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can you please tell me what database caching plugin your using to speed up mysql queries on master / slave servers?

@ds123, your merging topics from https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/speeding-up-buddypress/

Please keep on topic please, don’t post off the wall questions.

Is there a way to minimize the comments. I would like my activity stream t show only the update until someone chooses to read more and then read the comments. I can’t seem to find anyway to do this. I am sure there is an answer but I think maybe I am not asking the right questions.
here is my site so people can see what I am on about.
http://eembroiderydesigns.com/social/

It is compatible with shared.
The missed out stuffs — for example, APC. We can’t install APC on shared hosting. Even if PHP next version include APC as default extention, it will depends on the hosting site enable it or not. Without APC or other caching software, the best of W3TC’s performence has no chance to show.
For the rest of W3TC’s functions, such as minify, loading js,css, CDN, I prefer to do it manually by myself, because I will have more control on it and it’s easier to know where’s the problem if any.
I feel a bit lost at your questions of “How to pilot”.

Looks like your manual install is broken.

Try upgrading to 1.2.8, it will give you a fresh install of the plugin. If it does not fix it, delete buddypress, and download 1.2.7 again if you wish.

If the error does not go away once you upgrade, I’ll ask you further questions.

Post a bump in your questions, I will be glad to help out. Sorry for missing them, I try me best not to

@hnla no worries, I’m just happy someone replies to my “newb” questions.

As it turns out it was my bp-custom file that messed up the forums. I will take a look on what i have put in there and if there’s anything of value to share.

regards

Your questions are targeting too many topics for a single post. There’s no way anyone can reply and get a helpful discussion going without leading to complete confusion on everything. Please post your questions again, this time splitting them into individual topics.

Thank you for providing us with the support questions! it really helps us solve your issue.

Since you say that the links redirect to the homepage, it means the files are not there/not in the right place.

Do you have a child theme, or buddypress template pack installed? Or do you have default theme?

1st. This is a Buddypress support forum only, not questions about wordpress plugins.

2. There are many plugins out there that would fit your taste, you must go searching for the right one, not us.

3. Don’t bump posts more than once every 24 hours.

So why after Boone asked you not to @mention everyone under the sun do you go and do it again? and I have remarked on this on another thread, do stop it and for a little light bedtime reading please have a look at this RFC on forum, list, board nettiquette for guidance

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Not a bad idea, not sure though that it would be that easy to add another support forum. I can see arguments against as well as for, it would need discussing a little further.

Try BP-Media:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-album/

There’s also a paid plugin for this as well:
http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-gallery/

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As for members list, you’ll have to either use a plugin or code something that restricts access to that as by default, everything is open to the public.

And regarding a forum for signed-in members, currently BuddyPress uses a concept called “Groups” (much similar to Facebook’s fan pages). Forums can be enabled on a per-group basis, and groups can be public, private or hidden.

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Hope that answers your questions for the most part!

I was looking EVERYWHERE for the same thing and nobody would answer my questions. I finally found out how to accomplish adding a tab to the nav bar.

Paste this code into your bp-custom.php file located in your “plugin” directory:

function my_test_setup_nav() {
global $bp;
bp_core_new_nav_item( array( ‘name’ => __( ‘test’ ), ‘slug’ => ‘test’, ‘parent_url’ => $bp->loggedin_user->domain . $bp->slug . ‘/’, ‘parent_slug’ => $bp->slug, ‘screen_function’ => ‘my_profile_page_function_to_show_screen’, ‘position’ => 40 ) );

bp_core_new_subnav_item( array( ‘name’ => __( ‘Home’ ), ‘slug’ => ‘test_sub’, ‘parent_url’ => $bp->loggedin_user->domain . $bp->slug . ‘/’, ‘parent_slug’ => $bp->slug, ‘parent_slug’ => $bp->slug, ‘screen_function’ => ‘my_profile_page_function_to_show_screen’, ‘position’ => 20, ‘item_css_id’ => ‘test_activity’ ) );

function my_profile_page_function_to_show_screen() {

//add title and content here – last is to call the members plugin.php template
add_action( ‘bp_template_title’, ‘my_profile_page_function_to_show_screen_title’ );
add_action( ‘bp_template_content’, ‘my_profile_page_function_to_show_screen_content’ );
bp_core_load_template( apply_filters( ‘bp_core_template_plugin’, ‘members/single/plugins’ ) );
}
function my_profile_page_function_to_show_screen_title() {
echo ‘something’;
}
function my_profile_page_function_to_show_screen_content() {

echo ‘weee content’;

}
}
add_action( ‘bp_setup_nav’, ‘my_test_setup_nav’ );

This will add a button into the nav bar named “test” which redirects back to the profile page. It would only take a bit more tweaking to get it to display the page you want. Hope this helps.

@ssmith2

Please start a new thread and repost your support question rather than hijacking someone elses thread. Supplying answers to 2 unrelated questions can only lead to confusion.

@Chaotic_Cannon, I believe @hnla meant that you could continue the thread here instead of the wp forum as @mercime frequents this forum as well as the wp forum, and this is a more suitable place to talk about your questions related to buddypress. It would be easier for mercime and all involved in this thread to follow the conversation. No reason to get defensive.

When you say you like the other forum plugins better, is that because buddypress forums are tied to groups? If so, you may want to check out this plugin which makes the forums standalone ala vbulletin (“normal forums”) etc:
http://buddydev.com/buddypress/introducing-global-sitewide-forums-plugin-for-buddypress/ For a demo, check out the sites forum.

Other then that it is possible to integrate the max theme with bp template pack. You could have your friend check that out.

Buddypress is more advanced than e.g. wp-symposium, but it is not really an out-of-the-box solution. Most likely you need help from a coder friend or you´d need to hire some to help with your customizations.

@Chaotic_Cannon You are forcing mercime to follow and respond to two threads on the same topic while trying to get you to focus on one; note the links posted! Please stop this it’s bad board nettiquette, choose one thread (likely this one given the direction of the questions) and stick to it.

This seems like the place to go with questions about the forum, so here goes:

I can’t get to the forum directory. If a user tries to go to http://www.intennis.com/forums they are redirected to the homepage. If I go to a group page and then click on forum from within the group I can see my test post (http://www.intennis.com/groups/forum-test/forum/ as an example). But the main /forum directory doesn’t work. Does anyone have any idea of what may be broken?

I had the same problem with jcarousel and buddypress, and paid a few dollars over at wpquestions to get the fix, which involved editing a line of code in a buddypress js file which handles easing. The full answer is here if anyone else gets stuck: http://wpquestions.com/question/show/id/1615

hth