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Using BuddyPress for a Running Team?


  • Julian
    Member

    @jm300

    12 years, 3 months ago

    I am currently in a running team who wants to have a portal for communicating with runners and volunteers more effectively. Since I have almost 3 years of WordPress experience I’ve decided to volunteer to make this happen. I’ve tinkered with BuddyPress a little bit before but have never used it in a production environment. Will it probably be suitable for this purpose? I think they want to keep their current basic HTML site in place so I am thinking of putting BuddyPress on a subdirectory or another directory on the site. Hopefully they eventually decide to migrate everything to WordPress and BuddyPress for simplicity.

    It’ll be a pretty simple setup I am guessing. I’ll probably just need to add one group in BuddyPress and have all of the participants register. Also, it seems as they have GoDaddy hosting unfortunately. Not looking forward to the loading times. :)

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  • @mercime
    Keymaster

    @mercime

    12 years, 3 months ago

    Yes you can use BP. As for your hosting, noted that some newbies have encountered problems setting up BP there but since you have WP experience, you would know what to do. You aren’t planning to go multisite there, are you? Re putting BP on a subdirectory – if you can, install WP/BP at root of new physical subdomain as in http://buddypresshere.yoursite.com/, to avoid any possible interference or conflict.


    Julian
    Member

    @jm300

    12 years, 3 months ago

    Great! I am thinking of also using it to create blogs for each of the runners and volunteers if GoDaddy can handle it. Also, would I be better off sticking with the default theme and customizing it for now?


    @mercime
    Keymaster

    @mercime

    12 years, 3 months ago

    “if GoDaddy can handle it” is the operative phrase. At a certain point, you’d have to upgrade from shared hosting to VPS/Cloud etc.

    == would I be better off sticking with the default theme and customizing it for now? ==

    I recomment that you build a child theme of bp-default theme instead and customize all you want from there.


    Julian
    Member

    @jm300

    12 years, 3 months ago

    I will be surprised if GoDaddy cooperates with BuddyPress at all. I am currently working on another WordPress site that moves like molasses with GoDaddy. Fortunately for them their hosting/domain expires in a month so they can easily change hosting providers. In the case of where I am planning to install BuddyPress it looks like they have a long time left until GoDaddy ends. I probably will have to figure out other solutions to optimize WordPress and BuddyPress if it’s real slow.

    Thanks for the advice about building a child theme!


    @mercime
    Keymaster

    @mercime

    12 years, 3 months ago

    You’re welcome. If I recall “reports” from WP.org forums well, I believe you also need to increase your memory limits from 32MB to 64MB at GoDaddy if it’s allowed on your plan. Good luck.


    Julian
    Member

    @jm300

    12 years, 3 months ago

    Thanks! Hopefully I get the green light soon. They seem pretty inclined to use BuddyPress. When they asked me about suggestions for Content Management Systems, guess what first came to mind? :D

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