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@webby101 – You are safe to update to WordPress 3.1.4. When WordPress 3.2 drops, we are going to release an update to BuddyPress 1.2 to fix a few compatibility issues.

You should also update all sites on your network on your own. Normal users should not be updating your site for you.

@markaduffy – There was a bbPress plugin on the stand-alone side of things at one point, but I believe it hasn’t been updated in some time. I have a thought about how to do this in bbPress 2.0, but it would most likely not be persistent, and rather based off the last time a user visited the site.

You’re not calling any BuddyPress-specific tags in that code sample, so you might have better luck asking for support on the WordPress.org forums. However, you say that you “can’t query up the loop!” What output are you getting, and what output do you expect?

Chouf1’s probably thinking of the upcoming 1.3 release of BuddyPress, which does indeed make this easy. Where did you get the bp_mystique_july theme from? Does that theme’s author offer support, or have a contact email address?

If you’re familiar with PHP, read through /buddypress/bp-groups/bp-groups-templatetags.php, or look in the theme that comes with BuddyPress and work backwards

I’m not sure what this has to do with BuddyPress. You’re best to contact the author of the SMTP plugin that you’re using for support, or to post on the wordpress.org forums.

Technically all of that is possible but it wouldn’t be included as default in a standard BP template. You could easily get a theme designer/ developer to build most of the functionality there though. It’s all straight forward except for perhaps the payment sections which would require some specialist work.

I’m sure others will chip in with who they have used for custom stuff on their sites.

Thanks for these brilliant additions to forums. I’d been wondering for some time why tags weren’t appearing anywhere as I’d initially had the groups forum directory switched off. Now we have the opposite extreme using all the suggestions above – alpha sorted tag clouds for individual topics and for all groups forums appearing in all the right places. Thanks @snark and @boonebgorges – you’ve made my day.

Oh, by the way, since input of uppercase/lowercase tags doesn’t make any difference, you might consider use of CSS formatting like this:

`your_selector a { text-transform:lowercase; }`

@oldrow – With hosting, a lot of times you get what you pay for. I don’t have experience with Lunar Pages, but I do know that if you want to control how fast your site loads, you need either a better shared hosting environment or a VPS or better.

If you want to stick with cheap hosts, you might try another one. For example, I have had decent luck with Hostgator.