BuddyPress Mythbusting

WordCamp London Presentation

Transcript

1. BuddyPress Myth Busting Tammie Lister
2. Hi! @karmatosed Author of BuddyPress Theme Development (Packt) TAMMIE LISTER
3. Thanks to… Boone B GORGES, Paul Gibbs SOS
4. Buddypress DoES
 NOT SCALE
5. MYTH?
6. - 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
8. Problem = many examples private
9. TRUE???
10. Activity stream improvements and BP_User_Query improvements over in 1.7 ! PAUL GIBBS
11. Buddypress makes everything the same
13. MYTH!
14. hobnobnation.com
15. msoe.edu/welcome
16. beastsofwar.com
18. Buddypress THEMES
 ARE HARD TO MAKE
19. TRUE
20. THEME COMPATIBILITY
21. MYTH!
22. 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/.. +++
23. You CAN ONLY contribute code
24. MYTH!
25. Codex UX ACCESSIBILITY UI SUPPORT POLYGOT TALK
26. Wednesday 20:00 UTC bpdevel.wordpress.com
27. Buddypress is only 
 for social networks
28. MYTH!
29. liveninja.com
30. Buddypress NEEDS EVERYTHING ON
31. MYTH!
32. Buddypress isn’t accessible
33. TRUE
35. Buddypress IS ONLY
 AS GOOD AS ITs CONTRIBUTIONS
36. TRUE
37. THANKS :) TAMMIE LISTER @karmatosed Author of BuddyPress Theme Development (Packt)