Never underestimate the power of an invitation. If a potential user receives an invitation to your site, chances are he will at least visit to check out what it’s all about, simply because of his relationship with the friend who invited him.
Relationships are more powerful than advertising, search engine optimization, or any impersonal marketing [...]
Optimizing your BuddyPress site for sharing on other social networks is a solid strategy for being able to attract new members. It also helps to kick up your SEO with more direct links to your site surfacing on other networks.
This little code snippet utilizes the Topsy otter API for the Twitter link so it [...]
Did you think that bbPress had gone the way of the buffalo? No, it hasn’t. Though it’s been quite some time since we’ve seen much development on the bbPress front, the platform lives on within BuddyPress. Rich Fuller has created a suite of plugins that will compliment your group forums on BuddyPress. Check out the [...]
If you haven’t yet gotten an affiliate marketing program in place, you may be missing out on loads of referrals from your most loyal supporters. If the wildly successful Amazon and GoDaddy affiliate programs are any indication, then affiliate marketing is one of the most immediate ways to catapult your business to the top and [...]
Have you been disappointed with a lack of photo album functionality for BuddyPress? A new plugin is here to help you, and yes, it’s compatible with BuddyPress 1.2. Check out the BuddyPress Album+ plugin from Francesco Laffi. This is big news for the BuddyPress community, as many users have been eagerly awaiting this [...]
All the credit for this plugin goes to Rich Fuller and is entirely based on his tutorial for hacking BuddyPress to remove non-friend updates from the activity stream. I simply packaged it up and made it a plugin, because I believe that it is an extremely useful modification to BuddyPress from a community-building perspective, [...]
If you’re responsible for a WordPress site then you need to know how to keep it secure. You cannot afford to leave your product and investment unprotected. Most of these strategies will take you under two minutes to implement but can save you many hours of agonizing over how to clean up a mess created [...]
Here are some quick CSS tips for customizing avatars in your BuddyPress theme. You can file this under the “cute things you can do with BuddyPress” category. I was inspired by a post in our forums where a user requested a way to distinguish admin / moderator avatars from general users. You [...]
One of the most exciting features coming in WordPress 3.0 is custom post types, which will vastly expand WordPress’ CMS capabilities. You can be one of the first users to pounce on this functionality by setting up a WordPress 3.0 test site and installing the new Custom Post Type UI plugin. Prior to WordPress [...]
A plugin for managing BuddyPress groups is hot off the press! Check out BP Group Management by Boone Gorges, a prolific BuddyPress plugin developer. He also released another plugin this week that imports blog comments and posts that have not been inserted into the activity stream. This is necessary if you’re installing BuddyPress [...]
