Optimizing your BuddyPress site for sharing on other social networks is a solid strategy for being able to attract new members. It also helps to kick up your SEO with more direct links to your site surfacing on other networks.
This little code snippet utilizes the Topsy otter API for the Twitter link so it [...]
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Did you think that bbPress had gone the way of the buffalo? No, it hasn’t. Though it’s been quite some time since we’ve seen much development on the bbPress front, the platform lives on within BuddyPress. Rich Fuller has created a suite of plugins that will compliment your group forums on BuddyPress. Check out the [...]
If you haven’t yet gotten an affiliate marketing program in place, you may be missing out on loads of referrals from your most loyal supporters. If the wildly successful Amazon and GoDaddy affiliate programs are any indication, then affiliate marketing is one of the most immediate ways to catapult your business to the top and [...]
Have you been disappointed with a lack of photo album functionality for BuddyPress? A new plugin is here to help you, and yes, it’s compatible with BuddyPress 1.2. Check out the BuddyPress Album+ plugin from Francesco Laffi. This is big news for the BuddyPress community, as many users have been eagerly awaiting this [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
