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Tutorial: Integrating Thesis and BuddyPress – Part 1

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In this three-part tutorial you’ll learn how to install the BuddyPress Child Theme for Thesis on a live WordPress multisite installation, and make a few custom code edits that turn a standard thesis install into a unique BuddyPress network site.

If you were not aware that BuddyPress had been integrated with the Thesis premium framework you can read the precursor to this article: BuddyPress and Thesis Together at Last.

Marrying these two frameworks makes great sense. You get the speed and customizability of Thesis with all the cool functionality of BuddyPress – like forums, groups, users profiles, and activity streams.

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BP Themes, BuddyPress

BuddyPress and Thesis Together At Last

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If you are a fanatic for the Thesis framework and have been looking for a way to integrate all the coolness of BuddyPress without having to do a mountain of custom code – you’re going to love this article.

For several years Thesis has been one of the most popular WordPress frameworks. It features lean code, nearly unlimited customization options, and top-notch support.

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BP Plugins, BuddyPress, MS Tutorials

Add Birthdate, Email and URL Fields to BuddyPress Profiles

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Up until now there really was no easy way to add birthdate or datepicker type fields to BuddyPress profiles, though this is a very common question to include in a social networking profile. The included date of birth field type in this plugin is just overall better than the default BuddyPress date selector, which includes future years. The BuddyPress core wasn’t meant to have everything and that’s why the community has made some very cool plugins to extend the platform.

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BP Themes, BuddyPress

Status: A New Responsive Child Theme for the BuddyPress Default Theme

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The most exciting news in the BuddyPress world this week is the release of a new child theme for the BP-Default theme. Status is theme that puts the activity stream in the spotlight. It was designed and developed by several talented members of the BuddyPress community with a focus on twitter-like activity streams.

The Status theme has some powerful and unique features that go beyond your average BuddyPress theme:

Per-user profile customization: Under Profile, there is a new navigation element called Design, where users can set custom backgrounds and link colours for their profiles.

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BuddyPress

WordPress as a CRM Solution: Move Over Salesforce.com

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Customer relationship management is an important part of any business. The customers have the money, and if you want them to spend their money with you, it’s your job to stay in touch, build relationships and to remind them that you’re still in business.
In this blog, I’ll show you how to use WordPress as a CRM solution and manage relationships with your prospects and customers directly from your WordPress website. I’ll start by sharing why this will prove to be a smarter move than using one of the more traditional CRM solutions…
The Mailing List Mentality is Dead

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BuddyPress, Community

BuddyCamp Vancouver 2012: The First WordCamp for BuddyPress

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Some very exciting news was announced in the BuddyPress community this week. The very first BuddyCamp will be happening soon! BuddyCamp Vancouver will take place on Sunday, October 14th and Monday, October 15th.

This event will be very much like a WordCamp except completely focused on BuddyPress. Sunday morning will include plenary sessions with talks from members of the BuddyPress core team. Tracks will be available for both beginners and developers in the afternoon. Monday is set aside to be a BuddyPress Hack Day.

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BP Tutorials, BuddyPress

How to Change the Default BuddyPress Avatar Sizes

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If you want to totally customize your BuddyPress community, at some point you’ll probably be interested in changing the default avatar sizes. BuddyPress avatars are nicely sized for the default theme, but your custom theme might benefit from sizing up or down from there.

The two most often used default avatars are the thumbnail and the full size, which are 50px and 150px respectively. They basically look like this in the default theme:

The BuddyPress codex has a list of the avatar settings that can be easily changed using internal configuration settings:

{code type=php}
define ( ‘BP_AVATAR_THUMB_WIDTH’, 50 );

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BP Tutorials, BuddyPress

How to Clean Out the BuddyPress Activity Stream

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When creating a BuddyPress site you will probably do lots of testing before officially launching. If you’ve filled up your activity stream with test comments, you’ll want to dump it before opening the site to your community. There are a couple of ways to do this.

Option 1: Empty the Activity table in your database.

This option involves getting into your database. Find the wp_bp_activity table and empty it.

Option 2: Empty all Activity entries in the Dashboard.

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BP Plugins, BuddyPress

Free Community Version of BuddyPress Links Now Available

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BuddyPress Links is a commercial add-on that expands how your BuddyPress community interacts around links and shared content. Marshall Sorenson, the plugin’s developer, promised that he would re-release a free version of Links with some of the advanced features stripped out if he were able to cover the cost of development.

The BuddyPress Links community version is now available in the WordPress repository and updated to support BuddyPress 1.6.

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