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Hi! I must admit that I love buddypress. But the activity page has not been well thought for the common usage. I agree that being able to collapse comments easily would be a huge step forward for the plugin. It should actually be in the options. Another option that is a MUST is the possibility of making updates the default, not everything.
Without those, Buddypress is not going anywhere. With those buddypress would be a revolution.
I have looked for info everywhere and nothing worked for me. I really love the plugin, you guys are awesome but please consider those two elements as usability necessities. It’s not just details.
I am running with everything updated wordpress, buddypress everything. Please help, anyone, peers?

This worked beautifully for WordPress 3.8 + Buddypress 1.9.1. Thank you!

Sounds like i’m doing the same thing as you. See this tutorial which works very well. I use a modified version of it everywhere on my site – to load more posts, load more members, load more messages and even load more search results. Hope it helps.

Load Next WordPress Posts With AJAX

Try ensure your wordpress, theme and plugins are up to date, clear your browser & restart your computer.

Try ensure your wordpress, theme and plugins are up to date.

Is there any update on this? I’m a WordPress expert, but just starting to dabble into Buddypress. I’m experiencing the same problem and tried applying the patches, but it didn’t seem to fix the problem. I’m using the Huddle Theme (Purchased), also having same issue with Frisco Child Theme.

Any timeline on 1.9.1 roll out?

if you are talking about editing the regular wordpress profile fields from the front end the same way you edit the extended buddypress profiles that may be part and parcel with a feature i am currently lobbying for for 2.0 which is the merger of the two, both fronted and back.

if that’s something you’d also like to see or is what you are trying to accomplish then i would urge you to enter this code patch as a ticket in trac:

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org

and while you’re at it please take the survey for any other input you have as far what you’d like to see for buddypress 2.0 i believe today’s meeting is where the new features will be scoped so the next few hours could be the last chance to give your input:

2014 BuddyPress Survey

also if you want to attend the devchat itself it’s held on irc at 20:00 UTC every wednesday on the channel #buddypress-dev

if you do not have an irc client you can use the web browser version here:

http://webchat.freenode.net

hope to see you there!

CORRECTION: the feature scoping has been postponed until next week.

because of its nature (membership site where content differs depending on being logged in vs. logged out content) the best caching solution for buddypress is partial page caching (aka fragment cache), something that sort of exists and sorta doesn’t.

my suggestion is to take the BP survey and to add your voice for it so the developers know there is real demand:

2014 BuddyPress Survey

more info:
http://chrislema.com/high-performance-wordpress-membership-site/

Fragment caching in WordPress to optimize site speed for logged-in users

https://bitbucket.org/Rarst/fragment-cache
https://wordpress.org/plugins/fragmentcache/

you can find your version by click the little wordpress logo in leftmost position of the top admin bar. your question lacks the necessary details to give much specific help but it sounds like there maybe be an issue with your theme or a plugin interfering with the normal registration process. those are probably somewhat dangerous to be messing with if you don’t know what you’re doing but you can try deactivating your plugins one at a time or switching to the default wp theme to see if you can isolate the issue. Some themes will lose certain settings when you switch but most good themes should not.

@scottwermter thank you. Will report this.

Edit – Done. https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5337

Hey I’m actually having a lot of trouble with this too on a few websites…. WordPress 3.8, BuddyPress 1.9, few plugins, VPS with over a ram of memory each (not enough imo but whatever) and cachhing… the site is plenty fast enough on Pingdom tests and WebPagetest.org… but the add friend functionality is painfully slow….

Cicade, did you ever find any culprits here? Has anyone else noticed with this with BP 1.9? I had not before, with 1.8. Just curious if this was solved, or if anyone else is seeing a problem/has a solution.

Just for the record, I was having the same issue and upgrading the wordpress to 3.8.1 from 3.5.1 resolved the issue completely.

Right, so 36824 is a valid member ID?

Inside the /36824/ folder you should have some files. These will be the avatars that particular user has uploaded. Now I’m not sure about this but in the past I don’t think BP deleted old avatars when a member changed their avatar.

Are you using BP 1.9? This should be resolved going forward:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5044

It might take a manual clean-up to remove the old avatars left over from pre BP 1.9 change-avatar user actions.

Should I put a noindex on the /uploads/avatars directory?

That wouldn’t do any harm.

I think you can use the default Xprofile fields for this.

Just add a new tab ‘video’s’ and another tab called ‘photo’s’ and let them copy-/paste links to YouTube-/Flickr and others inside a multi-line text input field. ( Xprofile )

I believe the WordPress Embed service will auto complete those links into embedded video’s and images.

If not –> Search: BuddyPress auto embed xprofile – something like that.

Actually, this is exactly what BePro Listings does. Its a wordpress classifieds listings plugin which works with buddypress. Members can create and manage listings from their buddypress profile and their creations show up in the activity feed.

You can setup google maps, cost, and several other features 100% for free. beprosoftware.com/products/bepro-listings
[deleted extra link- no ads please. mercime]

You are right about job board or marketplace type plugin’s being out of date and complicated to hack. BePro Listings is constantly being updated and has a plethora of wordpress hooks and filters for expansions. In fact, that’s how the plugins/addons all work together, because BePro Listings is so extendable. Its built to fit into any wordpress theme

Regards
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BePro Software Team

Hi, I have a similar problem. Is there a way of making a user role that will work in the wordpress site but not show up in buddypress.

@ubernaut – thanks for the kind words and your feedback during the dev

@henrywright
>like a member stats dashboard

Not sure what you mean.

http://www.philopress.com/products/buddyreports/ is meant to be a flexible Administrator tool. Therefore access can be restricted.

There is this plugin for front-end graphs.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-activity-graphs/

i believe the blog posts are actually handled by wordpress (usually by re-assigning or deleting post by your choice). everything else besides private messages i believe get erased along with the user.

Mike

WordPress and BuddyPress are set up to work in different languages provided the alternative language files are available and installed.

There is a difference between running a site purely in another language, vs. having an existing site be able to switch between languages.

If the site will be purely in Spanish that’s straightforward, you have to just load the WordPress and BuddyPress Spanish language files. If you want to switch that’s more complicated and you will want to use a plug-in to achieve that.

If you are switching between languages, there’s the question of the WordPress & BuddyPress text (the buttons, things like “user1 posted an update 10 minutes ago” etc., and then there is your content, your words and the page, the menus etc.

You’ve got a bit of reading to do to learn more about this.

Start with https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language

For BuddyPress you can use this plug-in to make sure it loads the latest Spanish language files:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-translations

There are a bunch of plugins for maintaining a bilingual site that all work in different ways. Try WPML or qTranslate to get you started (although you may find they do not fully support BuddyPress, you’ll have to try them or contact the developers to see.)

TL:DR; is it’s very straightforward for standalone sites in a different language, but pretty complex for multi-lingual sites that you can switch between languages.

@thisisbbc I actually did a little digging on this a few months ago and found out that there are two functions that perform the ‘syncing’ of data.

xprofile_sync_wp_profile()

This syncs Xprofile data (nickname, first name and last name) to the standard built in WordPress profile data.

xprofile_sync_bp_profile()

This syncs the standard built in WordPress profile data to XProfile.

Hope this helps.

Thanks to Qball7686 for posting a freely-available theme that runs into this problem.

I have a tentative fix for this. See:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/5301/5301.01.patch

If people who are having problems with their themes can test this fix and let us know if that works for them, that would be great.

WordPress was designed just so that people who didn’t know how to code could build custom blogs and websites.

No it wasn’t actually, it was originally just developed as a blogging app to be better than those that existed, and in the early days before the theme api or the plugins api were introduced you would have had to have some knowledge of basic coding. The notion that it should take all the effort and requirement to learn a little basic coding skills out of the equation didn’t really develop until much later.

I’m sorry you feel aggrieved at the level of help or that you perceive an attitude from some here as for referring to the ‘Devs’ that is likely a little unfair, for the most part they are busy developing the core app and knowing most of them I can say that they don’t have an attitude or ever put anyone down.

>You are lucky that you have users here helping one another, because for the most part they are the only one I see providing any support.

No not lucky this is how forums have always been intended to work, this is a classic volunteer help forum and it’s the general users that help out and return to the project or community their knowledge and experience to help users like yourself who hopefully in turn then help out others in turn.