BuddyPress.org

<snip>I’m worried that BP won’t be around long term

I don’t see why it wouldn’t be? I think the issue is moving BP forward at a pace and in a direction that is felt correct and to start addressing issues raised about the core with each milestone reached and this is happening. As I said in my last paragraph above I don’t consider BP a fully mature App yet but it’s young, and like any project to some degree you don’t really know some of it’s short comings until people like yourself do start using it in earnest and providing / feeding back real world experience.

<snip>This is nothing short of a hobby site, or at the very least is run as such

I think the criticism unjustified, at least as applied to this actual dev site, to the project as a whole, possibly until that is people like yourself start using the app for sites that are more than hobby projects. As for buddypress.org the core team are presently attempting to correct and improve the site.

I think the point has been raised that long rambling threads that simply point out issues or that seem to simply moan are not constructive BUT from time to time they have there uses such as the now infamous “Is BP dying thread” that thread helped raise issues that were of concern and that are now being addressed.

Have a look at https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/ — a little complicated to understand how to do it the first time, but recommended.

I had the same issue.

You should be able to export your DB from GoDaddy using phpMyAdmin. I have done this and it works fine. You have to follow the instructions posted by mercime on the WordPress Codex.

Now, if you are trying to IMPORT your DB the same way on a new host DB, hosts like 1and1 limit your MySQL upload to 2MB only. This means you have to use the command line with linux commands to perform a “mysqldump”. Performing this action, will backup your DB file to a folder. Then, you FTP it down to your desktop. Upload it to the folder on your new server and dump it into the new DB by performing a “mysql” action. You can find the commands in both links provided by mercime.

We just exported and imported in this way from GoDaddy to 1and1. Took me a minute to figure out how to perform a mysql action, but once I learned how to do it, it was a breeze.

What you might find, is that on your new host you don’t have enough php memory. That may be an issue. I’m facing that right now.

These will help you
https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups#Backing_Up_Your_WordPress_Site
https://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database
https://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup

Hey,

we use your plugin on our (not yet in production) jmonkeyengine.org site and I must say it rocks.

We intend to use the system so users can have a “tag” that shows where they belong and what they do. In our current forums we have tags like “moderator”, “manager”, “developer”, “advocate” etc. We also want to use the buddypress forums so I added the tag to the forum poster names as well like this:


add_filter("bp_get_the_topic_post_poster_name","jme_get_the_topic_post_poster_name",0);
function jme_get_the_topic_post_poster_name( $old_string ) {
global $topic_template;

$identifying = bpgc_has_identifying($topic_template->post->poster_id);
if ( $identifying ) {
$old_string = $old_string." (".$identifying->name.")";
}
return $old_string;
}


Maybe its a useful feature for others as well.

Also, maybe you could add some more restriction options like forum creation etc. Its something we currently struggle with because we dont want to allow every group moderator to be able to create a forum for the site.

Any other ideas I get, I will post them here, thanks for this plugin

Cheers,
Normen

ping @sospetto

PSSST! Lookie what I found!!

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/excluding-certain-blogs-from-bp_has_blogs-function-for-12/

Worked flawlessly for me

Nice one firetag, thank you.

Backup database of whole installation and backup server WP/BP files and folders – don’t forget to get backup of .htaccess and wp-config.php file in root as well.
If you’re keeping same domain name and just pointing it to new webhost, it’s a simple process.
If you’re changing domain name and getting new webhost. You’d need to do a search and replace of site URL in backup SQL file and import to new database.