BuddyPress 101

My presentation for WordUp Brighton WordPress meetup

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1. BuddyPress
2. @karmatosed
4. Generated by http://tweereal.com
5. SOCIAL NETWORK != COMMUNITY = EH?
6. http://dumbesttweets.com @tsloww : Death is invegetable @Amin Malik : Elevators don’t break. They become stairs. Be the elevator. Adapt. @TaeAnt11: Wait. Obama got 64 states & Romney got 40???? Bitch we only got 51 states!! @brownlady25: To my calculation if I save $38 each week, I can have a million with in 3 yrs! Sounds like a plan to me! @MahoghanyXO : Twitter is my alter eagle @ATL_PRiNCeSS : I wanna have sex in paris ontop of da ifold tower
9. SIGH
10. Build niche communities, don’t add to the noise
11. Own your content
12. Make communities with heart
13. Getting BuddyPress
14. buddypress.org
15. wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress/
17. buddypress.org/support
18. codex.buddypress.org/participate-and-contribute/
19. What is BuddyPress?
21. The wonderful world of components
22. codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-components-and-features/
24. Extended Profiles
26. Activity Streams
28. Member account settings
31. Friend connections
32. Internal messaging
34. User groups
36. Notifications
39. Site tracking
40. Scaling
41. - Go Daddy'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
43. BuddyPress 2.1 : Patsy
45. New profile field type: URL Better translations Under the hood: dozens of improvements with developers in mind
46. BuddyPress themes
47. Once upon a time
48. The villain : BP-DEFAULT
49. The hero : theme compatibility
51. Themeing
52. Choose your own adventure. Just CSS Just templates Child theme Full theme
53. Choose your own adventure. Just CSS Just templates Child theme Full theme
54. just css
57. BP-legacy
58. buddypress.css
59. Choose your own adventure. Just CSS Just templates Child theme Full theme
60. plugin-buddypress.php buddypress.php community.php generic.php page.php single.php index.php codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/template-hierarchy/ Template hierarchy
61. templates
62. components
63. Choose your own adventure. Just CSS Just templates Child theme Full theme
64. Choose your own adventure. Just CSS Just templates Child theme Full theme
65. Solid foundations
66. underscores.me
70. Hooks
71. codex.buddypress.org
72. - WORDPRESS THEME STANDARDS
 - THEME CHECK
 - BUDDYPRESS TEST DATA theme check : http://wordpress.org/plugins/theme-check/ theme unit test : http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test bp default data : https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-default-data/ make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/coding-standards/
73. World of BuddyPress themes
74. www.buddyboss.com
75. World of BuddyPress sites
76. www.msoe.edu/welcome
77. typeonenation.org
78. hobnobnation.com/cities/
79. govloop.com
80. thirdscribe.com
81. flox.io
82. Extend
84. Community
85. Know your audience
86. Don’t over engineer
87. Dare to dream
88. ?