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@richardicanie BuddyPress is a plugin for WordPress. Hence, you need WordPress installed in order to install BuddyPress. For the forums, you install bbPress plugin in WordPress installation. You may install BuddyPress as well, but it is not necessary if you only want forums in your WP install.

If you already have a large membership in your WordPress site, then I suggest that you upgrade to at least VPS or better yet a dedicated server before activating BuddyPress.

@synaptic i’ve noticed that sometimes there is a lag with forum posts showing up.

@richardicanie buddypress is designed to be fully integrated with your primary wordpress installation. If you are using multisite then you would network activate buddypress. Be advised that although the various sub sites are part of the buddypress integration for the most part their activity shows up only on the primary site of your network (widgets and possibly themes can still access and display the network wide bp activity).

moderators: I am unable to respond – I’ve tried several times. There is an error which doesn’t allow my posts to show.

@kathytarochione make sure they’ve activated their account. If a user registers an account they show up in the WordPress admin area. Only once they’ve activated their account by clicking on the activation link in the email they get sent do they appear in the BuddyPress members area.

Sure, bug reported: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5080#ticket

Have you tried searching the WordPress plugin repository for something like ‘buddypress spam messages’?

A good plugin that will certainly resolve the issue is
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-private-message-for-friends-only/

Same here after an install of 1.7.2 and 3.5.2 with multisite.

It does seem to be an issue so I suggest you file a bug report at https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/

This is really crazy!

I also found this problem in the creation of my site (WordPress 3.5.2 + Buddypress 1.7.2 + bbPress 2.3.2, default BP Theme, no other plugins, fresh installed…).

I was getting a Error 500 when antempting to log in.

Followed the instructions and now is solved, thanks!

Someone should include this bug into development for next version of BuddyPress!!

Submit an enhancement ticket at
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/
using the same user / pw you use here

This is a better question to ask on WordPress.org, as the question is all about its implementation of TinyMCE.

@mareksgregs use this plugin:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/

That plugin will check all core files.

Do you use WordPress simple or WordPress Multisite?

@applegateian, henries code should work, but as you’ve experienced it won’t change the current size of the avatars. I also believe bp has thumbnail avatars and “full” the smaller “thumbnail” the ones wordpress uses is 50px and the larger(which can be grabbed with bp_core_fetch_avatar) are 150px by 150px.

bp_core_fetch_avatar( array(
    'item_id' => $userid,
    'type'     => 'full',
    'width'    => 150,
    'height'  => 150
));

That will display the “full” avatar.