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Found a reference to changing Permalinks in WordPress to “reset” them (then changing them back to your preferred), tried that, and then my group was redirecting to it’s forum instead of a post (progress!) went back to deactivating plugins again, and it turns out it was NextGen Gallery. No idea how, just thought I’d pass it on if it’s helpful to anyone.

@barney92 I’m not making any excuses and you should know better than to attack some one over a simple spelling mistake. However I must thank you as you have made this post more active than any of my others. Maybe I will get some help.

@shanebp I know that it is a premium plugin. I know there for it costs money. However I have always been told even by the WordPress and Buddypress people that the forums are the best place to get help.

I am very new to tweaking, modifying etc plugins. I normally find whats has already been done works and does the job I need it for. A friend told me that this community was very helpful so I though some one might be able to help.

I must be mistaken in thinking that the World Wide Web was created in the spirit of sharing and helping people. Maybe I am a Hippie at hart but in the areas that I am strong if some one asks for help I help and I expect that in the areas I am weak and I ask for help people will do as I do and help.

I wish you all well with the projects your running. Thank you and Good Night!

All my plugins and my wordpress installation are all up to date.

Hi,
Thanks for your reply. The problem is that it doesn’t seem to create any error logs as far as I can see. None were created. Maybe if I uninstall wordpress and start from scratch again…

Dear Mr. Buddyboss…

Once again, thank you so much for the informative and specific reply. Two gigs of ram it shall be!

I wish I could attend your lecture…I really do. I’ve not been to a WordPress/Buddypress anything yet, and I am dying to go. Absolutely dying. I want to get far more involved with the WordPress/Buddypress company/community. We are both students (married, older etc) and are living on student loans…so for now, travel for us is limited to the bus 🙁

I have another question unrelated to capacity-should I start another thread, or may I ask it here?

cheers!

Hi @boonebgorges,

Thanks for the reply. I went ahead and set up a clean install of WordPress with BuddyPress and bbPress and all is working as it should. So, this means that it isn’t anything actually wrong with BuddyPress but a conflict somewhere with something I have customised along the way.

When I work out what it is I will post back here.

In the meantime, thank you for your hard work and good luck with the release!

Best,

Joseph

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5354

@im4th Honestly, I don’t see why BP Media should be involved since:
1. They are not even close to being the top media plugin for BP. rtMedia is (source http://mercime.github.io/buddyPress-2014-survey-results/index.html)
2. By their own admission, they have taken so many manhours to build simple functionality that it seems their approach is almost prohibitive for BP core team.

I think we should look to work more closely with rtMedia, who have built in a very short period of time a much more feature-rich and popular option than BP Media.

Also, I strongly feel we should leverage the media management capability that is already built into WordPress.

@henrywright i agree with you on that definitely, but adding some functionality that some plugins offer as built into buddypress would also help because your adding less weight from these plugins too no?

@mcpeanut I am probably the person that asks most often for stuff to be included in the core. However I beg to differ with you on this as a general principle.

I think you are right – if everything I need is in the core then the install will probably be faster than having a barebones core and 500 different plugins that I need to achieve the functionality I need. With you on that.

Problem is: everyone’s “needs” may be different. That’s why WordPress and BuddyPress are extensible systems. If there are 500 features in the core and I need only 50 and the core is slower because of that, then I would be one of the people complaining about “bloat”.

So, it’s essentially akin to drawing a line in the sand and hoping you get to the goldilocks area: a core that’s not so bare as to not be useful and not so bloated as to be inflexible or noticeably slow.

I think there are 3 (relatively) objective tests that the developers can employ when considering whether to include a feature in the core:

• Will the feature be useful for (or used by) a sizable majority (60%+) of users
  e.g. media management capability
• Will the feature be used by only a significant minority (5%+) but is mission-critical for those who use it
  Mission-critical is defined as a feature without which the whole premise of the site of community (that uses the feature) will fall apart. e.g. activity widgets, facebook likebox, Genesis connect etc are not mission-critical but multisite, multilingual and hierarchical groups are
• Do we need the feature for strategic reasons
  i.e. for marketing, competitive or usability reasons, e.g. new user activation workflow revamp

Passing any one test should put the feature on the roadmap. If multiple tests are passed, it should be a priority.