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BuddyPress plugin developer modemlooper has released a quick and helpful plugin that will add a Profile tab to the end of the main BuddyPress navigation. BuddyPress Profile Menu enables logged in users to have easy access to profile-related links.
If you’ve turned off the WordPress admin bar, this menu is especially useful for retaining member access to profile links. It was designed to work with BuddyPress 1.5+ and the BP default theme.
Thought WordPress and BuddyPress were just for the public environment? Companies have discovered BuddyPress and how to maintain employee communities.
Can’t find a BuddyPress Intranet Theme Demo? Unfortunately, due to the nature of a company intranet, demos and samples where companies are powered by a WordPress/BuddyPress Intranet can be hard to come by, a true intranet is basically behind a gateway, with some public information on the front end, sometimes with just a landing page with an entry login box. Here are some sites to look at for general BuddyPress design samples.
(MORE DETAILS ON ADAPTATION CAPABILITIES BELOW)
Intranet Advantages for WordPress and Buddypress
Infinity is a brand new free Anti-Framework developed by BuddyPress afficionados Bowe Frankema and Marshall Sorenson. It’s been a year in the making and it has just been released as a private beta (private including anyone on Twitter who follows them.
Paul Gibbs, BuddyPress core developer and all-round-awesome-guy, has released BuddyPress Welcome Pack 3.0.
Welcome Pack is a BuddyPress plugin which lets you automatically send a new user a friend or a group invitation. You can also send them a Welcome Message or redirect them to a start page.
The latest release includes the following:
new admin page design
new email customization options
easy-to-theme HTML templates
The welcome emails were design by our own fabulous Tammie Lister!
You can check out the preview video that Paul put together:
Welcome Pack 3.0 Preview from Paul Gibbs on Vimeo.
Now that BuddyPress 1.5 is officially out, a few theme authors have had the chance to update their themes. You’ll be glad to know that there are at least 10 themes out there that are ready for BuddyPress 1.5. These themes will allow you to take advantage of all of the latest features of the platform.
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There’s good news for BuddyPress plugin developers this week! The BuddyPress Skeleton Component has been revamped and updated to be compatible with BuddyPress 1.5.
What is the BuddyPress Skeleton Component?
The skeleton component is the bare bones of a basic BuddyPress component, packaged as a plugin. Although it’s listed as a plugin in the WordPress repository, it doesn’t have any specific function on its own. The skeleton component is more of a tool for getting you started on creating your own component. It makes it easy for you to get your component:
Registering activity stream items
Posting notifications
Setting up widgets
Adding AJAX functionality
ThemeLoom has released Pure, another responsive BuddyPress theme that uses HTML5 and CSS3. It is BuddyPress-compatible but you can actually use Pure with or without BuddyPress.
Pure features:
Color & Background Options – select the color of the page background or use a texture
Upload your own logo and favicon
Typography Options with Google Fonts
Tons of handy widgets
Built-in event management
View the Live Preview of the Pure theme to see it in action. Resize your browser to test the responsiveness or check it out at Screenfly. Even the slider is responsive and still works at the smallest sizes.
Get a 30% Discount on Pure:
Finding high quality WordPress tutorials can be a challenge if you don’t maintain a lot of RSS subscriptions and follow all the right people on Twitter. While catching up on my Google Reader subscriptions I decided to put together a list of some of the highest quality WordPress content from September. I read all of these blogs religiously and they are great sources for learning more about working with WordPress. Check out our summary and get subscribed to your favorites.
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Last year we featured CollabPress when it first launched. Since that time CollabPress has received many updates and new features.
Today the CollabPress team announced that v1.2 is now available with full BuddyPress support. This means that if you’re running a community site, you can now incorporate full-featured task and project management using CollabPress.
We’ve been following each beta release of the bbPress plugin and now the final 2.0 release is here, coinciding with BuddyPress 1.5! bbPress 2.0 brings forums into WordPress in a simple and natural way. It also now integrates perfectly with BuddyPress and Akismet with no additional configurations to make. Long gone are the days of pulling out your hair to get forums working with WordPress!
Why is bbPress 2.0 awesome? John James Jacoby sums up what’s new in the announcement blog:
