Hi,
Thank you for the reply.

This is expected behaviour. You were most probably checking the edit profile page not the view profile page. On View profile you will not see any data related to the field.

It is an expected behaviour for BuddyPress. You need to save the profile to make the data available. Even though xprofile_get_field_data can be tweaked to return default, I believe writing a warpper is a better solution.

You may want to create a ticket here and report this to BuddyPress team.
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/

Regards
Brajesh

Hi Vanessa,
Thank you.

I agree with you about this. Using vimeo will have another advantage of processing the file for html5 player. We won’t have to worry about various file formats.

I will love to explore this integration for a future addon. I am not sure if this can help you in current project but I am putting high on our list of todos for MediaPress.

PS:- hen are you going live with the site? Or is it live already. Just getting an idea.

Thank you
Brajesh

Thank you.

Hi Tosin,
Thank you for asking. I missed it earlier, sorry about that.

1/3. 5 million users with 3 million concurrent users:- I assume by concurrent you mean users online at one time(I am assuming members and not the viewers).

BuddyPress or any WordPress setup won’t be able to handle concurrency at this scale. If it was a WordPress only site and user’s were viewers, you could cache pages and manage this with some optimizations/better server.

In case of BuddyPress or any WordPress community plugins, you can not use static caching for the social/community section and that won’t scale to this magnitude. Having a few million users is different than having a few million concurrent users.

If you have only a few thousands concurrent users and the size of community is in million, BuddyPress can handle that case if used properly. In this case, custom codes/theme/plugins may prove to be bottleneck and you can work around it.

My suggestion will be go with BuddyPress to validate your idea and once you reach certain milestone, start planning for a custom solution.

Till then, you can optimize BuddyPress by using proper caching, CDN, offloading storage, and monitoring database for slow queries.

Once you start noticing slowness and none of the above helps, It is time to move to the custom solution.

In my opinion, BuddyPress is great if you have moderate sized communities but I will not recommend BuddyPress/WordPress if you are trying to build a facebook rival.

It is aimed at creating micro communities/intranets/niche specific communities. It may suit better for validating your ideas in this case. Once you are certain about the number of users to be in millions, go for a custom solution. It will save you cost and headache.

2. It should work. You can keep upgrading as and when the need grows. Don’t go for shared hosting though. Look at siteground’s suggestions for page visits to decide.

4. When you site grows to 5 million + 3 million active, you will need a dedicated teem to cater to your growing community. It is worth it.
I and my team will certainly be happy to workout a plan to assist you. It will be a pleasure to work on a community with such a large user base.

All the best.

Regards
Brajesh

Thank you Jack.

I sincerely appreciate your kind words and support.

Best Regards
Brajesh