This is starting to get into the child theme area, which I’m still learning. To import the adminbar.css, is it best to reproduce the inc/css/adminbar.css into the child theme directory? And then import it in the child theme’s stylesheet?
Or, should I do it like ../../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/adminbar.css, which is how the child theme imports the default.css?
I will try batche too, seem it solves the problem partially.
@gregfielding , did you try to deregister the js/css and re-register manually? I setup another domain for this. under this domain, one subdomain for css, one subdomain for js. and put them on Cloudflare. Since all your blogs loading css/js from this domain, it should help a bit.
Another tool I’m thinking is the WP Multi Network plugin developed by JJJ. I haven’t tried it. From what I’ve reading, it can networking wp site from different domains. So, the idea is to use this plugin to get the network, then, cache the blogs, leave the community site un-cached. What do you guys think?
I think I might give cloudflare a go
… and so you open up your instyle’s page.php file and compare the HTML structure of that page file with the HTML structure of the template files transferred to your instyle theme folder during the BP template pack process.
For more info about the whole process and a sample walkthrough:
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/
What I really need is a way to CDN the avatars… this would be a huge help, but so far no one has come up with a good way to do it other than @apeatling on the BP-Demo site, but none of us know how he did it yet… 
Hello, I come to this support forum in search of some help on my issue. I am running bp-wp versions of 3.1, and 1.2.8
Seems that on my install, very weirdly, the buddypress plugin is causing my wordpress ratings to break on my wordpress admin plugin directory, (wp-admin/plugins.php) what now is what it’s showing, is instead of a normal wordpress rating, it shows this weird single star with a yellow bar:

So, firstly, I deactivated all plugins, and yes, that did solve my problem, so, I deactivated the first half, and then the second half to narrow it down, coming to first half, and to all no avail, I deactivated buddypress, and… thats the culprit!
What The…..?
Anybody have an idea on this weird problem?
@Haxs1990 I see a right sidebar here http://elegantthemes.com/preview/InStyle/?page_id=135
if this is the Instyle theme you’re referring to
Looked in trac for a similar situation which would be fixed in BP 1.3. There’s a similar issue for hidden groups but the leave button showed up https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2668
The set up right now is that If you are the only group admin, you can’t leave the group, thus the “Leave Group” button will not show up in group header. Since you already mentioned there are two group admins then the “Leave Group” button should show up.
Log in BP trac https://trac.buddypress.org/ with same username and password you used to log in here. Add new ticket and share BP/WP versions and steps to replicate your issue.
WP/BP versions? Have you deactivated plugins except BuddyPress and changed to default theme with that configuration?
It is a shared hosting.. .
plugins :
akismet,bp-album,buddypress,buddypress-links,buddypress-registration-groups,buddypress-sliding login panel,category-post,exlude-pages,inbox-widget,post-highlihts,private-buddypress & wp-fb-autoconnect
I dont thinkt that this plugins can do this.
@aljuk: One thing that I did that might be of interest: only update the “active x ago” indicator when the user generates an activity that gets logged publicly (i.e. goes to the activity stream)
Like this:
`
remove_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘bp_core_record_activity’ );
add_action( ‘bp_activity_add’, ‘bp_core_record_activity’ );
`
@takeo I think buddypress is great! When I see people say this system is confusing it just make me confused on how they could be confused. The system is very straight forward. Do you want forum click yes and install bb press done next topic. Want groups click yes done next. For me Im running a 70+ plug-in wp-ms 3.1 bp 1.2.8.1 running a chat script. Not to forget being the leader of the whole thing then some one is using less then 30 plug-ins on single site saying this is hard. Really.Go run a phpbb 3.0 forum and try to install a social network there with a cms. To hard? “3 @mentions (99% of users are like… WTH is that?)” More like 0.3%. Wake up to 2011. We move forward why spend 2 years simplifying a system for just a small number. I dont know a line of php but I can run my site.
@all welcome to 2011
If this helps anyone…I have a multisite blog farm with buddypress and have a solution that seems to work pretty well. I can’ use W3TC because I have multiple databases.
I use memcached and batcache which speeds up the main site and all sub-blogs tremendously for non-logged in users. Batcache only applies to visitors – which protects nicely against traffic and load spikes from Digg, etc. I have a browser where I have never actually logged-in to my site that I use to test and pages routinely load in under 1 second.
But, for members, batcache doesn’t help. I’m using widget cache and gravatar caching plugins, as well as Cloudflare as a CDN. This combination works well and my page load times are tolerable but not great. PageSpeed generally from 75-85 and YSlow from 66-76 (though YSlow doens’t recognize Cloudflare yet so I think they are docking points unnecessarily).
The biggest drag on my load times – and I think for all of us BP users – is the time it takes to load all of the separate JS and CSS scripts. Of got about 30 of each. Tis the price we pay for using child themes and lots of plugins. And minifying doesn’t work, it just makes the site go screwey.
I would love to see expert advice or a tutorial for how to enable parallel loading of CSS and JS from different domains. Or, maybe there is a way to copy all of the JS files into one file. Or, a way to pick-and-choose which JS files to load in the footer (I can’t simply put them all there because some functions break).
Hope this is helpful.
What you want isn’t possible EXACTLY as you describe it.. But with this plugin you can get pretty far:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-profile-search/
Oops, I may have posted my last update in the wrong place, I did it in the group, instead of here in the forum.
(sorry)
I’m having trouble installing BuddyPress on a network installation of WordPress on http://socialmediamillionaire.me.
I’m using the latest versions of WordPress and (potentially) BuddyPress.
Everytime I attempt to install BP in the network, my site’s just blank.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Haroun
I am beginning to think that a combination of a PHP opcode cache, I.e. APC, and Batcache is all you need, along with a properly configured MySQL and web server.
This bug has been fixed on trunk (future 1.3). You can visit the above ticket for more information. Thanks to @lucianop for the ticket!
Just learned about Buddypress and it is exactly what I need.
unfortunately, I cannot seem to install it on my site.
I keep getting a whole mess of these errors:
`Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of apply_filters(). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file in mysite.com/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums.php on line 193`
searching for that error produced this page
I tried to work with the solutions suggested there, and, like the original poster, had no success.
any suggestions?
Thank you.
I am wanting to list my members so that only members with a specific profile field filled in will be displayed.
The profile field will be ‘Business Name’ which will obviously be for businesses. On the member directory I am wanting to display 3 tabs – All Members, Businesses, and Community Users.
Can I simply create some if statements such as:
If Business Name field is not empty, display these users. Or, if Business Name field is empty, display these users.
I’ve never used buddypress before, only wordpress so I am unfamiliar with the way I would go about this.
Any help is appreciated.
Cheers
Yes, you’re right, that’s what I want to do, to have two different memberlists that can be displayed separately on two different pages.
Your solution seems to work just fine on your website. I would prefer it if there was a way to filter the members directly in the members loop for instance, but your way is pretty interesting too.
Does the ?s=xxx thing work by default on Buddypress or do I have to code it myself ? I’m kind of a beginner with Buddypress and I’m not really good in PHP, so the easier the better 
Very strange. The fact that you’re having problems with the email notification of blog comments shows that this is not a problem with BuddyPress, but is some combination of your server, WordPress, and possibly Yahoo Mail.
Have you tried reading the problematic mail through another method? POP3 or IMAP? Or maybe the same email sent to another provider like Gmail? At least that could rule out the mail client.
I can confirm this as well.
1) Download WP 3.1
2) Install plug-in for buddypress
3) activate buddypress theme
4) Use FF to login, logout
5) Go to your URL again and login it won’t refresh. You are logged in, but UI does not refresh. Chrome, Safari, doesn’t do this.
Just tested and the comment notification emails have errors as well.
I am using WPMU with BuddyPress.
Emails and their status
– Signup confirmation (error)
– Password reset (ok)
– Comment notification on blog posts (error)
– Private messaging (ok)
– User mentions (@user) (ok)
– Friend request (ok)