Never underestimate the power of an invitation. If a potential user receives an invitation to your site, chances are he will at least visit to check out what it’s all about, simply because of his relationship with the friend who invited him.
Relationships are more powerful than advertising, search engine optimization, or any impersonal marketing [...]
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I’ve put together a summary of some useful plugins that you may not have heard about yet. Some of them are new in 2010 and others have been around a little while and have been recently updated. With all the buzz about BuddyPress lately, I’d like to make sure we’re keeping you up to date [...]
Displaying a user’s friends in the sidebar is something that simply makes sense for a lot of community sites. Although there are widgets available for showing members, recently active members, and who’s online, BuddyPress does not come packaged with a widget for displaying a logged in user’s friends in the sidebar. If users are easily [...]
This is a quick tutorial that utilizes BuddyPress template tags and a filtered activity loop in order to display how many friends a logged-in user has and recent sitewide connections. Opting to show this information in the sidebar will help you to promote connections across your site and increase users’ interaction. This may not be [...]
I recently stumbled across this useful plugin that offers a widget for quick sidebar posting. The Sidebar Posting plugin works with WordPress and WPMU and has lot of potential to enhance content contribution on your social network when used with BuddyPress. It is very similar to the BuddyPress Quickpress plugin. Quickpress is quite a [...]
Have you ever found a plugin for a widget that you’d like to use in a page or post, but the only widgetized sections of your theme are sidebars and footers? Sometimes these plugins will come with shortcodes but sometimes those are not available. You can always hardcode it into the template by using the [...]
The BuddyPress Inbox widget was made available over the holidays by David Carson. It’s a quick and simple way to allow your users to preview their private messages in the sidebar of their BuddyPress homepage. This widget currently requires the trunk version (2244+) of BuddyPress in order to install it. After you download the widget, [...]
I love hacks that benefit WPMU so I’m always on the hunt to find ones that will be helpful to our readers. If you’ve ever experienced the frustration of getting a lightbox effect for images to be site-wide on your installation, here is your answer. This is a slightly hacked version of the Slimbox plugin [...]
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We’re very excited about this new BuddyPress component written by Marshall Sorenson. It was released yesterday to the BuddyPress community for download.
What does BuddyPress links do?
This component adds a tab to the main menu for link sharing and allows members to:
create and manage links from their profile.
assign links to a category
control the visibility of [...]
Here are some fantastic widgets that you will love and find instantly useful! Who doesn’t love the ease of install, drag and drop? It can be quite a hunt to find widgets that are WPMU-compatible when you’re looking to add a little bit of functionality without having to try four or five plugins that [...]
