BuddyPress.org

We used to use an AJAX spinning GIF, but removed it due to various theme issues:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4610

I’ve added a patch for an alternative to the throbbler in 4951:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4951

It uses a progress bar animation for the background of the button.

@henrywright
Unfortunately no updates. The wireframes have been done for a while, but I don’t believe a decision has been taken.

@ciromanigrasso
Please visit and chime in at
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4132 and https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5583

@simpleone,
you found the reason why it doesn’t work on one site and not on the other !
1.9.1 and 2.0.1 are sligthly different BP version !
And the function you mention whas only introduced in BP 2.0, so this can’t anyway work on previous versions.

Actually there is a small bug in BP 2.0+ when using this function to modify profile groups. I opened a ticket about this and @imath provided a patch that works and let the function handle correctly on profile groups. I personnally use this function to conditionnally show/hide fields from the base group without problems. My profile form contains over 20 fields in differents groups, even Base, and are all required and viewable by members only.

I advise you to cancel whatever you have done about this so far, to apply the patch, to add the function to bp-custom.php and to test again.

Check out this article on what hooks are and how you can use them to interact with WordPress and BuddyPress:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API

Are you on a apache or a windows server ? phpinfo() will show you if mod_rewrite is on and server softaware on use.

What is writen in your htaccess file ?

If you’re on IIS, read here.

The only one I have personally tested is this: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-moderation/

It’s clunky but seems to work. I have no idea what mess it might create in the database.

For any community or social networking platform to survive, it’s essential that content moderation can be divested to and distributed amongst the end-users. IMHO this sort of functionality should be bundled with BuddyPress.

In addition, i woud warn any user who want to use bp_parse_args to exclude profile groups (exclude_groups only), that you will get a php warning.
To avoid this, please read this ticket and apply the patch (BP 1.5 to 2.0.1).

@localiseorg

Thanks for the info about these block user plugin options! I have my fingers crossed that the one in the wordpress.org repository will work as advertised.. but it says it is plugin v1.beta – and says compatible up to 3.6 (or something like that)

Have you have a chance to test these to see if they work as intended? Any idea if installing and running them for a little bit and then decided to deactivate leaves behind problems with the database or anything?

Check your permalink settings and re-save them.

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/before-installing/#wordpress-configuration

Hi @rybo3000,
Perhaps you can use BuddyDrive, who works on profiles and use many many mime types (so far you selct them). Not a “post”, but each uploaded file is handled separatly, profile by profile.

Use Multi site WordPress install for that. If you want same use base but separate activity stream then use the following plugin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-multi-network/

@amid11 you could use WP user meta to tally the ratings. +1 for an up-vote and -1 for a down-vote. Querying by user meta is supported by WP_Query – see here:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Custom_Field_Parameters

@godavid33 that plugin is actually free. Maybe tear open the code to see if a solution jumps out at you? Just an idea.

Regarding your problem, I came across the issue a few months back when 1.9 was rolled out. You need to capture the item’s ID when adding a notification. See here for some related discussion

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5389

I am having the same issue, but my url structure looks like:

thesite.com/activate/?key=4a5bb0e685b93cad4af90d46f81d2643

I am being redirected to the homepage.

Wordpress 3.9.1
BuddyPress 2.0.1

BBPress…KLEO theme. (I am not using Gravity Forms.)

Users are being created and I can see the accounts in inactive status under dashboard->users->manage signups

Fragment caching would be ideal, but that really needs to be built into BP core. You can do it on your own but you’ll be hacking up template files right and left and it will be hard to update later. A lot of effort if you don’t NEED it. I would suggest Object Caching as Paul Gibbs said.

Ideally you will use APC object caching as it’s really fast (stores cached values in RAM). If you use W3TC with file caching (default) it will not be as fast as it has to read from files.

Here’s a tutorial I wrote about how to enable Object Caching on BuddyPress:

Caching BuddyPress

Briefly:

If you are hosting with a VPS or other setup where you have server admin access, you can contact your web host and request that they install APC on your server (it’s free) and then it will be available to you as a very fast method for Object Caching. Generally you cannot install APC on a shared hosting environment. APC stores the cached values in RAM, which is why I recommend at least 2GB of RAM for ideal server performance.

Once your web host has confirmed that APC is installed and working, you will then need to enable it for WordPress with a plugin. My recommended method is with the APC Object Cache Backend plugin (as Paul Gibbs suggested). This is not a true plugin, but rather a “drop-in” file. As such, you do not actually activate the plugin. You just need to copy the object-cache.php file into your /wp-content/ directory. You don’t even need to upload the actual plugin. That’s it! As long as you have APC installed on your server and have placed the file correctly, APC-powered Object Caching should now be enabled and you should begin seeing performance improvements. To confirm that it’s working, you can type this into your browser while logged in as an admin: http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=dropins (change yourdomain.com!). It should show APC Object Cache as a drop-in, and if so, you now have a good caching method enabled.

And here’s a tutorial for setting up a CDN with WordPress/BuddyPress. This makes such a big difference and is really easy and cheap to set up. A no brainer.

Content Delivery Network

Here’s a tutorial I wrote about how to enable Object Caching on BuddyPress:

Caching BuddyPress

Briefly:

If you are hosting with a VPS or other setup where you have server admin access, you can contact your web host and request that they install APC on your server (it’s free) and then it will be available to you as a very fast method for Object Caching. Generally you cannot install APC on a shared hosting environment. APC stores the cached values in RAM, which is why I recommend at least 2GB of RAM for ideal server performance.

Once your web host has confirmed that APC is installed and working, you will then need to enable it for WordPress with a plugin. My recommended method is with the APC Object Cache Backend plugin (as Paul Gibbs suggested). This is not a true plugin, but rather a “drop-in” file. As such, you do not actually activate the plugin. You just need to copy the object-cache.php file into your /wp-content/ directory. You don’t even need to upload the actual plugin. That’s it! As long as you have APC installed on your server and have placed the file correctly, APC-powered Object Caching should now be enabled and you should begin seeing performance improvements. To confirm that it’s working, you can type this into your browser while logged in as an admin: http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=dropins (change yourdomain.com!). It should show APC Object Cache as a drop-in, and if so, you now have a good caching method enabled.

Hi, guys. Thanks for the thoughts and code around this idea. We are doing something similar for our setup at SchoolPress.me and I used some of the code here, tweaked it, and started a GitHub repo for the plugin.

https://github.com/strangerstudios/bp-site-groups

Instead of editing the loop in a template, I’m using the groups_get_groups filter to filter out non-site groups. I also have a couple checks in case people navigate directly to a non-site group in the frontend or dashboard.

If you have any suggestions, please open an issue at GitHub. Thanks.

As this firms up, I will probably move it into the WordPress.org repo.

Does the logout redirect work if BuddyPress is deactivated (i.e. if you’re just running a typical WordPress site)?