[Charise Van Liew]

Helene –

I haven’t configured it yet, but Zapier allows for automated creation of Trello cards, boards, and/or lists from WordPress posts or other components. Might be an option.

I’m also keeping an eye out for the best way to integrate with Trello as well as a calendaring solution that integrates with the activity stream/buddypress, but a lighter/faster  than the Events Manager plugin.

Charise

[Charise Van Liew]

Thanks BJWang!! Extremely helpful guidance.

[Charise Van Liew]

BJWang,

Was @Ray able to get you migrated? I still haven’t been able to migrate my BuddyPress forums to bbPress 2.2+. Even upgraded to BP 1.7 beta on the 15th, but wasn’t able to get it to work.

Thanks!

Charise

[Charise Van Liew]

It’s hard to believe, but I’ve had great luck with multi-site buddypress and forum installs on The Temple Host‘s $15/mo Business Plan. It’s shared hosting, but because they have memory cache enabled on their servers, as long as you install and activate W3 Total Cache you get the speed you need. If you outgrow their premium shared hosting plan, the upgrade to their VPS plan is easy and it’s still cheaper than WP Engine.

Don’t get me wrong, I love WP Engine. I’m also a WP Engine customer, and do refer some clients there, but if you know how to use an ftp client, The Temple Host is the best bang for your buck that I’ve found (unless you want a WP Engine-specific feature like deploy with git).

[Charise Van Liew]

George –

I just took some time to write up my recommendations for hosting here: https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/cache-and-server-suggestions/

Definitely email support@thetemplehost.com or utilize their live chat and see what they can set you up with. I setup my opensource projects and online communities that need power, customer service and room to grow on The Temple Host because I know I’ll get a blazing fast site with a pricetag under $99/mo.

Alternatively, when I have clients (nonprofits) without IT staff or webmasters who likely have no idea how to use FTP, I set them up on WP Engine where their WordPress site has a better chance of staying secure and backed up regardless of staff turnover.

I’ve had horrible experience with Dreamhost but I’ve talked to others who haven’t…

Good luck!

[Charise Van Liew]

I’ve tried and left a number of hosting companies (BlueHost, Netfirms, GoDaddy, A Small Orange were among the worst experiences).  I haven’t tried zippykid, but the two I mention below are the ones I’ve settled in with for the long haul.

1) My recommendation for those looking for high-value, high-performance hosting without a big budget: The Temple Host. Their $15/mo Business Plan should take care of your 2,000+ member cbox community for a good while and they’ll work with you if you start to outgrow that account and need to upgrade to a VPS (which is still well under $400/yr).

W3 Total Cache is exactly the right plugin to use. Temple Host has memory-enabled caching so when W3 Total Cache is enabled on your BuddyPress install it works wonders. It doesn’t do that on crapDaddy because of how they have their servers configured.

A group of volunteers and I are setting up a wordpress multisite install with buddypress/cbox and eventually hoping to get it to talk to an install of localwiki. The Temple Host support is always super helpful.  There’s not a lot of spit and polish on their website or hosting panel, but I’m convinced they put a lot of attention on their servers because they perform great.

2) For those with at least $99/mo to burn wanting robust hosting with cool features like built-in, easy-to-use backup/restore and deploy with git, WP Engine is the only other host that I like. Their customer support is very good. The link I’ve included is an affiliate link. I help host nonprofit sites like breadforthecity.org and mobilize.org. I don’t make any profit.

If you’re reading this and already have a WP Engine account, join their affiliate program – it can make the cost of their hosting a tad bit cheaper.

Hope you or someone else finds this helpful. Good luck!

Charise

[Charise Van Liew]

Hi BJWang,

I’m still troubleshooting. The site I was working on had a pretty messed up database in general before I came into the picture, so I’m doing lots of cleanup. I expect to post again in an hour or two with an update.

[Charise Van Liew]

Thanks for the direct link. You made my day! I don’t know why it wasn’t appearing in my menu. Hopefully I’ll get it sorted now. Cheers.

[Charise Van Liew]

The problem is that, once I get to step #5, no “Tools > Forums” option appears. I searched around the dashboard to see if “Import Forums” option was stashed somewhere else, but it doesn’t seem to be.

5) Import old forums to bbPress 2

In the WP admin dashboard, navigate to “Tools > Forums“

Click on the “Import Forums” tab.

[Charise Van Liew]

Hi Ray,

Resolved.

Whatever update Boon applied to this site earlier today fixed this problem because it was previously occurring in Chrome and Firefox and my browser was set to accept cookies. Thanks so much for following up.

[Charise Van Liew]

Alan, Yes, I’m in DC still. Let’s do a cbox meetup. Email me: charise(at)fusedc.org. Wish I had seen your post sooner, but I didn’t receive the email notification for it.

Ray, Thank you. I pinged Boon. Setting up a cbox site now and will post if there are forum issues.

Is it more helpful to you and the other cbox devs for beta testers to use the bleeding edge version of Cbox or the version on the wordpress.org repo? Also, is it more helpful to post bugs in this forum or on github? I assume here, but also happy to post to both if that’s at all helpful.

[Charise Van Liew]

I’m still receiving duplicate daily digest notifications which is odd because the BuddyPress Group Email Subscription Plugin was updated recently. Anyone else experiencing this problem?

3.3.1
Fixes a bug that caused duplicate bbPress 2.x digest notifications

Charise

[Charise Van Liew]

Here’s the link to the screenshot: https://www.sugarsync.com/pf/D7626015_729_15497

I’m on an iPad and couldnt figure out how to make the png file small enough to work as a forum attachment.

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