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Thanks for the info.

With the tweaks I have in place (a few core changes even), I’m thinking of setting up a second install of WPMU and BP and a separate database, just to test our modifications on the latest versions, just so there are no nasty surprises and the site won’t be offline longer than need be. I may keep this running in parallel, testing the new upgrades, making changes, them moving it over. See any problems with something like this?

Thanks so much.

I’m using the object-cache.php file from Donncha as the only caching that I’ve installed. This seems to be the much of the space – If I drop these, will performace be slower, or will data be lost? Would you suggest the wp-super-cache instead?

I don’t have many blogs – one, basically, (the main BP blog, but it has 10,000 posts, but they’re not really posts, long story). It’s a complicated integration where I’m using BP for the community side of a larger site with 123,000 members migrated into WPMU/BP.

There isn’t much spam do deal with, thankfully.

Thanks again for the info.

Hi and thanks for the Answer!

The volonteers are working in different cultural institutions. E.g. schools, Goethe Institut, german broadcasting, museums,…

I search for a way, that it is possible to seperate e.g. the users. So for every new generation of volonteers a own Group of volonteers. But it shouldn’t be a normal group of buddypress.

It’s a good idear with the tags. But there are volonteers who go abroad for 6 months and others for 12 months. So these who are abroad for 12 months are going to get mixed with those who start half a year later.

I need a way to seperate every half year the users into Groups like “Went abroad in Sep 2009” / “Went Abroad in March 2010”,…

Sure, it would be nice if everyone could stay in contact to each other. So if the new have questions they can ask.

Hmmmm… I siply don’t have an idear what to do.

Thanks a lot of following answers!

Philipp

Thanks Travel-junkie! I was able to make that work in the status! One more questions if I could…is there a way for instance, if someone embeds a youtube video that I can force the size?

I have never received any answer on teh original questions and I am getting really tired of deleting the splogs that happened only after installing Buddypress.

Just the last few hours 5 splogs registered, all with name-surname19xx as username, all from different email domains.

I know it is not too much to check every blog, check every user, mark him as a spammer and add the email domain to the sh*tlist under options.

But the point is that before BP I had to do this less than once per month. So I repeat, hopefully somebody wil;l at least answer the2nd question (hopefully the first as well, but I fear a standard ‘ask the plugin-author’ reply):

“So my questions to determine the best action to make sign ups easy but splogs difficult:

– why won’t the WPMU sign-up question plugin work on the BP register page? Is there a way to fix that?

– More importantly: Can the register page be renamed? If so, which file(s) and what other (internal) links?”

Many thanks,

Cheers, Harry

Yes: Deep integration, killed the old data and chose “new bbPress Installation” (if I would have known what you just mentioned with “using an existing install”, I guess I would have done this, because I understud that wrong).

Sadly I don’t have the old bb-config.php anymore (from deep integration), so I cannot do this. Besides the old config-file I tried that reinstall option a couple times (as far as I can see, this just creates a new bb-config.php in the root).

Some thoughts/questions:

1. Why does it after the upgrade not work at all. with BP 1.1.1. and WMPU 2.8.4 at least the newer groups which never had any forum-data from the depp-integration-time had in them worked…

2. When my Test-Install on the same server works it seems to me that there must be somewhere any leftover data from the deep-integration-times that confuses the new forum-setup. So wouldn’t it help to find out where (in files, db, etc) is ANY information regarding the forums stored (like my question above about the wp_bp_groups_groupmeta table). That way we could work our way through…

Ps: In the process I already deactivated ANY Plugins (not only BP-related) – but it did not change anything. So it seems it’s not a plugin conflict…

SocialPreneur,

I get the fact that resources such as moderators time and community time is scarce and thus should be treated properly.

As you said:

**Buddypress doesn’t provide blog functions, it doesn’t provide user management**

How do I know if something is an intended effect of the software or a glitch. *..ask a question…* Like they say: “There are no stupid questions”

* I realize that you are an “Expert”, but many are not.

* I realize that you have self appointed yourself as the adjudicator of all things relevant in this forum.

I dont understand why ‘you’ dont understand:

…The question was asked.

…The answer and guidance was given by a simple link.

… I appreciate Xevo for it, and Im a little wiser.

Im frustrated not by the process, Im frustrated by your curt attitude and unhelpful response. (Simply stated, its unproductive)

It is exactly your response of “go somewhere else attitude” that has given buddypress the reputation of having poor support.

Get over it! The question was asked and an answer was given! Move-on!