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@dianeinatlanta What’s the status of this issue?

== I’m not sure what it was but I just wiped the whole install and started over. ==
@benstacey

@bender001 JJJ, the one who created the patch above, is the lead developer for both BP and bbPress. So I doubt anyone else would go through the not inconsiderable work of importing BP group forums to bbPress plugin forums without jumping through the hoops and then making sure that what’s imported would be compatible with upcoming new versions of BP and bbPress.

Having said that, post at bbPress.org forums and check if anyone has successfully done so.

@benstacey
– “On the secondary site i’m using Angus by epicthemes” == so you installed and activated BP Template Pack plugin to make your WP theme, Angus, compatible with BP. Can you post to pastebin.com the full code of your angus/groups/create.php file?
– Have you tried changing to bp-default theme, and check if issue is corrected.
– Re plugins – deactivate BP-specific plugins sitewide and Options Framework v1.0 for the BuddyPress site and see if issue is corrected.

Closing this duplicate https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/extending-a-child-theme-adding-new-php-file-adding-member-invites-1/

>members posting stuff too

It’s tricky on mobile devices, but doable.
You’ll want to use the BP mobile theme for those or build your own.

Apple Safari doesn’t allow uploading, so you have to use a workaround like Aurigma Up.
@modemlooper says he built an app that does the same thing and he’s considering releasing an unbrandable version with a site license – I for one sure hope he does.

Android allows uploads but things like the avatar crop tool won’t work, afaik.
We built a custom avatar upload page with auto-crop for Android as part of our custom mobile theme.

Hopefully you’re lucky enough to have a client that actually understands what is involved when they say they want a ‘facebook’.

@roxor If you mean 10 WP installations with their own respective DB’s then no.

Alternatives:

1. If it’s just the posts, then you can set up RSS feeds for the 10 in your WP/BP installation in one WP install without BuddyPress so that the links to aggregated posts will show up in a page or over a number of pages.

2. You could also create a single Network out of one of the 10 WP installs, create the subsites, install Domain Mapping plugin, then install BuddyPress plugin, then import other WP sites one by one as subsites into the multisite installation. https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network and https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/

There is one instance of BP for a multisite installation, so as @aces pointed above, you can enable multiblog so that you don’t have to navigate to main site to post in activity or forums, etc.

3. You could also create a Multi-Network out of one of the 10 WP installs and have multiple instances of BuddyPress with BP Social Networks, import remaining 9 WP sites as a network into the multi-network installation. The multiple instances of BuddyPress in this case are separate i.e., don’t overlap activities, memberships, groups, etc. http://wpmututorials.com/news/new-features/multiple-buddypress-social-networks/

Very nice.
I also liked Eco Living.

And thanks for the technical features info.

But would you mind sharing some details about your hosting environment?
Such as:
Number of servers & size of.
Database – sharded / replicated?
Any particular issues you had scaling up to 64k members?

There are more ‘large’ BP sites out there now.
It be great to collect dev info about scaling up, maybe even create a page hosted here about it.
For example, we have 25k users.
It’s going well, but scaling is an ongoing process.
When we first moved to a load balancer, we couldn’t distribute the load until we figured out that BP makes a lot of calls to ajax files in the wp-admin dir.
We had to add varnish rules so that wp-admin calls went to the master, but public site ajax calls could go to any webhead.

>any pointers on profiling queries?

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/debug-objects/

You need to hook on to the authenticate functions in WordPress:
http://www.generalthreat.com/2012/02/adding-externally-authenticated-users-to-buddypress/

BP does bring a lot of additional queries into the mix, so can increase load (sometimes dramatically as you’ve experienced).. but often there are optimisations you can try to overcome this (some server configuration, but others in your template code loops).

Try profiling your database queries – that may give you some pointers to where the load on the system is coming from. Your top member lists (number of images, etc.) might be a likely candidate in how they interact with the BP profiles.

https://codex.buddypress.org/bp_enable_multiblog/ ?