Big news in the BuddyPress world is that bbPress will no longer be packaged with the BuddyPress download in the future. Since bbPress is currently being developed into a plugin for WordPress, BuddyPress plans to keep itself lean by removing forums from future downloads and allowing users to utilize the bbPress plugin. John James Jacoby [...]
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The past year has been one of great transition for the bbPress project, which for awhile seemed as though it might be abandoned. Recently, Andrew Nacin announced that John James Jacoby and Pete Mall will be heading up the development for a new bbPress plugin for WordPress. This is great news for WordPress users who [...]
In writing for WPMU.org this year I’ve had the opportunity to get to know a great number of excellent people in the WPMU / BuddyPress community – developers, innovators, designers, and entrepreneurs. We’ve been happy to feature projects from several passionate contributors to the community and look forward to sharing more news and tips in [...]
As many of you know, bbPress has been in transition lately. Some have wondered if it might become an abandoned project. Significant changes are on the horizon that may make it simpler than ever to integrate bbPress with WordPress. Whether you prefer bbPress as a separate platform or fully integrated as a WP plugin, one [...]
by James
We were looking for a nice bbPress sitemaps plugin to run on the WPMU DEV forums – but couldn’t find one that worked or was supported – so we made one and now you can have it too :) Introducing the bbPress sitemaps plugin. This plugin helps to leverage the content production qualities of bbPress [...]
This week we interviewed Lisa Sabin Wilson, author of WordPress for Dummies and BuddyPress for Dummies. In case you missed it, you can catch up here. When asked about her newest project, “The Nourish Network” website, she offered an excellent answer with short tutorial included, so we couldn’t help but post her response and the [...]
Nobody likes having to sign in to a dozen social network sites just to get the same piece of information out there. If you’re operating a public or private group on BuddyPress, there are now some excellent tools available for getting groups to interact seamlessly with other social networks as well as for streamlining information [...]
If you’re like me and were not able to make it to Word Camp NYC, you’ve been wildly monitoring the twitter feeds to make sure that you didn’t miss anything important. A big thank you to David Bisset who set up the
If you were successfully able to install WPMU using our Super Easy 10 Step WPMU installation guide earlier this week, you are now only minutes away from having a fully operational social networking site using BuddyPress. BuddyPress recently had a change in its theming architecture and is now utilizing child themes. The installation process remains [...]
by James
Taken from The WordPress MU Manual Your bbPress MU comes with two default theme installed (Kakumei and Kakumei blue). To extend available themes you’ll need to install extra themes on your site. bbPress themes can be downloaded from bbPress Showcase Installing New Themes 1. Download the new theme(s) 2. Unzip the file to extract all [...]
