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The actual number of plugins won’t be the issue, you can install as many as you like. Instead the issue will likely be due to some rogue code inside of one of them. It’s pot luck as to which one is the culprit. My advice would be to switch to the Twenty Fifteen theme and then deactivate all of the plugins, one-by-one, checking each time if the problem has been resolved. Once you’ve identified a particular plugin then you could open a support ticket on the plugin author’s forum notifying them of the problem.

If you get to the point where you’re using Twenty Fifteen, with no plugins activated, and the problem remains, then let us know here.

Hope this helps!

Hi @goakes

This is most probably a theme issue. Which theme are you using?

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 102 bytes) in …/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 108

134 MB is an awful lot to just access the member directory. There must be a reason why so much memory is required. Is it possible to list the plugins you’re using? And also, which theme are you using?

Had the same problem, it was a theme-incompatibility problem on my website, changing the theme helped. Don’t know if this helps, or if you still encounter this problem, but I thought I should tell you. 🙂

Hi @milenushka

tested with another theme

Which theme did you try with?

If you define a contexts argument in the bp_activity post type parameter, it allows you to controle the front dropdown filters where the option will be output : see https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/function-examples/bp_activity_set_action/ for a full explanation.

If this is still not working, i can see 2 explanations :
1/ The active theme is a standalone BuddyPress theme or a theme that overrides some templates without being ready for the way of fetching activity filters introduced in BuddyPress 2.1 see : https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/activity-dropdown-filters-in-templates/
2/ Or the post type is registered within a subsite scope and not registered network widely.

Hi @alextuesday

2,200 active members shouldn’t be cause for concern so the next thing that springs to mind is your members template (i.e. your theme). Can you try activating Twenty Fifteen to see if the problem resolves?

Hi @sssimonooo

Check out the article on Customizing BuddyPress Avatars

Hi @alexfa08

It’s great to hear you’re thinking of theme development particularly for BuddyPress.

There’s lots of things to consider, but The Theme Review article is a good place to start. It details some guidelines as well as standards and good practices.

Try using my theme “Maximus” back after three yrs
http://strapboot.blogspot.com/2015/02/maximus-buddypress-theme.html

This will need some design work and maybe a custom filtered recently active members widget or a custom member directory template for this part of your homepage…

Design (be inspired) – Widget

My 2 cents about your question is it would be difficult to answer.

The site you mention is not a WordPress install.
Visually:
The used theme is nice and if you check what exist for WP, you’d probably find a similar one.

Functionnaly
as you say nothing about your project, it’s difficult to tell if BP is adapted.

Generally, imitating an existing site is not a good idea. WP and BP are powerfull enough to let you get unique.

Conclusion:
this is a firstly a support forum, with not much advices around pro and contras. There are many specialized sites around design and BP usage to let you make an opinion.

You can begin here by reading the about page, the blog and the whole forum.

Good luck ! 😉

hi @rhoward8419,

the issue could be theme related. Wich theme do you use ?

Interesting discussion 🙂

First i’ll explain why i’m using bp_is_active( 'activity' ) : it’s just an extra check to be absolutely sure the activity component is active. I do it because BuddyPress is a set of components you can activate / deactivate from the BuddyPress settings. So if the activity component is not active, no need to add Post Type activities. And when you develop a BuddyPress plugin, you need to remember there can be configs that deactivated the component you are extending.

Second, about the contexts argument. In this codex page https://codex.buddypress.org/plugindev/post-types-activities/ i’m describing a bit his role
Here https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/activity-dropdown-filters-in-templates/ i’m talking about the way we are getting the activity types since BuddyPress 2.1 And finally reading this page https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/function-examples/bp_activity_set_action/ you will see the interest of the contexts argument.
In short the contexts argument is a way to control where you want an option (activity action) to be displayed. For instance if you want to include an option into the single group’s home page dropdown filter you do contexts => array( 'group' )

In the case of a post type, i think in most cases there’s not a great interest to have the activity filter in the group’s single home page because in most cases the post type have been created out of a BuddyPress group (mainly in WP Admin actually). That’s why in my example i suggest to use 'contexts' => array( 'activity', 'member' ), ‘activity’ means display the dropdown option into the activity directory and ‘member’ display it into the member’s profile. The ‘member’ context is interesting in the case of Post Types activities because a post type is always created by a user_id.

Now with the question “could it be possible to display Post type activities into a given group’s stream ?” we must understand this part 'component_id' => 'activity' Here you are defining the component you want the Post type activities to be linked to. So you could say cool! lets put ‘groups’ to have activities in groups. But here you’d be wrong because all generated activities would be displayed in the first group the one having the id #1 (If multisite it could give another illusion…) Why id #1, because it’s the id of the blog where was created the post type. So you would need to have a different value depending from which group the post type was posted. As in core we don’t include a feature to post a post type from a group, by default we are setting the item_id field to the current blog.

Unless you want to arbitrary display the activity in one particular group, i’d say this need should only concern Plugins extending the Groups component. Of course it’s possible, and i’ve done it for one of my plugin.

I hope my explanations will help you @youmin.

Looking at that theme I can see it states it’s BP compatible, however they state compatible to:
BuddyPress 2.1.x.

Plugin authors and theme authors are the ones that need to check and if necessary update their work to be fully compatible with each BP release, same goes for WP releases, so hopefully the theme authors will check their theme over and release any necessary updates, if, that is, it is a theme issue.

So this ‘dropdown menu’ is not the WP adminbar just the themes main WP menu bar?

Have you checked with the theme authors whether this is something they’re aware of?

These issues, although I understand the apparent common denominator seeming to be BP, will tend to be something that perhaps the theme, plugin or whatever third party code was doing wrong or didn’t account for, BP tends to be pretty well tested, as there are quite a few of us working with it and the trunk code day in day out and bar the inevitable minor issues that crop up after a release there tend to be few major ones.