Cool, thanks – admittedly, I’m a little intimidated modifying the theme code, or adding new plugins. But, I have been itching to get my hands dirty under the hood and learn how to do wordpress specifici coding, so this will be a good chance and resource to dive in. I might have to poke you later once I get this rolling. Thanks for your input Aces.
Wow I made things a lot harder than they should’ve been lol. All I had to do was replace ”!is_super_admin()” with ”!is_user_logged_in()”. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
i’m not a programmer at all, but better try this:
`function add_sumtips_admin_bar_link() {
global $wp_admin_bar;
if ( !is_super_admin() || !is_admin_bar_showing() || is_user_logged_in() )
$wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array(
‘id’ => ‘sumtips_link’,
‘title’ => __( ‘SumTips Menu’),
‘href’ => __(‘http://sumtips.com’),
) );
endif
}
add_action(‘admin_bar_menu’, ‘add_sumtips_admin_bar_link’,25);”`
Ok sorry but I’m not the best programmer. Using their menu as an example, do you mean something like this:
”function add_sumtips_admin_bar_link() {
global $wp_admin_bar;
if ( !is_super_admin() || !is_admin_bar_showing() )
return;
if ( is_user_logged_in() )
$wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array(
‘id’ => ‘sumtips_link’,
‘title’ => __( ‘SumTips Menu’),
‘href’ => __(‘http://sumtips.com’),
) );
else
false;
endif
}
add_action(‘admin_bar_menu’, ‘add_sumtips_admin_bar_link’,25);”
Thanks I got the redirect logout to work by using the function from here: http://projectivemotion.com/2011/07/27/wordpress-always-redirect-to-homepage-after-logout/
Still looking to change the link on the toolbar’s My Account from “Edit Profile” to “Activity”
You can use a template conditionnal tag.
if ( is_user_logged_in() ) :
your custom menu stuff
else
something for non logged user
endif
Hello,
what is your mother language ?
If you use define(‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘buddypress.seyte.com’); it means that “buddypres”s is a subdomain of seyte.com !
This suppose also that wordpress is installed at the root of seyte.com.
But you declare define(‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, false);
Pass this to true instead of false and see what you get.
Subdomain install needs also the usage of a wildcard declaration on your host settings.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
https://codex.wordpress.org/Before_You_Create_A_Network
If this is too complicated for you, i suggest that you deactivate all your plugins and custom theme.
Erase the wp-config file and restart your WP install. Be sure that wp is at the root of seyte.com
After this install, go to wp-admin and activate the network install.
When done, activate the buddypress plugin.
Make the setting of BP specially “blogs” creation.
Activate bp-default theme and test your install.
If everithing is working, create a new blog and test again.
Now if you want you can change the themes of the main site and/or the newly created blog.
And finally reactivate your other plugins (if you use some)
Thanks but I already understand how to add items to the menu, I’ve already done that. What code do I need to add to hide those menu items from non-logged in users?
Hi karmatosed
I am looking for a deeper integration with BuddyPress. For example, a lot of the ecommerce plugins available let your customers buy something. They even let them create a ‘shopper’ account. BUT – this ‘shopper’ account isn’t a wordpress or buddypress account.
I have my eye on WooCommerce at the moment. Perhaps there are some more good ones available?
When you say ‘BuddyPress’ the logins that people use are WordPress so if that’s all you want them to be able to do you are fairly open to solutions that work on WordPress. However, are you looking for more deeper integration with BuddyPress and your shop?
Thanks @FIQ
NextGen was only installed last week because we wanted to publish a photo gallery. The install and activation of NextGen really had little to no impact on the site — it was already trudging along prior to NextGen.
But I’ll see if I can have it load only on the photo galley page.
Images are optimized using “WP Smush.it”
Not sure what the “slider” is.
As for the widgets, we eliminated a number of them during initial setup. We need the 3-4 widgets we are currently using.
As for the theme, we developed it our self. We have on staff, a pro designer/theme-developer that develops themes for all our WordPress sites. The theme for our BP site is identical to the theme for our complementary public facing site. The public facing site runs a WP blog and it is lightning fast (on the same sever as well)
That’s a ton of scripts. My bet just by looking at it is the Nexgen is slowing things. Check these out….
Only loads Nextgen on pages where it is used:
http://www.markstechnologynews.com/2012/02/nextgen-gallery-optimizer-wordpress-plugin-helps-boost-your-sites-page-load-speed.html
Optimizes images:
http://shanebishop.net/ewww-image-optimizer/
I would limit the number of images in your slider and other basic steps. You should also limit the number of widgets you use. It’s hard to tell just by looking at what you posted. Not sure what type of theme you are using, but unless you built it yourself or are using the default theme I would bet it extremely bloated like almost all premium themes sold today.
Well I looked through both of those, couldn’t quite figure it out, I believe I am on the right track though with this website I found : http://www.peterrknight.com/get-wordpress-user-role-by-id/
Only problem is I am not getting errors, but when I try to set it as my role I also get no result, but I am going to keep hacking at it.
@travel-junkie It’s a myth yeah, but it’s not a myth that at each page load, the page is recontructed with all the plugins, filters, filters of filters, and all the rest. The amount count or better said the server settings of many details such as php memory, max_exec etc
You’re right, good coding practice is the primar condition, but who knows that when installing a plugin ? A quality plugin coded under the 4.x area isn’t really quality satisfying today. Awfull plugins writen with the feet, but doing the job (even if penibly) are(where) legion.
Most of the plugin’s user are not php guru’s to see what changed, what is good or not in the code.
Even pro developper’s are not all qualified to be quality dev’s. Go, go, go, allways faster und hektische arbeit zum schluss. You’ll probably know that. 
And what is “quality” in the wpsphere ? 5 minutes install, download a theme, a plugin by one click and bum, done ? In the best case, user will shout “it work’s !”
It’s not quality, it’s just an easy craftwork.
Aber sonst alles klar. Tchuss 
EDIT: a funny conclusion to this just posted here few minutes ago in this tread:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/bp-better-directories-abandoned/
that mentionned this (very explicit in my mind) 
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bp-better-directories-ready-or-not
@megainfo
The current version of SeoPress conflicts with group forums, you can’t edit or delete topics and shows wrong count for each forum topics list, So its unusable in my case.
@chouf1
Totally agree with regular posting and all that stuff. The problem is on a regular wordpress blog, you need to adjust seo settings otherwise you will be producing duplicated content and getting penalties from google on your rank.
Depending on the theme you use meta titles and meta description change, You may want to control that too to adjust it to your site specifics.
@fiq
As far as I know target keywords is the primary criteria search engines use to map sites and build their listings to output in search queries, why shouldn’t one exploit that to be found by the keywords he wants to and not by some random keywords that he never knows what they are?
Totaly agree with G+ circles and add Facebook, Twitter, and the rest of social networks.
When you have a site you must have a strategy for capture visitors, You have plenty that influence how your site is build. Search engines, social networks, advrtisement, you name it.
Returning to my inicial question, What’s the best way to handle SEO optimization with BP?
If you changed you server, you probably changed your wp-config file.
If you publish in groups you have activated group forums. Even if you don’t use bbPress as plugin, BP use his built-in bbPress and create a bbconfig.php file.
You have to look if this file exist and search for your old server settings to transform them to your new server reference.
To answer 3) “If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory? = unsure”
Wordpress should be at the root of your site (recommended install)
Something like server_path/htdocs/<— this is the root folder (this folder belongs your host)
And here all wp folders ad files (but not in a folder called wordpress)
If you use htdocs/wordpress/wp folders and files, it’s a subdirectory
https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress
There is Comercial version of SeoPresss.
Im working in modified version of free SeoPresss and i add the rest of tags,
my version steel in developement and it is not stable.I will share it in wordpress plugins.
i want just to tell you too, the last version SeoPresss work in buddypress 1.6 but there is some bug in wp-admin, it make http 500 error with some other plugins.
i speaked about php memory, witch you can know if you use a phpinfo() scrpt.
Server capacity and bandwith has nothing to do with php memory.
More plugins you use, more memory you need.
For example, if you are on a shared host with only 8 or 32 MO of php memory limit, BP could’nt work and WP will work only with a few (3-4) plugins installed. And BP is a BIG plugin.
Latest WP/BP need 128 MO to work correclty togoether (64 MO is the minimum)
http://www.4webhelp.net/scripts/php/phpinfo.php
5 Ways to Increase the PHP Memory Limit in WordPress
Notices fields are texturized. This means that html insertion is difficult and in fact not possible/not recommended. But you can post video links in forum topics or blog posts.
If you wanr to use many video links, give a try to BP-Links witch is better tailored for community usage as “want to say something, x ?”, intended for global messaging, not for content publication.
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-links/forum/topic/buddypress-1-6-support-and-the-future/
https://codex.wordpress.org/User:Here/Texturize
I will thanks .. But the funny part is even on the live preview of themeforest the problem exits
http://themeforest.net/item/huddle-wordpress-buddypress-community-theme/full_screen_preview/835549
Anyways thanks a lot guys
Tirtha
Buddypress 1.6.1, WordPress 3.4.1. Moved hosting from GoDaddy to rackspace. We have Welcomepack 3.3
The activation email is still not showing the activation link. Just blank..
Has anyone been able to get this working? Is %s the best to use?
I like using this plugin because of the welcome message and this is one of the only plugins that lets you change the default BP messages going out.
Don’t change the function.. As I said originally, use the filters it provides to modify the display.
If you are not familiar with WordPress filters and actions have a Google in the WP docs
