Editors note: This plugin is updated for BuddyPress 1.7 and many new features were added. Check it out! A while back I thought about ways to make BuddyPress integrate with the regular posts and pages within WordPress better. I had no idea to properly display BuddyPress information in posts, sidebar or templates. So I came→
About two years ago I stumbled upon BuddyPress when I was looking for a open source social networking solution for a non-profit project. Until that time I was only familiar with paid scripts to set up a social network, and you’ll probably recognize the way I felt when being introduced to the community that powers→
The WordPress SEO plugin from Yoast is pretty much the only SEO solution you need for your WordPress site. It has become a default plugin in all my WordPress and BuddyPress projects. The only issue is that the plugin hooks into the common wp_title template tag to rewrite your site URLs to a custom title→
An extensive guide in setting up a CDN for your BuddyPress community using W3 Total Cache and MaxCDN. Host your member avatars, group avatars and more!
We’ll show you how to display certain profile fields on your members profile page of your BuddyPress community.
Gravatars are pretty darn great in general. But for certain communities there might be privacy reasons to disable them. BuddyPress let’s you do this, but it does not stop the calls being made to the Gravatar servers. This can sometimes lead to slower page loading times, and thus the people at BuddyPress.org came to the→
Here’s a quick tip straight from the BP-Trac created by R-A-Y. Put the snippet below in your child theme’s functions.php or in your bp-custom.php: Now when a user changes his avatar a new entry gets added to the stream notifying everyone of the new profile picture. Awesome! This functionality will probably be added to BP→
We’ll show you how to create different sidebars for all of the default BuddyPress components.
There is a bug with WordPress Multisite and Buddypress that does not allow for member avatars to translate over to other Blogs on a Multisite network. This is both lame and frustrating, but here’s an easy fix: Look in your wp-content/plugins folder for a file called bp-custom.php. This is not to be confused with the→
Want to moderate new Group sign ups in your BuddyPress community? This trick will show you how to create a custom group request form for your members.