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BuddyPress Myth Busting Tammie Lister

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Hi! @karmatosed Author of BuddyPress Theme Development (Packt) TAMMIE LISTER

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Thanks to… Boone B GORGES, Paul Gibbs SOS

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Buddypress DoES
 NOT SCALE

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MYTH?

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- GoDaddy's customer support forums run BP: http://support.godaddy.com/groups/ 
 Hundreds of thousands of members. ! - wordpress.org runs BP to power profiles.wordpress.org as well as a number of other bits. 
 Millions of members. ! Boone B GORGES

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Problem = many examples private

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TRUE???

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Activity stream improvements and BP_User_Query improvements over in 1.7 ! PAUL GIBBS

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Buddypress makes everything the same

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MYTH!

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hobnobnation.com

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msoe.edu/welcome

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beastsofwar.com

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Buddypress THEMES
 ARE HARD TO MAKE

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TRUE

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THEME COMPATIBILITY

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MYTH!

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ROLL YER OWN… Just css: yourtheme/css/buddypress.css Just a wrapper: yourtheme/buddypress.php or yourtheme/community.php Just a template: yourtheme/activity/index.php All a component: yourtheme/activity/* All the amazing: yourtheme/activity… groups/.. +++

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You CAN ONLY contribute code

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MYTH!

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Codex UX ACCESSIBILITY UI SUPPORT POLYGOT TALK

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Wednesday 20:00 UTC bpdevel.wordpress.com

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Buddypress is only 
 for social networks

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MYTH!

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liveninja.com

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Buddypress NEEDS EVERYTHING ON

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MYTH!

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Buddypress isn’t accessible

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TRUE

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Buddypress IS ONLY
 AS GOOD AS ITs CONTRIBUTIONS

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TRUE

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THANKS :) TAMMIE LISTER @karmatosed Author of BuddyPress Theme Development (Packt)