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 [...]
Archives for tutorials
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 [...]
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 [...]
WordPress and Google Buzz
Perhaps the most exciting news on the internet this week was arrival of Google Buzz, a new way for Google junkies to connect socially by sharing information and interacting with each other’s posts directly within their Gmail accounts. People are clamoring to let the world know what they think the implications for [...]
Perhaps you don’t want your site to appear to be too “bloggy” but would still like to incorporate links to archives for those who are curious. A convenient and subtle way to include links to archives is to assign them to your post dates. This is especially true if you’ve paid for a custom theme [...]
Give your BuddyPress default theme a little kick with the @font-face CSS rule. Custom fonts are the quickest way to personalize your social networking environment. Fonts allow you to insinuate tone, create a more engaging site for your users, and consistently maintain your branding without having to produce dozens of image files for headers [...]
This is a quick tutorial to show you how to create a custom gallery template for your BuddyPress theme that will display members filtered by your choice of parameters. You can create a solid block of avatars of one type of member or you can mix and match, as seen in the screenshot.
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As promised last week, we’re going to provide an introduction to BuddyPress conditional tags. If you’re familiar with WordPress conditional tags, you’ll be able to catch on and customize to your heart’s content. If you’re not familiar with WordPress conditional tags, then make sure to check out the handy reference available in the codex. It [...]
