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, [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
More and more developers are starting to experiment with and write about BuddyPress. Today we’d like to feature some folks you might want to check in on from time to time to learn more about BuddyPress. Of course we’ll always have new tips here as well, but we wanted to highlight a few excellent tutorials [...]
I’d like to introduce you to the best BuddyPress plugin currently available for incorporating Twitter activity on your site. Check out the Tweetstream plugin. It synchronizes a user’s tweets with his BuddyPress activity stream and also works the other direction to pump the activity stream out to Twitter. The plugin also includes a host [...]
I’d like to introduce you to a fun new plugin for BuddyPress that will spark up another dimension of user activity on your social network. The BuddyPress Like plugin has arrived on the scene. This plugin will add a “Like” button, similar to what you’ve seen on Facebook, for logged in users to like activity [...]
by Tammie
We’ve been busy bees over with our themes at WPMU DEV lately and beyond keeping up with the BuddyPress 1.2 now 1.2.1 changes, we’ve also looked at ways to improve the themes we offer. As part of this we’ve looked at 2 specific areas that were requested in the past – multiple languages and standalone [...]
Ready to add some new features to your BuddyPress groups? These are my newest favorites among plugins that are ready for BuddyPress 1.2. Connecting with others online in social networks is the main activity that has driven the bulk of internet traffic for the past several years, and it’s a trend that’s not stopping anytime [...]
The oEmbed for BuddyPress plugin was released at the end of last week and is one of the easiest ways to embed media in BuddyPress. People love to interact with media and share their favorite photos and videos. This plugin enables you to offer the ability to embed media to your users without having [...]
