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Well, done! I know you have put a lot of time into this project and it shows!

i have noticed that it is really slow… how can i get this sorted do i contact my server… could my site be slow due to all the plugins

There are a number of reasons this could be happening. It could be plugin related. You may wish to investigate instituting object caching. See this article: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/improving-performance/

But, the best initial advice is to contact your hosting firm and have them help you figure this out. Depending on the hosting plan you have, a few of the more obvious causes are:

– There could be memory issues (caused by insufficient memory allocated to your account, by memory leakage, by Apache being poorly configured, your site is hitting a memory limit–although with memory limits you usually receive a message indicating just that)

– You may be hitting a preset bandwidth limit (so much throughput over a given short period of time). But you should receive some sort of a message if this is the case.

– If you are on a shared, non-vps setup, you could simply be getting penalized by other sites unfairly hogging the server’s resources.

– It could be a MySQL server issue

These are just a few of the possibilities. Your hosting firm should be able to help you pinpoint the cause–or at least get close to understanding what is happening.

First of all, you still may have an issue with the bppicture-album plugin being improperly installed. The readme.txt file has an error in its “Theme” section. It states that:

Move the "/wp-content/plugins/bp-album/album/" directory

to "/wp-content/bp-themes/bpmember/"



"album" directory should be at the same level as "/wp-content/bpmember/groups"

and "/wp-content/bpmember/profile" etc...

You need to do this instead:

Keep /bp-album/ within the bppicture-album directory.

What you need to relocate is the album directory.



So, you move the "album" directory out of /bppicture-album/ and

place it into /wp-contents/bp-themes/bpmember/.

Make sure you have done that. If you have done this properly and are getting this message, then you will have to go through the process of deactivating all the other plugins (except BuddyPress), then reactivating them one at a time until you see the problem occur.

r-a-y

You are not going crazy!

The reason you cannot find a “Settings” page in the Skeleton Member theme is the same as why you cannot find one in the default bpmember theme (if you look). It is handled via one of the core BuddyPress files. Look at bp-core-settings.php and you’ll find what you need.

I have installed: ajaxContact, bpGroups – BuddyPress Plugin, Event Calendar, Event Calendar Widget, Lightbox Gallery and NextGEN Gallery.

Donnacha-

You are correct. It should not be that difficult. There are a few special characters in an email address that may need to be properly handled ( the period, the @ sign, potentially a dash in some addresses).

I suppose you could use htmlentities() to do this, but I don’t see why it would not work. Although I believe WPMU simply escapes the email address on POST.

Of course, this would not prevent people from entering an all-character username. I guess you’d simply perform the standard check to see if a validly-formatted email address was entered.

In fact as one of the goals for BuddyPress (and therefore I assume WPMU) is to implement the Open Stack, there will need to be a way for people to signup and sign in using their email address.

@sandeepdude

I have not seen Pcrain in the forums for quite some time. I doubt you’ll get a response. This thread was started 8 months ago. Since then, the BuddyPress codebase has changed considerably and the solutions presented in this thread may be out of date.

If you have not yet read this thread, please do so.

To your point, a proper privacy component is in the works. It will be available as a plugin on a future version of BuddyPress.

marcin_albatros-

This could be caused by another plugin being improperly installed. Do you have any plugins besides BuddyPress and bppicture-album installed and activated? If so, what are they.

And try reading burtadsit’s post here.

Lots of people run into this issue, not only with BuddyPress but almost any php web package. Web hosts just don’t want to allocate that much memory to their users unless they need it.

My guess (and this is a long-shot) is that you cannot leave the field blank once you’ve entered something in there, but BuddyPress also won’t lock you into that screen if it is.

Otherwise users could find themselves in all sorts of redirect problems going from profile group to group.

I haven’t tried that part yet myself though.

If there’s 5 required fields on the page, and you fill in 4 of them, in my opinion it should still save the 4 you filled in.

I hooked it up here locally. I see what you mean. Its because we have to reset all the array keys to start at zero and have no gaps. The template loop stuff is funny like that.

$my_excluded = array();

for ($i = 0; $i < count($this->blogs['blogs'])-1; $i++){

if (in_array($this->blogs['blogs'][$i]->blog_id, $my_excluded)){

unset($this->blogs['blogs'][$i]);

$this->blogs['total'] = ((int)$this->blogs['total'])-1;

}

}

$this->blogs['blogs'] = array_merge( array(), $this->blogs['blogs'] );

The last bit with the array_merge() does that.

http://buddypress.pastebin.com/m63458c5c

It’s either that, or get used to keeping track of several versions of each component.

There’s a reason web developers ask to get paid as much as they do.

@annointed, if I try …

http://community.anointed.net/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/avatars/1/500x500_sucker2-avatar1.jpg

…or…

http://anointed.net/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/avatars/1/500x500_sucker2-avatar1.jpg

…or…

http://community.anointed.net/wp-content/blogs.dir/30/files/avatars/1/500x500_sucker2-avatar1.jpg

…or…

http://anointed.net/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/avatars/1/500x500_sucker2-avatar1.jpg

…the avatar still doesn’t appear at all. Unless WordPress is hi-jacking the direct path somehow, I can’t manage to find that filename anywhere.

Anointed-

You already have an active thread on the same topic here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=3146

What you are reporting is related to this known bug. You can read more about that bug here: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/775

Brian-

I see that you are new to the BuddyPress forums. So, first things first, welcome!

Now, so as to help you more successfully navigate these forums, a few rules of the road. First, look at the sticky topics at the very top of the main forum page. There are a lot of useful, key pieces of advice that can be found there.

Second, posting in a 2-month old forum that is marked resolved will most likely not get you very far. Why? Because many of us skip over forum threads marked as resolved, looking to spend our time on issues that are still bothering members. Please read this thread for more tricks of the trade

Third, be careful when looking to follow advice in threads that are more than a month old. BuddyPress is a new platform and as such is evolving rapidly. What worked a few months ago, may no longer apply as better, easier to implement solutions get added to the core functionality. Therefore, if you cannot find a relatively recent thread on a topic, it is best to start a new thread just to make sure things have not changed–or to learn the proper way of doing something if they have changed

Finally, as to your question:

Where is the core? It is mentioned everywhere in this forum and I can’t find it for the life of me.

The core files are the primary BuddyPress files that are found in /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/. Whereas some of them start with “bp-core-“, in general, all of the files found in the /buddypress/ directory are considered core files.

catincoach-

This thread is very outdated. A lot has changed in BuddyPress since this thread last had activity 3 months ago.

If you are simply looking for where you can change the text of the menu buttons “Home”, “Blog”, “Members”, “Groups”, “Blogs”, then it is found in the header.php file of both the home and member themes.

Hi,

Where is the core? It is mentioned everywhere in this forum and I can’t find it for the life of me. As a result, I am stuck, unable to follow the wonderful suggestions here.

I am using WordPress MU 2.7.1 and Buddypress 1.0.1

Thanks,

Brian

Hey:

I have read and reread this forum post to discern how to find and edit the nav bar names.

I am using WordPress MU 2.7.1

Buddypress 1.0.1

Facebuddy theme

Burt says: “- header.php in both the home and member theme dirs bp_nav_items() > bp-core-templatetags.php function bp_nav_items() ” but when I look in my files in the control panel, I can’t find it anyhwere.

I know this is super easy but I think I am missing a very basic file breadcrumb trail.

wp-content -> themes -> facebuddy-home-theme -> ?

I have looked in file after file for Burt’s mention of bp-core-templatetags and there is no bp-core that I can see anywhere or any kind of templatetag. What am I missing?

Thanks,

Brian