[disha76]

In the page: /admin.php?page=bp-settings
select Allow activity stream commenting on blog and forum posts

Now when I click Comment below an entry in the Activity page a text box opens and allows me to comment. I am using standard theme. I do not know compatibility about third party themes.
What is your site url?

I can send comment from Activity to a blog post and vice versa bit not Like/Favorit it which is almost insanely critical error I find with BP.

[djsteveb]

Looks like someone has forked or remade / resurrected this. From the support threads for the activity stream types block thing on wp repo; lenasterg.wordpress dot com/2014/11/14/bp_block_activity_types/

Says code is posted on github instead of wp repo – can anyone confirm this code is good / safe to use?

Why does buddypress dot org forums throttle and block me from posting half the time? meh. I have to cut up links, remove words. Another why we can’t have nice things, thing, I guess.

[valuser]

Bril.

Thats great cos i’d imagine this topic will be of interest to many bp users and will be searched for.

Having this shown/done properly on the forum is particularly useful and this is, if i may so, the way forums should work !!!

Pidgin code and get out jail solutions (that may work) put up by rank amateurs (like me) should ideally always be corrected.

In fairness, most are.

Thanks!

(Sermon over)

[Henry Wright]

I just wanted to see the code you linked to. I try to avoid visiting bit.ly links when posted in forums as who knows what lives there 🙂

Where abouts are you using the link you’re trying to create?

[djsteveb]

Without knowing everything exactly the way you envision, from reading:

4 different categories where different Contributors can write new posts and interact with the Participants in the forum (better way to comment and reply to questions using the forum, than WordPress’s commenting system). These Contributors, however, must have their own public profile and allow for Participants to subscribe to their posts. So far, I’ve used different plugins:

I think if you drop buddypress… do a WP MultiSite install – with 4 sub blogs… look into creating “author pages” – not all themes do that well out of the box… a simple subscribe to blog plugin for each of the 4 blogs.. I think you can install bbpress and mix it with each sub blog – but I have not messed with bbpress in a while, so not sure the best way to connect that.. I think you can enable to the bbpress “sitewide” then each individual sub blog author and enable it or something.. then code that into the sidebar if each blog.. that would do everything you have said I think.. maybe that will get you in the direction you are trying to go.

I suggest searching the wp plugin repo for plugins that are “multi site” enhancements.. look into “author pages” in the codex, and search for themes that have special author pages to make experimenting easier..

[danbp]

hi @xuanling,

there is no forum in BuddyPress. You can use bbPress if you want group forums or a general forum.

Answers to your other questions are here:

Configure BuddyPress

Installing Group and Sitewide Forums

[djsteveb]

@sbraiden – I had similar 24 second page load times, and tried to get advice for enqueing, dergistering, and compacting the multiple and overlapping java and css all these plugins attached to buddypress are mixing in on top of the themes stuff.

Y Slow gives my BP site with basic plugins an “F” – WP professionals shrug it off – meh.

(more one all that here: http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/deregister-enque-compact-css-and-java-jquery-buddypress-load-time )

I have a sneaky suspicion however that my load times were an issue for me when logged in, and perhaps being logged in as an admin, I THINK that the (stupid) wpmudev dashboard plugin was slowing down my page load speed dramatically more than anything else. It was strange that after I complained of my long page loads, that 2 days later wpmudev had an update for their dashboard thing, and then my page load time went to like 3 seconds. – Coincidence, maybe, nothing definitive. – Everyone else said the pages loaded fine – so maybe it was just an admin thing – or maybe my ghostery blocking gravatar loads or something.

ANYHOW – in regards to hosting, I have a small buddypress site running fine on a shared server with amerinoc. I have one that is fairly busy running fine on a dedicated server at certified hosting.

I personally think that most important thing for a WP based site to perform well is blocking all the bad bots.

I have found that blocking all the naver and badu spiders (And most others) with a robots/txt file has decreased the sql over load (at peak times) on my servers by more than 80%.

I found that hosting a few wp sites on a shared server or dedicated could cause problems not just with spiders crawling pages too much too fast for indexing, but also all the attempting account creations / account brute force logins – even if they are blocked with something like sucuri or limit login attempts – every time they tried to login – they were using up server resources to load the login page, then hit the database to check credentials.

I also suggest using a pwd auth like explained here: http://support.hostgator.com/articles/specialized-help/technical/wordpress/wordpress-login-brute-force-attack

locking down the login with a double thing like that is fine for most WP installs, and a private family / friends BP site should be fine – when the bots can’t login through the first thing there is no need for wordpress to load a bunch of php / css files and pull from SQL a bunch of times just to give a bot a failed login – It becomes a problem for general open to the public buddypress comms I guess.

Now I set all my non-BP sites to use the double auth, I block all search engine bots aside from the top three selectively with robots.txt – and now just about any server can run fine with wp / bp – especially if some attention is paid to plugin overhead, wp-cacheing tools.

I have my fingers crossed the new bp-mediapress (sp? and Beta!) plugin thing will decrease the plugin overhead of rtmedia and offer a better alternative for pics and stuff.

Same random thoughts – I’m not an expert so take my 2 cents with a grain of salt or two..

[danbp]

This forum is in english only. 😉
If you prefer assistance in french, please feel free to ask on http://bp-fr.net

This happen sometimes when you login as admin while having a user session open in another window.

Clear your browser cache and try again.
If it doesn’t wwork, check your whole BP settings and resave the pretty permalinks.

[paulgriffiths]

Thanks so much for all the very prompt help!
I have however already found this code when I searched for the problem in the forum and have already added it to mt functions.php file so (to be clear, not trying to be rude) I am seeing the behaviour you describe with comments on blog posts created AFTER the “site tracking” function was turned on in Buddypress settings. Comments on blog posts created before this was turned on are ignored.

If I go to the dashboard I can see I can see the last comments on the system – see the user admin has replied to an old blog post and the user griff (me) has replied to a new blog post:

However under the Buddypress Activity feed only the comment by me is showing:

[danbp]

Questions regarding a third party plugin should be asked on that plugin support forum.

Subsidiary question to you: how can a code snippet or WP know the difference between the mystery man picture and your grand’ma picture ?

As you know, WP uses Gravatar and some other services. You can deactivate the mystery man to use one of them in replacement. At least a more colorfull alternative, even if it’s not the answer you expect. 😉

[danbp]

hi @osamanuman,

as you asked the same on the polylang support, i would recommend that you wait for an answer of the plugin author.
I’ve never used that plugin, anyway, by reading the description it appears that Polylang is a tool for translating any kind of WP content.

Of course BuddyPress is a WP plugin, but as it use pages differently as ordinary WP content, i don’t think that you can use Polylang to translate BuddyPress pages using the plugin default behave: translating by content. You’ll probably have to try the option translate by directory name.

While searching the support forum, i found this, about BP compatibility. Discouraging.

If you read attentively the documentation, you will see that it becames very difficult/complicated to translate BuddyPress because of some permalink settings.

[danbp]

Post author is a wordpress concept. And WP doesn’t allow authors to delete comments.
Search about caps on WP Codex or see on the WP forum if you find some help.

[Ben Hansen]

another thing you can try is re-saving your permalinks if you haven’t tried that one yet. beyond that you are probably beyond my ability to help but maybe someone else who knows more either here or on the bbpress support forum maybe able to help you further.

[lemond404]

Thanks. Downloaded and reset the defaults for the participant role to no avail. I also created a new user with no results. It appears this is only affecting the participant role.

I also noticed that the forums page was not accurately showing the latest(freshness) post in each category – i.e. the latest post listed was older than the most recent post once you click through into the category.

[lemond404]

Yes I went down the list, checking each time and none resolved this issue.

When Participants click on the forum topic, they get redirected to the new post submit form, and can also post. I deleted buddypress and reinstalled but I’m afraid whatever changed in the role is deep in the code.

[danbp]

Post, activity, forum comment button ?
Site url ?

[danbp]

You couldn’t reply because you’re adding to many links. This forum accept max. 2 URLs per post.

Error 500 is generic message for multiple cause, wich are out of the scope of this support.

If you need a professionnal help, please post your demand on BP Job Board forum.

[thammavongsam]

hello sir i tried to reply this thread but i am unable to add Reply

please let me know i am getting 500 error in my forum.
here is my some of 500 error pages ../forum/reply/3936/, ..forum/reply/4223/

its around 250+ 500 errors please can you fix this problem?

[MOD EDIT] purged unecessary URLs. You mentionned your site in the first topic.

[valuser]

The page at https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-multi-network/ states

Multiple WP networks can be created with either:
▪ WP Multi Network
▪ Networks+

I use Networks +.

There may also be other combinations of plugins that may work.

Googling “wordpress”, “buddypress” “multi-network” or “multinetwork” should be sufficient to come across the few others that may fall into these categories – such as Networks for WordPress at https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/networks-for-wordpress and BuddyPress Multi Network at http://buddydev.com/plugins/buddypress-multi-network/ .

Examining all of the them as well as studying their support forums would be useful in making a decision on which combination to use for your particular requirements.

Given that a multi-network plugin will essentially hold the entire show together I would venture that it is well worth the research you are now undertaking.

Just to be perfectly clear, I am an open source enthusiast but I am not an open-source absolutist though some are and are perfectly entitled to be.

If something works, saves hours of time when compared with other items, is supported and is reasonably priced I will use it (when my budget allows) and will say so.

But, I can only vouch for what I know works.

I can only vouch for, in this case the plugin I cited above, and the continuous free support over a number of years, which comes from recognised top class developers.

This support alone should ordinarily have cost many $X,00s, bringing the price of said plugin deep into negative figures – i.e considerably less than free.

[danbp]

Activation and registration are WordPress dependant and are not only “BP components”. These pages may not be created automatically, depending your WP settings… But according to the error message, you have now to create them.

I understand that you are a bit confused, as you’re in a discovery phase of BuddyPress.
But you should also understand that i can’t explain step by step the whole Codex (WP & BP!).

I guess you have to read the doc very attentively. Searching the forum or simply reading some topics will also help you to understand how all this is working.

Install first correctly WP and BP and use one of the Twenty theme, the time for you to learn a bit more. Once you’re comfortable with WP & BP, start your theme development.

[danbp]

Ok, you’re in an intense learning stage ! 😉 But i’m affraid i can’t help you to do this.

– the theme used on this support is a custom work and doesn’t exist for public.
– for other questions, yes, it is better to ask one question by topic.
– googling around “wordpress toolbar tricks, customization” bring very helpfull result. But if php is not your cup of tea, i would recommend you to not try to modifiate it.

Rome wasn’t made in one day.
Reading this forum is a good starting point to learn how BP work’s.

[danbp]

You’re welcome !
bbPress and BuddyPress are TWO separate plugin, and you’re here on the BuddyPress support. 😉

If you have questions related to bbP, please visit their support for better chance to get the right answer.

As it is a bit unclear what you’re doing with buddypress for the moment, see here about vbulletin import into bbPress.

[danbp]

I guess you do it wrong.

If you need an extra page, the usual method is to copy the page.php file of your theme into your child-theme and make your modification in that file.

See WP and BP codex for this.

To show an xprofile value somewhere, and specially outside of the profile loop, you just write a function for that and add it to your child-theme functions.php

This forum is full of examples of how you can do this.

As example, here’s a snippet to fetch a profile field with the ID 42

function bpfr_field( $custom_field ) {
	global $bp;
	
	// is xprofile component active ?
	if ( bp_is_active( 'xprofile' ) )
	
	// fetch the user_id. Mandatory.
	$current_user = wp_get_current_user();
	$current_user_id = $current_user->ID;
	
	// fetch the data
	$custom_field = xprofile_get_field_data('42', $current_user_id); // 42 is a field ID
	
	// show the data
	echo '<div class="authorinfo">'. $custom_field .'</div>';
	
}
add_action( 'myfield', 'bpfr_field', 1 );

And at the appropriate place on your template, you add an action hook

<?php do_action( 'myfield'); ?>

No need to reinvent the wheel or to call wp twice. 😉

[valuser]

Try bp multi network https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-multi-network/ AND Networks + from http://wpebooks.com/networks/

Networks+ is a “premium” (small) plugin written by one of the authors of bp-multi-network and numerous (about 30) other plugins in the WordPress repository and it is fully supported.

Using buddypress and bbpress together with those two plugins you will be able to have separate communities with separate activity streams, forums, groups and blogs all in one wordpress installation and in one database. Membership is shared.

There may be other combinations of plugins that may work. The combination above does work.

[elamarti]

ok I’ll be more precise: my website should contain early 4 communities each community must have these forums, members, groups, wiki, blog .I also like to have the possibility to add other communities if needed and of course it all in a single site. I hope to be clear