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 [...]
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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 [...]
If you’ve been looking for a decent WPMU-compatible tool for podcasting, your answer is here. The Blubrry PowerPress Podcasting Plugin is a free, open source tool made by and for podcasters.
This plugin has been thoroughly tested with WPMU and the developer claims it as as one of the advanced features of the plugin. [...]
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 [...]
If you’ve ever illustrated a post or page with a screenshot, then you know how time-consuming it can be to take the screenshot, edit it to a reasonable size, and then upload the image to blog. Do yourself a favor and make use of a plugin that will get the screenshot live without you having [...]
by James
We’ve got another new BuddyPress theme for you today, except it’s actually an old one as the Edublogs homepage theme is now 100% BuddyPress ready :)
There have also been a few tweaks and we’ve added the load_textdomain() element, so don’t delay… upgrade today :)
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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 [...]
Have you ever wished for multiple content blocks, in addition to pages and posts, that can be edited within the WordPress dashboard and placed in custom regions of your template? The MultiEdit plugin is your key to breaking open new possibilities for a more modular approach to WordPress. This is very similar to Drupal blocks [...]
