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@Travel-Junkie Thanks for the plugin

@stuffsone – Read this – https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/faq-how-to-code-snippets-and-solutions/?topic_page=2&num=15#post-45772

wonderful job!

Child themes should not inherit ajax.js in my opinion. If you want to inherit the js it should be copied directly into the child theme.

Caused lot’s of headaches. Great for a chosen theme, but markup mods happen very often. Only so many ways you can rework content and padder :p

p.s. sorry to hi-jack

I’m on round four with this same problem. I complete the install, but any changes made in the BP settings aren’t reflecting upon clicking “VISIT SITE”. I’ve torn the whole thing down 3 times and now I’m starting again. Not sure what I’m doing wrong. It’s pretty darn self-explanatory. I’ve installed some of the BP themes and come back to a BLANK page with nothing on it and no way to recover.

Help would be great at this point. As you can tell, I don’t give up easily! LOL!

@techguy There are a couple of considerations.

First, @travel-junkie is right that you don’t have to do too much to switch MS on in WP 3.0. However, once you’ve switched to MS you can’t go back.

Second, WPMU(MS) performance is really just a function of how many blogs you’ve got. If you install MS and still only run a single blog, resource usage will be practically identical to a single-WP setup. As you increase the number of blogs (and, by extension, the number of db read/writes), required resources will increase in a way that is a little bit steeper than linear. In other words, going from one blog to five blogs (each with the same amount of traffic and activity as the one blog) will require just over five times the memory (the “just over” is because of inefficiencies introduced when you start to get a lot of blog tables in the database).

I don’t have a lot of numbers to back me up (i’m a noob), but at least in terms of DB hits and memory usage (typical bottlenecks for a WP installation, I think), adding BP is more resource intensive than adding a couple of extra blogs. Think of all the dynamic stuff that gets loaded with every BP page load. Plus I would wager that introducing BP means many more page loads per visit, given the nature of the content.

I’d love to see someone with some serious sysadmin chops do a real study of BP performance, so that people will have a nice basis for decision making when looking at potential hosts.

@ffemtkl – what version of BP are you using? I think BP 1.2.4 might have fixed the issue.

The code looks like it’s working for the member profiles, but not the site activity page.

All you have to do is add this line in wp-config.php:
define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true);

Then you’ll have access to the network page to set the multisite up.

Yep! Same problem here. My timestamps seem to have gone randomly global. Also some emails not appearing in ‘Sent’ Folder…not all of them, just some.

Thanks for posting to the Trac. I’ve already posted about the Group and Member Widget Avatar and links issues here – https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2407

Good luck

Cheers

Stephen G

Actually it’s been happening for at least 2 days that I know of.

BuddyPress is very fast on most platforms; it is only this morning that the server this site is running on is experiencing some issues.

http://testbp.org is a better representation of what to expect after installing and turning on BuddyPress.

I also had this problem. Installing the plugin from WordPress is not working. I downloaded the zip and am going to try to upload using ftp later today.

Ahh… thanks @r-a-y. I see that this is a known issue. Good to know! Thx.

@rich! This is with BP 1.2.4.1 and WP 3.0 beta-2 r14896. My server time is set correctly in WHM and it is also set correctly (and identically) in the WordPress options. Not sure where else I could check? PHP config?

@takeo “all updates look about the same. A small icon for each type of event (friend add, new forum post, etc.) would go a LONG way to making the stream easier to understand at a glance.”

each activity type is tagged with a css class – should be easy to add something in

under buddypress settings “Disable activity stream commenting on blog and forum posts?:”

all the activity stream does is takes an excerpt of the forum topic/posts – so there is a division of conversation if left enabled.

Lest I have to revoke like Paul, I think this plugin (paid) has some of the features for posting videos/pictures in the activity stream: http://buddydev.com/buddypress/introducing-bp-gallery-rc4-for-buddypress-time-to-get-stable-in-next-week-now/ Although, I don’t know for sure since I can’t bring myself to pay for it. Too much of a fan of open source and the benefits of open source.

I was talking more about if you should use WP or WPMU. Since you won’t be using the user blogs to start with it doesn’t make sense starting with WPMU, cause it won’t exist anymore (or been integrated if you want, doesn’t really matter).

On a related note, one thing Facebook does really well is filtering and post type identification. In BuddyPress… all updates look about the same. A small icon for each type of event (friend add, new forum post, etc.) would go a LONG way to making the stream easier to understand at a glance.

Also… the filter menu is kind of a mess. I would get rid of the “Show Show Show” text… makes is much harder to scan. And I also think I would not hide the filters in a drop down where they are much less likely to ever be used. Facebook has a linked list with icons for filtering. Much nice interface than a drop down.

I know some of the icon stuff might be possible via theme development. I’ll look into that. But it would be nice if the default theme itself included more default visual cues. It’s pretty much 100% text-based right now.