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Hi @simoncreative, just one recommendation.
Have you thought about installing a cache plugin, you don’t have one yet, do you?.
I’ve tried W3 TOTAL CACHE https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/ and WP SUPER CACHE https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/. Here you have some WordPress Cache Plugin Benchmarks http://cd34.com/blog/scalability/wordpress-cache-plugin-benchmarks/ to select for yourself. W3 TOTAL CACHE has a complete JS/CSS minify system and helps you to work with CDNs, but maybe its more difficult to use.
But that’s not all, you always can find out what you have to improve with Yslow, PageSpeed, Firebug firefox addons.
One of this “Improvements” will be “Add expire headers”, my friend AD7six has made up a simple .htaccess that will resolve this problem http://gist.github.com/440336 (here is the conversation on Vladimir Prelova blog http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/improve-website-yslow-performance-grade-in-a-blink-of-an-eye ).

I think this might be helpful for all.
By, and great work!!

If your site relies on Groups, you can try out the BP Group Documents plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-documents/

Using this plugin, your users can upload documents to a group. You can set the plugin to upload certain file extensions like .ZIP or whatever.

i think a really great plugin would be one to integrate BigBlueButton with WordPress, and specifically with Buddypress. Then, as mentioned above, individual users or Buddypress groups could be easily invited to sessions. The api for integration is here:
http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/API

and the main site is here:

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If you’re speaking more about distance education and e-learning, I invite you to look at a few resources on my site:
http://thecorkboard.org/category/instructional-technology/online-learning/

PJ mentions the Scholarpress plugin, which, I agree, is a bit faulty at the moment. But keep track of the Google Summer of Code project that looks to blend Scholarpress with BuddyPress and improve its features as well:
http://thecorkboard.org/gsoc-buddypress-and-sp-courseware/

I think a lot of what you want to accomplish is inherently available within BuddyPress. Meetings could equate to groups. Conferences could be a specific BuddyPress site with some features on or off. I’ve found that looking at BuddyPress – and WordPress for that matter – with a different lens has expanded my perspective on what this software can really do.

~Kyle~

When you integrated this with Thesis what version of BuddyPress were you using? Were you using WordPress MU or regular WordPress?

I’ve been playing around with this today. I am running regular WordPress 2.9.2 with Thesis 1.6 (need to try 1.7 but he really changed things there).

I installed the BuddyPress Template Pack plugin and went to work.

I don’t think you do the thing with the bp-custom.php file anymore, right?

I followed the instructions and copied all of the templates to my /wp-content/themes/thesis_16/ folder.

Then I started digging into how Thesis outputs its content and started updating all of those templates with different HTML markup and calls to Thesis functions to get headers, footers, and sidebars, etc.

So I got the pages like Members, Groups, Activity, etc. looking OK, but not pretty. There is going to be a TON of CSS development needed to make this look as pretty as it all does here.

The thing I’m not yet clear on is how to get it all to flow under one tab like it does here with the Community tab?

And I have LOTS of other questions….and work to do to make it fully functional and tightly integrated into the navigation and flow of the site.

Is it even worth it I’m wondering?

Just thought I’d share. I’d love to find out someone has already done ALL of this and can provide instructions, or files…would be worth something I think!

You might enjoy 37 Signal’s service called Campfire or Basecamp for team/staff interactions: http://37signals.com/

I heard about https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/scholarpress-courseware/ in the blogosphere lately. I wasn’t impressed with how it worked so I took it off my beta site. I hope one of both of these will help.

Make sure you actually do have WP Super Cache uninstalled and removed:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/other_notes/

@holgria – don’t know what WP/MU version you’re using … dsader’s code below from mu.wordpress.org forums is working for me in WPMU 2.9.2 (subdirectory and subdomain structures) placed in mu-plugin folder
http://wordpress.pastebin.com/7dcWBXtp
As always, backup your DB first.

The buddypress-member-profile-stats plugin might interest you: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-member-profile-stats/

@LPH2005 good see you’ve fixed the headers already sent error earlier. I just checked out ExamView and and it looks like a great add-on for a school site. Thank you

EDIT – per your 1st post re suggestions:
1. Changing too-wide login to horizontal login under header – here’s some HTML and CSS you could try – adjust accordingly or let me know if it needs some tweaking
2, The right column looks good in home page but takes over content space which is more important imho in the inside pages.

@thegreatdaysho – Login to your FTP and navigate to /wp-content/plugins. Rename the BuddyPress Template Pack plugin directory to something else. Then reload your site.

FYI, I deleted your other topic because of double posting.

@thegreatdaysho

Try to disable the plugins by removing them from the /wp-content/plugins/ folder

Just try it. As long as it is built using the correct WordPress hooks and does things in the right way, it will work with BuddyPress.

If it doesn’t work per mercime’s post, report it as a bug on https://trac.buddypress.org/ using your user login from this site please.

Memory requirements vary from server to server so we can’t declare a minimum requirement as it probably will be inaccurate. It’s probably worth mentioning that WordPress 3.0 itself gets very close to 32Mb on a typical server (there was a ticket in the wordpress trac).

Unless otherwise specified, BP will install in main site when you activate it. In order for BP to work in subsite, you have to add the following to your wp-config.php file
define ( ‘BP_ROOT_BLOG’, $blog_id );

so if you want to install BP in site2, then do this
define ( ‘BP_ROOT_BLOG’, 2 );

If I remember correctly, the “ranked” achievements (i.e. 1, 10, 100 posts) might have appeared three times, but it looks more like a bug. However, Achievements doesn’t work with anything more recent than BuddyPress 1.1.3(?) and some earlier version of WordPress, perhaps 2.8(?). I’m working on a new version.

@DJPaul – I understand. However, having tested in dev installs to WP 3.0 RC2 and not getting the smooth experience I have on WPMU 2.9.2 with BP 1.2.4.1 and with all preferred BP plugins working; I can only recommend using WP 3.0 with BP 1.2.4.1 in test/dev installs and not in production/live installs.

There are 5 ways to test BuddyPress with WordPress 3.0 and I’ve tested four of those configs:
1) WP 3.0 single (new install) – “Page Not Found” for BP components. Preferred BP plugins not working as they have not been upgraded to work with WP 3.0.
2) WP 3.0 multisite subdomain (new install) – “Page Not Found” for BP components. Enable MULTIBLOG renders BP links in subsites to go to home page. preferred BP plugins not working as they have not been upgraded to work with WP 3.0
3) WP 3.0 multisite subdirectory – did not test – I’ve heard that this set up is working for some friends and per posting in WP.org forums
4) WPMU 2.9.2 subdirectory upgraded to WP 3.0 – same as #2 above
5) WPMU 2.9.2 subdomain upgraded to WP 3.0 – same as #2 above

Maybe I’ll try to test the 4 configs I have for WP RC3 and see what happens this weekend or next.

@prerna I recommend you a wordpress redirection plugin – it also counts redirects etc.