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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
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You are right about job board or marketplace type plugin’s being out of date and complicated to hack.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.

Hi @glyndavidson,

Please read this ticket hoping this can help you to understand more about bp_moderate capability.

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4991

hi @scimea,

Check
wordpress.org/support/topic/mention-privacy-multi-select-features

Regards.

I use a WordPress theme I made to accomplish this. I’ve been asking on the forums if anyone wants me to release it for free but I’ve had no response/ interest from anyone yet. https://buddypress.org/support/topic/flat-portal-client-area-child-theme-of-twenty-thirteen/

It has all the functionality you want.

I made it so that only admin can see all the users and only friends can see each others profiles if not admin.

I have created the buddypress sidebar in the themes settings.

@queertownabbey per layout of all your BuddyPress pages, the default page.php layout is full-width. Since we don’t have access to the premium theme, will refer you to examples of we’ve added sidebars to pages which are full-width by default at https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/bp-theme-compatibility-and-the-wordpress-default-themes/ specifically with the Twenty Eleven theme

https://wordpress.org/plugins/persian-world/

Hi @johnjamesjacoby

http://www.helpmemove.ca/wordpress/

That is the website I am developing. It is a WordPress single site. Basically I need admin to be able to see conversations between members in the activity stream or see the private messages between members.

Using the BP Activity Privacy plugin I can set the activity stream option to “admin only” as a member, but this stops the member I mention from seeing the message!

I need the admin to see conversation between a “member1” and “member2” whether it be via activity stream or private messages, but other members should not be able to see it.

Basically only admin, member1, member2 need to be able to see a conversation. Wondering if there is any way to do this!

Thanks,
Adam

Hey @jetlej.

On WordPress multisite, Super Administrators can edit/see/delete anything they want to. It’s their site, after all, so they are free to police it.

On WordPress single site, all Administrators have the same privileges as above.

We have been slowly rolling in the concept of moderator capabilities into BuddyPress for the past few years, though it’s not quite in a place yet where it’s been fully audited and integrated to be able to add/remove explicit permissions.

It’s not ideal for everyone, but it works well for most. Can you explain more about your setup and how this is an issue?