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Hi David..

Thanks, I don’t really know the reason wordpress/buddypress is slow. Although we have all sorts of optimizations (memcache,cdn,minifications) in place, wp-blog-header.php is not running under 0,3 secs, page loads are well around 1 sec. I have never dived into bp functions and investigated them thoroughly to comment on where the biggest impact on performance occurs.

Since we are really busy on our project launch hassles, i’m trying to get this on the side as much as I can.

If i anybody could help me out on testing the performance of buddypress using hiphop, or at least find out if it can compile or not, that can benefit this community a great deal too.

Marius Ooms posted an update about the bp-groupblog plugin here.

Per definition what works within your blog should also work on your groupblog. All you need is the blog id that belongs to the group. If you look at the template files you’ll see how we set the blog id and use switch blog to change blog id’s.

That’s probably what I should focus on to fix my problem!

Looking ahead we are even going further and reversing the concept of pulling in specific blog content into the group, but let the blog be the group and pull in buddypress information to the blog itself. … The main group slug would just forward to the blog home page.

I had thought about that as possible solution to the referrer check mismatch problem; just make the blog homepage, where P2 does work, the group homepage.

But I think it would create more confusion. In my theme I want to keep blogs looking like blogs and turn the group homepages into the centers for social networking activity.

So the group blog homepage would display the same posts as on the group homepage, but in a traditional blog view. Most users would see the group blog posts on the group home page or in the single.php view.

Forwarding the group slug to a blog and then make the blog look like a group home page breaks the logic of the site.

EDIT:

I still think that, atm, posting from the front-end is not developed far enough yet … It is fine for micro-blogging, but I don’t think there are option to include image/video/media uploading, tagging, and categories

There is in P2, leveraging WordPress media buttons. It’s very slick, with lightbox etc. (I see they’re missing from the version I had in my zip…)

In my setup I’m trying to get simple, stripped down microblogging front-end posting on the group homepage, with a traditional blog view on the blog homepage. So more advanced users can still go from the regular blog homepage into the wp-admin backend if they want to do more complicated post editing.

P2 has different tabs for Status Update and Blog Post on the post-form. I’d like to have those options in the group homepage if I can get it to work, but the stripped down Status Update would be priority there.

I have now a working hiphop server at http://hip.kodingen.com

If someone wants to take the next step and compile buddypress with it, contact me I will give you root access.

I wonder where the spammers get the time to figure out ways to spam sites is there like a spam university or something lol

On my site I even disabled registrations and I still two splogs appear after that, which is very confusing for me indeed.

I can see one problem with sharing info on this forum about fighting spam, and that is that it will give the spammers the info they need to come up with counter attacks. I propose we start a spam eater group where we can share spam info behind the scenes, in fact I am going to start it now, not a perfect solution but still one that could work. What do you guys think?

https://buddypress.org/groups/spam-eater

Its a private group but anyone is welcome to join.

@Anton

I am seeing the issue on 1.2.1 as well, so not sure how this one slipped by. I am going to get it patched up and release a fix asap.

@mikepratt. Sorry, I see now that I wasn´t completely clear. What I meant was notifications in the buddybar. (Like when you get a new friend request or a new IM in buddypress, not e-mail notifications.

@Andy. So the foundations for the notification system is in place? Nice. If I understand you correctly, you could e.g. modify Boone’s & D Cartwright’s plugin to notify thorugh the buddybar instead of e-mails (or both)?

RESOVED!

I am a complete dumbass. I found the problem after investigating it. I realised that it can’t be the buddypress code and it surely can’t be the database.

I was wondering if the problem lay in my custom slugs because I used a custom slug on my site. So going through wp-config.php to see the slugs I came across what must have been a typo, because I remember wanting to change the groups slug at one point, this is what I had

define ( "BP_GROUPS_SLUG", '' );

Now when parsing through this the result returned to the new templates in 1.2 caused the rendering error which resulted in things not showing up properly. The funny part is that I must have done this months ago while still using 1.0.x and I suspect that the older versions of BP weren’t tricked by this.

I hope my ranting and all of this can be of help to others who might have similar problems.

The error is in line 54/55 in bp-loader.php, when calling bp_loaded() , what it means?

I’ve tried poking around in the theme and I can’t seem to find what could be causing the problem. Has anyone seen this problem before?

I have even installed other themes such as the widgetized front page theme and the Unplugged theme just to test and I get the same problem so it surely can’t be theme related. As I mentioned when I deactivate Buddypress and revert back to the WPMU only I can see everything. I have installed Buddypress over and over again and tried so many different options.

Its is possible that something is wrong with a field in my database, because nobody else is complaining about this kind of problem so then it surely can’t be the 1.2.1 install. If it is my database, then my database “broke” during the migration from 1.1.3 to 1.2. Is there someway to make sure all the fields are correct or which tables should I be looking in?

Excuse my ignorance and ability to voice it but …

Where is there more detailed discussion of the philosophy and direction behind the new integrated forum design than, here, say, https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-discussions/buddypress-forum/

Will an admin dashboard, plugin-ability re-appear or be integrated with WPMU/BP in the future?

(I must test markup code …)

Is it meant to be so basic, or is it a “proof of concept” kept a simple as possible to avoid as many screw ups as possible?

I am very keen to be ‘loyal to the platform’ and am encouraged to see BBpress embedded so simply and well but, at the same time, some basic functionality would be good.

Thanks.