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I’ve seen Achievements, but I don’t think this allows users to rate the QUALITY of other users’ comments eg. with star ratings.

I already use Cubepoints and have it setup such that each comment made gives a user 1 point, and the more points they have the higher the “rank” they have, eg. 25 points = Bronze, 50 points = Silver, 100 points = Gold – that’s all good. I think you’re supposed to be able to assign badges to each rank too, but I can’t get that to work for some reason with the Cubepoints Buddypress Integration plugin.

Anyway, I want to take this further and distinguish users based on the QUALITY of their comments. So to do this I need users to be able to rate each others’ comments. Doing this by star ratings would be preferable. Eg. if a user makes 5 comments, and 3 of those comments were rated 5 stars (out of 5) by other users, that user would have an overall rating of 5 stars based on 3 votes. Hence, people can identify this user as a higher QUALITY poster, to some extent at least.

The premium version of the Rating-Widget plugin does exactly this!

BUT, they are having some troubles with the load times of websites due to some issues with “Rich-Snippets” (my website becomes very slow when the plugin is activated), so I am looking for another alternative as I’m not sure how long it will take for them to fix this.

With GD star ratings I couldn’t find a simple way to do this, though I suspect it is possible with some customisation.

Will check out MyCred, but it looks similar to Cubepoints

Hi Henry! Thanks for taking some time with this.

I have tried that, but have limited knowledge of php, so the whole thing crashed. I copied the function.php file from buddypress, put it in the child theme’s folder, and then inserted the code after the initial <?php. It crashed. So then I cut it, and put it at the end, it just displayed the text, so then I cut it and put it right before the final ?>

I’m doing something wrong, just can’t figure it out.

We’ve already confirmed its BuddyPress. The sess files are not generated when buddypress is off. But im not even sure that’s the primary issue at work, it could be something else I am unaware of…

You saying BuddyPress incompatible with WooCommerce?

Genesis theme on suspicious0bservers.org site as well

After deactivating BuddyPress the server has not crashed..

Thanks for your quick response. Has about 3000 users. The users have the ability to create Groups, upload avatars, etc. There are about 100 Groups. I noticed that it seems to be filling up our /tmp/ folder with billions of sess files so I increased /tmp/ folder to 8GBs. I used to get alerts as that folder would fill up, but now it just crashes without warning. We have 8 active sites on our server, only three of them are resource intensive, including this one. We also have WooCommerce store on the suspicious0bservers.org site. Any more info I can provide please let me know.

AD

@boonebgorges, thanks for following up. Each network does have it’s own set of wp_x_bp_* tables, and I noticed that when I post an update from one network, it gets added to the tables for the other network; it was apparent because the URL pointed to the network the update came from.

Backing up a moment, I was all fired up to debug this, but last night I sat down and looked at my goals again, and BuddyPress fit in if it was a path of least resistance. I’d hacked at this for a week before posting here, so maybe had I waited a bit longer I wouldn’t have wasted the effort. I am not going to use BuddyPress on my sites, but I wanted to make note of what the database was doing, in case it is helpful later on.

If this is a common issue, then I am sure someone else will bring it up. If it is only me, then we won’t have to worry about it. Keep up the good work! ^_^

@modemlooper, thanks for your earlier assistance.

The Code from “SOLVED: Limit Members Loop by Profile Fields” seem easy to implement. I added this to my function.php

// to exclude only defined roles in the Buddypress Members LOOP

function exclude_by_role($exclude_roles) {

$memberArray = array();

if (bp_has_members()) :
while (bp_members()) : bp_the_member();
$user = new WP_User( bp_get_member_user_id() );
$user_role = $user->roles[0];
foreach ($exclude_roles as $exclude_role) {
if ($exclude_role==$user_role) {
array_push($memberArray, $user->ID);
break;
}
}
endwhile;
endif;

$theExcludeString=implode(",",$memberArray);

return $theExcludeString;
}

I then added this to my member-loop.php

<? $excluded_roles = array ('administrator', 'author', 'subscriber'); // this can be any roles you have set up
	if (bp_has_members( 'exclude=' . exclude_by_role($excluded_roles) . '&' . bp_ajax_querystring( 'members' ) ) ) : ?>

Unfortunately, it still is not excluding any of the specified roles. I took a look at the second example, but not sure where to put the code. Any suggestions?

Thanks for sharing. It seems to be happening with all browsers. Just frusting to explain it seems to be a prob and waiting to find a fix and clearing out my security logs hehehe.

Hope someone will come up with a fix or a great solution.

Thanks again for sharing!

William

I am looking to hire a developer (project only) to help me with my site. I posted on the wordpress jobs link, but I’m needing somebody that is more familiar with buddypress and creating dynamic lists within a groups page, to be specific.

Is there a place I can post this to let the BP experts (Not just WP) know?

Thank you,