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Not exactly the answer but did you read this ?

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/private-groups-and-forum#post-24964

may related to my issue. even though my post says issue occurs in new install, I did notice it is happening in both new install and upgrade.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/single-blog-post-display-issue-new-11-install

I don’t have answers for all your questions, but you can’t access bb-admin for “the built-in forums by buddypress.”

It might be a better idea to use the xprofile data template loop https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-profile-data-loop-bp_has_profile/ and put some IFs in so it only uses the fields you want to see?

snagfly, this post is 5 months old and had been marked as ‘resolved.’ It’s unlikely that many people will see it, I suggest that you send a message to sgrunt directly via this site.

Thanks for the extra education Jeff! I had no idea akismet would bozo – I’ll need to check my buddypress and bbpress sites for that to see if anyone has been perhaps – I had no idea.

Please note that I was not singling anyone out, I was just frustrated by some short answers on posts that I was looking for the same answer as some other noob.

I have been scouring the forums trying to figure everything mu related out for years, since pre-version1.3 – and still get confused. I also think that technically any BP question is an MU question since you need the MU to run BP – LOL

Thanks for listening, and perhaps with so much crossover between the two, a little sidebar search that shows MU forums posts when we search the BP forums would enlighten some of us as to answers found elsewhere.

I am anxious to see if the new bp 1.1.1 has features built in to adapt the signup email that is sent to new users, and redirects them to a more social page rather then the WP dashboard, or maybe that is still an MU setting and I need to fiddle over on that side of this. I wonder if the redirect stuff that was written here a while back is no longer needed to get that function. I am afraid to upgrade my BP site, as I can’t find instructions for moving the origial BP that was setup in “mu-plugins”.

I totally understand the mod thing, I mod a couple other sites myself, and I try to answer questions I find in WP and MU forums if I know the answer, and post details as much as possible. Thanks for your help, and everyone else that contributes to this project! I couldn’t do 1% of what everyone it doing here!

I’m currently working on a user language setting for BuddyPress that will take on not just user settings but assist in translation for user to user interaction. There are lots of places where BuddyPress might not be completely internationalized, and the most likely cause is probably attributed to the developers and contributors so far being primarily native English speakers.

It’s hard for us to test different languages since we don’t understand the languages we’re looking at or reading or what they’re supposed to look like. We’re relying on the qualified multilingual developers to help us track down and fix the areas that could use the attention.

My current focus is on the English to Spanish side of this, with Portuguese next on the list. I’ve briefly tested the display of Chinese and French but admit that I understand those languages much much less.

I read a few weeks back there’s a plugin out there that’s starting to help out with the translation and language barrier. I hope that as more and more people start using BuddyPress that more people also help contribute to internationalizing it.

I suggest contacting the developers of the 3rd-party plugin WishList Member and ask if and when they plan to support BP v1.1.1. Provide them with the issues you are experiencing. Since it is a paid-for plugin, and not an open source, freely available plugin, they should provide the assistance. I won’t even go into the issue of possible GPL license infringement–besides mentioning it.

Also, I’m not sure why you want to use that plugin as its purpose is to turn a WordPress-powered site into a membership-driven site. This is what BuddyPress does and a whole lot more. Better yet, BuddyPress is free!

I’m also moving this thread to “Third Party Components & Plugins” as it is does not pertain to BuddyPress but a conflict with a 3rd-party plugin.

First, if you are creating sub domains for each individual blog make sure the blogs are being confirmed through the submitted email during registration. you will see a white screen for every blog not confirmed.

If you are setting up WPMU with subdomain blogs then you have to add a wildcard DNS record on your server. If you do not, you’ll have significant issues. This is detailed in the readme.txt file that comes with the WPMU install package.

This is why we ask everyone having issues with BP if they fully tested WPMU and made sure it was functioning properly before installing ANY plugins–including BuddyPress. Fully testing does not mean giving it a cursory once over. It means fully testing all the major functions. This should take some time. The most obvious first function to test is the creation of additional blogs.

Now that 1.1.1 is out, and BuddyPress as a whole is becoming more stable, we’re seeing a little bit of a shift from core development to real world support and testing.

Andy runs the show and the rest of us react to the findings and feedback of the community to try and patch and contribute as much as we can. I second DJPaul on the quiet period, it’s a welcome change.

@Bolonki, I’m going to play devils advocate for a second and probably take the wrong side of this conversation, but the problem with query reduction in a social networking platform is that the only way to do it is to limit the available run-time data, or rearrange data structures to the point where other plugins can’t tap into them or repurpose them.

BuddyPress itself is a core set of 9 plugins, an abstraction layer for WPMU blogs, an API for bbPress, and comes with an elaborate set of functions and API to retrieve that data and use it in a theme; and most of this is accessible on almost every page of your website. If you need the functionality that BuddyPress provides, then hopefully you’re prepared for the overhead it takes to have all of those resources available. If you don’t need parts of it, you can turn them off and reduce queries.

This isn’t to say that BuddyPress doesn’t strive to be efficient, and in future versions you can bet that as more people become actively involved in the project that it will only get better.

Everyone has parts of web development that they’re passionate about. Some people dig SEO, some love web standards, others are worried about queries, and others are worried about server speed. There’s a lot of roles and lots of talent paying attention to all of the different aspects of what makes this all work. Remember that this is an open project, and we welcome you or anyone else to take a look at ways to make the platform better and are genuinely excited for anyone to contribute in any way.

I’m curious how many queries other social network sites use on a single page load. Can you imagine how many servers Facebook must use? Or wordpress.com? Must be pretty intense to manage all that data and traffic.

Sgrunt!! What’s the word on the street for a front/home page status feeder????

I have a lot of request pertaining to this, curious to see what will come in the future. Any twinkies you could lay on us at this point???

I can only assume this would be classified under an optional widget for the home page. Site wide activity is great, wanna just fine tune the front page feeds to status if possible.

Also how and the heck can we get rid of the permalinks attached to the side wide activity that streams to our home page, every blurb comes with a permalink attached (looks janky)

Thanks

Jason

Need to see https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/when-asking-for-support from both of you to confirm that you both have the same issue. You might be having the same problem but with different causes.

Not only you Reboot, but the entire Buddypress team should be “worried about too many db queries”. Jacoby says that “WordPress has never been light”, I wonder what he thinks of Buddypress, since WPMU creates a page in about 28 queries and Buddypress needs 130 queries per page, about FOUR TIMES as many. It’s completely excessive and makes Buddypress unusable for anybody with any serious traffic and a low hosting budget. Performance (not features) should be the priority now, and the number of queries should be shown along with page generation time on testbp.org so that potential users see the kind of computing power they will need.

A few things to consider when seeing….(white screen)

First, if you are creating sub domains for each individual blog make sure the blogs are being confirmed through the submitted email during registration. you will see a white screen for every blog not confirmed.

Second, make sure all permissions are enabled in your dashboard, this too causes white screens for different blogs.

Third, make sure you deleted the bp themes in from the /mu-content/ root and that they are installed through the /mu-plugins/ not /plugins/

Fourth, a lot bp plugins take some sort of config to work correctly, sucks I know but true so I would definitely follow DJ Puals advice and deactivate all plugins while you try my suggestions.

You might be thinking that it’s a lot more difficult than that but Sometimes it’s as simple as that.

thanks DJPaul.

FYI: After reading http://www.studiograsshopper.ch/web-development/multilingual-wordpress-setting-up-wordpress/ I realized that the basic setting in wp-config could be changed (from define (‘WPLANG’, ”); to define (‘WPLANG’, ‘es_ES’); which -I think- adds Spanish (and not replaces the main language?) support.

Not sure if this setting does anything as the admin of the main blog could already choose es_ES in his blog settings (so ALL users see the blog in Spanish instead of all in English) before I ‘added’ Spanish in wp-config. (As long as the language file was uploaded to /languages of course).

Anyway, it does not change anything

– The home/community page/main blog and the buddy bar are still in the language the admin has chosen for it, not the language of the logged-in user (or a logged-out/new user for that matter).

@knaight

First of all, you are posting in a thread that is marked as resolved and is more than five months old. Please read this thread for more details why this can be an issue.

Secondly, we have no information on your current setup. One could assume that you are still using RC-2 since this thread pertains to that version.

Finally, see if this post in the linked-to thread answers your question:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/buddypress-plugins-and-theme-not-loading#post-17586

I’m closing this thread as any further discussion should take place in a new thread.

This site uses a standalone bbPress install, integrated into BuddyPress the same way as had to be done in version 1.0 of BuddyPress.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/calling-specific-profile-fields-individually ?