The slideshow presentation by Brian Messenlehner and Tom Carney made on October 20th, 2012 at WordCamp Philly on the campus at Temple University. The demonstration website that Brian and Tom used was PhillyBuddyPress.com to see the setup done within with the presentation.
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Buddy Press 10-19-2012
1. BuddyPress:
How to Create Social Networks from
Your Wordpress Websites
By: Brian Messenlehner & Tom Carney
October 20, 2012
2. About Us
Brian Messenlehner
Twitter: @bmess
Email: brian@webdevstudios.com
Tom Carney
Twitter: @tecdoc
Email: tecdoc4877@gmail.com
3. What We Will Be Covering:
What is BuddyPress?
An intro and history of the plugin
BuddyPress Installation
Running the BuddyPress Installation Wizard
BuddyPress Components
BuddyPress Structure
BuddyPress Plugins
The BuddyPress Roadmap –
What you may see in future versions
Question and Answers
4. About BuddyPress
Social Networking Plugin for WordPress
Social Media like features that are
comparable to Facebook
First Stable release version was in May 2009
Current Version 1.6.1
9. Customizing the BP theme
There are several ways to create or customize a BP Theme
1. Create a Child Theme from the BP-Theme folder
2. Adding the necessary BP files and folders to your
theme. Also, the need to add BP code to your theme’s
functions.php
3. Using a BP Template Pack or BP Skeleton to add the
necessary BP functionality needed to your theme.
(Outdated because of the Theme Compatiblity
functions of BuddyPress version 1.7)
10. BuddyPress Child Theme
More Info:
http://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
11. The BuddyPress Loop
BuddyPress Loop
<?php if ( bp_has_members() ) : while ( bp_has_members() ) :
bp_the_member(); ?>
BP Template Tags
<?php bp_member_name(); ?>
<?php bp_member_permalink(); ?>
13. BuddyPress Plugins
Some of the Plugins that we use for BuddyPress sites.
There are over 450 BuddyPress plugins in the repository
BP Album
Invite Anyone
BP Group Management
BP Achievements
BP Toolbar
BP Mobile
Buddy Stream
BP Gravity Forms Extension
14. The BuddyPress Roadmap
BuddyPress version 1.7 improvements
BuddyPress compatibility for all WP themes
Improved Admin UI/UX features for Groups
Improve DB performance when querying users
Finish the Group Forum integration with bbPress 2
15. Roadmap (Con’t)
Future BuddyPress Features (1.7+)
Global content tagging
Bulk accept/reject friendship requests
Grouping of similar activity stream items
Ability to block all communication from a user
Option to receive forum post notifications via email
Structured profile fields (templates for address / phone number)
AJAX live updating of site wide activity stream
Import/Export of all BuddyPress user data
Archiving of messages to an archive folder
jQuery autocomplete for @ mentions
16. Sites That Use Buddy Press
http://www.trainerspace.com
http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/
http://www.isixsigma.com/
http://helloecoliving.com/
http://www.ooizit.com