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@ugcheleuce WordPress and BuddyPress could handle this no problem. Depending on what features you’d need, you may need to write some custom code or add some plugins.

@robg48 – this could well be half of the solution you’re looking for when importing stuff from WP to BP. Although there’s no mention of a user import (just blog posts).

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-import-blog-activity/

Edit: Just came across the following – please note i’ve not tested it.

BuddyPress Members Import

I was able to get this (create a link to the post author’s BP profile) to work using Boones suggestion here http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/43528/how-to-get-a-buddypress-user-profile-link-and-a-certain-user-profile-field-for-t

To get it to work in the sidebar (running Genesis and the Content Aware Sidebar plugin) I had to use the code below to pull the author id outside the loop. I am strictly an amateur but this may be where folks are having trouble adding a link in sidebars, plugins or widgets?

http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/39493/getting-user-id-for-the-author-meta-outside-the-loop-in-multisite

If you are like me, and not a coder, below is the exact code I used:

<?php
$temp_post = get_post($post_id);
$user_id = $temp_post->post_author;
$author_bp_profile = bp_core_get_user_domain( $user_id );
?><a href="<?php echo $author_bp_profile;?>">View the author's profile</a>

@jf_trumpet what exactly is running slow? If the site is accessible you can run it through the Pingdom speed check at http://tools.pingdom.com to see what resource is loading slowly.

WordPress is very zippy as it arrives out of the box – try deactivating BuddyPress to see if there is any improvement in load speed. That way you’ll know if it is in fact BP that’s the problem.

The best way to tackle the problem is to narrow it down.

see https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds

Make sure that the URL is on its own line…..

@number_6

BuddyPress doesn’t rely on 3rd-party support as far as I know. oEmbed support is provided by WordPress.

Take YouTube for example. If you paste a YouTube video’s link into your blog post, your WordPress blog (the consumer) will make a request to YouTube (the provider). YouTube then responds with an oEmbed response. The HTML therefore gets pulled from the provider’s server.

That is how I understand the process to work. Hope it helps.

@jf_trumpet check this out too https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Optimization

hi @o0s0o,

deTube is a premium theme, so do’t expect help about here here. You have to ask on the ThemeForest forum.

> i’m using BP 1.8 and don’t see any calls to the sidebar in any of the BP templates.
BP 1.8+ fits to any WP theme, so what you want to do depends of your theme, not of BP.

That said, all BP templates have calls to the sidebar.
If you open index.php for exemple, in the bp-default theme, you will see at the end of the file
get_sidebar();
The sidebar code is in sidebar.php

To apply a condition for a sidebar to be shown you can use

if is_page():
get_sidebar;
endif;

WP Codex:
is_page
get_sidebar

deTube has many option and also a sidebar.

deTube is working with BP
deTube tutorial

@ladydekade
You can try this:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-content-filter/
and try patching it like this:
http://www.presscoders.com/plugins/wp-content-filter/#comment-61385
Let us know if that works out. The only other option I see is a paid service:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/webpurifytextreplace/

@buddhatunes Are you using a bp-default child theme or a WordPress theme? And which BP or WP page are you referring to?

Oups ! If you’re on BP 1.8+
WP settings > discussion options, that “user must be logged in and connected to comment” is checked

hi @trinzia,

don’t ask here about YOUR security settings ! We are not reading in chicken guts or in cristal bowls. 😉

Also, if you use BP 1.8+, a solution given over a year back cannot work (most of time)

See here an old discussion with a recent answer (2 mounth) – has patch.

But before to do something, check your WP settings if comments are allowed and/or if comments are allowed for your test post (sorry for this, but… nobody’s perfect ! 😀 )

Also, if you cheched site indexing by robots (settings > reading) it may be possible that the comments won’t show up on the activity wall.
Encountered this a few mounth back with bbPress forum answers on a bp 1.7/bbp 2.3 install

@uabassguy

BP has no post, it’s WP. 😉
BP has no rating system, so you need to create it first or use a rating plugin for the blog posts. And probably the votes won’t show up in the activities. I’m afraid that what you want will need some custom coding. 😉

Can’t help you more, but here are some usefull resource.

The codex Activity Loop page.

Some advice to modify the Activity

A detailed tutorial, by @imath

A configurable activity widget