1. Ins, Outs, and Extending
Capabilities

2. What is BuddyPress?
WordPress Plugin

3. What is BuddyPress?
WordPress Plugin
Social Network in a Box

4. What is BuddyPress?
WordPress Plugin
Social Network in a Box
■ 411 files
■ 75,953 lines of code
■ 24,108 lines of
comments

5. Ins

6. Ins
Activity
Stream
■ Global
■ Personal
■ Group
Threaded Comments,
status updates,
favorites,
@mentions,
notifications, etc.

7. Ins
User Groups
Public, Private, or
Hidden

8. Ins
Multi Site
Blogging

9. Ins
Friend
Connections
■ Make Friends
■ Track each others
Activity

10. Ins
Extended Profiles

11. Ins
Discussion Forums

12. Ins
Private Messaging
■ Send messages to other users
privately
■ send to multiple recipients

13. Ins
User Settings
■ Control Notifications
■ Adjust user settings
without visiting the
Admin

14. Ins
Plugins
■ 405 Plugins in repository
■ http://buddypress.org/extend/plugins/

15. Outs
■ Too much of a good
thing
■ Takes a lot of prep

16. Installation
■ They've got a wizard
■ Not so fast, it's still a
bit complicated

17. Extend
■ Actions and Filters galore
■ Poor documentation
■ Have a good IDE or
know how to grep your
codebase
■ bp-custom.php
■ $bp object is your friend

18. Thank You
Name: Tom Jenkins
Company: adcuda
twitter: @techguytom
web: techguytom.com