Ever wanted to remove a member from a group who isn’t really doing anything objectionable? Perhaps he’s just sitting around taking up space? A few users have asked for this in the past on the BuddyPress forums. R-a-y was inspired to create a core patch for this option and you can pick it up and [...]
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Want to make sure that your users get logged out after a period of inactivity on your site? Install the new Inactivity Auto Sign Out Plugin. It works with both WordPress and BuddyPress and is composed of a single PHP file. You can easily edit it to change the inactivity time period to suit the [...]
Oftentimes users will ask in the forums about how to show BuddyPress sitewide activity in the sidebar of the site. This is handy for showing activity as it’s happening without the user having to return to the activity tab. Brajesh Singh created a BuddyPress Sitewide Activity Widget for this purpose and has recently updated it [...]
Anton Koekemoer is a professional blogger, developer, web technology consultant and a marketing strategist with an emphasis on Web 2.0 technologies. We recently noticed My Chatbox, a newly-created micro-blogging community that Anton built on the WordPress and BuddyPress platforms, and asked for the opportunity to interview him about the service. Please tell us a little [...]
As part of his Google Summer of Code project, Kunal Bhalla has produced two exciting new plugins for BuddyPress with John James Jacoby as his mentor. BuddyPress Custom Posts provides an API to create custom components in BuddyPress around custom post types in WordPress. He also created the new EventPress plugin which relies on on BuddyPress [...]
Couldn’t make it to WordCamp Savannah? No problem! You can still learn from some of the presentations by checking out slides that speakers have made available on slideshare.net. More slides will probably become available. Follow @wordcampsav on Twitter to get all the latest. Current slides available from WordCamp Savannah include: Customizing WordPress Themes/ Child Themes [...]
Registering and adding new sidebars to a BuddyPress site can be quite a task, involving edits and additions to several template files. BuddyPress Sidebar is the newest plugin on the scene, and it makes the creation of multiple sidebars a snap! If manually editing BuddyPress files is beyond your skill level, then prior to this [...]
New in the WordPress repository today is the BuddyPress Pagetrace plugin, which outputs the current_component and the current_action as extracted from the $bp Global. This information helps BuddyPress developers to write conditionals to display different content for each component. It can be turned on or off in the WordPress dashboard under the BuddyPress menu under [...]
Want to give your users the option to join groups that match their interests at registration? The new BuddyPress Registration Groups plugin allows you to make that possible. Your public groups will be displayed so that the user can select, via checkbox, which groups they would like to join immediately upon registering. Download BuddyPress Registration [...]
Stas Sușcov has been working all summer on a courseware plugin for BuddyPress and a beta is now ready for download. We’ve been following this exciting project throughout the summer and hope to provide a full review in the near future. These are exciting times for educators who are interested to use WordPress and BuddyPress [...]
