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@shanebp

1- I do understand this, but if you change a filter and use it like that for a while, and then want to change it again, your existing data will stay unchanged. To me the solution is to not have a filter for things that won’t be able to be manipulated later on.

2- Building dynamic strings may be ever so slightly slower, but it’s the reason I love WordPress – To have the power to easily and dynamically change data.

The main reason I want to make changes to the code is because BuddyPress currently provides a specific way to output things, example:

“Author Name posted an update in the group [group avatar] Group Name, 14 hours, 00 minutes ago”

A: None of the links have a class set (except for the time) Meaning that I can’t add CSS to increase the size of “Author Name” without affecting “Group Name” and vice-versa. So I was trying to manipulate the filter to add a class.

B: I want to change the order of the output, for example if I increase the size of the group avatar I would want to move it from where it is completely. Not very flexible for people who want to make the line work/look a certain way.

Another example of this problem is the avatar sizes:

If you define the avatar sizes, example:
define ( 'BP_AVATAR_FULL_WIDTH', 300 );
any avatars from activity/groups previously created will still use the old avatar size.
So if you set it to 300, and then I want to change it in the future to 100 and change the design/CSS, all the existing activity will still show 300 and look bad with the new CSS.

WordPress works this way to with image thumbnails, however, you can force a regeneration of them using a plugin.

In short, I am finding that BuddyPress is a great plugin but it seems to me that for the activity (the most important aspect of the plugin) you are stuck into using/showing it how the BuddyPress developers decided was the best format/look, because changing it via filters will result in headaches if I install my custom filters on a site with existing BuddyPress data.

If there were a way to regenerate the activity database to update everything with the filters/sizes set, that would solve most of the more obvious problems.

To be more specific:
I use BP Registration Options to approve new users in order to keep a clean member profile directory with completed profiles and avatars. The only problem is that the member count on the Member Directory page is not updating.
Any insight into how Buddypress adds to the member count. I believe it is when a new user logs in for the first time but I cannot locate the code to figure out why it is broken.

I do have the BuddyPress to WordPress profile syncing enabled. I did add the code above as you suggested, however it doesn’t list the correct profiles.

But strictly speaking, it doesn’t seem like a bug, it seems like it was intentional way of working.

Can a BuddyPress staff member confirm there is nothing we can do about this in the current version? Is there any way to rebuild or regenerate the data to use filters/code alterations?

When you save activity data to the database, surely the “translatable/filterable/variable” parts of strings (such as “X posted an update”, etc) wouldn’t be included and would be put together using functions?

The way it is now (and without being able to rebuild) customizing the plugin seems strictly limited by nature.

Hi,
i was thinking if there is a plugin for chatting like that of facebook,skype or yahoo messenger where it shows some one if he is writing or not.
i was thinking if there is a plugin for an audio and video call. is there?
also a plugin for a group chat.is there?
Do buddypress have such a plugin?
what about the plugin for connection, like people you may know just like Facebook?

Hi Hugo, thanks you so much for your kind reply.
At the time I created this post, my Buddypress template is “messed up” in every browser.
Then I tried to solve it, I deactivated some plugin and found that it seems there is a conflict between several plugin with Buddypress.
After that, my BuddyPress already get well again..

Thank you so much.

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@synaptic

a fragment caching system

I totally agree with you, and would love to see fragment caching in BuddyPress (or more generally in WordPress)

That being said, if WordPress doesn’t include caching in core, it’s highly unlikely that BuddyPress would. If you created a ticket for this in Trac, it would probably quickly be closed as plugin territory.

The quickest way of getting this implemented would be to convince the author of FragmentCache or Fragment Cache or Redis cache to add support for BuddyPress.