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Piccia Neri
Piccia Neri
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Posted by Piccia Neri
Piccia Neri
8,937 Points

Buddypress issues

Hello there, I watched Zac's great Buddypress course, the best place to learn Buddypress on the interwebs so thanks for that by the way.

I needed to set up Buddypress on two projects:

  1. www.fffdesignglobal.org, built on Genesis framework
  2. www.ilpuntomerceria.it (in Italian, not launched yet, you won't be able to view it but I can send credentials to good honest folks), built on a Tesla Themes framework.

Issues are as follows:

  1. for fffdesignglobal.org I installed religiously all the plugins Zac recommended. However, the site was soon slowed down so horrendously that I thought it safer to deactivate most of them (I don't have time for cross-testing right now). I also had a specific problem with rtMedia, i.e. there was a bug with uploading images in status updates, and this is the most annoying thing because I really need this to work, but that's another matter. The question I wanted to ask here, however, is simpler: I have set up the activity feed page on a plain page template, i.e. WITHOUT the sidebar. Despite that, the sidebar keeps showing on the site-wide activity page, which I find most annoying (mostly because I don't know why it does it). Is this a Buddypress thing? Can anyone enlighten me? See http://www.fffdesignglobal.org/activity/

  2. With ilpuntomerceria.it the problem is that the Tesla Themes framework seems to automatically set up the activity feed page as a blog post – even if I very specifically linked it to a PAGE, not a blog post. This is useless because on this Tesla theme a blog post looks like this: http://teslathemes.com/live/?item=shape# which means that the activity feed would be hidden all the way down a huge photo, which I don't want anyway, as this is the activity feed, not a blog post. I asked the guys at Tesla and first they responded by changing the messed-up activity page to a normal page with no activity feed (thanks a bunch) and when I said that didn't help, they suggested I watch a YouTube tutorial on Buddypress. This tells me their theme is not compatible with Buddypress, and that they are not willing to help.

What do you good people of Treehouse suggest I do to tackle this Buddypress issue?

Many thanks in advance

Piccia

1 Answer

Zac Gordon
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Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Zac Gordon
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher

To respond to question 1, it is definitely best to only install the plugins you really need, in part for the exact reason you found, performance. You may be able to get support for the media plugin on the support page for the Plugin in the repository.

Both part 2 to question 1 and question 2 have to more to do with edition template files and finding which templates control what in the template hierarchy.

Unfortunately like I say in the video, not all themes are designed for Buddypress so you may find some issues with certain pages.