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@faceteletv

I’m trying to keep this conversation within topic here where you originally mentioned it, rather than wild in the activity stream.

I’ve managed to get forums working on a 1and1 shared hosting…

I don’t think any of the wp-config.php or .htaccess or php.ini tricks for increasing memory work for 1and1 shared hosting. Even if wordpress tells you it has more, it will still behave as if it hasn’t…

As ray said, you should disable as many plugins as possible at least till the forums are enabled. I already mentioned what I had done about plugins here

To find out how much memory a plugin or theme is using I use https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-system-health/.

You appear to be using buddypress social theme – which I haven’t tried but it has lots of options and may use lots of memory. With limited memory it would be better to use a simple child theme of buddypress default and customise it.

The above (remove admin bar on all but BP site) did not work for me…see https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-disable-buddypress-header-menus-from-main-site-in-wordpress-network-mode/#post-88928.

It appears that $current_site->blog_id is always equal to 1 on my site, no matter which site I’m on. Ideas?

Hi,
I updated the bp-config.php file so that BBDB_NAME etc has the same details as in wp-config.php file and it seems to solve the issue.

My bp-config file resides at /public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bp-config.php and not at the root of WordPress installation but it still seems to be working fine after I updated the bp-config.php file.

Note that, I had to uncheck and check back the “Enable Forum” option under the Group Admin settings to make the error message goes away from the existing groups. However, if I created a new group, I don’t have to do this and it will allow me to post in that Group Forum.

Al

I basically set up the WordPress Network now but I unchecked the option in super admin this said register and a blog and checked the mark that was for register only. I run and advocacy website for people with disabilities. I would like each person who wants to advocate for a disability issue to be able to create one. And of course others to be able to see. It would include a banner if they have one. To below do have links and to be able to add them without knowing the code. Just paste a link in. And then be able to do everything groups can. Maybe have the check box for each user to create a new regular group or new advocacy group. Or maybe I could this have just the group’s transformed into disability groups or something without having the choice.
Kind of like a group face page or frontpage. Instead of the group comments being on front this face page could be one large page.
Can anyone help me.

@r-a-y – If this is a 1and1 shared hosting memory issue then that will not help. WordPresss may report a higher memory but 1and1 servers will still be stuck at 30mb….. I would love to get round this problem myself, other than by limiting what plugins and themes etc I can run….

Thesis is only a WordPress theme.

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You don’t need to create a WordPress network if you don’t want users to create full-blown WordPress blogs.

If you want your users to post on a single WordPress install without creating a WP network, you might be interested in this thread:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/user-blogs-without-multisite/

You can also try the instructions listed here to increase your memory limit:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP

Make sure you have turned on registration in WordPress.

if you’re on single WordPress, navigate to “Settings > General” and check “Anyone can register”:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_General_SubPanel

If you’re on WP multisite, navigate to “Super Admin > Options” and under “Allow new registrations”, make sure registration is not disabled.

Then, in your sidebar, use “ to get the signup url.

I was having the same issue with my test site: http://epicgeniusmedia.com/fmp2/. All of the members or activity links just re-directed to the homepage. I had bbPress installed and integrated with my WordPress site beforehand and was having login issues with that as well, so I deleted that forum and used BuddyPress forum setup to create a new one. Everything seems to be working fine now!

@faceteletv

You look like you are using 1and1 shared hosting which has very low memory allowances for running buddypress….. see https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/rss-error-in-dashboard#post-88690 if you are.

1and1 have also disabled any tricks I have found that were supposed to increase memory….

They say on their uk website that even if wordpress reports more than 30mb it won’t be accurate – and my experience shows it should be less than that!

This is a support forum for a WP plugin, BuddyPress – you are asking a question related to WP blog posting, you need to take this to the appropriate forum https://wordpress.org/support/ but before you ask check through their Codex pages to ensure that the question you ask isn’t already covered by a guide and also search the forum for previous related threads in case your question has already been covered there.

@faceteletv

You’ll need to increase the filesize upload limits. See this post for some helpful tips:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/installing-buddypress/forum/topic/installing-buddypress-1-2-6-to-wordpress-3-0-1/

@v_andreev

Like @modemlooper said, xprofile fields are added through your WordPress backend admin area (MUCH easier than trying to hack your way through register.php).

Go to “Buddypress” > “Profile Field Setup” and add your registration fields there. Any fields you add in the first (“Base”) group will appear on your registration page.

It’s a bug. See if you can go to wordpress.org login and change name to not have a space.

I had some great help from the developer of the plugin (over here: http://online-source.net/2010/10/24/markitup-html-set-for-wordpress) who made some tweaks and I now have this working on my buddypress site

Yes, I would like to see this kind of feature too please? Just been fruitlessly searching around the web for visualisation tools for my users. Such things seem to exist for Twitter as pointed out but not Buddypress. There are also tools like Graphviz and its associated plugin for WordPress but they are not dynamic and look obtuse! I imagine a front end where avatars are linked by ‘edges’ in a graph (in the mathematical sense) with the colour or width of an edge depicting the strength of user’s ‘friendliness’, i.e. based on a tally of mentions for instance? Taking it a step further by clicking on the avatar one produces a further graph showing their contributions around Buddypress (though this is less important). Thanks for the discussion. I thought I was on my own here!

In the BuddyPress plugin there is a folder bp-themes. In this folder is the default BuddyPress theme. The reason to use a child theme is to not edit these files making upgrades as easy as a few clicks.

A child theme is a WordPress theme that has a parent. The child theme gets all it’s files from the parent. If you want to override a file then you copy the file and folder structure over to the child theme.

Example: say you want to ad something to the header. instead of going into the BP plugin folder and changing something you would copy the header.php over to the child theme and edit it. Since it’s a child theme it will override the same file in the bp-default folder.

Read this on how to create a child theme. https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

Another issue is if you are not using a BP enabled theme then you will have to use the BuddyPress template pack to get the corresponding files and functions working on a standard WordPress theme.

BuddyPress 1.3 works properly with the init hook now.