I’m having the same problem. Using Genesis with the GenesisConnect plugin. The problem seems to be with BuddyPress. Bump.
Would Buddypress be good for a Scout Troop with 3 groups – one private (unseen) one for leaders, one for Boy Scouts and one for Cub Scouts?
It’s important to me that the admins & moderators have control over who creates a forum. Meaning no one, basically. I don’t want the boy scouts & cub scouts starting up different groups willy-nilly.
activate BP default theme disable all plugins except BP if you are still experiencing slow times then it’s your server that is the problem and that we can’t really advise on.
It’s slow on initial get request with times approx 8 secs ( that feels reminiscent of the issue I had that I tracked down to a WP DB update running) it’s hard to say, however, exactly what is causing this subsequent pages are better @ ~2secs. one thing that ought to be corrected; you are trying to call the reset.css file twice, BP is loading it ok through it’s @import but your theme ‘Unplugged’ appears to be trying to load it from it’s local directory and it doesn’t exist so that’s throwing a 404 error file not found and taking 13/5 secs to time out also there a few other 404’s that ought to be tracked down and corrected.
All in all there is a whole heap of script calls and css being requested, and is going to slow things down to a degree although browser caching should help that once the browser has initially downloaded and cached a file.
One thing your server doesn’t appear to be doing is using mod_deflate content encoding to gzip files before transfer, this does speed up file transfer by compressing contents and letting the browser unzip them it’s end, so maybe speak to your host and ask if it isn’t enabled could it be.
hii, im using buddypress , in my machine (local host, the site is not live yet ) webserver is iis express…8 plugins are activated , 7 themes are installed and 1 is activated called bp columns ….my problem is the entire site is slow , wheather to send msg or browse my frnds profile or even just accepting the frnds request i had misprinted the time in my last post but this time i has the correct time it takes to do almost most of the stuff on my site …”the time it takes is = 20.53 secs) which is quite a large time taken to just browse the profile and even to accept the frnd request ..now the question is how to reduced the time and increased the browsing performance ….should i have to use caching software plz help ?
Yes, today is the worst day of my life. I am running a buddypress with wordpress multi-site. It’s all about an education and learning based portal. Although it has few members as of now, I was humiliated with a couple of spams today. Spams are not new to my website. They used to register and create blogs to back-link their websites! This is somewhat okay and can be deleted with acceptable delays by website admins.
Today, I got few spams who have uploaded adult images, abusive and vulgar included posts and words in blogs! It was in LIVE for around 3 hours. What can I do??!! It is obvious that start-ups can’t invest to hire an assistant nor we have effective plugins to control the same. As soon as I saw it, I deleted it. It was a very bad day indeed!
I sincerely request the entrepreneurs who are doing a good job here to help the aspiring and budding entrepreneurs like me to fight back against these kinds of menaces.
I knew that there is no stand-alone stuff available to help us. However, people like me are working for more than a year to build our ideas and thoughts into actions. Due to this kind of issues, we can’t think of giving up the project and mind our ritual 9 to 5 job!
Please spend your valuable time to share your thoughts here.
@4ella i had seen ur website ..i like 1 thing , how you changed the footer ie. “© 2011. Models & Hostesses & Dancers – Unplugged Theme by Diesel Laws. “
i also want to change the footer for my site how to do that ….plz tell me the folder and exact file or line to modify since i m not very femilier with php ….thnx @4ella
How to add something like this http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/08/03/like-a-post/ that will appear below each blog post in multisite setup && also show up in buddypress activity stream?
I found the problem. I went to the Buddypress options on my dashboard and went to privacy, in there I unchecked “Must be Logged in” to access the site.
@hnla , @dataprise1 Thanks guys for your kindly respond , I have many plugins which are running once a month (data importers , category importers , group joiners , privacy plugins , many plugins not important for running the live website at all , but making my life easier when I want to import something , protect something etc , ) I was thinking that if those plugins are not in use at the moment , at that page , they don’t create bigger page load and I don’t need to deactivate them or delete them.
But I am laik , I have realized that I am possibly wrong because as @hnla recommended I have also installed HttpFox , it is showing me a lot of data , for sure some expert can see a problem , but to tell the truth I don’t understand this tool at all , I can’t understand which function-page is taking too much time, I see some facebook addresses – scripts delays (also 55sec.), really many gravatar callings , some google API scripts , Google Maps callings (even if that page doesn’t contain any Map on ) I am ready to give up all gravatars on my website , allowing only uploaded images , I have also deleted all gravatars=avatars from activity stream (in css display:hidden them – maybe there should be a problem ? I didn’t deleted the codes from templates , so it is calling css which returns display:hidden ), but :
Can I ask if anybody of you can take a look at my website ( http://www.4ella.com) to see it with Httpfox or similar tool if there’s something very unusual , uncommon , notable ? Like this I would like to encourage anybody who would like to use this website for test purposes before I will launch it and put in live environment.
Tonight I will try to deactivate all my plugins together , and will start to activate them one by one (before I made it on contrary , deactivating one by one , so there were always 59 other plugins running) , but when I make them running alone , how can I benchmark them ? HttpFox is showing me a lot of data , how much time for every page is a lot ? When controlling it with HttpFox I was trying to see difference between buddypress.org and my website and it was only showing me difference with some facebook pages (I am using premium facebook auto connect plugin ) . I was hoping that I will find here some tips from other users for some plugins which takes more time to load than other – for example:
I can easily live without BP – achievements plugin , but I can’t imagine to give up bigger plugins like Buddypress Docs , Buddypress Review , Gallery and also some other smaller plugins , I was hoping to find some tool which will tell me that Buddypress BP- Achievements plugin together with other one takes too long .
About the change shared hosting on Bluehost.com. Hosting change I want to be a last solution , because the website is not earning any money and I can’t allow any dedicated server yet (I will inform myself about VPS – somebody on this forum adviced this cheaper solution)
Any help would be very appreciate Daniel
I keep a test site live running WP 3.1/BP 1.2.8 a few plugins , some test stuff -generally I expect it to be a bit of a mess yet after the initial page load of 1.5 secs( too slow ) all pages load in around 600ms @naved your times suggest something very wrong but where is hard to say without monitoring and testing, however custom functions can slow down page loading a lot as I found the other day with a function I was using to update the meta of a series of WP pages, it was slowing the page down to approx 8 secs until I wrapped it in a conditional to only run once.
@4ella really the only thing I can think to advise is to disable all plugins then benchmark a page load and start to add plugins back in. 60 plugins is almost certainly going to load the site to some extent, if they’re not well written could well be conflicting; on the other hand the problem could rest with the server especially if you are on shared hosting where you might have 100 sites all trying to grab cpu cycles at the same time
Fixed guys. At the end I had to buy the new product Dual Perfect that gives me more memory.
Thanks 4 your help!!
I have the same problem , my website is toooooooooooooo slow too , in general I think that buddypress is slow because all sites running buddypress I have ever seen seems to me that are slower than any other script , but buddypress has many plugins and much more functionalities than others , slowness of my website is my biggest problem , as hnla adviced to deactivate all plugins one by another , I did it , but never mentioned some difference , I have 60 plugins running . Hope that I will resolve it somehow in future , opening every page for 5 seconds is not good at all , there must be some bad combination of 2 or more plugins , not only one – in my case I guess .
I am wondering how the activity stream works.
I am developing a buddypress website and doing lots of testing and database work. I noticed that if I change the wording of an action that has already been posted to the stream in the wp_bp_activity table, it takes on average 1 – 3 minutes to reflect on my website.
I also notice it takes 1 – 3 minutes for some actions to be posted to the stream, however, sometimes the changes are shown immediately. The same can be said for when I delete an activity from the stream, it will stay there for a few minutes before it actually gets deleted.
So I guess my question(s) are:
1. Is the activity stream cached somewhere?
2. Could it be the VPS I am using is not good enough? (The website is only in development mode with 1-3 people on it at most!)
3. Is there a way to speed up the ‘updating’ of the activity stream?
Just to make sure, I do clear my browser cache / cookies but that does not make a difference.
Hello guys, I’m not sure if there is a easy way to do that on buddypress. Maybe I haven’t find a correct hook yet
That is what I’m looking for:
– example.com/andy > will show the last andy’s posts ( the nomal wp’s author.php )
– example.com/andy/profile > will show the andy’s profile, friends and groups ( the bp’s /members/single/home )
Can someone advise me with it?
I’m looking for feedback from more experienced BuddyPress users on the hint text that shows up in search boxes on the BuddyPress default install. The search boxes on various pages read “Search anything…” but they are actually specific to the subsection of the site you are on.
So on the member directory page, the search box says “Search anything…” The text leads people I’ve spoken to to believe it’s some kind of sitewide search.
When I went in to customize the hint to “Search member directory…” I discovered each instance is a separate function call in the default theme with a shared text resource “Search anything…” The messy route I picked to change this was to create a copy of the functions in my child theme functions folder and create copies of the index.php theme files for members and groups sections calling my custom function rather than the plugin version. This is pretty messy and lots of customization for a simple string change.
It seems like maybe it’d be better if the hint text was loaded via a filter or potentially separate language resources strings. Does anyone have thoughts or suggestions? I’d be willing to code some changes and submit it back to BuddyPress. But I want to make sure I head down the best path for the project.
@hnla
in the left there is custom links which asked url and label what should be the url should i have to create page fq.php and put the address of that file….???
Chris Jean gave a talk at WordPress Raleigh last week in which he proposed the notion of a standardized loop API.
You can read the full text at his site here: http://loopstandard.com/
I bring this up for 2 reasons:
1. He specifically calls out BuddyPress and the need for a child theme in order to interact at the loop level
2. There is a discussion in the “Call to Arms” thread elsewhere in this forum regarding the future of Buddypress and premium themes. Figured it would be better to split the “in the future” conversation into it’s own thread versus derailing a “what we need to do today” conversation.
@Histrion: You may have missed this on Buddydev’s site, but they clearly list the plugin as beta (beta 5 is the latest) and specifically indicate that the current release is not intended for live sites, but rather for testing to identify issues and improve the plugin:
“Bp chat is a facebook like chat plugin for BuddyPress. Currently, we have a beta release of it. I won’t say It is good enough for live sites yet, but yes, you can try your hands and help me improve it.”
To mercime question above:
1. @afrey which theme are you using? Does the problem occur if you use the bp-default theme?
2. Is this a new problem (ie. forum worked great before, but now doesn’t?) or has it always been broken since you installed buddypress?
3. Are you using the internal forum shipped with buddypress or an external bbpress (standalone or the new beta plugin?)
4. Does it happen all the time or just some of the time? Any commonality of when it happens?
5. What other plugins are you running?
Duplicate cross forum post. Please only post once on an issue double posting does not get a faster response.
Closing thread
Continue in: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/main-nav-bar-stopped-working-after-bp-install/
am sure its a clash between your theme files and the menu in BP? Am assuming you are aware that in order to get BP up and running, you need to have a BP theme… its different from any other wordpress theme… this might help you out: https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
@christophg not having albums within a user’s photos was one of the biggest reasons i opted to go with buddydev.com’s premium plugin BP Gallery. It’s about 30$ to take the 3 month member, and a lot has been written both for and against this plugin, and the concept of paying money for plugins… but let me tell you this… BP Gallery is simply superb. Period. Its an amazing plugin, and even if BP Album + releases 1.9.. i doubt if they can get it like this… but there are a couple of issues with BP Gallery: rating and flagging of comments and pictures is still not yet implemented.. its work under progress… final word… go for BP Gallery… its wayyyy too cool to miss out on.
