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When you are installing Buddypress, the only plugin you want in your /plugins folder is buddypress itself. Nothing in /mu-plugins either. Your plugins which run on buddypress are causing this error.

I have a few plug-ins running, but without the admin back end working, I can’t deactivate them. Can I place them in a separate folder temporarily without causing even more havoc? i.e. welcome pack, monty spam, wp ban, limited log in attempts, askimet, etc.

Email is probably going to get you a quicker answer. Only a couple of Automattic employees lurk here afaik.

Just go to http://ww2.toksta.com and create an account and setup your chat the way you want it and click ‘Create Script’ and choose ‘WordPress’, upload it to the /wp-content/plugins dir and follow the readme file directions. It does work because I have it working on my site right now.

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The plug-in does not working any more.

Which version of BuddyPress are you running? Where did you find those instructions?

I don’t think BP has been installed in /mu-plugins/, and has been referenced that way in the readme.txt file, for over four months. I just looked back at 1.0.1, 1.0.2, and 1.0.3 and all three of those versions have in their readme.txt file what I excerpted above.

Always read the readme.txt file that comes with the installation package.

Here’s the readme.txt file from v1.0.1: https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/trunk/readme.txt?rev=1621

Here’s the one from v1.0.3: https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/tags/1.0.3/readme.txt?rev=1614

Here’s the installation directions located in the BuddyPress codex.

There is more overhead with WPMU, but the biggest issue is whether a site allows its members the option to create blogs and how many active blogs the site has. So, running single-version WP could help reduce the load in theory.

But, BuddyPress can also be a bandwidth, memory, and harddrive-space intensive plugin suite. It all depends on a site’s user activity and what additional BP-dependent plugins a site installs and activates.

For instance, if a site uses a media plugin that allows users to upload photos, mp3, and video files, then a low-powered hosting account could get swamped even if it is “just” running single-version WP.

I liked this idea, so I implemented it on my BP install.

I decided to do step #2.

Here’s what I added to my /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php:

function bp_send_message_to_friend_button() {

global $bp;



if ( bp_is_home() || !is_user_logged_in() || !friends_check_friendship($bp->loggedin_user->id,$bp->displayed_user->id) )

return false;



$ud = get_userdata( $bp->displayed_user->id );

?>

<div class="generic-button">

<a class="send-message" title="<?php _e( 'Send Message', 'buddypress' ) ?>" href="<?php echo $bp->loggedin_user->domain . $bp->messages->slug ?>/compose/?r=<?php echo $ud->user_login ?>"><?php _e( 'Send Message', 'buddypress' ) ?></a>

</div>

<?php

}

Then I edited the template files mentioned above with the new function call – bp_send_message_to_friend_button().

Now, the “Send Message” button only shows up if you are a friend of said user.

I’ve added a trac ticket about this issue as an enhancement, so maybe the above change will be built into the bp_send_message_button() function in the next BP release instead of having to add your own function.

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There’s still the autocomplete feature in the “My Messages > Compose” area, as well as the wire and group wire to worry about though… one step at a time!

How much of a difference should we expect to get when using WP single user (when this is an option in future)?

And if it is significant, why is this the case? And is it also true for WPMU with a single blog, or is the difference that people are expecting a WPMU installation to have multiple blogs?

Is this a bot or a manual signup who manually sends messages to the users?

Anyway, the way I see it, there are two ways to combat this problem in the interim:

1) do a check to see if the logged-in user is a friend of that user, if so run the bp_send_message_button() function

2) code own function based on bp_send_message_button() and do the check within this function

Either option will require modifying the Buddypress member theme template in three places:

* /bp-themes/bpmember/activity/just-me.php

* /bp-themes/bpmember/wire/latest.php

* /bp-themes/bpmember/profile/index.php

(I’m using the default BP member theme as an example)

This is only for the “Send message” button though… how did the person spam your users?

If you want to hide the core xprofile “name” field, you’ll have to edit the /profile/profile-loop.php file in order to do this.

One way to do this is mentioned here:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/faq-how-to-code-snippets-and-solutions#post-13243

This will hide your entire “Base” xprofile group though.

But that’s one way around it!

Is the eshop plugin a buddypress plugin really? If it is designed to work with WordPress, it does not hook into the menu functions etc that BuddyPress uses. Contact the author of that plugin and talk to him/her about it.

What do you mean by “menus and new tabs”? If you create a plugin, you can add custom menu items related to your plugin through various hooks (see the Skeleton Component for examples), but there are no built-in drag’n’drop functions for it.

Which readme.txt file are you referring to?

The one that comes with BuddyPress states this in the “Installation” section:

--- Plugins: ---



1. Upload everything into the "/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/" directory of

your installation.

2. Activate BuddyPress in the "Plugins" admin panel using the "Activate Site Wide"

or "Activate" link (both work).

Jeff,

Your analysis in the paragraph above outlines exactly what users can expect or aim to acheive with shared hosting. The fact that it can be installed and operated is one thing, providing a desirable user experience is another.

The restrictions on shared hosting though may allow for a WPMU installation but not provide enough flexibility for some BuddyPress plugins to work, but as you say too many variables to be discussed here.

If BuddyPress does end up supporting single-user wordpress I’m sure that the net will undoubtedly widen.

In the first picture you linked to, it shows that you have “BuddyPress Default Member Theme (1.0.1)” installed. This is an older theme that is not compatible with version 1.0.2 or 1.0.3.

You must install the theme files that come with the version of BuddyPress that you are using.

Read the “Installation” section of the readme.txt file that comes with BuddyPress.

Which version of WPMU are you running?

Which version of BuddyPress?

The showcase site Wannanetwork’s community is down, there’s a news posting saying that they “have pushed the limits of WordPress” and that they are experiencing server problems.

I’d like to have Maxaud’s feedback on BP after running what seems to be a pretty high traffic site for months.

As for the “Showcase”, it deserves a cleanup, many sites are down