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

by Sarah Gooding September 12^th, 2012 1 Response

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.

BuddyPress, BuddyPress Tutorials

How to Clean Out the BuddyPress Activity Stream

by Sarah Gooding August 22^nd, 2012 2 Responses

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.

BuddyPress, BuddyPress, BuddyPress Plugins, WPMU DEV

BuddyPress Activity Plus 1.2 Released with Integration for Group Documents

by Sarah Gooding September 15^th, 2011 5 Responses

BuddyPress Activity Plus is a popular, highly-rated plugin on wordpress.org with nearly 12,000 downloads. It’s an absolute must-have plugin for any BuddyPress community, making the activity stream much more interactive by adding a user-friendly interface for posting multimedia updates.

Based on user feedback, we’ve updated the plugin to include a few more enhancements and features:

Improvement: Clearer display of cancel button vs. old ‘X’ icon
Enhancement: Progress indicator for file uploads
Enhancement: Integration with the Group Documents – When the Group Documents plugin is installed, a new document icon appears allowing for document uploads to be attached to groups

BuddyPress, Community, development, multisite, News, Plugins

New BuddyPress Tweet Button Plugin – Download Here

by Sarah Gooding August 13^th, 2010 7 Responses

As you may have heard, Twitter has come out with its official Tweet button that can be added to websites. Modemlooper has created a plugin for BuddyPress that will automatically add the tweet button to your BuddyPress activity stream items and blog posts. It’s a great plugin and everything works, except the link that it tweets out is the page that you’re on, not the actual activity permalink. So, I fixed this one issue and am offering it for download here until it’s updated at its location at the WordPress repository. Thanks Modemlooper for all your work on this fantastic plugin!

BuddyPress, Community, Development, News, Plugins, Tutorials

How to Build a Mini-Twitter Site With BuddyPress: Your Open Source Microblogging Platform

by Sarah Gooding June 29^th, 2010 18 Responses

An exciting new BuddyPress plugin by Rich Fuller has arrived on the scene that enables users to add hashtags to their activities. BuddyPress Activity Stream Hashtags converts #hashtags references to a link that leads to the activity search page. This provides a whole new level of context to BuddyPress activity stream updates.

Why would you want to create a microblogging site based on BuddyPress when we have Twitter?

BuddyPress, Community, Development, Miscellaneous, News

How to Get BuddyPress Activity to Show On the Homepage

by Sarah Gooding June 26^th, 2010 4 Responses

Getting BudyPress activity to show on the front page should be as easy as adjusting your Reading settings to show a static front page with the Activity Stream selected:

However, if you’re currently using WordPress 3.0, you’ll find that you get a 404 on the homepage when you do this. This is due to the fact that WP 3.0 requires there to be a non-null post in the posts array. Grab this patch to fix the issue and you’ll be good to go.

BuddyPress, Community, Development, News, Plugins

Allow BuddyPress Users to Edit Their Status Updates After Posting

by Sarah Gooding June 8^th, 2010 1 Response

BuddyPress Edit Activity Stream is a new plugin that lets users edit their own status updates for a certain period of time after posting them. It also allows the site admin to edit any activity update with the exception of forum topics and replies. This can be especially useful for educational or more informational BuddyPress sites where status updates tend to correspond to important announcements and notes for referencing later.