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You don’t have to enable anything. your browser will use gzip compression and it would load pages faster

plugin “gift” has been created for previous versions of BP and haven’t been updated, but I would love to see some one to take care of this very useful plugin

@Symm2112, thank you as well for the ’99’ trick.

Very helpful thanks @Bowromir
Re the gzip part… I have checked and it is enabled on my server
but I have no idea how to implement it.
Where/how do you set those things?
Thx – DV

i would use that video chat plugin, in fact! i’ve been searching and there is none…. most of the other sites have one so why don’t we have one! u need to make one @Dfa327. just make sure it is user friendly, not branded, has no ads and can work on our servers, we know it will require a huge amount of bandwidth, but who ever needs it will seek a server with unlimited bandwidth… its that simple…

@salimmohd82: I was having the same issue as you described it, but I downloaded the last version of xampp and now Buddypress works and Apache stays running as expected. I was working with Xampp 1.6.0 but now I use 1.7.4.

Even if plugin is Free, if it “messes up BuddyPress”, I wouldn’t use it.

If you are a premium member of BuddyDev, downloaded latest BP Gallery version in the past two weeks, and can’t get it working in your site, then you should have posted in the member-only BP Gallery forum (link redirects to forum directory for non-members) to get the plugin you paid for working in your site.

Why don’t you post the link to the BuddyDev’s member forum topic with your request for assistance re BP Gallery here? Brajesh is quite very very good at troubleshooting to help you get it running. Heck, I’ll even throw in my 2cents worth After all, it’s just sad if you threw away a cool plugin you already paid for.

Cheers.

@ssmith2

Please start a new thread and repost your support question rather than hijacking someone elses thread. Supplying answers to 2 unrelated questions can only lead to confusion.

Just started up Buddypress and Easy Albums. All ok except for no ability for a visitor / friend to ’register’, ’create account’ or ’sign up’ in the Members fields.

I have icons of Newest – Active and Popular but nothing for visitors to register and create profile. Currently I am the only one listed on site as a member with ability to create / edit my profile. Am I missing something obvious?
Can someone tell me where to start at getting a registration Sign up function operating?

@stwc
No need for hanging your head anywhere I still remember being really confused by all that filter-action-akadabra-hook-mumbo-jumbo. I’d been using it for a while knowing that it did the things I wanted without really understanding how it did it. Once you do understand it though, it opens up a lot of possibilities, especially when it comes to making your own themes/plugins pluggable.

Actions basically add things like markup and/or server-side validation exactly at the point where the do_action calls appear, while filters let you modify/change existing data, like variables, objects or arrays whenever there is a apply_filters call…

@modemlooper I know, I know. *hangs head in shame*

I mean I knew how to futz around with them, but I never really *got* it before.

Sorry to dissapoint you but i ma talking about that Bp Gallery ..i have it i am a member there ..to be honest that plugin messes up buddypress …i had it for 2 weeks ..uninstalled it
and i say it again,we will see how free it will be . so another question did you visited the link i provided?? if you did chek thah work codes compare it whit the BuddyDev…than you wil see

see ya Cheers

Go to dashboard menu Settings > Permalinks and choose permalink other than default permalink and save. Mod_rewrite must be enabled in your server for BuddyPress to work.

@Histrion You have been misinformed. I have been using BP Gallery in different sites since its alpha version more than a year ago (early 2010) where it already had image, audio and video galleries for groups. I can say it continues to shine code-wise and feature-wise. Brajesh has consistently rolled out updated/improved BP Gallery versions each time BuddyPress and/or WP/MU/MS has been updated and whenever necessary in between. I have not experienced “collapsing of plugin” at any time. Maybe you’re writing about a different plugin

BP Gallery is work of @sbrajesh = BuddyDev.com. Brajesh has also made the “Pretty Gallery plugin for BP Gallery” as an add-on plugin for the special effects on media uploaded already via BP Gallery. And, he never claimed to have created Pretty Gallery plugin in the first place. He is a professional who gives credit where credit is due.

As for BP Chat, it is still in beta – http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-chat/ – which means it’s not stable yet.

You are free to use other chat plugins just as you are free to use other gallery/album plugins.

Cheers.

with bc-oauth I get this error during login:

`Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in Z:homeexample.comwwwwp-contentpluginsbc-oauthliboauth-phplibraryOAuthRequester.php on line 307
`

can it be localhost issue?
thanks

@jordashtalon did it work for you?

Buddydev chat … not good at all, second thing about Buddydev…someones alse work claimed to be BudyDev ..first of that the BP gallery actualy work of this guy only – http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/projects/prettyphoto-jquery-lightbox-clone/ and still they whant get paid for membership???? oo yeah am runing to do it …NOT.
Totaly comercial stuff and the update?? sucks ..installation of BP galery at least strange colapsing of the plugin ..lots of them ..hate it i uninstall it not worth of money .
The footer chat constantly shows people online eaven they are NOT for days …

so I say if Wordpess and Buddypress are free stuff developed in hard work ,time and skill …plugins must be a free stuff not paied ones and low functionality
i dont give a damn if someone sayd …one day they will make it free …not true they will never be free and the scripts will never be released free for the simple reason that there is someone alse work in it…

@glamgrif

About that code you tweaked for your variable headers: are you using the custom header that comes bundled? Or did you have to disable that to get your code to work? (Just wondering before I try it ’cause I stress about the WSOD sometimes … LOL.)

@oneearth.. Sure I can give you what i have so far. Here it is:

Series: Setting up W3TotalCache with BuddyPress – Part One

W3Total Cache has taken the WordPress world by storm this year. In my opinion it is by far the greatest performance tool for WordPress, and some of it’s features can be used to speed up BuddyPress as well. It has taken me some time to figure out the best settings, and with something as complicated as this, the results may vary. In this (lengty) trick I’m going to take you through the process of setting up W3Total Cache in the following order;

1: About W3 Total Cache and Installation
2: Server setup
2: Setting up the options that play nice with BuddyPress and your hosting setup
3: Using a CDN with MaxCDN
4: Hosting your Theme files and (group)avatars with the CDN
6: A word from the plugin author Frederick Townes
7: Conclusion

As you’ve probably seen, this is quite an extensive guide, and so I decided to split this post into 2 parts.

About W3 Total Cache and Installation

Plugin author Frederick Townes described W3 Total Cache as follows:

The fastest and most complete WordPress performance optimization plugin. Trusted by many popular blogs like: mashable.com, pearsonified.com, noupe.com, webdesignerdepot.com, freelanceswitch.com, briansolis.com, tutsplus.com, yoast.com, css3.info and others — W3 Total Cache improves the user experience of your blog by improving your server performance, caching every aspect of your site, reducing the download time of your theme and providing transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration.

Sounds impressive? Well it is impressive! So let’s install this plugin by going to your plugin browser and searching for W3 Total Cache. When you’ve found it, click on “Install” and that’s all you need to do install it.

Server Setup

Before we start with setting up the plugin, it’s important to tell you something about the general hosting of BuddyPress sites. Depending on the size of your community

Selecting the options that play nice with BuddyPress and your hosting setup

The hardest thing about using W3 Total Cache are the options that you cannot use in combination with BuddyPress. Because of the way that BuddyPress works and meant to be used (as a social networking tool), page caching and database caching causes trouble with the highly dynamic content that is being added to your site. Things like the activity stream will stop to function correctly if you simple enable all these features. I’ve read many times that the plugin “does not work” or “breaks” BuddyPress, but this is simply not the case. It only “breaks” if you try to use it for things that simply are not meant to be used with BuddyPress.

What caching basically does is taking a snaphot of a page at certain time intervals and serving that to the visitor when he visits that page (it’s more complicated then this, but this works to explain it easily). Now this works great if it takes a snapshot of a blogpost, because the content of a blogpost does not change every couple of minutes. But what happens when this concept is applied to your Activity Stream, Profile pages and Groups? You’ll see outdated data on the page, because in the meantime new content like status updates or group updates have been posted by your community. This explains why you can not use these features with BuddyPress.

But not to worry, there are plenty of feature you can use, and thus allow you to drastically speed up your site (just not as much as on a regular old -boring- WordPress site.

Here’s a screenshot of what you can enable:

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Minify:Minification can decrease file size of HTML, CSS, JS and feeds respectively by ~10% on average.

You can enable minification and configure it by visiting the Minify settings in W3TC it’s admin settings. Here’s how I’ve set it up on BP-Tricks:

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Depending on your hosting configuration you can choose which Minify Cache Method you want to use. If you have a dedicated server or VPS server and have something like APC, XCache or eAccelarator installed then use one of those tools. Or else you can just use the Disk method.

If you have a shared server your only option is the disk method.

Object caching: Object caching greatly increases performance for highly dynamic sites (that use the Object Cache API).

This feature so far has proven to work great with BuddyPress, altough it should be used with caution if you’re on a Shared server because sometimes it can actually decrease pageload times on your site. If that stuff happens it might be best to look into a cheap VPS or dedicated server. A little bit of information about the setup being used on BP-Tricks will be given in part two.

Content Delivery Network: Host static files with your content delivery network provider to reduce page load time.

This feature is probably the most useful for us BuddyPress users. In part two there will be a detailed step-by-step guide in setting up your CDN, so serve not only your theme files, but only your avatars, BP-Default Theme files and your essential plugin files!

Browser Cache: Reduce server load and decrease response time by using the cache available in site visitor’s web browser.

Gzip compression of your pages can also help speeding up your load times. Here’s what I have enabled for all sections on the page, and seems to do it’s job perfectly:

Set expires header
Set cache control header
Set entity tag (eTag)
Enable HTTP (gzip) compression
Here’s a screenshot with all my settings:

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To check if gzip compression works, you can go to http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php and check your domain and see Gzip is working.

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Still working on the rest, this is all pretty general info.. But maybe it does help some of you

hi @Webbasica in this post it says the BuddyPress Announce Group could make things work as a facebook fanpage, have you try this one out?
http://wpmu.org/two-new-plugins-to-instantly-boost-buddypress-groups-participation/

Daily Tip: Fix for BuddyPress Group Forums Error When Creating a New Topic
check here,it works for me
http://pressography.com/wordpress/daily-tip-fix-for-buddypress-group-forums-error-when-creating-a-new-topic/

@Maichomper as r-a-y mentioned above, there’s just so many things which could trip up a 500 internal server error. Do you have access to your error log, and what does it say?

== I was able to activate BP by modifying the .htaccess file ==
Actually you shouldn’t have needed to revise anything in htaccess file to make BP work. Do post content of your .htaccess file and indicate what your modifications were.
Are you on Windows server? Where are you hosted?

@r-a-y

Love your script for bbpress. It worked great for the post authors, but does not seem to work so well for the topic author, would you know why by any chance?

The current code line for the topic author avatar is as such:
topic_poster), 48, ‘identicon’ ); ?>

You can check out the site at gradiduncut.com

And everything under the avatar admin setting is set to on.

Thank you for your help, so far its been a huge help.

Best

@r-a-y

I’m trying to figure exactly what might happen before I try it. I definitely don’t want the WSOD again. So my question is this: can the following code

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be run in the functions.php file? Or does it have to be run in the theme header file?

I want to display my custom header on the front page, but not the subsequent pages. I’d like the subsequent pages (behind the walls of my pretty little patch) to display a smaller (in height) header, so that the pages don’t look so darn cluttered to logged-in users.

Ideas?