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Media Temple are not bad , have one of their Dedicated virtual servers, possibly a bit pricier than the others, but excellent fast support, very good KB, good active forum, server performs well has plenty of bandwidth, memory and disk space, plesk panel plus licences not that I like control panels that much. Full SSH root access, do what you like with the server etc.

As for memory required to run something like WPMU and Buddypress it really all depends on how busy the site is we have on this particular server 1.5GB which is plenty. WP/BP should run fairly well in less, min I would want though is 512MB. More important I would have thought is having a full set of resources to dedicate to the site so wouldn’t consider running on any form of shared hosting only VPS or Dedicated especially when things start to get busy.

All of the hosts mentioned are good and all I think are recommended on wordpress.org so should be fairly safe whichever you choose.

I have this same problem – I know WPMU is sending me emails for other things, but BuddyPress related items do not get sent.

On new user registration, the final part of the registration process says “You have successfully created your account! To begin using this site you will need to activate your account via the email we have just sent to your address.”

No email sent to either new user or admin, and new user isn’t in list of users in admin panel.

What is the Height attribute, would appreciate it if you could tell me how you changed this

i just wrote a plugin to restrict group creation to wp cap levels, pretty basic for the first release though

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-restrict-group-creation/

In SocialGo’s defense, there’s nothing wrong with asking money for a service/product. SocialGo and Ning are good solutions for a certain class of users. The difference is “software as a service” vs self-hosted.

Another option is SocialEngine, which is self-hosted but not free and probably a bit more business-ready than Buddypress because of it – better member mgmt, anti-spam, photo + event plugins, etc.

@MrMaz Oh, I didn’t even think about that. Thank you very much!

Can someone please clarify how to override the default style. I’ve tried to create a folder in my child theme with the name “bp-links-default”. Then I’ve copied the style.css from the original path. In the new style.css I modified some elements but the style remains unchanged. I tried to copy the full path “_inc/css/default.css” and placed it in under the “bp-links-default” folder in my child theme. I modified the default.css and uploaded everything but the original default.css still remains unchanged . What should I do?

Looking great @Modemlooper. Keep it up, this is going to be a very welcome feature I’m sure.

Wow. That is some awesome work. Nice one Modemlooper! It’s going to be a HUGGGGE money maker for you and well deserved.

I just tested this on a dev site with WP2.9.1 single user and BP 1.2 and confirmed the error is still happening. If Activity Streams are disabled, the Groups still open by default to a “Home” tab that thinks there should be a Group Activity Stream displayed:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: bp_activity_post_form_action() in /var/www/vhosts/.../httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/activity/post-form.php on line 1

And a follow-up question I have on this is, if the Group Activity Stream is turned off, what should be dispayed on the Home tab? I would argue in favor of having the Group Forum list be the default Group home page if Activity Streams are disabled, just as I think there should be a way to fairly easily choose the Forum list as the Group home page even if the Activity Streams are NOT disabled, just as site-wide you have the option of having the blog or the Activity Stream on the home page of the site. (This latter bit is the crux of a trac ticket I filed: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2144 )

@johnjamesjacoby — I couldn’t find evidence of this having been submitted to Trac yet, so I just filed a ticket: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2163

For what it’s worth, the site that I’m currently working on (but may not end up) porting to Buddypress is basically a Vanilla forum with a bunch of stuff bolted on, and my 1000-or-so users would kill me if the forum model were not the centerpiece of any new home I put together, although they’re excited about all the shiny new toys that the socialnetworking hoohah can offer.

The BB forum is for the people who installed Buddypress to get into this newfangled social networking thing and then decide they need something more familiar looking.

To my eyes the discussion beneath an item from the activity stream looks the same as the discussion in a forum.

Group Blog with front-end posting and threaded comments via P2 will do everything you can do with a forum, but in a much more native WordPress/Buddypress way.

This is a good question. Here is my take on it.

bb forums are enclosed, stand-alone, old-school discussion boards that are traditionally organized according to “freshness” (ie, who commented last), which is supposed to tell you what threads are most active.

The activity stream is where it gets confusing. It is supposed to capture activity chronologically, regardless of where it happens in the group. So in the activity stream you will see forum posts, forum replies, group wire posts, and status notifications like “so-and-so just joined this group.” It gets blurry because you can also comment on activity stream items… so it’s not just a stream of activity, but another method for interacting.

In my limited experience, it is a little confusing to have both the activity stream and forum running at the same time. It’s especially confusing because by default, you can have a forum discussions ongoing, and have a parallel but completely separate discussion on the SAME posts in the activity stream. This can be disabled in the BuddyPress settings, but in my opinion, this should be off by default.

that exactly what im looking for

Hi,

Great to find someone else using the same theme as i am.

I found out that it is pointing to the infocus’s stylesheet style.css. Therefore there is no left margin specify for those pages that buddypress template use.

Still doing a bit of research on it. Thought that might give us a lead on what to do.

This appears to be a bug. I’m experiencing the same problem on a local testbox.

The problem could be with the way the SQL query is formed.

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@xevo – Avatars are not cached.

Although I did come across the following line in the bp_core_clear_user_object_cache() function in bp-core.php, which attempts to delete the online user cache:

wp_cache_delete( 'online_users' );

However, I don’t see where the cache for “online_users” is ever set.

I’m guessing this is a remnant from the old BP 1.0 codebase.

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Can anyone else duplicate what billydecola, enrige and myself are experiencing?

[EDIT]

Ticket created – https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2162

I like how everything else is dimmed out!