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The memory error is a common problem, and the solution is easily found if you search google: http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/fix-wordpress-memory-exhausted-error-increase-php-memory/

If the problem persists after increasing the memory limit and it still says “Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted”, you’ll need to contact your web host and ask them to change this setting for you.

See if this helps! http://www.blissfulinterfaces.com/making-wordpress-images-responsive/

Honestly if you want BuddyPress to function correctly, In my opinion you should create a child theme based on the BuddyPress default theme and make any changes within its css. If you don’t know how to make a child theme then I can send you a really simple one that allows you to change the CSS of the buddypress default theme. As of this post the newest theme is Fanwood and I am not certain it will function correctly with WordPress 3.4.1 and BuddyPress 1.6

There are a few different social networking platforms out there and someone coming up with a safe way to integrate one or more of them with WordPress (or visa-verse) would be a welcomed development, in my opinion. However, a ‘plugin’ like GRA4 that takes unsuspecting members from WordPress sites and opens the WordPress site owner(s) up to potentially (MAJOR) security and privacy issues (as well as hosting and server violation issues) is not a plugin. It is a dangerous interface that WordPress webmasters would be well advised to stay away from.

One thing to consider when allowing a ‘plugin’ to use a remote server is, you can not know the intentions of the people on the remote server. Once that avenue is opened, a site can be vulnerable to many things unseen and unimagined.. That is Dangerous.. Unfortunately, a lot of people using WordPress do not look at code. Even if they did, they don’t know how to spot potential dangers. As website developers, webmasters, and the like, we do have a responsibility to those who use our websites, to be careful of providing something that could violate the rights and privacy of our users as well as open our own servers and/or hosting, to unsavory and malicious intruders.

It pays to ask questions, @lunchgirl thanks for doing so. I wasn’t aware of gra4 until I saw this thread and @mercime pointing out that it isn’t available in the Repository anymore caused me to want to know what it did. So, I looked it up and found that they are attempting to infiltrate several different and independent platforms. If anyone uses those other platforms or knows someone who does, I would let them know about that plugin (or in the case of some, it’s a drop-in). It is still available in those other platforms and shouldn’t be. Please spread the word..

@arrogance-is-bliss thank you for providing a detailed report on the extent of the plugin’s abuse. I just saw the first few lines of one of the plugin’s files in repo and reported it right away at plugins@wordpress.org

Are you using a custom theme? Do you have a menu created in the admin and placed in the primary slot?

Btw you can always get old versions of plugins by going to WordPress.org and on the plugins page there is a developer tab with links

Interesting ‘plugin’ that GRA4.. it is a connection to their website. A little more than phoning home. Your members get included into their website. Wherever their ‘plugin’ is activated, all the members show up on all the other websites. They have a plugin for oscommerce, phpbb and wordpress and they are working on a plugin for drupal. All members are gathered to their website and you have NO admin privileges. You have NO control over the content on the website and I don’t know for sure, but I think there could be some major security (and privacy) concerns for all of your website members.

They don’t tell you straight out that you aren’t adding functionality to your WordPress website, they are providing a portal to their website, which shows up on your website making it appear like it’s your website. Quite crafty. – A FACADE-

They are using ‘elgg’ social software on their server. They authenticate using cookies and they secretly provide your website with a ‘secret key’ and their coding changes the .htaccess rewrites for your website to redirect your members to their website. The page they tell you to add, is the same name as the directory of their plugin and the rewrite for permalinks makes it appear that your members are looking at a page, but they are looking at another website. The shortcode they tell you to put on the page you create for their plugin calls the function that imports the data from their website to display on that page. So, basically.. it’s an interface with their website gra4.com. Their website shows up on an ip address in the United States, but they are Russian (no prejudice, just an observation), to share the information. Part of their coding calls a another website virturossiya.org/c (which shows up as ‘GRA4SetConfigValue(‘GRA4_remote_url’… in one of the files. That website also shows up on an ip in the USA, but the page title is in Russian and the favicon is a red star. (looking at that last domain name I can see ‘virtual russia’).

In conclusion, from my perspective, it’s a scam. You do NOT get your own social network with their ‘plugin’, you get to include your members into their website, without your members knowing it.. I don’t think that would be consistent with the spirit of WordPress or BuddyPress. I would stick with BuddyPress or one of the other true WordPress plugins that provide social networking within WordPress, unless you want to find yourself answering questions you have no answer for sometime in the future.. Let alone the risk of your own website and hosting information somehow being hacked. The concern I have is, if they are being honest, why hide all of this from WordPress users of their plugin? With their obvious ability to rewrite and redirect, who knows (really) where your website and member information is going?

If they do get back into the WordPress Repository, I would really be careful of these people. Always check to see if a plugin requires a connection with remote servers before you consider using a plugin.

There’s a WordPress app that allows iPhone uploads for blogs. Just the straight WordPress app in the store. But you can’t do it via Buddy. You just have to connect your blog to the app and it works out. You have to enable atom publishing.

1. Yes, we changed this to make BuddyPress compatible with more servers. To change this WordPress email address, try a plugin like https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/send-from/ or ask on the WordPress.org forums for other recommendations.

2. What theme (and version of the theme) are you using? What version was this working on? i.e. what version did you upgrade from.

3. 1.6 uses the WordPress core toolbar, rather than BuddyPress’ old toolbar. The WordPress logo is added to the bar by WordPress itself.

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4429

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-extended-settings/

Yes, there does seem to be a few issues.
While buddypress is claiming that there isn’t a need to network activate, making it work on a subsite doesn’t seem to be as easy as one might expect. I haven’t figured out how to get past the permissions thing on subsite, but network activating in the base site also doesn’t seem to connect to the subsites. They don’t seem to know buddypress is activated. Kind of frustrating, but when someone shares the secrets with the rest of us, it will be quite a nice install, I presume..

Also, with themes that are compatible with v1.56, are they still compatible with 1.6? Or do the new files need to be moved to the theme directory to make everything work right? I ask these questions because of the problem I seem to be having with not being able to find buddypress profile from the subsites.. I am being directed to the WordPress profile, not buddypress, from the subsites.

There is (was) a plugin bp-posts-on-profile at https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-posts-on-profile/ though it is very out of date and hasn’t been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress and BuddyPress.

I have tried it out with bp 1.6 and wp 3.4.1 and with a host of other bp plugins in a multisite and also in a multi-network local test site.

As far as Multi-Site/Multi-Network it was unsatisfactory as it only drew in blog posts from the main blog.

It did not draw in posts from (say) a group blog.

However for anyone who authored a post on the Main Blog it dragged in that post and showed it on their profile under the tab Posts

Those more qualified might look at the code and see if it would take much to have it brought fully up to date and multi-site compatible.

However as all relevant details including of posts are included in the members activity tab it probably is not as vital as other plugin development ?

On that note is there any kind of group funding facility for plugin development. So that those who want but can’t could collectively fund those who can ? or would something like that ever work ?

I have no idea how to attribute success (if any) to various methods employed.

In addition to the numerous plugins and captchas some sites have also added lines to the .htaccess file

Some have added (in addition to the various plugins).

The plugin Cookies-for-comments and the lines as suggested at https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cookies-for-comments/

`RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.*$`
`RewriteRule ^register – [F,L]`

and also

`RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .register*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*yoursite.com.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
RewriteRule (.*) http://lmgtfy.com/?q=spammer [R=301,L]`

So the .htaccess file begins like this

`# BEGIN ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.*$
RewriteRule ^register – [F,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .register*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*yoursite.com.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
RewriteRule (.*) http://lmgtfy.com/?q=spammer [R=301,L]

# END ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION`

Frankly I have no idea how and whether any of this works. The best that can be said is that spam has been reduced considerably. Fingers crossed.

Yes, it’s standard WordPress – did you Google?

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_currentuserinfo

If you want their BP paths (profile URL) etc. then: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/the-bp-global/