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If you’ve found a bug or improvement, please open a ticket on trac.

As @djpaul mentioned earlier, the terminology is important because ‘comments’ can refer to 2 things:

• post comments
• activity comments.

Post comments are handled by WordPress and are stored in the wp_comments database table (see here). Activity comments are handled by BuddyPress and are stored in a custom table created by BP called bp_activity (see here).

@harry4039 – Another useful bit of information for you:

Wordpress.com runs on WP-Engine, which is where we are now hosting our membership/lms/e-commerce WordPress site, and we have seen massive improvements in speed at their premium levels.

It is important to note that the level of concurrent users you’re talking about requires serious server scaling, especially when those users have profiles and are interacting constantly. The premium levels at WP-Engine start at $600 a month and go up from there, but since we have an extremely active user base, the non-profit I’m working with is going for it.

The support has been phenomenal, and while we still have some slow action on the backend at times, the front-end is more than twice as fast.

Also, we use Disqus for comments, which also greatly reduces server load since Disqus handles all the comment parsing and data flow. Unfortunately, their theming and customization options are seriously lacking (you can choose light or dark theme, woohoo!).

I’m really into testing the limits of WP and BP right now, and so far they handle well, though lots of development, fixes and customization are needed on a regular basis due to updates and bugs on a big stack of plugins. Good luck with yours!

~AA~

Footnote: I do not work with, nor am I associated with WP-Engine or Disqus in any way. 😉 In fact, I host most of my smaller sites on Dreamhost, and have generally thought $1K per month for hosting to be outrageous before now.

@mineo

Slovak BuddyPress lang community declares that the files are fully translated.

False ! According to the GlotPress stats, the buddypress translation is only 64% translated.

You have to finish the translation.
Download the po from glotpress
Update that file from the pot file who comes with BP 2.1

Use poEdit to do this.

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-2-1-bp-language/

Hi @dwsowash

You can create a child theme and then add your custom CSS to your child theme’s style.css file. Check out this article on Child Themes to get you started.

This plug-in lets you get everything. Worked great for me.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/export-user-data/

Ah, so this exists! https://wordpress.org/plugins/export-user-data/ Will check it out now…

UPDATE: It worked perfectly. Whew!

How can this be? I have been going about having my people put all this valuable data into the site assuming I could pull it into a spreadsheet at any time. Is there no plug-in to add this functionality?

Users ought to be exportable along with everything else in WordPress.

Hi again,

you may follow these summarized steps to enable suggestions for @-mentions in the groups component, furthermore for group forums:

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5934#comment:description

Assume all will make it to the next release.

Best regards.

So how do you get the themeing for buddypress if the wordpress theme does not support it?

Since you’ve been using BP Template Pack, you need to remove it. Read this article:
https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/bp-17-upgrading-template-packed-themes/

You might need to restyle a few things in your CSS to make it gel with your theme though.

In BP 2.1, we have removed pagination counts for the activity component due to performance reasons by default:
Changes to bp_has_activities() queries in BP 2.1

If you want to add it back, change your custom activity-loop.php template from:

<?php if ( bp_has_activities( bp_ajax_querystring( 'activity' ) ) ) : ?>

to:

<?php if ( bp_has_activities( bp_ajax_querystring( 'activity' ) . '&count_total=count_query' ) ) : ?>

Note: I haven’t tested this, but let me know if this works or not.

You should submit an enhancement ticket on trac.

@masten7
To post content a user will be required to be logged in out of the box. For the media part you can use one of the following plugins:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-media/
or:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-activity-plus/
To force the user to create a profile before interaction with the site you can use this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-force-profile/

@shpitzyl,

buddypress comes without theme. BP Default is the old theming method used before 1.7/1.9 and bp-legacy is the template system needed by BP to show his stuff. This part is more or less used (depending the project) to work together with almost any theme.

2013 or 2014 are the themes coming by default with WordPress (it’s easier to write 2014 than Twenty Fourteen)…. These themes are known to work with BuddyPress, and that’s why you constantly see on this forum some advice to activate one of them for debugging.

Hueman is a free responsive wordpress theme, with several internal settings which are, for the most of them, deactivated out of the box. If you never worked with such sort of theme, it can be a little complicated to get it to work right with BuddyPress.

If you use a child-theme, read attentively the theme and BP documentation about child theming, you probably missed something. I use it on a test site and have no counting issues.

If the issue still remain, you have to follow the usual debug cycle: deactivate all your plugins except BP and track the culprit.

And if you use some custom code in functions.php or /plugins/bp-custom.php, remove them, so you can test your install without any external influence. Pure WP+BP code only while debugging ! 😉

1st:

is the child theme folder in the wp-content/themes/ folder

The child-theme folder is, were you have placed it.

The child-theme folder should be on the same level of your folder-structure as your parent-theme (“comprehensive theme”)-folder.

E.g.:

• I have a folder wp-content/themes/reddle – for my parent theme
• and a folder wp-contentent/themees/reddle-child – for my child.theme

2nd:

Theme Name: BuddyPress_GSN

Template: buddypress

I don’t know, whether it should work your way as well, but I do not refer on the BuddyPress-theme, rather on my WordPress-parent-theme – so, in my case the style.css of my child-theme beginns with:

/*
 Theme Name:   Reddle Child
 Template:     reddle
*/

3rd:

You have to connect child- and parent-theme – in my case it is (as next line of my style.css) on the one hand:

@import url("../reddle/style.css");

And on the other hand you need a functions.php within your child-theme-folder as well. In my case it starts with:

<?php

/**
 * Enqueue stylesheet
 */
function reddle_child_theme_stylesheet() {
	wp_enqueue_style( 'reddle-child-themestyle', get_stylesheet_uri() );
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'reddle_child_theme_stylesheet' );

4th:

Finally you have to activate your child-theme. You do this within the admin panel of your WordPress-installation:

http://1a-spielwiese.de/wp-admin/themes.php

In the case, that you have installed WordPress MultiSite, you have to activate it on the network level as well:

http://1a-spielwiese.de/wp-admin/network/themes.php

Cfr.: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-2-1-bp-language/page/2/#post-200308 (section 2nd).

5th:

I don’t know, whether it is state of the art – anyway it works for me:

I insert as well my changes regarding my WordPress parent-theme as well as my changes regarding BuddyPress into my wp-content/themes/reddle-child/style.css.

Further reading:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes#How_to_Create_a_Child_Theme