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Hello everybody,

has somebody a solution for this problem? A social community without Firstname + Lastname isnt a social community. Its only a forum for internetpeople. But not for real People, who want to interact in a social community is this not relevant.

I hope, somebody has a solution. Because I love the Buddypress Plugin. It’s very nice. But at this point, it’s making many Projects, like mine,
impossible.
Buddypress loses his potential because of this reason.

Best regards from Germany!
Alex

If the text is translatable in wordpress/buddypress you should be able to use the technique mentioned here

Hey Gary ( @ecksteing ),

You might have already observed BuddyPress is nothing but a plugin for WordPress.
Well, as of now there is no such ready made arrangement for the same but Andy has worked on an open source plugin that gives BuddyPress Features into WordPress theme.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/
I have not tested this but I think this may be helpful to you.

Keep in touch!

Run Settings > Permalinks and set to other than default i.e. pretty permalinks is a must. Double-check WP configurations and if you have a problem there, resolve it in WordPress.org forums before installing BuddyPress.
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/
https://wordpress.org/support/

You do not move BuddyPress plugin folder/files around in your server at all. You can install BP in either of these two ways:
1. auto install via dashboard menu Plugins > Add New > BuddyPress then network activate. or
2. Upload buddypress plugin in wp-content/plugins/ folder in your server, then go to dashboard to activate BP

After either #1 or #2 above, Install a BP-compatible theme like https://buddypress.org/extend/themes/ and you’re good to go.

BuddyPress is a WordPress plugin and not a separate application. BP shares the DB of your WordPress site. And yes, BuddyPress can be installed in single WordPress.

Said this before, but worth saying again, this setting does NOT technically increase the memory It adjusts the ‘Limit’ of memory available, it’s a safeguard feature that prevents scripts from consuming too much memory, increasing it blindly is NOT a good thing to do as the point of the exercise is to do what is being seen here, that of killing the script trying to run and bring down the system. If you – in theory – increased the limit to the max the box provided you could then run a script which infinitely looped, and that in turn would crash the box and all sites running on it requiring a re-boot to get the system back up. I would expect any good hosting service to preempt users trying to change this setting.

Following Ray’s advise to disable plugins should be attempted in the first instance.

and when mod_rewrite IS enabled, and .htaccess looks how it should according to this thread – then what? WP works just fine until I try and use any BP links (accounts/members/etc etcetc) all result in 404s.

**edit** as a side note, i’ve had this problem for a year plus trying to figure out how to use BP. all the links come up as 404 stating that it doesnt exist in /blog-DIR/ – well duh? all the BP stuff shows up in /blog-DIR/wp-content/plugins/buddypress – NOT in the main DIR. even after moving the BP folder into the root /, still nothing. makes it worse, in fact.

i’m REALLY looking for a viable answer here. why do all BP links point to the root DIR? this is NOT where the files are!

If you are using a custom BP theme, change to bp-default theme.

If you upgraded to WP 3.0.5 via dashboard auto upgrade, do a manual update via FTP or cPanel
https://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress#Manual_Update

Also re widgets, WP Dev Andrew Nacin posted about that here http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/if-your-menus-or-widgets-screens-broke/

@faceteletv

I’m trying to keep this conversation within topic here where you originally mentioned it, rather than wild in the activity stream.

I’ve managed to get forums working on a 1and1 shared hosting…

I don’t think any of the wp-config.php or .htaccess or php.ini tricks for increasing memory work for 1and1 shared hosting. Even if wordpress tells you it has more, it will still behave as if it hasn’t…

As ray said, you should disable as many plugins as possible at least till the forums are enabled. I already mentioned what I had done about plugins here

To find out how much memory a plugin or theme is using I use https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-system-health/.

You appear to be using buddypress social theme – which I haven’t tried but it has lots of options and may use lots of memory. With limited memory it would be better to use a simple child theme of buddypress default and customise it.

The above (remove admin bar on all but BP site) did not work for me…see https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-disable-buddypress-header-menus-from-main-site-in-wordpress-network-mode/#post-88928.

It appears that $current_site->blog_id is always equal to 1 on my site, no matter which site I’m on. Ideas?

@ray

I think you are right about needing a better host, but it isn’t that simple…

All the hosts I recently had a look at don’t publish their memory constraints in their advertising.

One I know of said on the phone that their memory was effectively unlimited (and it seemed so for what I was trying to do), or so I was told by their custormer…. but I think that they were down for about 29 hours in a row recently…

Don’t forget the author.php. I use it in the most creative ways! As mentioned above you can use Gforms for frontend posting, or even allow your subscribers only access to Writing Post admin page only and then display the users’ “blog” posts on their author.php page (yoursite.com/author/username).

You could even embed the gform in the author.php for loggedin authors and display posts for logged out. You can go as far as customizing that author.php template to add the parts of the buddypress member profile, (I think you can replicate the entire member profile on there if you really wanted to) and voila you have user blogs without multisite and blog within user profile. Heck you could even make the author.php template very blog like and include a dedicated sidebar and widgets that only pertain to that author. It takes some..(alot of) tweaking but it’s doable, so good luck!

Hi,
I updated the bp-config.php file so that BBDB_NAME etc has the same details as in wp-config.php file and it seems to solve the issue.

My bp-config file resides at /public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bp-config.php and not at the root of WordPress installation but it still seems to be working fine after I updated the bp-config.php file.

Note that, I had to uncheck and check back the “Enable Forum” option under the Group Admin settings to make the error message goes away from the existing groups. However, if I created a new group, I don’t have to do this and it will allow me to post in that Group Forum.

Al

This BuddyPress Group email subscription plugin works great with the newest version of buddy press.
Also why do we need group comments when there is a form ? How do I replaced the group comments with other page elements of that people can better explain their groups and even have links on their groups

I basically set up the WordPress Network now but I unchecked the option in super admin this said register and a blog and checked the mark that was for register only. I run and advocacy website for people with disabilities. I would like each person who wants to advocate for a disability issue to be able to create one. And of course others to be able to see. It would include a banner if they have one. To below do have links and to be able to add them without knowing the code. Just paste a link in. And then be able to do everything groups can. Maybe have the check box for each user to create a new regular group or new advocacy group. Or maybe I could this have just the group’s transformed into disability groups or something without having the choice.
Kind of like a group face page or frontpage. Instead of the group comments being on front this face page could be one large page.
Can anyone help me.

Okay, if you’re running a lot of plugins, consider disabling a ton of them and only enable BuddyPress and then see if your memory problems go away.

Another thread on the situation:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/installing-buddypress/forum/topic/how-much-php-memory-should-be-allocated-to-buddypress/

But, it might be better to start looking for a better host.

As per Svenl77’s request, topic closed.

@r-a-y – If this is a 1and1 shared hosting memory issue then that will not help. WordPresss may report a higher memory but 1and1 servers will still be stuck at 30mb….. I would love to get round this problem myself, other than by limiting what plugins and themes etc I can run….