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Get Thee Behind Me: Making BuddyPress do thine bidding

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This document provides an overview of customizing BuddyPress to better fit specific needs. It demonstrates how to customize profile fields and components, theme BuddyPress using a child theme, leverage plugins and extensions, and use hooks and filters to modify output. Examples are given of customizing slugs, languages, CSS, and adding content to profile pages. Resources for the BuddyPress codex, forums, and plugin directory are also listed.

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Get thee behind me! Making BuddyPress do thine bidding Boone Gorges @boonebgorges [email_address] http://teleogistic.net
¡° Facebook in a box¡± Friends Extended profiles Groups Forums Interactive activity streams
Example: CUNY Academic Commons http://commons.gc.cuny.edu
Customization Case Study: A rocking website
bp-default: Does not rock
Dashboard > BP > Profile Fields
Customizing components
Dashboard > BP > Component Setup
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define( 'BP_MEMBERS_SLUG', 'headbangers' ); bp-custom.php
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define( 'BPLANG', 'rock' ); if ( file_exists( BP_PLUGIN_DIR . '/bp-languages/buddypress-' . BPLANG . '.mo' ) ) { load_textdomain( 'buddypress', BP_PLUGIN_DIR . '/bp-languages/buddypress-' . BPLANG . '.mo' ); } bp-custom.php [plugin-dir]/buddypress/ bp-languages/ buddypress-rock.po
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Theming with bp-sn-parent
bp-sn-parent standard WP theme + BP theme files
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[theme-dir]/bp-rock/style.css
[theme-dir]/bp-rock/ _inc/css/style.css
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Plugins
Tools Group extension API http://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/group-extension-api/ Skeleton component http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-skeleton-component/
Hooks and filters function how_bad_ass_am_i() { global $bp; $user_id = $bp->displayed_user->id; $user_name = $bp->displayed_user->fullname; $user_url = $bp->displayed_user->domain; echo '<a href=&quot;' . $user_url . '&quot;>' . $user_name . '</a> is bad ass #' . $user_id . ' on this site.'; } add_action( 'bp_before_profile_field_content', 'how_bad_ass_am_i' ); bp-custom.php
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!
Resources http://codex.buddypress.org/ http://buddypress.org/forums http://buddypress.org/extend/plugins/
Yes! Boone Gorges @boonebgorges [email_address]

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