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I use a shared hosting environment and performance is sluggish at best and I’ve taken a lot of time to develop a theme that is barebones with regard to what WordPress and BuddyPress both give you.

So, you may want to setup in an environment where you can be provisioned for more hardware resources or better hardware.

Like Paul says though, there are many successful sites out there. I’d do your research and speak with the host.

I’m not savvy in this area, only speaking from experience,

@madmarc read up on it here

Theme Compatibility & Template Files

Try asking the theme author to add BuddyPress support. It’s easy for themes to support BuddyPress ever since the template hierarchy went live in BP 1.7.

The member filtering isn’t going to work like that by default. You’d need to write some code, though I think it’d work.

The bigger question for you is to decide how you want the BuddyPress/social data to behave across all these sites. You either want to activate BuddyPress network-wide in WordPress, or consider enabling multiblog mode: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/customizing/bp_enable_multiblog/

Try this (the second function adds the course title):

function customize_page_tracking_args() {
    if ( ! bp_is_active( 'activity' ) ) {
        return;
    }
     add_post_type_support( 'sfwd-courses', 'buddypress-activity' );
 
 
    bp_activity_set_post_type_tracking_args( 'sfwd-courses', array(
        'action_id'                         => 'new_sfwd-courses',
        'bp_activity_admin_filter'          => __( 'Published a new course', 'custom-textdomain' ),
        'bp_activity_front_filter'          => __( 'Course', 'custom-textdomain' ),
        'bp_activity_new_post'              => __( '%1$s wrote a new course, <a href="%2$s">[Course]</a>', 'custom-textdomain' ),
        'bp_activity_new_post_ms'           => __( '%1$s wrote a new course, <a href="%2$s">[Course]</a>, on the site %3$s', 'custom-textdomain' ),
        'contexts'                          => array( 'activity', 'member' ),
        'comment_action_id'                 => 'new_sfwd-courses_comment',
        'bp_activity_comments_admin_filter' => __( 'Commented on a course', 'custom-textdomain' ),
        'bp_activity_comments_front_filter' => __( 'Course Comments', 'custom-textdomain' ),
        'bp_activity_new_comment'           => __( '%1$s commented on a <a href="%2$s">Course</a>', 'custom-textdomain' ),
        'bp_activity_new_comment_ms'        => __( '%1$s commented on a <a href="%2$s">Course</a>, on the site %3$s', 'custom-textdomain' ),
        'position'                          => 100,
    ) );
}
add_action( 'init', 'customize_page_tracking_args', 1000 );

function new_sfwd-courses_include_post_type_title( $action, $activity ) {
	if ( empty( $activity->id ) ) {
		return $action;
	}

	if ( 'new_sfwd-courses' != $activity->type ) {
		return $action;
	}

	preg_match_all( '/<a.*?>([^>]*)<\/a>/', $action, $matches );

	if ( empty( $matches[1][1] ) || '[Course]' != $matches[1][1] ) {
		return $action;
	}

	$post_type_title = bp_activity_get_meta( $activity->id, 'post_title' );

	if ( empty( $post_type_title ) ) {

		switch_to_blog( $activity->item_id );

		$post_type_title = get_post_field( 'post_title', $activity->secondary_item_id );

		// We have a title save it in activity meta to avoid switching blogs too much
		if ( ! empty( $post_type_title ) ) {
			bp_activity_update_meta( $activity->id, 'post_title', $post_type_title );
		}

		restore_current_blog();
	}

	return str_replace( $matches[1][1], esc_html( $post_type_title ), $action );
}
add_filter( 'bp_activity_custom_post_type_post_action', 'new_sfwd-courses_include_post_type_title', 10, 2 );

BuddyPress Follow is one of the best. No need to worry about security or performance when using that plugin; @r-a-y will have your back 🙂

you need to hire a developer for the facebook part of your requirements…rest all is doable by buddypress

Sounds like you’re using a theme that’s stopping this or when you publish a post you have it set to private.

It’s more for WordPress forums given posts are a WordPress feature and not a BuddyPress one.

Look at your theme files, index.php and look for anything that looks like it’s making those posts only accessible to logged in users. Something like is_user_logged_in().

I am the author of the BuddyPress Follow plugin. I can assure you that there is no tracking or data stealing in the code.

The login page is not handled by BuddyPress.

Please post your issue on the WordPress support forums:

Support Forums

It’s most likely a plugin conflict somewhere.

@vitamincee – Luckily for you, some other people were experiencing the same problem with HHVM.

See:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/page-not-found-404-when-trying-to-access-a-member-profile/#post-256956

Let me know if the patch works for you.

BuddyPress registration page is quite big, it has a lot of inputs.
You can install a widget, called (BuddyPress) Log in. Here is info about it.
If you use Jetpack, there is a module there, that gives ability to define widgets visibility. Here are other plugins: one, two & etc.
Thus you will have ability to define, that this widget should be displayed only on Registration page in sidebar (or any widget zone that is defined in your theme).

Or you can manually edit BuddyPress template files and include a shortcode or PHP code to display a login form in any place of your registration page. See docs for that.

You can overload the BP templates in your theme. Read this…

Some sections do not use ajax. Changing them to ajax will be a huge task.

Hello @danbp
I have installed wp-email-smtp plugin and configured it successfully with no errors and was able to send test messages, but activation emails still would not send.

Has this issue actually been resolved?

Buddy press Version 2.6.1.1

Regards,

Fayaz

Does this error occur on every page?

Have you deactivated all BuddyPress plugins? If so, does the error still show up? If not, deactivate all BP plugins and reactivate each one until the error shows up and note down the plugin that is causing the error.

@tutorbe @mongmuon @kinstahosting – Thanks for testing on HHVM. I’ve confirmed the bug and have a patch ready:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/7197/7197.01.patch

Please test and let me know if it works for you.

Sorry if this is not clear to you: i can’t explain better.

Posts, comments, or activities of the users in sites other than where you activated BuddyPress won’t be recorded in the Activity Streams when you install BuddyPress in only one site of the network.

BP should be activated on the main site where WP is installed, if you want the whole blogs activities.

your-site/ here is WP declared as network
sub-blog1/your-site/
su-blog2/your-site/ you activated BP on this secondary blog. OK fine, but it’s a sub-blog and BP will only show the activity of that sub-blog.
sub-blog1/your-site/
etc…

dashboard > BuddyPress > settings > options > Main Settings and check
Toolbar [] Show the Toolbar for logged out users

If it still doesn’t work, check your theme settings.
You could also test with Twenty Sixteen and see if there is a difference.