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1GB RAM is a minimum, 2GB RAM is ideal. As you scale up you may need more. On a good server setup you can actually see live (via SSH) how much of your RAM is being used up and how much is free. If you’re bottlenecking, you can contact the hosting company to add more RAM or bump you up to the next server. That is not the same as migrating to a new host… if it’s within the same company they should handle it for you seamlessly in the background.

Another option is to use Amazon (AWS) instead of a private server and it just scales up automatically as needed – they mostly charge by data rather than by server. They will be more expensive for most sites and will be slightly harder to set up, but they are also incredibly scalable.

A CDN isn’t really a “cache” in the way you imagine W3 working. It’s only caching resources (stylesheets, images, javascript files, etc) but not caching “content”. Your resources usually don’t go stale because they are not updated often. And if you do it properly, the cache can be broken any time you update a resource (by adding a version number to the enqueue in your theme). The version number gets appended to the URL of the resource, so if it changes the CDN thinks it’s a different file and immediately serves up a new file.

Content does go stale. By content I mean the data that is outputting for everyone to see right on the website. Like a profile, activity page, member directory, etc. This is the stuff that plugins like W3 are primarily used to cache (among other things as well).

You can integrate a CDN very easily using WP Super Cache. You can just turn off the content caching stuff and use it only for pushing your resources into a CDN. It’s a set it and forget it kind of setup for the most part.

If you happen to be in the Miami area on May 9, I’ll be speaking about scaling BuddyPress at the BuddyCamp (1st day of WordCamp Miami). http://2014.miami.wordcamp.org/
Should be a fun event.

@pswanson22
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/customizing/changing-internal-configuration-settings/ has the following:

Set which blog ID BuddyPress will run on:
define ( ‘BP_ROOT_BLOG’, $blog_id );

Where $blog_id is the actual blog id number…

You could be using an older theme, which needs the new notification templates.

Contact the theme developer and tell them to look at the following change:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/7688/

Take note of the five additional files that need to be created and the change to /members/single/home.php

You could create sidebar-buddypress.php and change the BuddyPress page you are using to load this particular template:

<?php get_sidebar('buddypress'); ?>

That would be one way of doing this.

All of those are good.

Also, the BuddyPress code is on GitHub if you need to reference quickly

https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress

ajax.php is for bp-default theme. Theme compatibility uses buddypress-functions.php

If you don’t see Buddypress in Dashboard > Appearance > Menus make sure you check your Screen Options at the top of the page.

It is not a BuddyPress related question, but here it goes. At CSS-Tricks, Chris Coyer is using this plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/live-comment-preview/) to allow the user to preview their answer in the bbPress.

It is not the topic, but I think you can make it work.

@focallocal As far as I understood, you are trying to create a different layout for the Group Home Page.

If that’s the case, I’d recommend you check the Theme Development Documentation (https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/), you would create a custom template for the Group Home Page and let it the way you feel best.

Now about embedding a forum in a WP page, I know bbPress have the shortcodes (https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/), you could check in the documentation how to make what you aim for.

http://www.siteground.com/buddypress-hosting.htm

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/xprofile-check-if-user-can-view-field/

@boonebgorges I have a suggestion for this:

What about not using second query at all.

As long as I can see, this is only used to know if there is more pages and to decide if we need

	<li class="load-more">
		<a href="#more"><?php _e( 'Load More', 'buddypress' ); ?></a>
	</li>

So instead of second query we can get $per_page + 1 activity but return $per_page and instead of total, return $has_more which is function like this:

if(count(activities) < $per_page)
  $has_more = false;
} else {
  $has_more = true;
}

I have used such think with infinite scroll and it works. On the other side I’m not sure about performance but with all my logic, this should be better.

Hi Im using the twenty thriteen theme and I have set up the BP plugin according to the tuts and created the register and activation pages but they WILL NOT show up on my main page. I saw them there for literally 3 second once but then they disappeared and I can not get them back.

Anyone have any ideas on this?
Thanks

actually just found this

Twenty Thirteen Theme

? Is this a BuddyPress related question, if so you’ll need to be clearer on what you want to do.

BP 2.0 adds bp_activity_add_meta()

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/bp-activity/bp-activity-functions.php#L658

But I’m not sure you can have same key. There is $unique which seems to imply you may have multiple values.

// cc @boonebgorges

Please write in english on this forum ! 😉

Normally you can download pt_br.po/mo files from
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/buddypress/1.9.x

Have also look here:
https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/

Maybe read here too:
https://codex.wordpress.org/L10n:Localization_Teams#Portuguese_.28Portugal.29_-_Portugu.C3.AAs_.28Portugal.29

Or see what you can find here
http://wp-translations.org/

Code did not reflect change! There should be easy way to remove “all members” tab in buddypress stream without breaking the theme.