster than our BP install. Guess there’s hope for BP after all.
Wonder what makes those sites run so fast? If it’s a cache plug-in, would love to know which one they use. We use “Hyper Cache” and it’s not cutting it for us.
(ref: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-optimize-and-maximize-buddypress-performance/)
@megainfo
The current version of SeoPress conflicts with group forums, you can’t edit or delete topics and shows wrong count for each forum topics list, So its unusable in my case.
@chouf1
Totally agree with regular posting and all that stuff. The problem is on a regular wordpress blog, you need to adjust seo settings otherwise you will be producing duplicated content and getting penalties from google on your rank.
Depending on the theme you use meta titles and meta description change, You may want to control that too to adjust it to your site specifics.
@fiq
As far as I know target keywords is the primary criteria search engines use to map sites and build their listings to output in search queries, why shouldn’t one exploit that to be found by the keywords he wants to and not by some random keywords that he never knows what they are?
Totaly agree with G+ circles and add Facebook, Twitter, and the rest of social networks.
When you have a site you must have a strategy for capture visitors, You have plenty that influence how your site is build. Search engines, social networks, advrtisement, you name it.
Returning to my inicial question, What’s the best way to handle SEO optimization with BP?
@chouf1 THANK YOU!
That was all I needed. In retrospect I should have looked there. 
Here is what you add to the functions.php if anyone else is interested….
`remove_action( ‘wp_footer’, ‘wp_admin_bar_render’, 1000 );
remove_action( ‘admin_footer’, ‘wp_admin_bar_render’, 1000 );
add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘wp_admin_bar_render’, 1000 );
add_action( ‘admin_head’, ‘wp_admin_bar_render’, 1000 );`
I am looking to view and navigate large BuddyPress installs that are generally accessible in the public domain. I am searching for BP sites that are large in terms of Pages, Groups, Forums, etc. so I can see how efficient the site runs from a page load speed and performance perspective. My BP install runs too slow and our members are complaining.
If you are willing to share your site’s URL for this purpose, please post as a reply to this thread.
Thank you !
Hi,
Tested in : buddypress 1.6.1 + default theme
I add this code in the content of members/single/home.php
[BP_MEMBERS_SLUG]
[bp_is_member]
bp_is_page(BP_MEMBERS_SLUG) return false, bp_is_member() return true.
And in groups/single/home.php
BP_GROUPS_SLUG
bp_is_group
bp_is_page(BP_GROUPS_SLUG) return true and bp_is_group return true.
I think bp_is_page(BP_GROUPS_SLUG) must return false in group home page ?
thanks advance for answers.
UPDATE On Latest Attempt To Speed-up “Painfully Slow” BuddyPress:
Activated MySQL Query Cache — no performance improvement experienced.
BP still running very slow.
Continuing to search for solutions…
the loop is in the file called profile-loop.php
buddypress/themes/bp-default/members/single/profile/
To work on it you have to create a child theme first or you will loose your modification at the next update.
You can download the modified file from here: http://bp-fr.net/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/group-documents/24/1345718022-profile-loop.zip
Heh. It didn’t take me too long before I realized I didn’t know exactly where the template profile loop should be edited. My best guess is now the location at: members/single/profile.php but that’s not the place.
Thank you for your understanding. I’m quite the junior at this.
After upgrade to 1.6.1 looking at other members profiles are as before.
Only for the logged in user on all ‘my account’ (public profile, edit profile, blog, activity, friends, messages and settings) pages, the page unexpectedly ends with:
<div id=”item-nav”>
<div class=”item-list-tabs no-ajax” id=”object-nav” role=”navigation”>
<ul>
.
Switching to the default buddypress theme and turning off all plugins except buddypress makes no difference.
Because the item-nav div is written in so many files I would not know where to search for the problem.
Suggestions appreciated…
hi,
as you can read here https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/version-1-6/ in the Profile Field section, since BP 1.6, each user can set his profile fields to different visibility option from within his profile option admin.
You can also modify the template profile loop from a child theme to avoid site wide not registered users to see profiles unless they are logged in, by adding the contionnal tag if bp_user_is_logged_in.
Add this just after the first line containing do_action and don’t forgot endif at the end of the page, just before the last do_action.
Hi there,
My developer just disappeared, and I’ve had hard time in answering hard questions from my clients. There’s one urgent thing I’d really could use your help considering privacy in Buddypress.
I have Buddypress running as discussion forum for a group of people. They have formed their own groups and naturally have their own user accounts. They now wish, that although their groups (if not set private) would remain public for any browser to see, that their user accounts would be invisible for the unregistered users of the forum.
Is there a way I could perform this privacy upgrade? Thanks!
1. WordPress 3.4.1
2. WordPress installed as a Directory
3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory? = unsure
4. New wordpress install
5. Was WordPress functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress (BP)? e.g. permalinks, creating a new post, commenting. = yes
6. BP 1.6.1
7. Upgrade from v1.6
8. Same issue with no plugins activated
9. Tersus theme
10. No
11. No custom functions in bp-custom.php?
12. no bbPress
13. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files. = unsure
14. Which company provides your hosting? = unsure
15. Server running Windows
Hi
I have buddypress 1.6.1 and latest Tersus theme installed. I moved my site to a new server and now I can not make a forum topic? Everything else works
I tried reinstalling buddypress, deleting pages and groups and remaking them, tried turning off all other plugins and no luck!
I have not launched the site so I have seedpro plugin on home page so to access the site you need to go to http://www.foodzone.com.au/
I am unsure why I can not make a new topic?
Thanks Duncan
@djpaul “It should work out of the box in the activity component, but not in the group forums.”
Is this correct? I can embed video via a link in Group Forums.
Buddypress can run an unlimited number of members out of the box. Yes, there are lots of tweaks you can do to the software, but the real issues are going to be with your hardware. You really need to have someone that knows servers.
While technically possible, in my opinion BP should never be run on a shared server. Once you pass a couple thousand members multiple servers will most likely be needed.
The number of members is a poor matrix for judging a sites success (or needs). It completely depends on the type of site. Some use BP social features as the main component to their sites, others may just use it as a add-on, like a support forum. It also depends on how much media you use. Some sites use very little while others use lots of pictures and video.
PS
We run around 1.5 million unique visitors a month using BP.
hum.. the best way is to do nothing !
Yoast is certainly a well knowed WP plugin, but the best way IMO to be actually referenced in search engines is to publish regulary, pertinently with eventually a good cross referencing from other sites. This means reputation either then referencing directly. Good coding practice if you do this kind of work is also a good approach.
So far i know, no artifical URL coding trick through SEO plugins is satisfying at this time. Because it’s difficult to have a site according to several different search engines with complex and very different algorythms and methods for each. Anyway, it’s a long term work.
All the rest about SEO is litterature and marketing stuff.
WP let’s you chosse between URL with numbers or letters. Prefer text.
Keep also in mind that if your site is dedicated to something more or less unique and well documented, regulary updated, etc, it would at least have better chances to be found as a fashion site or a geek lair 
http://www.google.com/onceuponatime/technology/pigeonrank.html
http://lasanthaw.hubpages.com/hub/What-is-a-Search-Engine-and-how-does-it-work
To upset you a little more, see here 
http://www.google.fr/#hl=fr&gs_nf=1&cp=19&gs_id=fq&xhr=t&q=buddypress.org:+seo&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&oq=buddypress.org:+seo&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=fa9ab9356798b6&biw=1467&bih=649
There is Comercial version of SeoPresss.
Im working in modified version of free SeoPresss and i add the rest of tags,
my version steel in developement and it is not stable.I will share it in wordpress plugins.
i want just to tell you too, the last version SeoPresss work in buddypress 1.6 but there is some bug in wp-admin, it make http 500 error with some other plugins.
Take a look at the bp_core_load_template() function — it gives you some filters, e.g. bp_located_template and bp_load_template, that you could try working with.
It’s a specialist piece of development, you’ll have to read through that code and work out how to apply to your specific situation.