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I am using WP Super Cache on a BuddyPress installation right now, but it is not caching any of the BuddyPress or bbPress pages — only the blog. This actually does help a lot because it is the blog that gets a lot of search and direct traffic. WPSC is a great idea that works really well for pages that aren’t *too* dynamic, like a blog. It stores static versions of the pages so that they don’t have to be rebuilt all the time. Site response for a new visitor that hasn’t logged in is improved massively.

But for a very dynamic site (e.g. with activity lists updating frequently) you really need db object caching in memory (e.g. memcache) to speed things up and reduce the load on the db. I think this is what W3 Total Cache does, but I don’t (yet) have experience with it.

Andy also wrote this page on other optimization options: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/improving-performance/

There’s also this Codex page that has some useful advice for improving performance.

Others may have better suggestions but I tend to create a child-theme and edit header.php so that the navigation is as desired ..

Maybe this document is helpful:

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

@dennis_h if you use group forum extras plugin – i have some functions buried in there that will link to the last reply in a topic (just need to pass in the per_page setting if you change it from default)

“Link the freshness time_since to the last post” -> https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-forum-extras/other_notes/

Frustrating – I know – but did you make sure to also remove:

advanced-cache.php,
db.php,
w3tc/,
w3-total-cache-config.php from wp-content/
wp-content/plugins/w3-total-cache/.

Does this help?

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/bp-1-2-4-custom-bp_avatar_url-change/

Does this link help?

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/bp-1-2-4-custom-bp_avatar_url-change/

Are you using a child-theme or were you using the default theme for buddypress?

@ch8rt OK I understand now what you are wanting, something like phpbb’s unread posts. That would be more complex. I would love that to, but I would settle for a permalink in the forum directory to the most recent reply in that topic.

This thread for removing W3 may also help

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/360682

By chance .. do you have permalinks set?

The documents for BP are a nice read, too.

BuddyPress Codex

@r-a-y have you used Amazon’s S3 service?
maybe I’m too stupid & can’t be bothered in reading endless boring documentation, but still can’t figure their services out…

/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=w3-total-cache/w3-total-cache.php

In the meantime, ftp and rename the plugin folder as lincme suggested. See if you can login then …

@nit3watch – You have to remove the following hook:
add_action( 'bp_after_group_details_creation_step', 'gfield_add_field_form' );

Also remove the conditional that Derek put in.

Here’s the updated code, no need to add any filters:
http://pastebin.com/JrEbHMsh

@jmarino; If all else fails, you can just pull the plugin folder. WP and BP are neat that way, as they just report that the plugin is gone and deactivated when you go to the plugins page again. (Other systems we’ve tried freeze and die totally, which is no fun).

OH – very nice – while replying to your note above I was installing the dev version of this plugin. It’s very powerful. The options increase, improve the browser caching options, etc.

@jmarino – OK. I keep my php_value numbers at 128M – and some of them are actually at 256M – but I have no idea why they are this high unless it was just some tinkering at one point. But give it a higher number in the .htaccess