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Oh good grief! @LPH2005; thank you. I’d installed W3 Total Cache, set it up and forgot about it. Then noticed terrible lagging on my BP site. Just switched off page caching and zippeee… This should go on a BP Wiki page entitled, “Things that will bite you in the ass without any warning”.

Yes, I use W3 Total Cache on two sites that are on RackSpace – and they have their own caching (known as MA) that I couldn’t get to work well with WP Super Cache and BP. Paul is correct that you must not enable page caching with W3 or it’ll be a mess. Now, I couldn’t get CDN to work with W3. Amazon is setup properly but the information was never pulled properly.

Hope that helps.

I hope this thread helps you.

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/is-wp-supercache-okay-to-use-with-bp/

Best of luck on your site.

Well these are common WP type functions – have a look at the codex.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_filter

If you’re building a site – might as well try changing it the correct way instead of informing others to hack the bp-core. (as that will just lead to bigger problems down the road for those who may not understand the changes made). BuddyPress is littered with hooks

something like:

function my_blank_activity_permalink( $content ) {
return ”;
}
add_filter(‘bp_activity_permalink’, ‘my_blank_activity_permalink’, 1, 1 );

@rohan_kapoor – install same as your configurations; check bb-config.php – sample here http://wordpress.pastebin.com/1qAdu2q3
– after correcting your bb-config.php at root, you can re-run forum creation – BuddyPress > Forums Setup and click on re-install link. There should be 7 tables of bbPress generated in database wp_bb_forums, wp_bb_meta etc. as well as a new bbPress folder generated within wp-content/plugins/buddypress folder in server.

I was getting a redirect loop on the wp-signup.php page on my sub networks

Well found out what’s causing the problem here
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/13211#comment:1

It has to do with the code that is in wp-signup.php in lines 25 -33

if ( !is_multisite() ) {
wp_redirect( get_option( 'siteurl' ) . "/wp-login.php?action=register" );
die();
}

if ( !is_main_site() ) {
wp_redirect( network_home_url( 'wp-signup.php' ) );
die();
}

Wordpress doesnt allow signups on subsites. When someone tries to sign up on a sub site, it redirects them to the main site.
I am using the multi network plugin,
(https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-multi-network/)
even though a site may be the main site for an additional network, wordpress still sees it as being a subsite so it keeps redirecting in an endless loop. By commenting out those lines it fixed the problem.

Is there a way to make a plugin for this instead of having to hack core?

members/single/home.php is the file you need to edit to see the changes take effect on the activity page. bp-template-pack is a great plugin.

The Wire feature was deprecated with BuddyPress version 1.2. If you’d like to use the Wire, try installing the BuddyPress Backward Compatibility plugin and activating the wire feature: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-backwards-compatibility/

The functionality of the wire – namely, the ability to leave short messages for other users – has mainly been replaced by the @-mention feature.

If you want users to have their own individual blogs, you’ll have to activate WP Network mode. If you want them to be able to post on your main BuddyPress blog, they’ll have to be at least Contributors. If you just want them to be able to post messages for others to see, then perhaps the status update feature will be enough.

@elizawhat; Your post made me think, and I checked our (not yet) live site, which does require email confirmation. Mostly I’m thrashing around at home with a local xammp installation, and can’t remember what I did to make the live one require email conf. The plugin linked to below should do it, although it’s not activated in our site..! Something in WP or BP lets you require email confirmation, but I can’t remember what.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-xtra-signup/

Would mm forms work?

Buddypress profile fields are not standard WordPress though. They’re in complicated database tables called xprofile, so if you want to integrate it with anything else fuggedaboutit. You’ll need custom coding.

@joyceborneo – Read these instructions and follow them as your life depended on it!
http://developersmind.com/2010/06/17/upgrading-wordpress-mu-2-9-2-to-wordpress-3-0/

For the other people in this thread, the above might help, but might not depending on your use case.

@alanchrishughes – Here’s such a tutorial to integrate WordPress and standalone bbPress:
http://www.techblog.viveksanghi.com/2009/12/bbpress-installation-and-deep-integration-with-wordpress/

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-email-login/

If your theme isn’t 100% complete, then it won’t get accepted into the repository. It isn’t due to lack of responsibility, but quite the opposite. Themes in the WordPress.org repository are available to more than 10 million blogs all around the world. If 1% of those blogs try to download and install a broken theme, that’s 100,000 people that are frustrated instantly.

When the bp-default theme has broken bits and pieces in it, look what happens in these forums!

The best way to put your theme out there and get feedback on it, is to post it up on your own website, and use it. Setup a test installation and let people see what it can do, and have them use that website to give you that feedback. You can even setup your own group on this site too if you’d like.

Save uploading your theme to the WordPress repository as the icing on the cake; your reward for a job well done and a theme well created. Your audience, and your spare time, will thank you for it.