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This document discusses the WordPress plugin BuddyPress, which turns WordPress into a social network. It provides features like activity streams, user groups, profiles, forums and private messaging. The document outlines some of BuddyPress' core features under "Ins" and potential downsides under "Outs". It also notes that while the installation wizard helps, setting up BuddyPress can still be complicated, and extending it requires understanding its many hooks and filters as documentation is limited.
Buddy press wordcampkc
- 1. Ins, Outs, and Extending Capabilities
- 2. What is BuddyPress? WordPress Plugin Â
- 3. What is BuddyPress? WordPress Plugin  Social Network in a Box
- 4. What is BuddyPress? WordPress Plugin  Social Network in a Box ■411 files ■75,953 lines of code ■24,108 lines of comments
- 5. Ins
- 6. Ins Activity Stream ■Global ■Personal ■Group  Threaded Comments, status updates, favorites, @mentions, notifications, etc.
- 7. Ins User Groups Public, Private, or Hidden
- 9. Ins Friend Connections â– Make Friends â– Track each others Activity
- 12. Ins Private Messaging â– Send messages to other users privately â– send to multiple recipients
- 13. Ins User Settings â– Control Notifications â– Adjust user settings without visiting the Admin
- 14. Ins Plugins â– 405 Plugins in repository â– http://buddypress.org/extend/plugins/
- 15. Outs â– Too much of a good thing â– Takes a lot of prep
- 16. Installation â– They've got a wizard â– Not so fast, it's still a bit complicated
- 17. Extend â– Actions and Filters galore â– Poor documentation â– Have a good IDE or know how to grep your codebase â– bp-custom.php â– $bp object is your friend
- 18. Thank You Name: Tom Jenkins Company: adcuda twitter: @techguytom web: techguytom.com