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You could try using the WordPress API, there is a function called login_redirect()

/**
 * Redirect user after successful login.
 *
 * @param string $redirect_to URL to redirect to.
 * @param string $request URL the user is coming from.
 * @param object $user Logged user's data.
 * @return string
 */
function my_login_redirect( $redirect_to, $request, $user ) {
	//is there a user to check?
	if ( isset( $user->roles ) && is_array( $user->roles ) ) {
		//check for admins
		if ( in_array( 'administrator', $user->roles ) ) {
			// redirect them to the default place
			return $redirect_to;
		} else {
			return home_url();
		}
	} else {
		return $redirect_to;
	}
}

add_filter( 'login_redirect', 'my_login_redirect', 10, 3 );

You need to add something like the code above your child theme functions.php file, or you can create a plugin and add this code to it.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/login_redirect

I haven’t read that article but I mean using a complete WordPress install as a testing environment. It’s important to have something separate from your live website.

I use a shared hosting environment and performance is sluggish at best and I’ve taken a lot of time to develop a theme that is barebones with regard to what WordPress and BuddyPress both give you.

So, you may want to setup in an environment where you can be provisioned for more hardware resources or better hardware.

Like Paul says though, there are many successful sites out there. I’d do your research and speak with the host.

I’m not savvy in this area, only speaking from experience,

The bp_activity_add action fires at the end of adding a new activity item. So you can hook a custom function to that and add your custom post within that. Here’s an example:

add_action( 'bp_activity_add', function( $r ) {

    // Insert a new post.
    wp_insert_post(
        array(
            'post_type' => 'activitfeed',
            'post_title' => __( 'Hello world', 'text-domain' ),
            'post_content' => $r['content'],
            'post_status' => 'publish'
        )
    );
} );

Ref: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_insert_post/

> Whats the maximum visitors you can have on a site using your plugin and wordpress

There is no easy answer for this. WordPress runs well on a variety of small to extremely large sites. Scalability comes down to the exact code being run on the site, the amount of traffic and user interaction, and the infrastructure supporting the site.

Using a metric such as “number of visitors” isn’t particularly useful when it comes to community or e-commerce sites, because those require lots of user interaction, and that impacts performance differently to “read-only” sites. By that, I mean like newspapers, where visitors just read articles.

The member filtering isn’t going to work like that by default. You’d need to write some code, though I think it’d work.

The bigger question for you is to decide how you want the BuddyPress/social data to behave across all these sites. You either want to activate BuddyPress network-wide in WordPress, or consider enabling multiblog mode: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/customizing/bp_enable_multiblog/

“heavy traffic sites WordPress and plugins will struggle with a bottle neck being caused”

Kindly explain the above in detail as to how your external php developer reached to this conclusion? If he can specify the bottlenecks would help

PS: i do run couple of BP+WC enabled sites and it does have tangible traffic and i dont find it slow or sluggish

You can create a multitype form with html and process it with PHP, or an existing WordPress function.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_handle_upload

You would need to modify the database to store your file upload paths also.

Sounds like you’re using a theme that’s stopping this or when you publish a post you have it set to private.

It’s more for WordPress forums given posts are a WordPress feature and not a BuddyPress one.

Look at your theme files, index.php and look for anything that looks like it’s making those posts only accessible to logged in users. Something like is_user_logged_in().

You’d have to add a custom “Print” button in your template. Or perhaps you could use a WordPress plugin.

If you go the custom code route, here’s an article that might help:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16894683/how-to-print-html-content-on-click-of-a-button-but-not-the-page

The login page is not handled by BuddyPress.

Please post your issue on the WordPress support forums:

Support Forums

It’s most likely a plugin conflict somewhere.

BuddyPress registration page is quite big, it has a lot of inputs.
You can install a widget, called (BuddyPress) Log in. Here is info about it.
If you use Jetpack, there is a module there, that gives ability to define widgets visibility. Here are other plugins: one, two & etc.
Thus you will have ability to define, that this widget should be displayed only on Registration page in sidebar (or any widget zone that is defined in your theme).

Or you can manually edit BuddyPress template files and include a shortcode or PHP code to display a login form in any place of your registration page. See docs for that.

There is a project re new templates. You can join the effort. More info…

@tutorbe @mongmuon @kinstahosting – Thanks for testing on HHVM. I’ve confirmed the bug and have a patch ready:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/7197/7197.01.patch

Please test and let me know if it works for you.