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… a limit to the number of groups & users that BuddyPress can manage; something like 20k users

There is no limit – provided you have the necessary server resources available.
There is a difference between total users and # of concurrent users – meaning the # of users that are performing operations at any one time.

It’s impossible to diag your issue without access to your server.
Some suggestions:

• Turn on wp-debug and then check error logs.
• Deactivate bbPress and all related plugins.
• Test with ONLY a WP theme like 2013 and BP

White screens can be tricky to diagnose – but a decent developer can at least narrow down the possible factors.

What is the reason that make you think that can be a plugin?

Your issues may not be due to a plugin, but your error log shows entries that are usually caused by a theme or other plugins.

Start by deactivating plugins related to activity.

If all else fails, delete BP 2.4.3 and install BP 2.4.2
You can download prior versions of BP here.

If the problems go away, you may have found a bug in 2.4.3
You can submit a ticket here with the same user/pw you use for these forums.

Try https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-profile-search/

For friend request emails, use the filter hooks in function friends_notification_new_request
located in this file: buddypress\bp-friends\bp-friends-notifications.php

For example:

function panda_friend_request_message( $message, $initiator_name, $initiator_link, $all_requests_link, $settings_link ) {

    $message = 'This will completely replace the message';

    return $message;
}
add_filter( 'friends_notification_new_request_message', 'panda_friend_request_message', 15, 5 );

Not that easy, but currently the only available method.
There is a new method being developed and scheduled for BP 2.4.5 which has a target release date of March 2016.
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6592

>> I need suggestions for how best to proceed as well on any thoughts about this feature becoming part of core.
Thank you. There’s a ticket for that https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4017 and yes, I am also interested about this getting in core 🙂 You can cc yourself in that ticket to get updated.

Hey all,
After a few weeks of searching I found the solution to this – it’s a beautiful plugin called Plugin Organizer

You can use it to disable Yoast on buddypress pages and viola!
Just create a plugin filter for site.com/members/*, /groups/*, etc. and you’re golden.

Oh and before you think of going for the new peepso platform its exactly the same I had it today and configured it and thought right here we go the button and hey presto exactly the same thing with their new version of a plugin that is meant to be able to share uploaded media straight to facebook…. I saw the networking site for the first time today and just the way the woman who created it delivered her speech was a dead give away, she knows she selling something that is not as functional as she is making out, lost a lot of respect for wordpress over this. You think they are there to help but they are just out to make money, and wont answer questions like yours, just dont care… and thats why they dont like people diving in on others topics because they dont want people getting on the same wave length… if i get this plug in sorted though am a happy man

Sharing files is not a very good topic on here…. I personally don’t think facebook want people to have the tools to share too much to their site. I’ve been looking right into this. It’s funny how facebook have been able to share to other platforms for a number of years, but Buddypress can’t even put together a simple plugin to allow you to share from the activity stream. there are many out there but they dont work, I’ve been on this for 3 days now, no sleep … I’ve also just seen a plugin for say with a demo and I checked it and it doesnt work, wont upload images but it’s from facebooks end, the app needs to be confirmed with them or the debugging software stops it picking up media… so you end up with a blank page. There are ways around it, I’ve slated buddypress past couple of days, but to be fair its a really decent platform and I now know that facebook are the culprits, though wordpress should not be letting individuals promote plugins that clearly don’t work. I havent seen one yet that does, but I think I know a fix that will get it sorted, but it’s if the programmer who created it wants to play ball…. it’s really wierd to be honest, they know they aren’t working but they are still promoting it… crazy… be suprised if you get any reply with anything to do with the scary word ‘sharing’ lol

@danbp thumbs up! 🙂

I guess I’m not going to pursue getting a forum on my site.

@ldesherl You do not need to install BuddyPress in order to get a forum. You only need to install bbPress forums plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/ which works perfectly without BuddyPress.

Ah, thanks! That works great!

Now I’m running in a more serious issue… I discovered that all the code is working, but I’m using it to display data filled in by users in the backend of WordPress (order.php). BUT the code is only showing the filled in data from the user that is logged, while I need to be able to see the data filled in by every individual user that filled in the form.

I hope you understand what I’m aiming for!

David

EDIT: I think it has something to do with this line:
$user_id = bp_loggedin_user_id();

@mrunal2989 the easiest way to center the registration page to select the full-width page template (instead of the Default Template) of your theme from the “Register” page Page Attribute box and then use CSS on the #buddypress wrapper to center the registration page. e.g. add

#buddypress {
     width: 90%; 
     margin-left: auto; 
     margin-right: auto; 
} 

to your theme’s stylesheet.

For groups, you could try this:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-edit-group-slug/

However, be aware that this will break your existing group links for those that have manually bookmarked or copied your group link.

Did you also try xprofile_get_field_data ?

You can always make a direct sql call to the database using the $wpdb global.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/wpdb

Hi mcUK!

Thanks for you reply. I’m working with Lotte on this issue.

I tried adding your code. Everything should be in place right now, but it’s still not showing the custom fields. I’m probably using the code wrong…

I tested your code with a custom field ‘Opleiding’ which I added in WordPress: Users -> Profile fields:

I added this to bp-custom.php:

<?php

function bptest_show_opleiding_field () {
	$opleiding_field = bp_get_member_profile_data( 'field=Opleiding' ); 
	if ( ! $opleiding_field  ) { 
	   return; 
	}   
	else {
	   echo '<span class="custom-field-text">' . $opleiding_field . '</span>'; 
	}
}

add_action ( 'user_opleiding_field', 'bptest_show_opleiding_field' );
?>

Then I added this to order.php (the php file where the custom field should pop-up):

 <div id="user-opleiding">
	                           <?php 
		                          do_action ( 'user_opleiding_field' ); 
	                           ?>
                             </div>

What am I doing wrong? It’s probably a typo or a wrongly added term… But I can’t figure out what it is!

Hope you can help us out! Thanks for the help so far!

David

You could activate some kind of registration honeypot to keep the spam bots out. This technique has worked well for me in the past.

Example: https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/registration-honeypot/

Regarding the confirmation email problem, this seems to be a common problem and one that isn’t easily solved. Many things can result in email going into spam, most are usually related to your mail server setup or the user’s own spam filter settings.

Try using Theme My Login.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding you, not sure from your description whether or not you have already created a child theme with your own CSS file?

https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

You can just make all your styling changes in that instead of copying various whole CSS files from the BuddyPress folders (and your changes will be kept whenever WP or BP are updated).

Also double check the box for cover photo is ticked on your WP dashboard if you want your users to be able to use them.

Hi,

generally, a 508 error means that your website is hitting one or more of the hosting account’s virtual resource limits: CPU Usage, RAM Usage, I/O usage or Entry Processes.

first thing to check is your server ressources. Use phpinfo() to get thoose information.

Then compare with minimum requirements for a WordPress/BuddyPress install.

In the meantime, open wp-config.php and activate debug mode (set it from false to true) and see if you receive some notices or warnings.

If you get a php error, such as a missing tag, you have to repair that. Or upload a new copy of an eventually mentionned file. Or if you did some custom coding somewhere, remove it or revert back…

If there is no error mentionned, it is your host plan which is not taylored for WordPress/BuddyPress. In this case, you have to change your host or plan, if you want to use the full power of WP !

You will be confortable with at least php 5.5 and a memory_limit of 64 mb