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@hnla I suspected that this was probably a WP-Engine issue and that there wouldn’t be much you guys could do. I came here out of hope rather than expectation in case someone on here had experienced a similar issue and had some tips or advice.

With regards to the number of users there are a large number of fake/spam user accounts (I estimate 10,000+) that were registered on older versions of WordPress/bbPress before we upgraded and switched to CloudFlare and WP-Engine which has reduced spam considerably. We have also gradually been deleting obvious fakes but as you can appreciate this is a laborious task.

WP-Engine have refused to temporarily increase the resource limits to see if that enables the BuddyPress installation to complete. At this point I think I’ll try downloading a copy of the site and see if I can run the BuddyPress install on a local LAMP/WAMP setup and allocate 1GB+ to PHP memory.

@hnla This was my advice from WP-Engine:

After extensive testing on the staging site to determine what is causing the errors when activating BuddyPress, I was able to rule out a conflict with all other plugins (including our own) as well as conflict with your theme.

The problem is that your site has almost 38,000 users. I was able to prove this by deleting all users except the “admin” and “wpengine” user from the staging site. Then, I installed and attempted to activate BuddyPress. This time it activated with no error in less than 10 seconds.

I recommend removing users from your WordPress site if possible. If not, then you should contact BuddyPress support to determine how to activate BuddyPress with so many users.

@mercime I’m reluctant to move host (unless I find another host that can guarantee a solution) as WP-Engine are normally quite good and I recommend them to most of my clients. Their advice was to come here for support on this particular issue.

Thanks for the input. I did try it in the default buddypress theme and it works. Its my theme that’s interfering. I did contact them and they are so busy with the new release that it’s not on their radar. I may just install buddypress in another subdirectory and link over to it… just try and make it look similar. the problem their is then I can’t have them share user login’s with both instances.

thanks.

@sbrajesh @mercime @naijaping
This is a rough draft of what I would like to do. All icons functional, and only appearing in header after the user is logged in. I hope this will help explain what I am doing. Thanks everyone!

@mercime Thanks but that is not going to accomplish what I am attempting to do. I can’t find anything in the codex that explains how this would be done either. The codex helped me figured out a lot of stuff about customizing BP but there doesn’t seem to be any documentation about notifications in the codex or on google. Is there anyone you can direct me too that could explain how I can get this done or better yet add some documentation to the codex regarding notifications? I would be very grateful to anyone that can help me resolve this. Thanks for your help!

Thanks @mercime! I will try out pcwriter’s tutorial and let you know how it works for me. Again, you have been awesome!

but it is not working. i have tried so many time

@sbrajesh actually I would like to get it like facebooks notifications somewhere in the header using similar icons to dispay friend requests, messages, notifications and when you have anything then the icon will display accordingly just like facebooks. If anyone can offer assistance I would appreciate it.

Thanks @mercime,

DynamiX theme was fixed within hours of asking the author, with the removal of the line I posted above. If anything he was glad of the head up in relation to changes that are coming. (Best support on a theme I ever had IIH)

Now, with the release of 1.7(b)2 My Ajax issues are a thing of the past also.

BuddyPress is my friend again 🙂

I did all the basic’s but it  still did not work , so I uninstalled both and installed bbPress 2.3b2 and buddypress 1.7b2 and it seems to be working now.